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Clara Lemlich and the Great Shirtwaist Makers Strike of 1909

Friday, Nov 9, 2018| 12:45–1:15pm

ADMISSION: Free with Museum admission

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2018-11-09 12:45:00 UTC2018-11-09 13:15:00 UTC America/Los_AngelesThe CJM - 736 Mission St, San Francisco, CAClara Lemlich and the Great Shirtwaist Makers Strike of 1909Join labor law historian, professor, and radio host Bill Sokol for a discussion on Clara Lemlich, a Jewish union organizer who galvanized the Great Shirtwaist Makers Strike of 1909, and the rise of the international ladies garment workers union.

The activism of women—dominating today’s headlines—has deep roots in the labor movement. Join labor law historian, professor, and radio host Bill Sokol for a discussion on Clara Lemlich, a Jewish union organizer who galvanized the Great Shirtwaist Makers Strike of 1909, and the rise of the international ladies garment workers union. It's a story of women rising up, speaking out and taking power in the American Labor Movement. In Veiled Meanings: Fashioning Jewish Dress, from the Collection of The Israel Museum, Jerusalem.

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about the speaker
Bill Sokol
Bill Sokol

Bill Sokol currently teaches labor law at San Francisco State University, in the Labor Studies Department. He’s taught at University of California at Berkeley, the University of San Francisco, Laney College, and San Francisco City College. He lectures widely on labor law and related topics. He hosted a talk show for twenty-five years on Pacifica Radio, and was a legal commentator on NPR.

Sokol joined Weinberg, Roger & Rosenfeld in 1976. He received his undergraduate degree from the University of Wisconsin, receiving Phi Beta Kappa honors. After a year at Yale Law School, Mr. Sokol pursued a master’s degree in Modern American History at the University of California, which he received in 1972. Mr. Sokol received his Juris Doctor from Boalt in 1976. While at Boalt, Mr. Sokol was an editor of the Ecology Law Quarterly.

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supporters

Public Programs are made possible by the Koret Foundation and The Al and Rosanne Levitt Fund for Public Programs.

The CJM’s Gallery Chat Program is made possible by Maribelle and Stephen Leavitt. Program support is provided by the Alan Templeton Endowment in Memory of Lieselotte and David Templeton.

Veiled Meanings: Fashioning Jewish Dress, from the Collection of The Israel Museum, Jerusalem is organized by The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, and is curated by IMJ's Jack, Joseph, and Morton Mandel Wing for Jewish Art and Life Associate Curator Efrat Assaf-Shapira. The Israel Museum’s curatorial team includes Curator in Charge Daisy Raccah-Djivre; Exhibition Curator Efrat Assaf-Shapira; Scientific Advisors No’am Bar’am Ben-Yossef and Esther Juhasz; Head of Traveling Exhibitions Sivan Eran-Levian and Traveling Exhibitions Coordinator Chandi Medad. Exhibition texts are based on the original 2014 Israel Museum exhibition Dress Codes: Revealing the Jewish Wardrobe and on The Jewish Wardrobe (edited by Esther Juhasz) published by the Israel Museum in 2012. The exhibition is organized at The CJM by Curator Heidi Rabben.

Lead Sponsorship in San Francisco is provided by the Koret Foundation, Gaia Fund, and Maribelle and Stephen Leavitt. Major Sponsorship is provided by The Bernard Osher Foundation and Dorothy R. Saxe. Patron Sponsorship is provided by Taube Philanthropies for Jewish Life and Culture and Suzanne and Elliott Felson. Supporting Sponsorship is provided by Judy and Robert Aptekar, Britex Fabrics, Dana Corvin and Harris Weinberg, Rosanne and Al Levitt, Siesel Maibach, Shelli Semler and Kyle Bach, Eta and Sass Somekh, Ellice Sperber, and the Ullman Family. Additional support is provided by an anonymous donor, David Agger, Morton and Amy Friedkin, Joy and Joel Kellman, Dr. Michael and Davida Rabbino, the Irving and Varda Rabin Foundation of the Jewish Community Foundation of the East Bay, Tzipi and Sam Tramiel, and Marilyn and Murry Waldman.

Generous support is provided by the Consulate General of Israel to the Pacific Northwest.

Support for this exhibition is provided by the Bernard and Barbro Osher Exhibition Fund of The Contemporary Jewish Museum

Image Credit

Header photo by Lidya Nada on Unsplash.