Yale Professor to Explore Factors that led to Leadership Roles

What: Paula Hyman, Lucy Moses Professor of Modern Jewish History at Yale University, will deliver a lecture entitled, “Breaking Out of the Domestic Sphere: Jewish Women as Communal and Political Activists at the Turn of the 20th Century.” 

When: Wednesday, April 1 at 4:30 p.m.  

Where: Wean Terrace Rooms B and C in Mather Hall on the Trinity campus.

Background: Hyman’s lecture will explore the various factors in U.S. society and in the Jewish community that enabled Jewish women to stake a claim to leadership. The lecture will not focus on Eastern European immigrants but on middle-class women of German origin and will demonstrate how conservative ideology can have surprising consequences.

Educated in Boston, Hyman received a B.J.Ed. from the Hebrew Teachers College and a B.A. from Radcliffe College. She subsequently received a Ph.D. in Jewish History from Columbia University. She has served as the president of the American Academy of Jewish Research.

Hyman has focused increasingly on Jewish women’s history, having published a comparative study, Gender and Assimilation in Modern Jewish History: The Roles and Representation of Women, in 1995. She has edited two encyclopedias: Jewish Women in America: An Historical Encyclopedia (1997), and Jewish Women: A Comprehensive Historical Encyclopedia (2006).

The Jewish Studies Program at Trinity is a multi-disciplinary, college-wide investigation of Jewish civilization in its many historical and geographical manifestations. The scope of the Jewish Studies curriculum covers Jewish civilization from its ancient Near Eastern origins through its contemporary history and culture in Israel and the Diaspora communities around the world. It is a secular, academic program with diverse, cross-cultural emphases.

The lecture is free and open to the public. For more information, contact Marjorie Harter at 860-297-2472 or Marjorie.Harter@trincoll.edu.

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