"GI Jews: How WWII Transformed American Jews," a lecture by Dr. Deborah Dash Moore, Department of History, University of Michigan

Deborah Dash Moore, the Frederick G. L. Heutwell Professor of History at the University of Michigan, will talk about the experience of Jews who served in the American military in WWII. She will consider how Jews adapted to military life and confronted such harrowing experiences as encountering survivors of the death camps. She will also discuss how this service reshaped Jewish life in America after the war. This event is the 42nd Annual Ryterband Symposium in Judaic Studies.