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The Yiddish Press and Racism in America, 1880–1920, with Tony Michels

Tony Michels

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The Yiddish Press and Racism in America, 1880–1920, with Tony Michels

Featuring: Tony Michels

How did Yiddish journalists and intellectuals respond to the persistent discrimination and violence against African Americans in the US in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries? How did they understand the problem? In this talk, Tony Michels addresses these questions in order to gain a historical perspective on the Jewish encounter with race and racism in the United States.

Tony Michels is the George L. Mosse Professor of American Jewish History and director of the Mosse/Weinstein Center for Jewish Studies at the University of Wisconsin. He is the author of A Fire in Their Hearts: Yiddish Socialists in New York (2005) and the editor of the 2012 collection Jewish Radicals: A Documentary History.

This event took place on October 22, 2020. It was presented online by the Yiddish Book Center in Amherst, MA.

This recording was digitized and added to the library in September 2022.

This recording is in English

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