Session Details

Tuesday, 28 December

199. Jewishness, Blackness, and Gender

1:45–3:00 p.m., 308, Philadelphia Marriott

A special session

Session leader: Kathryn Ann Hellerstein, Univ. of Pennsylvania

1. “‘I See America’s Folks and Races’: Yiddish Poetry, American Identity,” Merle Lyn Bachman, Spalding Univ.

2. “On the Road with Fannie Hurst and Zora Neale Hurston,” Sarah Alisa Braun, Univ. of California, Davis

3. “The Girls Who Went White: Self-Fashioning Femininity in the Fiction of Ferber and Fauset,” Lori B. Harrison-Kahan, Harvard Univ.

Respondent: Emily Miller Budick, Hebrew Univ. of Jerusalem

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