Preliminary Conference Program with locations

FRIDAY, October 30, 2009
Complimentary Breakfast in Hampton Inn lobby

8.30AM
Bus Tour begins at the Hampton Inn Garden District 3626 St. Charles Ave (504) 899-9990

Noon lunch at Gates of Prayer Synagogue 4000 West Esplanade, Metairie, LA.
1:00 – 2:15
Roundtable: “Post Katrina: The Reconstruction of Jewish New Orleans”

Brenda Brasher (Tulane University)
Michael Weil (New Orleans Jewish Federation)
Stuart Rockoff (Goldring/Woldenberg Institute of Southern Jewish Life) - moderator

2:30 – 4:00
Jewish Families in New Orleans

Stephen Whitfield (Brandeis University): “The Hermans of New Orleans: A Family in History”

Peggy Pearlstein (Library of Congress) and Shuly Rubin Schwartz (Jewish Theological Seminary): “The Shpall Family of New Orleans, Louisiana, 1922-1935.”
Gates of Prayer Synagogue
4:00 PM Bus back to Hampton Inn

Bus leaves Hampton Inn 6:00 PM
Friday evening Services 6:15 at Temple Sinai, 6227 St. Charles Ave.

Shabbat Dinner at Temple Sinai to follow
The Bornblum Judaic Studies Department Keynote Speaker:

Beth Wenger (University of Pennsylvania): “Going Public: Jewish Heritage on the American National Landscape.”
Bus leaves 9:00 PM for Hampton Inn.

SATURDAY, October 31
Bus leaves 8:30 AM for Tulane University
9:00AM – 10:15 Tulane University, Jones Hall
Different Jewish Responses to the Challenge of Civil Rights
Bryan Stone (Del Mar College): “Outsiders on the Inside: Dallas Jews and Civil Rights”

Allen Krause (California State University, Fullerton): “From McCarthy to Mississippi: The Case of Rabbi Benjamin Schultz”

Hollace Weiner - chair

10:30 – 11:45
Women & Song: Jewish Involvement in New Orleans Popular Culture

Pamela Arsenault (Historic New Orleans Collection): “A Red Light Look at New Orleans History”
Bruce Raeburn (Tulane Jazz Archives): “Jewish Musicians and Early New Orleans Jazz”
Cathy Kahn (Touro Infirmary Archives) - chair

Lunch noon Tulane University, Kendall Cram Room, Lavin Bernick Center (LBC), McAllister Place.

Keynote Speaker
Jonathan Karp (Binghamton University): "Sidemen or Middlemen?: The Image of Jews in Early Jazz."
Return to Jones Hall

1:45 – 3:00
“Damn Yankees”: Northern Jews in the South, 1865-1920
Michael Cohen (Tulane University): "Northern Jews and their 'Hebrew Agents': Images of Jewish Merchant in the Postbellum South"

Jessica Cooperman (New York University): “When I get down South: Training for the World War I Military in the American South"
Leonard Rogoff - chair

3:15 – 5:00
Meet the Filmmakers
Brian Bain - Shalom Y'all
Drew Levinson - Lasting Impressions
Leonard Rogoff - Down Home
Stephen Whitfield - moderator
Bus leaves Tulane 5:15 for Hampton Inn.

Dinner Out on the Town on your own - Bon Appetit!

SUNDAY, November 1
Walk two blocks to Prytania Street Entrance of Touro Infirmary
Café Touro, 2nd floor
9:00AM – 10:15
Rabbinic Leadership New Orleans Style
Scott Langston (Texas Christian University):"Representing the Virtues of Their People: Rabbi Isaac Leucht, Annie Jonas Moses, and the Book of Esther."

Rachel Bergstein (Yale University): "Letters to a Grandson: Rabbi Julian Feibelman and the Politics of Holocaust Rescue."
Rabbi Edward Cohn (Temple Sinai) - chair

10:30 – 11:45
Alsace in America: Franco-German Jews along the Lower Mississippi River
Anny Bloch (Université Toulouse Le Mirail):“Balancing Tradition and Modernity: German and French Emigrants along the Mississippi River.”

Barry Stiefel (College of Charleston): “The Synagogues of the Alsatian Immigrants in Louisiana”
Lunch at Café Touro.
Adam Mendelsohn (College of Charleston) - chair