Dialogues for Diversity: American Jewish Women’s Long Legacy as Changemakers
Location: Online
Building: Online
Building: Online
Event Category: Diversity Programs
Division Host: Center for Equity & Social Justice
Dr. Melissa R. Klapper, Rowan University, Women’s & Gender Studies, author of "Jewish Girls Coming of Age in America, 1860-1920" (2005); "Small Strangers: The Experiences of Immigrant Children in the United States, 1880-1925" (2007); and "Ballots, Babies, and Banners of Peace: American Jewish Women's Activism, 1890-1940" (2013), which won the National Jewish Book Award in Women's Studies. Dr. Klapper's most recent book is Ballet Class: An American History (2020) and she will present on American Jewish women's involvement in the first wave feminism (suffrage, birth control, and peace) and the antisemitism they often encountered in social movements.
