02/17/2009 - 7:00pm to 02/17/2009 - 9:00pm

Location:
Ahavath Achim Sephardic Congregation
Ahavath Achim
3225 SW Barbur Blvd.
Portland, OR

Class Description:
A lecture by Professor Natan Meir

PSU Professor Natan Meir will describe what life was like for Jews in Eastern Europe prior to the mass migrations at the end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th centuries. This lecture is sponsored by the Jewish Genealogical Society of Oregon

Natan Meir received his Ph.D. in Jewish history from Columbia University, taught at the University of Southampton (U.K.), and was a Yad Hanadiv postdoctoral fellow at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. His scholarly interest is modern Jewish history focusing on the social and cultural history of East European Jewry in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. His first book, Kiev: Jewish Metropolis, 1861-1914, is forthcoming from Indiana University Press.


More Info:
For more information please contact Barbara Hershey, Program Chair at Barbara.hershey@comcast.net or 503-249-1976.

Cost:
Free to JGS members, $5 recommended donation for nonmembers.