Jewish Genealogy Society of Maryland
1:30 pm - 3:30 pm
Pikesville Library (meeting room)
1301 Reisterstown Rd, Pikesville, MD 21208
Speaker: Dr. Kenneth Moss Title: �The Jews of Eastern Europe in the Age of Mass Migration, 1881-1914� (Program rescheduled from snowy February) Date and Time: Sunday, May 17, 2015, 1:30 p.m. Location: Pikesville Library (meeting room), 1301 Reisterstown Rd, Pikesville, MD Please join us for our next program: �The Jews of Eastern Europe in the Age of Mass Migration, 1881-1914.� Our guest speaker, Dr. Kenneth Moss, Director of the Jewish Studies Program at Johns Hopkins University, will offer a portrait of East European Jewish society and culture in a moment of rapid transition and transformation, with particular attention to the everyday lives and life courses of Jews against the backdrop of dramatic political and economic changes; the Jewish cultural geography of Eastern Europe; Jews in the small towns and the big cities; Judaism and Jewish culture: continuities, contestations, fragmentation, reinvention; and Jews and political upheaval: imperial retrenchment, popular nationalism, and the question of Jewish fate, 1881-1914. Kenneth B. Moss is Director of the Stulman Program in Jewish Studies, Department of History, and Felix Posen Associate Professor of Modern Jewish History at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore. He is also Co-editor of Jewish Social Studies. Dr. Moss�s research interests include: modern Jewish history; the history of Israel, Russia, Poland, and Eastern Europe; Jewish political thought; Hebrew and Yiddish literature and culture; history and sociology of nationalism; theory and practice of cultural history; and history of the cultural sphere. The program is free for paid members and $5 for non-members (applied to membership fee when a visitor joins JGSMD) after their first meeting. Refreshments will be available. Please check our web site at http://www.jgsmd.org for late updates and for the time, location, and program of future meetings.