Julie Salamon, New York Times best-selling author, sits down with author and editor Daniel Okrent to discuss his latest book Stephen Sondheim: Art Isn’t Easy. Daniel had careers as a book and magazine editor and was the first public editor of the New York Times. He is the prize-winning author of six books, including The […]
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 […]
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 […]
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. 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 restrictions of […]
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 […]