BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//wp-events-plugin.com//7.2.3.1//EN TZID:America/New_York X-WR-TIMEZONE:America/New_York BEGIN:VEVENT UID:2551@wjcenter.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250307T200000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250307T210000 DTSTAMP:20250130T140954Z URL:https://www.wjcenter.org/events/author-talk-rachel-gordan/ SUMMARY:Author Talk: Rachel Gordan DESCRIPTION:Rachel Gordan is the author of Postwar Stories: How Books Made Judaism American. She received her PhD from Harvard University\, in North American Religions\; her BA from Yale in American Studies\, and her MAR fr om Yale Divinity school. The period immediately following World War II was an era of dramatic transformation for Jews in America. Drawing on several archives\, magazine articles\, and nearly forgotten bestsellers\, Postwar Stories examines how Jewish middlebrow literature helped to shape post-Ho locaust American Jewish identity. ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.wjcenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2025 /01/rachel-gordan-square-crop.jpg CATEGORIES:Adult Education,Featured Events END:VEVENT BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York X-LIC-LOCATION:America/New_York BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20241103T010000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE END:VCALENDAR