A panel discussion about Eli Lederhendler’s new book “American Jewry A New History”
You are cordially invited to a panel discussionabout Eli Lederhendler’s new book,
American Jewry A New History
Published by
Cambridge University Press
Panelists:
Chair: Prof. Uzi Rebhun, Head of the Avraham Harman Institute of Contemporary Jewry of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Dr. Yael Sternhell, Tel-Aviv University
Prof. Jonathan D. Sarna, Brandeis University
Prof. Menahem Blondheim, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and the “Da’at Hamakom” Center
Response: Prof. Eli Lederhendler, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and the “Da’at Hamkom” Center
The event will take place on Tuesday, January 17, 2017
Reception at 16:00
Opening remarks at 16:30
Beit Maiersdorff, Room 502, Mt. Scopus Campus
The book surveys over 350 years of Jewish existence on American soil, as it developed across different eras. It presents these developments as a series of “many new beginnings,” rather than as an organic narrative of direct evolution from early beginnings to today. The book considers the world Jewish historical context in which these events took place, in order to situate American Jewish history within global Jewish trends. This is the first history of American Jewry to be written outside the United States.
Cover credit: The Pens at Ellis Island, Photograph by Edwin Levick, New York Public Library Digital Collections. Edwin Levick (1869-1929).
