Join us for lunch and a presentation by Dr. Daniel Walkowitz, Professor of History Emeritus at New York University.
Kosher lunch will be served from 12:30 PM to 1:00 PM in the KJCC Dining Room and is open to students only. Presentation with start at 1:00 PM in the KJCC Library.
As a radical student activist in the late 1950s and 1960s, the author imagined himself walking in the footsteps of his Paterson, NJ, grandparents who fought to improve the living and working conditions in the textile mils in Lodz, Poland and Paterson. The Remembered and Forgotten Jewish World investigates the politics of heritage tourism and collective memory to see and hear what of these roots appear in walking tours, Jewish museums and memorial sites. In an account that is part travelogue, part social history, and part family saga, the author visits key Jewish museums and heritage sites from Berlin to Belgrade, from Krakow to Kiev, and from Warsaw to New York. Illustrated with slides, the lecture will illustrate the disappointments and surprises that frame the robust and changing terrain of Jewish Heritage today.
