Tuesday, November 13, 2018 - 7:30pm
Williams Hall, Roemmele Global Commons
Philip and Muriel Berman Center for Jewish Studies
Jews, Whiteness, and the Broadway Musical
Warren Hoffman, PhD
Executive Director, Association for Jewish Studies, NY
Jewish Americans served as the main creators behind the growth of the Broadway musical in the U.S., but what does the Broadway musical have to say about issues of race, especially the racial identities of its Jewish creators? In this talk, we'll look at four musicals: Show Boat, Oklahoma!, Annie Get Your Gun, and West Side Story to see how the musical art form engaged with the concept of race in different time periods, looking particularly at the question of white racial identity and the ways in which musicals themselves helped Jews assimilate into the white mainst ream .
Tuesday, November 13, 2018
7:30 PM, Lehigh University, Roemmele Global Commons, Williams Hall, Building 31.
On street parking or Zoellner Arts Center.
Book signing to follow.
On street parking or Zoellner Arts Center.
Book signing to follow.
For more information contact: The Office of Interdisciplinary Programs, 610-758-3996 I incasip@lehigh.edu
Co-sponsors: American Studies Program and the Association for Jewish Studies Distinguished Lectureship Program

Department:
Jewish Studies