Keeping up Appearances
In Baltimore and throughout the United States, earlier generations of American Jews made much of novelty and of being up-to-date, especially when it came to what they wore. In her illustrated talk, Jenna Weissman Joselit, noted Tablet columnist and Charles E. Smith Professor of Judaic Studies & Professor of History at George Washington University, explores the hold that fashion has held on the collective American Jewish imagination ever since the 19th century.