JGSGB-Announce Mailing List: Sun, Oct 14: Jonathan Sarna at Hebrew College

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6^th Annual Lecture on Jewish Genealogy

Co-sponsored by the
Jewish Genealogical Society of Greater Boston
and Hebrew College

When General Grant Expelled the Jews
Professor Jonathan Sarna

Sunday, October 14, 2012        3:00 - 5:30 pm
Berenson Hall, Hebrew College

Free and open to the public. Seating is limited.  Advance registration is required.
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How safe were Jews in their new home in the United States? Was European anti-Semitism to follow them to America? General Grant’s shocking order to expel the Jews, issued in the midst of the Civil War, galvanized the American Jewish community into action, reminding many who were refugees from European expulsions how insecure they were even in America.

Professor Jonathan Sarna’s study of this pivotal event in American Jewish history sheds light on the experience and treatment of Jews during the Civil War through the late nineteenth century. When General Grant later ran for President, his infamous order made Jews an issue in a presidential contest for the first time and publicly confronted Jews with the question of how to balance their American and Jewish loyalties.

Jonathan D. Sarna is an award-winning historian of American Jewish history. He is the Braun Professor of American Jewish History at Brandeis University, chief historian of the National Museum of American Jewish History, and author or editor of over twenty books.

His acclaimed American Judaism: A History received the 2004 Jewish Book of the Year Award. His latest book, When Grant Expelled the Jews, published by Schocken Books earlier this year, has received excellent reviews. Copies will be available for purchase and signing following the lecture.

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Hebrew College
160 Herrick Road
Newton Centre, MA 02459

A flyer in Adobe PDF format is available. 
We encourage you to print it and post copies.

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The 33rd IAJGS International Conference on Jewish Genealogy

 

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