Thursday, February 10, 2022, 8:30 pm - 9:30 pm
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“The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire: Out of Tragedy Comes Social Justice”
On the first day of Spring in 1911, a terrible fire broke out in Manhattan’s Garment District. When it was over, half an hour later, 146 workers, mostly young immigrant Jewish women, were dead. This horror capping years of worker protests against intolerable conditions propelled a powerful coalition New Yorkers to enact factory safety legislation that would become a model for the nation.
Professor Pamela Nadell holds the Patrick Clendenen Chair in Women’s and Gender History at American University where she directs the Jewish Studies Program and received the university’s highest award, Scholar/Teacher of the Year.
Partners for this program:
Congregation Torat El – Oakhurst, NJ
Columbia Jewish Center – Columbia, MD
Congregation Beth Israel – West Hartford, CT
East Brunswick Jewish Center – East Brunswick, NJ
Ezra -Habonim, The Niles Township Jewish Congregation – Skokie, IL
Houston Congregation for Reform Judaism – Houston, TX
Jewish Federation of Ventura County – Ventura, CA
Temple Beth Shalom – Manalapan, NJ
Temple Israel Albany – Albany, NY
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