{"id":23608,"date":"2013-02-05T16:12:41","date_gmt":"2013-02-05T22:12:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.olemiss.edu\/?p=23608"},"modified":"2014-09-23T08:29:35","modified_gmt":"2014-09-23T13:29:35","slug":"lecture-to-focus-on-obama-administrations-impact-on-relationship-between-jews-african-americans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/web20.olemiss.edu\/news\/wordpress\/lecture-to-focus-on-obama-administrations-impact-on-relationship-between-jews-african-americans\/","title":{"rendered":"Lecture to Focus on Obama Administration\u2019s Impact on Relationship between Jews, African-Americans"},"content":{"rendered":"
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OXFORD, Miss. \u2013 Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter and Bloomberg News managing editor Jonathan Kaufman will discuss \u201cAfrican-Americans and Jews in the Age of Obama\u201d on the University of Mississippi campus Thursday (Feb. 7).<\/p>\n

The lecture, part of a yearlong series titled \u201cIntertwining Legacies: Jews and African-Americans in the Deep South,\u201d will take place in the Overby Center Auditorium at 5:30 p.m. and is free and open to the public. A reception will follow.<\/p>\n

Willa Johnson, UM associate professor of sociology and Cummings Foundation fellow for the U.S. Holocaust Memorial and Museum, said the lecture will focus on the evolving relationship between African-Americans and Jews, as well as how it has changed since President Barack Obama has taken office.<\/p>\n

\u201cHistorically, African-Americans and Jews have had a mixed relationship,\u201d said Johnson. \u201cDuring the years of civil rights, there were many Jews who took the side of African-Americans, but like many relationships, there have been ups and downs. Now, Mr. Kaufman is examining the Obama administration as a moment in history that African-Americans and Jews can recapture that past relationship.\u201d<\/p>\n

Kaufman is author of National Jewish Book Award winner \u201cBroken Alliance: The Turbulent Times Between Blacks and Jews in America\u201d and \u201cA Hole in the Heart of the World: Being Jewish in Eastern Europe.<\/em>\u201d <\/em>He oversees coverage of stories on education, corporate corruption, science, health, sports and multinationals at Bloomberg News. He has also worked as deputy page one editor and China bureau chief at The Wall Street Journal and as Berlin bureau chief for The Boston Globe.<\/p>\n

Kaufman\u2019s lecture is the third in the \u201cIntertwining Legacies\u201d series, hosted by the University of Mississippi Critical Race Studies Group. The program was made possible by the Legacy Heritage Jewish Studies Project, directed by the Association for Jewish Studies. Support for the Legacy Heritage Jewish Studies Project is provided by the Legacy Heritage Fund Ltd.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt is my hope that the \u2018Intertwining Legacies\u2019 lecture series will help us to better deal with prejudice and encourage a greater dialogue about racism, anti-Semitism and all other forms of racial and religious prejudice on the campus,\u201d Johnson said. \u201cI hope that students of all races and creeds will come to see the benefits of learning about groups other than the ones they represent.\u201d<\/p>\n

In September, W. David Nelson, a scholar of Rabbinic literature and the Hebrew Bible at Groton School in Massachusetts, kicked off the speaker series with his lecture \u201cSay Again! Race, Religion and Realities of Reading the Bible.\u201d\u00a0 In October, Sander L. Gilman, distinguished professor of liberal arts and sciences and professor of psychiatry at Emory University, spoke on race and mental illness. The final lecture of the series will take place this spring.<\/p>\n

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