April 30, 2026 @ 7:00 pm –
April 30, 2026 @ 8:30 pm – with Kirsten Fermaglich (Michigan State) Our images of name changing are frequently clichés: movie stars who adopted new names or Ellis Island officials who changed immigrants’ names. Kirsten Fermaglich upends these clichés by examining previously unexplored name change petitions. In twentieth-century New York City, thousands of ordinary Jews legally changed their names to respond to […]
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