Sun, Feb 18
02:00PM
Sun, Feb 18
02:00PM
jewish genealogical society monthly meeting
What You Can Learn from Bubbe's Photos: Or, Jewish Clothing as Cultural History
For most of Jewish history, clothing represented a tension between dressing Jewish and dressing like everybody else. This was especially true in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, when most of our ancestors migrated to the U.S. Professor Eric Silverman, author of A Cultural History of Jewish Dress, will show how we can "read" the clothing in old photographs to illustrate the wider Jewish experience,
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jewish genealogical society monthly meeting
