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FAU’s Libraries Presents Lecture by Author and Guest Speaker Chava Weissler “Recovering our Mothers’ Voices: Women’s Prayers in Yiddish”

It is the Sixth in a Series of Events by KULTUR: A Celebration of Yiddish at FAU

What:        FAU’s Libraries will present a lecture by author and guest speaker Chava Weissler, “Recovering our Mothers’ Voices: Women’s Prayers in Yiddish”- It is the Sixth in a Series of Events from FAU Libraries’ KULTUR program

When:         Tuesday, February 21 at 3p.m.

Where:         FAU’s University Center

Live Oak Pavilion, Room D

777 Glades Road, Boca Raton

COST:          Free and open to the public

Professor Chava Weissler is the author of “Voices of the Matriarchs: Listening to the Prayers of Early Modern Jewish Women,” the first comprehensive study of women’s devotions in Yiddish (tkhines), a nearly lost genre of Jewish literature.  It has been praised as a pioneering work that changed the ways in which scholars think about the role of women specifically, and the common folk, in general, in the shaping of the religious life of Judaism. 

Weissler is a professor of Jewish Civilization in the department of religion studies at Lehigh University, Pennsylvania. Her areas of specialization include Jewish folklore, modern Judaism, Jewish tradition, Hasidic tales, Jewish mysticism and women in Jewish history.

For additional information, call the FAU Libraries Information Hotline at 561-297-2116 or visit www.library.fau.edu/news/events.htm.

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