UNC Asheville Hosts Lecture on Jewish Student Activism

UNC Asheville will host a talk and slide presentation on “From Black Power to Jewish Radicalism,” by Michael Staub, author and associate professor of English at Bowling Green State University, at 7:30 p.m. on Thursday, Feb. 10, at UNC Asheville’s Reuter Center. He will discuss the impact of Jewish student activism of the late 1960s and early 1970s, as well as the adaptation of Black Pride for a Jewish context. The event is free and open to the public.

Staub is the author of two books: “Torn at the Roots: The Crisis of Jewish Liberalism in Postwar America” and “Voices of Persuasion: Politics of Representation in 1930s America.” He is also the editor of “The Jewish 1960’s: An American Sourcebook.” Articles in other publications include, “Negroes are not Jews’: Race, Holocaust Consciousness, and the Rise of Jewish Neoconservatism” and “Black Panthers, New Journalism, and the Rewriting of the Sixties”

For more information, call Richard Chess, UNC Asheville Center for Jewish Studies director, at 828/251-6576.

Media Contacts:

• Richard Chess, UNC Asheville Center for Jewish Studies director, 828/251-6576
• Jill Yarnall, UNC Asheville Public Information Assistant Director, 828/251-6526