Klement Lecture

29th Annual Prof. Frank L. Klement Lecture

"The History of Jewish Students in American Catholic Universities"

Tuesday, Nov. 12, 2024 at 5:30 p.m. in the Beaumier Suites, Raynor Library

In an era when many private colleges, universities, and professional schools enacted quotas on Jewish students,Catholic institutions remained open and indeed expanded the number of Jewish students. Particularly important were the schools under Catholic auspices which trained doctors. lawyers, pharmacists, as well as schools of business as these represented gateway institutions for the children of Jewish immigrants yearning to enter the middle class.

Nearly all extant sources including those of Jewish undergraduates reveal a welcoming environment which unlike the private schools, many founded by Protestant denominations, opened their doors for these young Jews.

Why did Catholic schools behave so differently and how did the various shareholders—faculty, administrators and the Catholic and Jewish students—experience this aberrant openness in the 1910s through the 1930s?


Dr. Hasia Diner

Dr. Hasia Diner
Professor Emerita, New York University

Hasia Diner is professor emerita at the Department of History and the Skirball 
Department of Hebrew and Judaic Studies at New York University. During her unusually prolific career, Dr. Diner has authored and edited over twenty books, including Hungering for America: Italian, Irish and Jewish Foodways in the Age of Migration, We Remember with Reverence and Love: American Jews and the Myth of Silence after the Holocaust, 1945–1962, and Immigration: An American History with Carl Bon Tempo. She has received numerous awards, including a Guggenheim Fellowship and several National Jewish Book Awards, and served in important leadership roles, including director of the Goldstein-Goren 
Center for American Jewish History and president of the Immigration and Ethnic History Society.

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The Klement Lecture brings to campus distinguished scholars in American history. Established in 1992 to honor Prof. Frank L. Klement, the lecture series was devoted originally to the history of the U.S. Civil War, but it now includes all fields of American history. Prof. Klement received his Ph.D. in History from the University of Wisconsin in 1946 and joined the history department at Marquette University in 1948. He served at Marquette for twenty-seven years before his retirement at the rank of professor emeritus, and he died in 1994 at the age of 86. Prof. Klement’s scholarship focused on the Civil War era, focusing on northern dissent. He is best remembered for his monographs The Copperheads in the Middle West (1960) and The Limits of Dissent: Clement L. Vallandigham and the Civil War (1970). Earlier lectures in the Klement series can be ordered from Marquette University Press, and Kent State University Press published several lectures in the 2008 volume More than a Contest Between Armies: Essays on the Civil War Era, edited by Kristen Foster and James Marten.

 

Previous Klement Lectures

2021 - 

2023-2024

Felipe Hinojosa, Baylor University

"Body & Spirit: Preachers, Radicals, and the Politics of the Latinx Civil Movement"

2021-2022

Wendy Bellion, University of Delaware

“The Horse’s Tail: Iconoclasm in Revolutionary New York”

2011 - 2020

2019-2020

Caroline E. Janney, University of Virgina

"Communities of Memory: Remembering the Civil War

2018-2019

Ned Blackhawk, Yale University

“American Indians and the Remaking of U.S. Colonial History” 

2017-2018

Kathleen M. Brown, University of Pennsylvania

Watch Kathleen Brown deliver "Undoing Slavery: Abolitionist Body Politics and the Argument Over Humanity."

2016-2017

Stephen Berry, University of Georgia

Watch Stephen Berry deliver "Drinking Yourself to Death in the Grand Age of Temperance: Edgar Allan Poe and the Art of Self-Destruction.”

2015-2016

Gray Brechin, University of California, Berkeley

"Recovering from Depression: The Living New Deal Project Uncovers a Lost Civilization Built Eighty Years Ago, And What We Can Learn from It Today.”

2014-2015

Frank Costigliola, University of Connecticut

Watch Frank Costigliola deliver “From Cambridge Avenue to Containment: Milwaukee in the Diaries of George F. Kennan”​

2012-2013

Steven Hahn, Roy F. and Jeanette P. Nichols Professor of History at the University of Pennsylvania

Watch Steven Hahn deliver "The Dimensions of Freedom: Slave Emancipation, Indian Peoples, and the Projects of the New American State."

2011-2012

W. Fitzhugh Brundage, William B. Umstead Professor of History, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill

Watch W. Fitzhugh Brundage deliver "The American Tradition of Torture"

2010-2011

Kevin Boyle, Ohio State University

Watch Kevin Boyle deliver "The Splendid Dead: An American Ordeal"

2001 - 2010

2009-2010

Allen Guelzo, Gettysburg College

"Colonel Utley’s Emancipation; or, How Abraham Lincoln Offered to Pay for a Slave”

2008-2009

Patricia Limerick, University of Colorado at Boulder

"The Ownership of the Public Lands: The Romance of Local Control meets the Romance of Expertise"

2007-2008

Nina Silber, Boston University

"Why Northern Women Matter for Understanding the Civil War"

2006-2007

Stephen Engle, Florida Atlantic University

"All the President's Statesmen: Union Governors and the Civil War"

2005-2006

Lesley J. Gordon, Akron University

"'I Never was a Coward': Questions of Bravery in a Civil War Regiment"

2004-2005

William Blair, Pennsylvania State University

"Why didn't the North hang some rebels? The postwar debate over punishment for treason"

2003-2004

Joan Waugh, UCLA

"Personal Memoirs of U.S. Grant: A History of the Union Cause"

2002-2003

J. Matthew Gallman, University of Florida

"'Touched with Fire?': Two Philadelphia Novelists Remember the Civil War"

2001-2002

David Blight, Yale University

"Abraham Lincoln and Frederick Douglass: A Relationship in Language, Politics, and Memory"

2000-2001

George Rable, University of Alabama

"News from Fredericksburg"

1992 - 2000

1999-2000

Catherine Clinton, The Citadel

"Public Women and the Confederacy"

1998-1999

Phillip Paludan, University of Kansas

"War and Home: The Civil War Encounter"

1997-1998

Edward L. Ayers,  University of Virginia

"Momentous Events in Small Places: The Coming of the Civil War in Two American Communities"

1996-1997

John Y. Simon, Southern Illinois University

"Grant and Halleck: Contrasts in Command"

1995-1996

Gary W. Gallagher, Pennsylvania State University

"Jubal A. Early, The Lost Cause, and Civil War History"

1994-1995

Robert W. Johannsen, University of Illinois-Urbana/Champaign

"The 'Wicked Rebellion' and the Republic: Henry Tuckerman's Civil War"

1993-1994

Richard Nelson Current, University of North Carolina at Greensboro

"What Is An American? Abraham Lincoln and 'Multiculturalism'"

1992-1993

Mark E. Neely, Jr., St. Louis University

"Confederate Bastille: Jefferson Davis and Civil Liberties"