Jewish Community Center Movement in Florida

Event Start Date: February 13, 2018 5:00 PM
Event End Date: February 13, 2018 6:00 PM

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Presented by: Avigail Oren
Tuesday, February 13, 2018
Judaica Suite, 5:00 p.m.

The twentieth-century history of the American Jewish community center movement is the focus of Oren’s research. She is a graduate of the Carnegie Mellon University where she earned her doctorate in 2017. Her research took her to various community and academic libraries in the United States and during February 2018, as recipient of the “Jews in the Americas” fellowship, she studies the Price Library’s archival records and newspapers pertaining to the North-Central Floridian Jewish communal experience. Her research at UF contributes to her current work on her first manuscript, the revision of her dissertation to a book tentatively titled Centering the Jewish Community: Religious Pluralism and Racial Diversity in the American Jewish Community Center Movement.

This event is part of the Jews in the Americas Speaker Series.