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THE NEWSLETTER OF THE SOUTHERN JEWISH HISTORICAL SOCIETY FALL 2020 VOLUME 24, NUMBER 4 Alfred Uhry to Inaugurate Lecture Series Honoring Janice Rothschild Blumberg We are delighted to announce that the The Temple where her late husband Southern Jewish Historical Society Jacob Rothschild served as rabbi, and (SJHS), the Breman Museum, and The more. The series will feature noted Temple in Atlanta have established an scholars who will examine the cultural, endowment fund creating the Janice artistic, and historical themes that have Rothschild Blumberg Lecture Series on been interwoven through her life. Southern Jewish History, Culture and Alfred Uhry’s Driving Miss Daisy is part Arts. Alfred Uhry, the Pulitzer Prize- of a trilogy (with The Last Night of winning author of Driving Miss Daisy, Ballyhoo and Parade) that depicts Jewish will present the inaugural lecture, life in Atlanta, where he, like Janice, which will be held virtually on Sunday, was born and raised. He not only December 6, at 4 p.m. Eastern Time Top: Martin Luther King Jr., Coretta received the 1988 Pulitzer Prize for on Zoom. Scott King, Jacob dramatic writing, he also has won an Rothschild, and The annual event recognizes the Janice Rothschild Academy Award and two Tony contributions of Janice Rothschild at an Atlanta Awards—one of very few writers to Blumberg to both Atlanta and southern banquet honoring receive all three honors. King, 1965. Photo Jewish history. “Janice has helped to by Bill Rothschild. “We are excited to kick off this lecture shape the study of the American Jewish Bottom: Alfred series with Alfred Uhry, and we invite South throughout the 20th and now 21st Uhry, James Earl Jones, Boyd everyone to donate to the endowment century, and we want to honor her Gaines, and fund to help make it a success for years extraordinary contributions to southern Angela Lansbury to come,” said Jay Silverberg, SJHS culture, art, and Jewish history,” said during a 2013 revival of Driving incoming president.
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