SYNAGOGUE, CHURCH, AND UNIVERSITY: Assimilation and Conversion

<body topmargin=0 leftmargin=0 marginheight=0 marginwidth=0> <table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 border=0><tr> <td valign="top" colspan=2 height=110 BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#080000" bgproperties="fixed" background="039f0f21egerdp.jpg"> <div> <B>SYNAGOGUE, CHURCH, AND UNIVERSITY:  Assimilation and Conversion</B></div> <div> </div> </td> </tr><tr> <td valign="top" width=210 BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#080000" bgproperties="fixed" background="038f2f02egerdp.jpg"> <div> <A HREF="lecture_teaching.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Lecture/Teaching Topics for Adults"><U><B>Lecture/Teaching Topics for Adults</B></U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="id65.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Teenager Education Topics "><U><B>Teenager Education Topics</B></U></A></div> <bR> <div> <A HREF="id26.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="IMMIGRATION AND ACCULTURATION"><U><B>Immigration and Acculturation</B></U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="id35.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="COMING HERE: The Poetry of JewishAmerica"><U><B><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Wing0a73007700f099000000.gif" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Coming Here</B></U></A><B> </B></div> <div> <A HREF="id38.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="JEWS AND THE CITIES: Out of the Ghetto,"><U><B><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Wing0a73007700f099000000.gif" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Jews and the Cities</B></U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="id37.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="BETWEEN GENERATIONS: New Families in New"><U><B><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Wing0a73007700f099000000.gif" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Between Generations</B></U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="id40.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="EMMA LAZARUS (18491887): Writing As a Je"><U><B><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Wing0a73007700f099000000.gif" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Emma Lazarus</B></U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="id87.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="JEWS, WAR, AND THE MILITARY"><U><B><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Wing0a73007700f099000000.gif" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Jews, War, and the Military</B></U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="id42.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="JEWISHAMERICAN AND ANGLOJEWISH POETRY IN"><U><B><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Wing0a73007700f099000000.gif" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Jewish-American and Anglo-Jewish Poetry in Context</B></U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="id99.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="IMMIGRATION: Jewish Womens Poetry"><U><B><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Wing0a73007700f099000000.gif" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Jewish Women's Poetry</B></U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="id15.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Contact JEWISH VOICES"><U><B><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Wing0a73007700f099000000.gif" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Contact JEWISH VOICES</B></U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="index.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Jewish Voices 200 Years of Jewish Poetry"><U><B><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Wing0a73007700f099000000.gif" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Home</B></U></A></div> </td> <td valign="top" height=370 BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#080000" bgproperties="fixed" background="03bf0f03.jpg"> <div> <I><B>Synagogue, Church and University: Assimilation and Conversion</B></I></div> <bR> <div>      Argumentative texts about resisting institutional pressures dramatize Jews in foreign architectural spaces. There, they question their identities and find a community of spirit despite anti-Semitism---but the Christian architectures are daunting.</div> <div>      These writings, jealously admiring the host culture, are also satiric and bewildered: the poets fear engulfment as they represent the struggle for one's own space and "voice" in Christian nations and social structures.  How they "talk back" in rebellion involves issues of  secularism, intermarriage, social status, human dignity. </div> <bR> <div>       Readings from <I><B>Grace Aguilar, Emma Lazarus, Amy Levy, Israel Zangwill, Alter Brody, Delmore Schwartz, Karl Shapiro, Arthur Jacob</B></I><I><B>s,</B></I><I><B> </B></I><I><B>Adrenne Rich</B></I>, others.</div> <bR> </td> </tr></table></body>