Paula Hyman,

 ‘Confronting Otherness’

FAIRFIELD — Dr Paula E. Hyman will be the guest speaker at Fairfield University’s Judaic Studies Lecture Series on Wednesday, October 17, at 7:30 pm in the university’s Charles F. Dolan School of Business. Her topic will be “Confronting Otherness: Jewish Women in Preholocaust Poland.”

Dr Hyman is the Lucy Moses Professor of modern Jewish history and the chairperson of the Judaic studies program at Yale University. A graduate of both Hebrew College of Boston and Radcliffe College, she received a master’s degree and PhD from Columbia University, where she taught Jewish history for several years.

A specialist in the modern period, Dr Hyman has devoted her research to two areas, the history of French Jewry and Jewish women’s history. She is the author of several books, the latest, The Jews of Modern France, was published in 1998. She is also co-editor of the two-volume Jewish Women in America: An Historical Encyclopedia, which received the Dartmouth Medal Award and the Barbara Dobkin Award in Jewish Women’s Studies from the National Jewish Book Awards.

Dr Hyman’s lecture is free and open to the public, but reservations are suggested. The event is sponsored by Fairfield University’s Carl and Dorothy Bennett Center for Judaic Studies, under the direction of Ellen M. Umansky, PhD, and the Schnurmacher Foundations. For information or to reserve a seat, call Judaic Studies at 203-254-4000, extension 2066.