Don Weber Wins Foundation Award

April 2002

Don Weber Wins Award from Littauer Foundation

Professor of American Studies and English Don Weber has been honored with a Lucius N. Littauer Foundation award to complete his book on modern Jewish culture, tentatively titled Accents of the Future. The book will establish the importance of key words of immigrant Jewish expression such as memory and repression, civility and table manners, shame and self-hatred, mourning and nostalgia, and use them to show how a variety of Jewish American writers and makers of popular culture negotiated their creative encounters with the new world.