The Harold Schnitzer Family Judaic Studies Program at Portland State presents the third annual Gus and Libby Solomon Lecture Thursday, April 10, at 7 p.m. in the Native American Student and Community Center. Alan Mintz, a expert on Jewish literary scholarship, will discuss "Owning Our Culture: How Jews Can Thrive in 21st-Century America."

Mintz holds the Chana Kekst Professorship in Hebrew Literature at Jewish Theological Seminary of America in New York city. He is the cofounder of two seminal Jewish intellectual journals, Response and Prooftexts, and has authored or edited seven books on topics ranging from modern Hebrew literature to the shaping of Holocaust memory in American popular culture. His current research centers on the history of Hebrew in America, and its lessons for the future of Jewish culture and identity.