"The Intellectual Life of Yiddish-Speaking Workers: Socialist ‘Enlightenment’ and Self-Education in New York, 1890s - 1920s"

Tony Michels
George L. Mosse Associate Professor
of American Jewish History
University of Wisconsin-Madison

Wednesday, March 28, 2007
12:00 NOON

SLIS Commons
4207 Helen C. White Hall
University of Wisconsin-Madison

Professor Michels is the George L. Associate Professor of American Jewish History at UW. He teaches courses in working class history, immigration, and modern Jewish history. His book, A Fire in Their Hearts: Yiddish Socialists in New York (Harvard, 2005) won the Salo Baron Prize from the American Academy for Jewish Research. He is currently working on