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Zionism’s launch: the look and the feel around 1900

This richly illustrated presentation explores how Zionism moved from the margins of Jewish and European society toward the mainstream at its inception under Theodor Herzl.  The deployment of images of its major personalities and symbols, which stressed inclusiveness and vague Jewish associations, were critical in Zionism gaining a place at the Jewish and, eventually, world-wide political table.

Michael Berkowitz is a Professor of modern Jewish history at University College London (UCL). UCL is the original and largest of the institutions that comprise the University of London. He taught previously at the University of Judaism (LA), Ohio State University and the University of Chicago.

A native of Rochester, NY, Michael is a graduate of Hobart College and received his MA and PhD from the University of Wisconsin. He is author of five books, most recently Jews and Photography in Britain, and editor or co-editor of five volumes. In addition to academic writing and university teaching, Michael produced three versions of the Kurt Weill/Georg Kaiser comic opera, The Tsar has his photograph taken. He also is working on a musical, Man & God, about the inventors of the Kodachrome film process, Leopold Mannes and Leo Godowsky Jr.