Join us for lunch at the Center on Tuesday, November 5, when Anton Hieke will share his research on “Jews in Reconstruction Georgia and the Carolinas.”

Anton Hieke is a native of Wolfen, Germany. He earned his PhD in American Studies at the University Halle-Wittenberg last year, with a dissertation on “German-Jewish Immigrants of Reconstruction Georgia and the Carolinas.” The revised version has appeared as Jewish Identity in the Reconstruction South (Berlin and Boston: De Gruyter, 2013).