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American Shtetl: The Making of Kiryas Joel, a Hasidic Village in Upstate New York

Wednesday, March 9, 2022 @ 10:00 am - 11:00 am

Free

Settled in the mid-1970s by a small contingent of Hasidic families, Kiryas Joel (named for the charismatic founder of Satmar Hasidism, Rabbi Joel Teitelbaum) is an American town with few parallels in Jewish history—but many precedents among religious communities in the United States. While rejecting the norms of mainstream American society, Kiryas Joel has been stunningly successful in creating a world apart by using the very instruments of secular political and legal power that it disavows. Is this community’s existence consistent with or is it a deviation from the American legal and political tradition? Join us as Nomi Stolzenberg and David Myers share the curious case of Kiryas Joel (based on their new book published in 2022 by Princeton University Press).

David N. Myers holds the Sady and Ludwig Kahn Chair in Jewish History at UCLA.  As of fall 2017, he serves as the director of the Luskin Center for History and Policy.  He previously served as chair of the UCLA History Department (2010-2015) and as director of the UCLA Center for Jewish Studies (1996-2000 and 2004-2010).  He received his A.B. from Yale College in 1982 and undertook graduate studies at Tel-Aviv and Harvard Universities before completing his doctorate at Columbia in 1991. He has written extensively in the fields of modern Jewish intellectual and cultural history. Myers has edited or co-edited eight books, including The Jewish Past Revisited and Enlightenment and Diaspora: The Armenian and Jewish Cases, and The Faith of Fallen Jews: Yosef Hayim Yerushalmi and the Writing of Jewish History. He is the co-author with Nomi M. Stolzenberg of American Shtetl: The Making of Kiryas Joel, a Hasidic Village in Upstate New York (Princeton, 2022). Myers has taught at the École des hautes études en sciences sociales and the Russian State University for the Humanities, visited at the Institute for Advanced Studies (Jerusalem), and been a fellow on three occasions at the Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies (Philadelphia). Since 2003, he has served as co-editor of the Jewish Quarterly Review. Myers is an elected fellow of the American Academy for Jewish Research and the Los Angeles Institute for the Humanities.  At UCLA, he teaches courses on Jewish history and the history of history.

Nomi M. Stolzenberg holds the Nathan and Lily Shapell Chair at the University of Southern California Gould School of Law. She is a legal scholar whose research spans a range of interdisciplinary interests, including law and religion, law and liberalism, law and feminism, law and psychoanalysis, and law and literature. After getting her J.D. at Harvard Law School in 1987 and clerking for the Honorable John Gibbons, chief judge of the Third Circuit Court of Appeals, she joined the faculty at the USC Gould School in 1988. She helped establish the USC Center for Law, History and Culture, one of the preeminent centers for the study of law and the humanities, which she currently co-directs. She is the co-author with David N. Myers of American Shtetl: The Making of Kiryas Joel, a Hasidic Village in Upstate New York (Princeton, 2022), as well as articles on law and religion, including the widely cited “He Drew a Circle That Shut Me Out: Assimilation, Indoctrination, and the Paradox of a Liberal Education,” published in the Harvard Law Review, and “The Return of Religion: Legal Secularism’s Rise and Fall and Possible Resurrection.” She is currently working on developing a theory of “faith-based discrimination.”

There is no fee, but please RSVP for planning purposes. This event is held virtually on Zoom. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the event. For more information, contact Program Director Ilene Tatro at itatro@cbisd.org.

CSP Partners: Beth Israel (San Diego, CA), Brotherhood Synagogue (Gramercy Park, NYC), Congregation Beth Shalom (Seattle, WA), Congregation B’nai Tzedek (Fountain Valley, CA), Congregation B’nai Israel (Tustin, CA), Jewish Collaborative of Orange County, CA, Shomrei Torah Synagogue (San Fernando Valley, CA), Temple Bat Yahm (Newport Beach, CA), Temple Beth El of South Orange County (Aliso Viejo, CA), Temple Beth Emet (Anaheim, CA), Temple Beth Ohr (La Mirada, CA), Temple Beth Tikvah (Fullerton, CA), Temple Beth Shalom (Needham, MA), Temple Beth Sholom (Santa Ana, CA), Temple Emanuel (Newton, MA), Town & Village Synagogue (NYC, NY), University Synagogue (Irvine, CA), Valley Beth Shalom (Encino, CA) & Walnut Street Synagogue (Chelsea, MA)

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Date:
Wednesday, March 9, 2022
Time:
10:00 am - 11:00 am
Cost:
Free
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Website:
https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZUqc-qhqTorG9QFBd0wBi_FDFNvLGmldc9u

Venue

Zoom
San Diego, CA United States

Organizer

Adult Education