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Scholars in Session: Jews and Drag-An American Cultural History 1900-2020

March 16 @ 4:00 PM6:00 PM EDT

Golan Moskowitz, 2024-2025 University of Michigan Frankel Institute Fellow, explores the Jewish American cultural history of the gender-transcendent performance art of drag, from early twentieth-century Yiddish vaudeville through contemporary Emmy-winning reality television. Professor Moskowitz will discuss how marginalized Jewish artists, writers, and performers creatively process legacies of embodied otherness, focusing especially on Jewish American descendants of immigrants and Holocaust survivors, as well as on LGBTQ Jewish creatives.

Presented by SAJE (Seminars for Adult Jewish Enrichment). Co-Sponsored by the Frankel Institute for Advanced Judaic Studies, University of Michigan and JLearn.

Seminars for Adult Jewish Enrichment (SAJE) programming is endowed by a generous gift from Cis Maisel and supported by Carol & Ronald P. Fogel, Sheri & David Jaffa, and Elaine & Michael Serling through The J’s Pillar of Light Program. SAJE inspires meaningful connections and important conversations.

Details

Date:
March 16
Time:
4:00 PM – 6:00 PM EDT
Website:
https://jlive.app/events/10051

Organizer

Lauren Johnson
Phone
248-432-5459
Email
ljohnson@jccdet.org
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Other

Event Area of Town
Detroit Suburbs
Open to the Community
Yes
Organization Name
Jewish Community Center

Venue

The J of Metropolitan Detroit
6600 W Maple Road
West Bloomfield, MI 48322 United States
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Phone
2486611000
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