Session Details

Wednesday, 29 December

606. Jews, Gender, and Popular Culture

7:15–8:30 p.m., 202-B, Convention Center

Program arranged by the Discussion Group on Jewish Cultural Studies

Presiding: Helene Meyers, Southwestern Univ.

1. “She’s Just like Alvy Singer! Kissing Jessica Stein and the Postethnic Jewish Lesbian,” Laura A. Lindenfeld, Univ. of Maine, Orono

2. “From Wimp to Warrior and Boxer?! Popular Images of Jewish Masculinity,” Eric Silverman, DePauw Univ.

3. “Theological Bulimia: Christianity and the Jewish Jesus,” Susannah Heschel, Dartmouth Coll.

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