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submitted by David Noland
NYU HISTORY PROFESSOR TO LECTURE ON KIRYAS JOEL
Cornwall residents, as well as village and town board members, will get a rare opportunity next week to learn about the history and culture of the Satmar Hasidic sect that makes up the village of Kiryas Joel.
Richard A. Hull, a history professor at New York University, will deliver a lecture entitled “The Satmar of Kiryas Joel: A Historical and Cultural Perspective” on Thursday, November 6 at Munger Cottage, 183 Main St. in Cornwall, NY. The talk will begin at 7 p.m.
The lecture will be academic and scholarly in nature, with no intended political or partisan agenda.
“The dramatic growth of the Satmar community in Orange County over the last quarter century is historically unprecedented,” said Prof. Hull. “It presents opportunities and challenges for everyone in our county: Satmars and non-Satmars, Jews and Christians, agnostics and atheists, whites and blacks, rich and poor.”
“It has concerned me personally,” he continued, “that few people in the county really know much about the origins and history of the Satmars. It worries me that there has been little opportunity for dialogue across the spectrum of county stakeholders. To meet these challenges requires knowledge, and from that hopefully will come wise rational response on everybody’s part.”
“It is in that spirit that I make my presentation, as an independent scholar and municipal historian who has for the last decade studied the history of our county and those who have for the last few centuries populated it.”
Prof. Hull, a Warwick resident, is that town’s official historian, and was recently selected as “Warwick Citizen of the Year.” He also received the Orange County Revered Citizen award in 2005.
Prof. Hull has published many scholarly articles in academic journals, including “Jews and Judaism in African History” in 2009. He has previously lectured in Cornwall as part of the Hudson Highlands Nature Museum speaker series.
The Nov. 6 Munger Cottage lecture will recount the history of the Satmar sect, from itsr origins in Central Europe, through its narrow escape from the Nazi Holacaust under Rebbe Joel Teitelbaum, its immigration to Brooklyn after the war, and finally the settlement of Kiryas Joel in the 1970s.
Seating at the lecture will be limited, so prompt arrival is suggested. Afterwards, Dr. Hulll will answer written questions submitted by the audience.
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This is a very interesting topic and I am quite sure this lecture will be extremely educational to many in our community in that Kiryas Joel is a very very insular religious community of which most people are ignorant of and have little knowledge of.
posted by Jim Lennon on 11/04/14 at 9:45 PM
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