"Jewish Humor and Popular Culture in Fin-de-sicle Budapest": a Robert A. Kann Memorial Lecture with Dr. Mary Gluck September 20, 2007

McNamara Alumni Center 23rd Annual Lecture. Prof. Gluck's lecture will examine the role of humor by and about Jews in popular culture including cabaret and humor magazines and illustrate the sharp contrasts between the forms of satire and social commentary permitted in popular culture and the strict limits and taboos of high culture. The lecture will draw from Prof. Gluck's extensive research for current book project, "The Invisible Jewish Budapest: Urban Modernity, Popular Culture, and the Jewish Question in Late Nineteenth-Century Hungary" and her interest in the creative tensions between official identities of rational citizenship articulated by liberal Jewish elites and the unofficial identities forged in the realm of urban popular culture. Prof. Gluck was educated at the University of Toronto and Columbia University and has taught at Brown University since 1978. She has authored the books, Georg Lukacs and His Generation 1900-1918 (Harvard University Press, 1985) and Popular Bohemia: Modernism and Urban Culture in Nineteenth-Century Paris (Harvard University Press, 1995), as well as numerous articles and essays.

Sponsored by the Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies, the Center for Jewish Studies, the College of Liberal Arts, the Department of Cultural Studies & Comparative Literature and the Institute for Advanced Study. Free and open to the public.

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