Kaplan Symposium Program
Constellations of Atlantic Jewish History, 1555-1890:
the Arnold and Deanne Kaplan Collection
of Early American Judaica
Date: Tuesday, February 18, 2014
Location: Class of 1978 Pavillion and Goldstein Family Gallery
Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books, and Manuscripts
Sixth Floor, Van Pelt-Dietrich Library
University of Pennsylvania Libraries
3420 Walnut Street
Philadelphia, PA 19104-6206
9:30 am - 10:00 am: Breakfast and Kaplan Collection exhibition browsing
10:00 am: Greetings and Introduction:
Arthur Kiron, Schottenstein-Jesselson Curator of Judaica Collections, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books, and Manuscripts, University of Pennsylvania
10:15 am – 12:15: Session One: Space and Time in the Atlantic Jewish World
Chair: David Ruderman, Joseph Meyerhoff Professor of Modern Jewish History and Ella Darivoff Director of the Herbert D. Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies at the University of Pennsylvania
Speakers:
Aviva Ben-Ur, Associate Professor in the Department of Judaic and
Near Eastern Studies, University of Massachusetts, Amherst,
“Atlantic Jewish History: A Conceptual Reorientation”
Jonathan D. Sarna, Joseph H. & Belle R. Braun Professor of American
Jewish History, Brandeis University,
“Marking Time: Notes from the Arnold and Deanne Kaplan Collection of
Early American Judaica on How Nineteenth-Century American Jews Lived
Their Religion”
Responses; Audience Questions
12:00 – 1:30 pm: Break for lunch and Kaplan exhibition browsing
1:30 – 3:30 pm: Session Two: Making a Living - The Business of Being Jewish in America
Chair: Lila Corwin Berman, Associate Professor of History, Murray Friedman Professor and Director of the Feinstein Center for American Jewish History, Temple University
Speakers:
Adam Mendelsohn, Associate Professor of Jewish Studies, College of
Charleston,
“A Covenant of Commerce: The Business of Jews in America”
Dianne Ashton, Professor in the Philosophy and Religion Department at
Rowan University,
“The Kaplan Collection of Victorian Trade Cards”
Responses; Audience Questions.
3:30 – 3:45 pm: Coffee break and Kaplan exhibition browsing
3:45 - 5:45 pm: Session Three (roundtable): Atlantic Jewish History and Future Research
Chair: Michael Zuckerman, Professor of History, University of Pennsylvania
Panelists:
Melissa R. Klapper, Professor of History, Rowan University;
Josh Perelman, Chief Curator and Director of Exhibitions and Collections at the National Museum of American Jewish History;
Lance Sussman, Senior Rabbi, Reform Congregation Keneseth Israel Congregation and Professor of American Jewish History
Audience Questions.
5:45 – 7:00 pm: Reception and Exhibition tour with Arnold Kaplan (by invitation)
The Kaplan Symposium is free and open to the public. For more information, please contact:
Nancy Gulsoy, Administrative Coordinator
Development & External Affairs
201.4 Van Pelt-Dietrich Library Center
University of Pennsylvania Libraries
(215) 898-2520
gulsoy@pobox.upenn.edu
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