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February 2016 E-News

Posted on February 11, 2016April 13, 2016 by Pamela Weathers

feb enews post websiteThe February E-News has been released.  Find out about upcoming events, new faculty, and the latest news about the Center!

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Upcoming Events

  1. Jan 31 Advice Columns and the Making of the American Yiddish Press7:30pm

    Advice Columns and the Making of the American Yiddish Press

    Tuesday, January 31st, 2023

    07:30 PM - 08:30 PM

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    Advice Columns and the Making of the American Yiddish Press
    At the turn of the twentieth century, American Yiddish newspapers overflowed with advice columns offering implicit and explicit guidance
    to readers about how to live their lives. From the Forverts’ famous “A Bintel Brief” to more practical advice columns, such as Der Tog’s “Letter Box” column, these publications printed countless letters from
    readers asking editors to help them navigate personal tribulations, American political infrastructures, and Jewish communal life.

    Editors and publishers introduced these features to entertain newspaper readers and to increase circulation. But these features also
    encouraged audiences previously unaccustomed to reading
    newspapers to view these publications as central sources for information and guidance about acclimating to American life. Eventually, these interactions spilled off the page, with Yiddish
    newspapers hiring staff to correspond or meet with readers eager to receive personal counsel from their favorite papers.

    This talk will explore the crucial role of advice columns in the development of the Yiddish press. It will highlight how these columns
    shaped the relationships between newspapers and their readers and how central advice columns became to the acclimation process of
    new immigrants anxious to learn more about American life.

    Ayelet Brinn is an Assistant Professor of Judaic Studies and History at the University of Hartford, where she holds the Philip D. Feltman Professorship in Modern Jewish History. After receiving her PhD in History from the University of
    Pennsylvania in 2019, she served as the Rabin-Shvidler Joint Postdoctoral Fellow at
    Fordham University and Columbia University, the Ivan and Nina Ross Family Fellow at the Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies, and a scholar in residence at the Hadassah-Brandeis Institute. Her first book, A Revolution in Type: Gender and the
    Making of the American Yiddish Press, will be published this fall with New York
    University Press.

    Contact Information: judaicstudies@uconn.edu

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Our Mission

Through its support of research, teaching, and public programs, the Center for Judaic Studies and Contemporary Jewish Life seeks to foster scholarship in Judaic Studies, enrich undergraduate and graduate education in the liberal arts and Judaic Studies, and provide resources for continuing education and community service.

Center for Judaic Studies and Contemporary Jewish Life

Phone: 860-486-2271 Fax: 860-486-6332
E-mail: judaicstudies@uconn.edu
Address: The Dodd Center for Human Rights
405 Babbidge Road - U-1205
Room 158
Storrs, CT 06269

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