The Hedy Lamarr Story: Glamour girl by day, scientist by night, Bombshell tells the story of how Jewish woman Hedy Lamarr set the foundation for today’s wireless communication and Bluetooth. Her participation in the world of science and engineering was unusual, and combined with her successful film career, made her one of a kind.
Stay for a talkback with Dr. Lori Lefkovitz, Ruderman Chair in Jewish Studies at Northeastern University.
Movie snacks will be provided!
This program is part of a series in honor of Women’s History Month 2025. Join us in raising up the stories of Jewish women who have made significant contributions to our world. Prompted by the book The Only Woman in The Room, the story of Beata Sirota Gordon, the Jewish woman who co-authored the Japanese constitution, this series features literature, art, music, film and more to illuminate the lives and innovations of these women.
Lori Hope Lefkovitz holds the Ruderman Chair in Jewish Studies at Northeastern University, where she directs the Jewish Studies Program and is a professor of English. From 2013-2022, she served Director of the Northeastern University Humanities Center. Her book, In Scripture: The First Stories of Jewish Sexual Identities, was a finalist for the National Jewish Book Award in the Women’s Studies category. A graduate of Brandeis University, Lefkovitz received her Ph.D. in English from Brown University and was a recipient of a Woodrow Wilson dissertation fellowship in women's studies, a Golda Meir post-doctoral fellowship at Hebrew University, a post-doctoral fellowship at the Institute of the Philadelphia Association for Psychoanalysis, a senior Fulbright Professorship at Hebrew University in Jerusalem, and an honorary doctorate from the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College.
Widely published in the fields of literature, critical theory, and Jewish Women's Studies, her other books include: The Character of Beauty in the Victorian Novel, Textual Bodies: Changing Boundaries of Literary Representation, and (with Julia Epstein) Shaping Losses: Cultural Memory and the Holocaust. Previously, Lefkovitz was the Gottesman Professor of Gender and Judaism and Founding Director of Kolot: The Center for Jewish Women's and Gender Studies at the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College. She is married to Rabbi Leonard Gordon, with whom she raised two daughters.
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