Rupture And Renewal — Jane Eisner In Conversation With Jonathan Sarna
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Jane Eisner, editor-in-chief of the Forward will be appearing in conversation with Jonathan Sarna the Joseph H. & Belle R. Braun Professor of American Jewish History and Chair of the Hornstein Jewish Professional Leadership Program at Brandeis University. The Center for Jewish History will host the event at 7pm on Wednesday May 16.
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Professor Sarna will speak about his life and how it led him to study history, central themes in his prolific scholarship on the American Jewish past and what studying American Jewish history can reveal about major issues confronting American Jews today.
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