Mystics, Mavericks and Merry Makers: An Intimate Journey Among Hasidic Girls (Colloquium/Open House)
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Posted by Web Team, October 25, 2005
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The Simmons MSW/Hebrew College Joint Program in Jewish Communal and Clinical Social Work, Hebrew College and Simmons Hillel are sponsoring a Colloquium,
Title: Mystics, Mavericks and Merry Makers: An Intimate Journey Among Hasidic Girls
Speaker: Dr. Stephanie Wellen Levine, Lecturer at Tufts University, Author
Date: Wednesday, November 9
Time: 4:30-6:00 PM (all those with classes at 6 should feel free to attend and leave early)
Location: P106F (the “Fishbowl” located in the SSW Dean’s Suite on the First Floor)
Dr. Stepanie Wellen Levine will be discussing her new book, Mystics, Mavericks, and Merrymakers: An Intimate Journey Among Hasidic Girls. The book describes her experiences living for a year as a secular Jew in the Orthodox Jewish Community of Crown Heights, Brooklyn. In her research, she asked the question: Do adolescent girls raised in a strict religious orthodoxy have what could be called a “free voice”? Drawing on her participant observation experience and 30 in-depth interviews, Dr Wellen Levine offers rich portraits of adolescent women navigating regimented traditions and the pull of mainstream American life. Her findings raise fascinating issues about identity development and cross cultural research.
The Colloquium will be followed from 6:00 to 7:00 by an Information Session for the Simmons MSW/Hebrew College Joint Program in Jewish Communal and Clinical Social Work. If you have any questions, please contact Dr. Kathy Millstein extension 3921, kmillstein@simmons.edu
