Jews of Color in Early America with Author Laura Leibman
// William Breman Jewish Heritage Museum
Menu
Search

Jews of Color in Early America with Author Laura Leibman

Jews of Color in Early America with Author Laura Leibman
Jan 30 2022 | 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM

Jews of Color in Early America with Author Laura Leibman

BOOK TALK: LIVE AT THE BREMAN

Jews of Color in Early America
with Author Laura Leibman
When: January 30th, 2:00PM
Cost: Free Virtual Event
 
 
Beginning with two small portraits belonging to a Jewish heiress from New York, Professor Laura Leibman traced the family’s ancestors back to Bridgetown, Barbados in the 1700s.  But instead of discovering an exclusively Sephardic ancestry, she found a much more textured and complicated story for this multiracial family.
 
Please download this short worksheet before the program to help follow along.
Click the arrow pointing down or right click to download.
 
About Laura Leibman
 
Laura Arnold Leibman is Professor of English and Humanities at Reed College. She received her Ph.D. from the University of California, Los Angeles in 1995. Her work focuses how material culture changes our understanding of the role of women, children, and Jews of color in the early Atlantic World.
She has been a Fulbright scholar at the University of Panama and the University of Utrecht (Netherlands), a visiting fellow at the Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies at University of Oxford, and the Leon Levy Foundation Professor of Jewish Material Culture at Bard Graduate Center. She has served as the Chair of the Digital Media Committee for the Association for Jewish Studies (AJS), and the academic director of the award-winning, multimedia public television series American Passages: A Literary Survey (2003). She is currently the Vice President of Publications and a Distinguished Lecturer for the Association for Jewish Studies.

 

Her latest book Once We Were Slaves (Oxford University Press, 2021) is about an early multiracial Jewish family who began their lives enslaved in the Caribbean and became some of the wealthiest Jews in New York.

 

This event is hosted by The Breman Museum and co-sponsored with the Atlanta Jews of Color Council. 

Related Events

No related events.

Other Events

  • December 10th, 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM

    Unforgettable Stories From The Holocaust

    Holocaust survivor and Breman Museum speaker, Ben Walker presents his remarkable story of resilience at this free presentation. Seating is limited - reserve your seat today.

  • December 10th, 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM

    An Evening of Light with Cantor Gideon Zelermyer

    Cantor Gideon Zelermyer leads a family-friendly celebration of music from around the Jewish world: pop, Broadway, classical and liturgical, including the music of his friend and collaborator, Leonard Cohen. Gideon Zelermyer has performed around the world as a featured soloist.

  • December 17th, 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM

    MUSICAL INTERSECTIONS

    Featuring live musical performance, storytelling, and provocative discussion, this one-of-kind show has been curated to share the Black and Jewish origins of American music and culture. From the creation of the music itself to dawning of the modern music business, this program examines the important, prolific and complicated relationship between these two minorities who, together, made American music "American."

  • January 13th, 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM

    The Afro-Semitic Experience

    The Afro-Semitic Experience is a band that offers a powerful and poetic musical experience that celebrates diversity, promotes social justice, and inspires hope and joy. They blend Jewish and African-American music to create a dynamic and energizing sound. The group was founded in 1998 by pianist and composer Warren Byrd and bassist David Chevan and has since expanded to include a diverse group of talented musicians.

Exhibitions

  • The Guiding Hand : An exhibition of Torah pointers

    We are pleased to present an important and intriguing exhibition of Torah pointers, objects central to Jewish prayer and ritual. Known by their Hebrew name, yads, these ceremonial yet practical instruments are used to keep one’s place in the Torah scroll when reading from its densely hand-lettered Hebrew text. The Guiding Hand: The Barr Foundation Judaica Collection of Torah Pointers is on view in The Breman’s newly updated Discovery Gallery from October 11 through December 2023.

  • History with Chutzpah : Stories of The Southern Jewish Adventure

    The 250+ artifacts, documents, photographs and oral histories in the exhibition, reveal stories from the generations before us and offer you a journey into Jewish culture unlike any other.

View All >
The Breman Museum1440 Spring Street, NW Atlanta, GA 30309678-222-3700
© 2023 William Breman Jewish Heritage Museum.     Privacy Statement  |  Terms Of Use

This website is supported by a generous gift from the Jerry and Dulcy Rosenberg Family in honor of Elinor Rosenberg Breman.

Jewish Federation
Login