Date/Time
Date(s) - 02/05/2015
7:15 pm - 8:30 pm
Location
SMSU Ballroom 355
1825 SW Broadway --Portland
The Harold Schnitzer Family Program in Judaic Studies is pleased to feature Professor Tony Michels as the guest speaker at the 10th Annual Gus & Libby Solomon Memorial Lecture. Professor Michels will lecture on “American Jews and the Russian Revolution: A Romance Lost”. After the Bolsheviks came to power in 1917, many American Jews embraced the new regime and even a Communist political identity, but later became disillusioned when they came to realize the oppressive nature of the Soviet Union. This talk explores American Jews’ romance with communism and how they redefined their political ideals after that romance turned sour.
Tony Michels is the George L. Mosse Professor of American Jewish History at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He is the author of A Fire in Their Hearts: Yiddish Socialists in New York (Harvard, 2005) and editor of Jewish Radicals: A Documentary History (NYU, 2012). His articles have appeared in Tablet, the Forward, Guilt & Pleasure Quarterly, and Meatpaper.
Location: Smith Memorial Student Union Ballroom, Room 355, 1825 SW Broadway, Portland, OR
Time: 7:15 p.m.
This event is free and open to the public.