Kaplan Brauer Lecture: Rachel Gordan
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The Sonja Haynes Stone Center for Research in Black Culture and History, Hitchcock room, Orange
The Right Kind of Jew: Laura Z. Hobson’s Gentleman’s Agreement and the Bargain of American Assimilation Rachel Gordan, Associate Professor of Religion at the University of Florida, revisits Laura Z. Hobson’s landmark 1947 novel Gentleman’s Agreement. Through Hobson’s life and work, Gordan explores the promises—and costs—of assimilation and what it meant to become the “right kind” of Jew in twentieth-century America.