Lecture by Gideon Reuveni (University of Sussex) at the German Historical Institute in Washington, D.C. (DHI Washington).
Gideon Reuveni is Reader in History and Director of the Centre for German-Jewish Studies at the University of Sussex. He is the author of Reading Germany: Literature and Consumer Culture in Germany before 1933(2006) and the editor of several important books on modern Jewish history. Currently he is completing a book on consumer culture and the making of Jewish identity in Europe.
This lecture is the keynote lecturevof the conference "Jewish Consumer Cultures in 19th and 20th Century Europe and America" taking place at the DHI from May 7 to 9, 2015, co-organized with the USC Max Kade Institute for Austrian-German-Swiss Studies.
Please RSVP (acceptances only) by May 4. Tel. 202.387.3355, Fax 202.387.6437 or E-mail.