Tuesday, November 19th
4:00pm
CJS Conference Room
(4233 Humanities)
Join us for the fall 2024 Seminar in American Jewish Studies featuring Caroline Luce (UCLA Institute for Research on Labor and Employment). Luce will present a pre-circulated chapter from her current book project, Yiddish in the Land of Sunshine: Jewish Radicalism, Labor, and Culture in Los Angeles.
To attend, please RSVP to Sunny Yudkoff (yudkoff@wisc.edu)
Faculty, staff, and students at all levels are welcome
Bio: Caroline Luce is a historian whose work sits at the intersection of labor history, Jewish studies, and digital humanities. Currently a Project Director with the UCLA Institute for Research on Labor and Employment, she served as the Chief Curator of Mapping Jewish LA, a project of the UCLA Leve Center for Jewish Studies, and as chair of the Communications Committee of UC-AFT. Her research specialty is immigration, labor, and working-class culture in the American West, and she is working on a book manuscript entitled Yiddish in the Land of Sunshine: Jewish Radicalism, Labor, and Culture in Los Angeles.