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Joshua Zeitz, Professor of History at Pembroke, Cambridge University, will talk about his new book, White, Ethnic New York: Jews, Catholics and the Shaping of Postwar Politics (University of North Carolina Press). Historians of postwar America often identify race as the driving force behind the dynamically shifting political culture. Zeitz instead places ethnicity at the forefront, arguing that ideological conflict among Irish Catholics, Italian Catholics, and Jews in New York City had an important impact on the shape of liberal politics.
Co-sponsored with The Center for Jewish Studies.
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