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October 31, 2001
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contact: Marti Hobbes, mhobbes@smith.edu

Nov. 5 Lecture Examines
Sexual Politics of the Modern Hebrew Revival

NORTHAMPTON, Mass.-Noted scholar of modern Jewish literatures Naomi Seidman will lecture on "The Sexual Politics of the Modern Hebrew Revival" at 4:30 p.m. on Monday, Nov. 5, in Seelye 207 at Smith College.


Seidman, who is an associate professor of Jewish culture and the director of the Richard S. Dinner Center for Jewish Studies at the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley, Calif., will discuss the revival of Hebrew as a spoken language in the modern period through a feminist analysis of the education of the "First Hebrew Boy" and the anecdotes and jokes that circulated during the decades in which Hebrew was becoming the vernacular of the Zionist community in Palestine.


Author of "A Marriage Made in Heaven: The Sexual Politics of Hebrew and Yiddish," published in 1997, Seidman has also translated the Hebrew and Yiddish stories of Dvora Baron, the first modern Hebrew woman writer, and is currently working on a book on Jewish and Christian differences and the theory and practice of translation.


This talk-which is free, open to the public and wheelchair accessible-is sponsored by the Smith College programs in Jewish studies, comparative literature and women's studies.


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