Race and Us: Jewish Identity in the American Context

Two leading thinkers discuss questions of Jewish identity in the American context, from both historical and contemporary perspectives.

Yehuda Kurtzer, Yavilah McCoy

November 14, 2019

November 14, 2019

Yehuda Kurtzer

Dr. Yehuda Kurtzer is the President of the Shalom Hartman Institute. Yehuda is a leading thinker and author on the meaning of Israel to American Jews, on Jewish history and Jewish memory, and on questions of leadership and change in American Jewish life. Yehuda led the creation of the Shalom Hartman Institute of North America in 2010 as a pioneering research and educational center for the leadership of the North American Jewish community, and teaches

Yavilah McCoy

Jewish Identity, Community, Judaism and Modernity, Video

Race and Us: Conversation with Yavilah McCoy and Yehuda Kurtzer

Presented in partnership with the Race And Us Initiative at B’nai Jeshurun in New York.

In the first of this public lecture series at B’nai Jeshurun, two leading thinkers discuss questions of Jewish identity in the American context, from both historical and contemporary perspectives.
November 13, 2019, New York