How has antisemitism shaped American life, and what makes this moment different? Join historian James Loeffler and The New Yorker staff writer Emma Green for a conversation about antisemitism, free speech, and the challenges facing American democracy. Drawing on Loeffler’s new book, they will explore why Jews and Israel so often stand at the center of debates […]
Julie Salamon, New York Times best-selling author, sits down with author Joel Dinerstein to discusses his latest book, The Last of the Ellis Island Jews: A Brooklyn Memoir. Dinerstein is the founding editor of a new series, Lost Classics of Jewish Literature, for the University of New Orleans Press. He is a Professor of English […]
On the eve of the 2026 midterm elections, join the American Jewish Historical Society and the Center for Jewish History for the 2026 Amy Goldman Fowler Lecture, presented in support of the exhibition All We Have Standing Between Us: 250 Years of Jews and American Democracy. A distinguished panel of speakers will explore the evolving […]
Join author Melissa R. Klapper for a discussion of her new book Jewish Women at Home in the World: Gender, Judaism & American Identity in the Rise of Mass Tourism with AJHS historian Andrew Sperling. While Americans have gone abroad for leisure and education since the early days of American history, the period between the […]
To mark the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence and in conjunction with the new exhibition, All We Have Standing Between Us: 250 Years of Jews and American Democracy, the Center for Jewish History and American Jewish Historical Society are proud to present a full-day symposium, Jews and American Democracy: 250 Years of […]
Author Hannah E. Zaves-Greene joins us to discuss her new book, Able to Be American: Disability in US Immigration Policy and the American Jewish Response with Sarah Imhoff. Epilepsy. Heart disease. Varicose veins. “Feeble-mindedness.” In 1891, Congress unambiguously codified the popular sentiment that “defects” like these should preclude admission to the United States. Expanding the eugenics-rooted […]
Julie Salamon, New York Times best-selling author, sits down with Joshua Jelly-Schapiro to discuss his latest book, Daylight Come: Harry Belafonte and the World He Made. Joshua Jelly-Schapiro is a geographer and writer whose books include Names of New York: Discovering the City’s Past, Present, and Future Through Its Place-Names; Island People: The Caribbean and the World; and, […]
Join author Amy Weiss as she discusses her new book, Interfaith Friends and Ideological Foes: American Jews, Evangelicals, and Israel, 1963 – 2018. Interfaith Friends and Ideological Foes examines the evolution of the relationship between American Jews and evangelicals. Amy Weiss argues that Jewish interfaith partnerships with evangelicals developed as a necessary, adaptive strategy to […]
Julie Salamon, New York Times best-selling author and journalist, sits down with Kai Bird and Susan Goldmark to discuss their latest book, American Scoundrel, on Roy Cohn’s life and enduring influence. Julie will interview the husband-and-wife team about their process and history of working together, as well as the individual accomplishments each has achieved over […]
Join AJHS historian and author Andrew Sperling in conversation with Pamela Nadell as they discuss Sperling’s new book, The Menace Among Us: The Jewish Fight Against Antisemitism, from the Ku Klux Klan to the White Power Movement. Despite significant advances in Jewish civil rights and socioeconomic conditions throughout the twentieth century, American Jews withstood shocking […]