Julius Lester - Wikipedia
Julius Bernard Lester (January 27, 1939 – January 18, 2018) was an American writer of books for children and adults [1] and an academic who taught for 32 years (1971–2003) at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.
Julius Lester, Chronicler of Black America, Is Dead at 78
2018年1月19日 · Julius Lester, a captivating and often polarizing American writer whose odyssey through a labyrinth of religious and ethnic identities caused him to be labeled a militant black separatist and a...
Julius Lester (1939-2018) - Blackpast
2018年1月27日 · Scholar and civil rights activist Julius Lester was born January 27, 1939 in St. Louis, Missouri, the son of a Methodist minister. Lester spent much of his childhood in Missouri, where in the 1940s and 1950s he dealt with southern attitudes about race and segregation before and during the Civil Rights movement.
Julius Lester - Encyclopedia.com
2018年5月21日 · Julius Lester has distinguished himself as a civil rights activist, musician, photographer, festival promoter, radio and talk show host, professor, poet, and novelist. But he is perhaps best known for his award-winning fiction for young adults, a body of work that directly addresses the black American experience during and after slavery.
Julius Lester, professor who embraced his Jewish and African …
2018年1月18日 · (JTA) — Julius Lester, an African-American singer, scholar and activist whose conversion to Judaism in 1982 came as a shock to those who only remembered his role in a bitter, racially...
Goodbye to Julius Lester, the Ultimate Contrarian
2018年1月22日 · Lester wrote, “I know he is not an anti-Semite, but his remarks in class were anti-Semitic, and he does not realize it.” At the time, Lester was teaching in U Mass’s Afro-American Studies ...
Author, activist Jewish convert Julius Lester dies at 78
2018年1月19日 · BELCHERTOWN, Mass. (AP) — An author, musician, civil rights activist and professor who made a late-life conversion to Judaism, has died. Julius Lester was 78. Lester’s daughter, Lian Amaris, posted on her father’s Facebook page that he “passed peacefully, surrounded by family” on Thursday.
Obituary: Julius Lester, Professor Emeritus of Judaic and Near …
2018年1月19日 · Julius Lester, a professor emeritus of Judaic and Near Eastern studies who was nationally renowned as author, civil rights activist, musician and photographer, died Jan. 18 at age 78. Lester was born in St. Louis, Missouri, in 1939, the son of a minister.
Julius Lester, African-American scholar who converted to …
Julius Lester, an African-American scholar and activist whose conversion to Judaism in 1982 came as a shock to those who only remembered his role in a bitter, racially charged school...
Obituary: Julius Lester - Publishers Weekly
2018年1月19日 · Award-winning author, educator, activist, and musician Julius Lester, known for a body of work focused on African-American culture, history, and folklore, as well as for his fierce...