Julie Salamon (New York Times best-selling author) sits down with journalist and author Sam Roberts. Sam Roberts covered urban affairs in New York as a reporter, columnist, domestic correspondent and editor for The New York Times and The New York Daily News for more than 50 years. Currently he works as an obituaries writer for […]
Online in person Join AJHS and the Museum at Eldridge Street for a conversation with co-author of The Civil War Diary of Emma Mordecai Melissa R. Klapper and moderator Zev Eleff. The Civil War Diary of Emma Mordecai was edited by Dianne Ashton z”l and Melissa R. Klapper and is available from NYU Press. Emma Mordecai lived […]
First Lady of Laughs tells the story of Jean Carroll, the first Jewish woman to become a star in the field we now call stand-up comedy. Though rarely mentioned among the pantheon of early stand-up comics such as Henny Youngman and Lenny Bruce, Jean Carroll rivaled or even outshone the male counterparts of her heyday, […]
