"How Frontier Jews Made American Judaism"
Event Date
Uptown Campus
Jewish Studies Building
Conference Room 103
Shari Rabin is Assistant Professor of Jewish Studies and Director of the Pearlstine/Lipov Center for Southern Jewish Culture at the College of Charleston. She will be giving a lecture entitled "How Frontier Jews Made American Judaism". Rabin is winner of the 2017 National Jewish Book Award for her book Jews on the Frontier: Religion and Mobility in Nineteenth-century America.
