Laura Yares
Through the Eyes of a Child: What the Jewish Sunday School Movement Can Teach Us About American Jewish History
Tuesday, October 29, 2025 at 7pm
Taft Center, 1 Edwards, UC Uptown Campus
Laura Yares is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Religious Studies at Michigan State University. She is the author of Jewish Sunday Schools: Teaching Religion in Nineteenth Century America, which was a finalist for a National Jewish book award in 2023. Her second book, a contemporary ethnographic study of Jewish learning in cultural arts contexts, will be published with NYU Press in 2025.