Lecture by Dr. Shaul Stampfer

Thursday, January 24th, 2019

358 Susan Campbell Hall

Please join us at 2:00pm this Thursday (January 24th) in SCH 358 for a lecture by Dr. Shaul Stampfer, Sandrow Professor of Soviet and East European Jewish History (emeritus) at Hebrew University. Dr. Stampfer will speak on “Jews as Fences in Early Modern Europe.”

“Fences are an interesting topic to study. It is certainly not a respectable profession and some people may be uncomfortable with the fact that there were Jews who made a living this way. What interested me was why ‘fences’ could operate openly for centuries and what was the impact of the activity of fences on society. The answers are not so simple!”