'Lessons Learned From Postville'

Baecke Lecture
"Lessons Learned From Postville"
Thursday, March 11
7 p.m.
Rogalski Center, located at the corner of Ripley and Lombard Streets, one block west of Harrison Street
Free and open to the public

Bloom's lecture will focus on the fundamental changes confronting the small, predominately Lutheran, Iowa town after 150 Lubavitcher Jews settled there; bought the local slaughterhouse; and became the community's new power brokers. His book on the subject was named a Best Book of the Year by MSNBC and the Chicago Sun-Times. Author of many books, short stories and articles, Bloom teaches narrative journalism and magazine reporting and writing at the University of Iowa, Iowa City. Prior to joining the faculty, Bloom was a staff writer at The Sacramento Bee, the Los Angeles Times, and The Dallas Morning News, as well as press secretary and chief speech writer for San Francisco Mayor Frank Jordan.

Bloom's work has appeared in Smithsonian, The New York Times Magazine, the Washington Post, the Chicago Tribune and National Public Radio's "All Things Considered." He has been honored with the Iowa Author of the Year Award in 2008 and was a visiting scholar at Columbia University's Center for the Study of Society and Medicine, New York, N.Y.

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