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 us for an evening of trivia inspired by the exhibition All We Have Standing Between Us: 250 Years of Jews and American Democracy. Questions will span all aspects of Jewish American history and life from 1776 to the present. We hold these truths to be self- evident: Pirates, bootleggers, doctors and philanthropists, entertainment, politics, […]
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 […]