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Talk with Guest Speaker Deborah Dash Moore.

Walkers in the City: Jewish Street Photographers of Midcentury New York

This talk examines the distinctive urban vision of New York City’s streets and public spaces produced by Jewish photographers in the middle decades of the 20th century. Drawing on their experiences, Deborah Dash Moore offers a new perspective on New York as seen through their eyes—a cityscape of working-class people.   Deborah Dash Moore is Jonathan Freedman Distinguished University Professor of History and Judaic Studies at the University of Michigan. An historian of American Jews, she specializes in twentieth century urban history.