Event
Critical Race Theory and the Atlantic Jewish World: Pathways and Roadblocks
Join the Herbert D. Katz Center for the "Critical Race Studies" Series. RSVP is required for each virtual session.
Focusing on the Dutch colony of Suriname, home to the largest Jewish community of the Americas, this talk centers race as the most compelling way to understand this Jewish population, but also explores the shortcomings of such an approach.
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The Herbert D. Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies at the University of Pennsylvania is driven by the mission to deepen and broaden the understanding of Jewish history, texts, cultures, ideas, and experiences. The research it supports spans all periods of Jewish history, from distant antiquity through to the present day; it reaches into every part of the globe where Jews have lived, and it is grounded in a wide range of disciplines and approaches. Over the decades, after supporting hundreds of scholars and untold numbers of discoveries and publications, it has earned a reputation as the nation’s preeminent research center in the study of Jewish history and culture.