About the Event
Join us for lunch and a presentation by Marjorie N. Feld, Babson College, entitled: Leaving Zion.
Light kosher refreshments will be served. This lecture is open to the public and free of charge.
Leaving Zion: Lecture with Marjorie N. Feld
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About the Lecture
Leaving Zion explores the rich history of American Jewish anti-Zionist thought and activism from the beginning of the Zionist movement to the present day. It examines the diverse worldviews and political commitments that brought American Jews to adopt anti-Zionist positions and measures the impact of the debates their positions inspired. In this talk, I will share my research on early twentieth-century Jewish anti-Zionism in the U.S., its ardent proponents and its historical legacies.
About the Author
Marjorie N. Feld received her Ph.D. in History at Brandeis University in 2001 and has been at Babson since Fall 2001. Her teaching and research interests include U.S. social, labor, and women's/gender history, along with the history of global human rights movements. She is a member of the Academic Advisory Councils of the Jewish Women's Archive, the American Jewish Historical Society, and Jewish Voice for Peace. Her first book, Lillian Wald: A Biography, published in 2008 by University of North Carolina Press, won the Saul Viener Book Prize of the American Jewish Historical Society, an award presented biannually to an "outstanding book in American Jewish History." At Babson, she received a Nan Langowitz Women Who Make a Difference award in 2009, the Martin Luther King Leadership Award in 2014, and the Babson Pride Award in 2017. From 2011-2015, she was the faculty director for Babson's Center for Women's Leadership. Her second book, Nations Divided: American Jews and the Struggle Over Apartheid, was published by Palgrave MacMillan in July 2014.