Was There A Golden Age in American Judaism, is it Over, and What Does That Mean for Temple Emanuel and for Us?
Please join us for Professor Jonathan Sarna, one of the leading scholars of American Jewish history, as he gives a thought-provoking lecture on the history of Jews in Newton and Temple Emanuel, marking Temple Emanuel’s 90th Anniversary.
About Professor Jonathan Sarna
Jonathan D. Sarna is University Professor and the Joseph H. & Belle R. Braun Professor of American Jewish History at Brandeis University. He also is the past president of the Association for Jewish Studies and Chief Historian of the Weitzman National Museum of American Jewish History in Philadelphia. Author or editor of more than thirty books on American Jewish history and life, his American Judaism: A History, now in its second edition, won six awards including the 2004 “Everett Jewish Book of the Year Award” from the Jewish Book Council. Sarna is a fellow both of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and of the American Academy of Jewish Research, and he holds five honorary degrees. His most recent books are Coming to Terms with America, a volume of essays now translated into Hebrew under the title Zehuyot Bemifgash (Mercaz Shazar); and Yearning to Breathe Free: Jews in Gilded Age America, coedited with Adam Mendelsohn.
