SAN DIEGO (Press Release)–The San Diego Center for Jewish Culture’s Mandelbaum Family Lecture Series, in Coronado, and Scholar Lectures on Jewish Studies, in Carlsbad continues their season of free lectures with Professor Joellyn Zollman.
Her lecture titled, “It’s Deli-cious! A Historical Exploration of American Jews and Delicatessen” will take place in the Schulman Auditorium of the Carlsbad Dove Library on Monday, January 12 at 7:30 pm. as well as in the Winn Room of the Coronado Library on Wednesday, January 14 at 10:30 am.
This talk will explore the historical relationship between American Jews and American delis. The lecture looks at how American Jews came to be associated with delis, how American Jewish delis have changed over time, and what the deli’s purpose and meaning has been to American Jewish identity and American Jewish life.
Zollman holds a Ph.D. in Jewish history from Brandeis University. She has worked with the Jewish material culture collections at the Smithsonian Institution, the Skirball Museum, and The American Jewish Historical Society. Locally, she has taught classes on Jewish history, American religion, and religious art and architecture at San Diego State University, UCSD, and the Center for Jewish Culture.
Future free monthly lectures will feature brilliant professors speaking on their own areas of research. In February, Ibrahim al-Marahi will speak on, “The Spanish Past and the Modern Middle East” Other speakers include professors Thomas Barton, and Gabrielle Orsi.
The Mandelbaum Family Lecture Series is a program of the San Diego Center for Jewish Culture, co-sponsored by Coronado Friends of CJC and Jewish Federation of San Diego County. The Scholar Lectures on Jewish Studies is a program of the San Diego Center for Jewish Culture, co-sponsored by Jewish Federation of San Diego County and Leichtag Foundation. All lectures are free and open to the public.
For more information on this or future lectures in the series, contact the San Diego Center for Jewish Culture at 858-362-1327 or www.sdcjc.org.
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