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(Posted 2-9-04)
Contact: Steve Gilliam, 336-334-5371

Lecture on Jewish Experience, Culture March 2 at UNCG

GREENSBORO – Dr. Jonathan Sarna, one of the nation’s top scholars in American Jewish history, will give a free, public lecture on “The Emergence of American Judaism” at The University of North Carolina at Greensboro Tuesday, March 2.

Sarna will deliver the annual Henry Samuel Levinson Lecture at 7:30 p.m. in the Weatherspoon Art Museum Auditorium. A reception will follow.
He is author, editor or co-editor of 20 books, including “American Judaism: A History,” his most recent book. Other titles are “The American Jewish Experience,” “People Walk on Their Heads,” “Jews and the American Public Square,” “Women and American Judaism: Historical Perspectives” and “JPS: The Americanization of Jewish Culture.” Sarna teaches at Brandeis University, where he is the Braun Professor of American Jewish History. He earned his doctorate at Yale University.

The Levinson Lectures are being coordinated by the UNCG Department of Religious Studies, which is a co-sponsor along with the UNCG Jewish Studies Program and the College of Arts and Sciences. The programs are funded in part by the Henry S. Levinson Program Endowment in Jewish Studies, the Barbara Colchamiro Jewish Studies Endowment, and the Herman and Zelda Bernard Professorship in Jewish Studies.
 
 

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