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X-WR-CALNAME:The Diane Feigenson Lectureship in Jewish Literature  - "Inti
 mate Radicals: Gender\, Jewishness\, and Revolution in the American Popula
 r Imaginary”
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DESCRIPTION:The Diane Feigenson Lectureship in Jewish Literature \n\n"Intim
 ate Radicals: Gender\, Jewishness\, and Revolution in the American Popular
  Imaginary”\n\nDr. Ashley Walters - is an assistant professor of Jewish 
 Studies and director of the Pearlstine/Lipov Center for Southern Jewish Cu
 lture. She is co-editor of Matrilineal Dissent: Women’s Writing and Jewi
 sh American Literary History (2024)\, which was a finalist for the 2025 Na
 tional Jewish Book Award in Women’s Studies. Her second book\, Intimate 
 Radicals: East European Jewish Women and Progressive American Desires\, wi
 ll be published next year. She is currently researching the history of Jew
 ish chain migration from the Polish town of Kałuszyn to Charleston\, Sout
 h Carolina.\n\n \n\nIn the early 1900s\, a handful of unconventional roman
 tic relationships emerged within the American radical Left. Progressive se
 ttlement houses\, socialist gatherings\, and literary bohemias provided an
  ideal setting for individuals from diverse backgrounds to meet and\, in s
 ome instances\, fall in love. \n\n \n\nProf. Ashley Walters will tell the 
 story of a group of young\, East European Jewish women and white\, Anglo-S
 axon\, Protestant men—all of whom became notable figures in American lit
 erature\, domestic and international affairs\, or early Hollywood—and ho
 w they imbued their romantic lives with revolutionary principles. As Progr
 essive Era radicals rebelled against the constraints of an earlier era\, E
 ast European Jews—and Jewish women in particular—came to embody a new 
 cosmopolitan ideal and European revolutionary spirit. Drawing on correspon
 dence\, newspapers\, literature\, and film\, Prof. Walters reveals the pol
 itical and cultural contingencies of desire\, and how the public reception
  of these relationships lent credence to a new cultural mythology of Jewis
 h womanhood.\n\nKelley Presentation Room\n\nThursday\, February 19\, 2026 
 at 7:30pm
LOCATION:Aloysius P. Kelley Center\, Kelley Presentation Room
SUMMARY:The Diane Feigenson Lectureship in Jewish Literature  - "Intimate 
 Radicals: Gender\, Jewishness\, and Revolution in the American Popular Ima
 ginary”
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 son-lectureship-in-jewish-literature-intimate-radicals-gender-jewishness-a
 nd-revolution-in-the-american-popular-imaginary
CATEGORIES:Lectures & Symposiums
CATEGORIES:Arts & Minds
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