Symposium on Jewish History in Detroit (April 6)

:) The Jews of Detroit: Past, Present, Future
A Symposium
April 6, 2014
McGregor Conference Center at Wayne State University

Schedule:
8:30-9am Coffee and Danish

9:00 “Greetings”
Professor Howard Lupovitch [[Director, Cohn-Haddow Center)
President Roy Wilson [[Wayne State University)


9:15 “Professor Sidney Bolkowsky: In Memoriam”
Professor Jamie Wright [[University of Michigan, Dearborn Campus)


9:30-10:45 “Suburban Synagogues and the Architecture of Urban Ambivalence." Professor Lila Corwin Berman [[Temple University)

Description: As Jews moved from the city to the suburbs in the postwar years, they also remade their sacred landscapes. The decisions that Jews in Detroit made about how to design, fund, and inhabit their new synagogues, helped build a spiritual terrain that simultaneously celebrated their arrival in the suburbs and gestured back toward the city lives and landscape they had left.


11:00-12:15 “Wealth, Religion, and Race in Metropolitan Detroit, 1950-2000"
Dr. Walter Greason [[International Center for Metropolitan Growth)

Description: How did Detroit miss the opportunity to foster greater interracial cooperation in the years following the Second World War? In what ways were realtors and neighborhood associations at the root of the problems that plague the metropolitan area to the present day? Dr. Walter Greason will discuss the ways the failures to connect and communicate between Jewish and African American leaders over the last sixty years have reinforced inequalities in wealth, income, employment and education.



12:15 – 1:30 Lunch

1:30-2:30 “Why Now?: the Revival of Detroit and its Jewish Community”
[[Panel Discussion)
Panelists:
David Carroll [[Vice President, Quicken Loans Inc.)
Jake Cohen [[Detroit Venture Partners)
Coucilman Gabe Leland [[Detroit City Council)
Moderator: Professor Howard Lupovitch

2:30 – 2:45 Coffee Break

2:45 – 3:45 “The Future of Jewish Detroit”
[[Panel Discussion)
Vadim Avshalumov[[Urban Planning Associate, Rock Ventures)
Ryan Landau[[Co-Founder, Chalkfly.com)
Council Jeremy Moss [[Southfield City Council)
Josh Diskin[[Senior Strategist, Detroit Labs)
Moderator: Professor Howard Lupovitch

3:45-4 Concluding Thoughts
Professor Howard Lupovitch




Transportation is available free of charge from the West Bloomfield and Oak Park Jewish Community Centers. Reservation required. To reserve space, please the call Elizabeth Kannon at the Jewish Historical Society of Michigan at 248-432-5517, or email: jhsofmichigan@msn.com by March 20, 2014
A catered kosher lunch in available for a charge of $15. [[Reservation required by March 20, 2014)
For more information, and to make a reservation for lunch, please the Cohn-Haddow Center at [[313-577-2679), or email Cohnhaddowcenter@wayne.edu