Open to the Public with preregistration. Co-presented by NYU, Washington DC
Join us at NYU, Washington DC for a conversation with Professor Lila Corwin Berman (Temple University) and Daniel Greene (Northwestern University) about antisemitism in American Jewish history and the contemporary moment.
All are invited to join us for a reception from 6:00pm-6:30pm. The program will start at 6:30pm.
Lila Corwin Berman is the current Murray Friedman Chair of American Jewish History at Temple University and the incoming Paul & Sylvia Steinberg Professor of American Jewish History at New York University, where she will direct the Goldstein-Goren Center for American Jewish History. Her most recent book, The American Jewish Philanthropic Complex: The History of a Multibillion-Dollar Institution, has been awarded the 2021 Ellis W. Hawley Prize from the Organization of American Historians and the Saul Viener Book Prize from the American Jewish Historical Society. Her articles have appeared in several scholarly publications, as well as the Washington Post, the Chronicle of Higher Education, and the Chronicle of Philanthropy
Daniel Greene is Subject Matter Expert at the US Holocaust Memorial Museum and Adjunct Professor of History at Northwestern University. He curated Americans and the Holocaust, an exhibition that opened in 2018 at the US Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, DC, to commemorate its twenty-fifth anniversary. The exhibition also inspired The U.S. and the Holocaust, an Emmy-winning documentary film directed by Ken Burns, Lynn Novick, and Sarah Botstein that aired on PBS in 2022. Greene’s co-edited (with Edward Phillips) book, Americans and the Holocaust: A Reader, was published by Rutgers University Press in 2022. His book The Jewish Origins of Cultural Pluralism: The Menorah Association and American Diversity (Indiana University Press, 2011) won the American Jewish Historical Society’s Saul Viener Book Prize in 2012.
