Jonathon Ned Katz will discuss his 2021 biography, The Darling Life and Dangerous Times of Eve Adams, followed by a Q&A session. Born Chawa Zloczewer into a Jewish family in Poland, Eve Adams emigrated to the United States in 192, took a new name, sold radical publications, and ran lesbian-and-gay-friendly speakeasies in Chicago and New York. In 1925, she wrote and published a book titled Lesbian Love.
Adam's blood activism caught the attention of the young J. Edgar Hoover and the US Bureau of Investigation, leading to her surveillance and arrest. She was convicted of publishing an obscene book and of attempted sex with a policewoman sent to entrap her. Adams was jailed, deported back to Europe, and ultimately murdered by Nazis in Auschwitz.
Katz's 2021 biography of Eve Adams inspired an undergraduate creative research residency hosted by the Office of Undergraduate Research in partnership with the Center for Creativity. The work of the arise-scholars will be displayed on the Pittsburgh campus in the 2022-2023 Academic Year.
Co-sponsored by the Jewish Studies Program; the Office of Undergraduate Research, Scholarship, & Creative Activity (OUR); The Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies (GSWS) Program; and the Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies (REES).