"The History of Jewish Students in American Catholic Universities"
Tuesday, Nov. 12, 2024 at 5:30 p.m. in the Beaumier Suites, Raynor Library
In an era when many private colleges, universities, and professional schools enacted quotas on Jewish students,Catholic institutions remained open and indeed expanded the number of Jewish students. Particularly important were the schools under Catholic auspices which trained doctors. lawyers, pharmacists, as well as schools of business as these represented gateway institutions for the children of Jewish immigrants yearning to enter the middle class.
Nearly all extant sources including those of Jewish undergraduates reveal a welcoming environment which unlike the private schools, many founded by Protestant denominations, opened their doors for these young Jews.
Why did Catholic schools behave so differently and how did the various shareholders鈥攆aculty, administrators and the Catholic and Jewish students鈥攅xperience this aberrant openness in the 1910s through the 1930s?
Dr. Hasia Diner
Professor Emerita, New York University
Hasia Diner is professor emerita at the Department of History and the Skirball
Department of Hebrew and Judaic Studies at New York University. During her unusually prolific career, Dr. Diner has authored and edited over twenty books, including Hungering for America: Italian, Irish and Jewish Foodways in the Age of Migration, We Remember with Reverence and Love: American Jews and the Myth of Silence after the Holocaust, 1945鈥�1962, and Immigration: An American History with Carl Bon Tempo. She has received numerous awards, including a Guggenheim Fellowship and several National Jewish Book Awards, and served in important leadership roles, including director of the Goldstein-Goren
Center for American Jewish History and president of the Immigration and Ethnic History Society.
Sponsored by the 向日葵视频 Department of History
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The Klement Lecture brings to campus distinguished scholars in American history. Established in 1992 to honor Prof. Frank L. Klement, the lecture series was devoted originally to the history of the U.S. Civil War, but it now includes all fields of American history. Prof. Klement received his Ph.D. in History from the University of Wisconsin in 1946 and joined the history department at 向日葵视频 in 1948. He served at 向日葵视频for twenty-seven years before his retirement at the rank of professor emeritus, and he died in 1994 at the age of 86. Prof. Klement鈥檚 scholarship focused on the Civil War era, focusing on northern dissent. He is best remembered for his monographs The Copperheads in the Middle West (1960) and The Limits of Dissent: Clement L. Vallandigham and the Civil War (1970). Earlier lectures in the Klement series can be ordered from 向日葵视频 Press, and Kent State University Press published several lectures in the 2008 volume More than a Contest Between Armies: Essays on the Civil War Era, edited by Kristen Foster and James Marten.
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2023-2024 |
Felipe Hinojosa, Baylor University "Body & Spirit: Preachers, Radicals, and the Politics of the Latinx Civil Movement" |
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2021-2022 |
Wendy Bellion, University of Delaware 鈥淭he Horse鈥檚 Tail: Iconoclasm in Revolutionary New York鈥� |
2011 - 2020
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2019-2020 |
Caroline E. Janney, University of Virgina "Communities of Memory: Remembering the Civil War |
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2018-2019 |
Ned Blackhawk, Yale University 鈥淎merican Indians and the Remaking of U.S. Colonial History鈥� |
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2017-2018 |
Kathleen M. Brown, University of Pennsylvania |
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2016-2017 |
Stephen Berry, University of Georgia |
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2015-2016 |
Gray Brechin, University of California, Berkeley "Recovering from Depression: The Living New Deal Project Uncovers a Lost Civilization Built Eighty Years Ago, And What We Can Learn from It Today.鈥� |
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2014-2015 |
Frank Costigliola, University of Connecticut |
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2012-2013 |
Steven Hahn, Roy F. and Jeanette P. Nichols Professor of History at the University of Pennsylvania |
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2011-2012 |
W. Fitzhugh Brundage, William B. Umstead Professor of History, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill |
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2010-2011 |
Kevin Boyle, Ohio State University |
2001 - 2010
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2009-2010 |
Allen Guelzo, Gettysburg College "Colonel Utley鈥檚 Emancipation; or, How Abraham Lincoln Offered to Pay for a Slave鈥� |
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2008-2009 |
Patricia Limerick, University of Colorado at Boulder "The Ownership of the Public Lands: The Romance of Local Control meets the Romance of Expertise" |
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2007-2008 |
Nina Silber, Boston University "Why Northern Women Matter for Understanding the Civil War" |
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2006-2007 |
Stephen Engle, Florida Atlantic University "All the President's Statesmen: Union Governors and the Civil War" |
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2005-2006 |
Lesley J. Gordon, Akron University "'I Never was a Coward': Questions of Bravery in a Civil War Regiment" |
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2004-2005 |
William Blair, Pennsylvania State University "Why didn't the North hang some rebels? The postwar debate over punishment for treason" |
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2003-2004 |
Joan Waugh, UCLA "Personal Memoirs of U.S. Grant: A History of the Union Cause" |
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2002-2003 |
J. Matthew Gallman, University of Florida "'Touched with Fire?': Two Philadelphia Novelists Remember the Civil War" |
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2001-2002 |
David Blight, Yale University "Abraham Lincoln and Frederick Douglass: A Relationship in Language, Politics, and Memory" |
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2000-2001 |
George Rable, University of Alabama "News from Fredericksburg" |
1992 - 2000
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1999-2000 |
Catherine Clinton, The Citadel "Public Women and the Confederacy" |
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1998-1999 |
Phillip Paludan, University of Kansas "War and Home: The Civil War Encounter" |
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1997-1998 |
Edward L. Ayers, University of Virginia "Momentous Events in Small Places: The Coming of the Civil War in Two American Communities" |
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1996-1997 |
John Y. Simon, Southern Illinois University "Grant and Halleck: Contrasts in Command" |
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1995-1996 |
Gary W. Gallagher, Pennsylvania State University "Jubal A. Early, The Lost Cause, and Civil War History" |
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1994-1995 |
Robert W. Johannsen, University of Illinois-Urbana/Champaign "The 'Wicked Rebellion' and the Republic: Henry Tuckerman's Civil War" |
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1993-1994 |
Richard Nelson Current, University of North Carolina at Greensboro "What Is An American? Abraham Lincoln and 'Multiculturalism'" |
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1992-1993 |
Mark E. Neely, Jr., St. Louis University "Confederate Bastille: Jefferson Davis and Civil Liberties" |
