“America’s Jewish Women” by author Pamela Nadell

Tuesday, November 14, 2023
7:00 pm

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Author Pamela Nadell discusses her book “America’s Jewish Women: A History from Colonial Times to Today.”

Pamela Nadell uncovers what it has meant to be a Jewish woman in America by weaving together the stories of remarkable individuals from colonial matron Grace Nathan and her great-granddaughter poet Emma Lazarus, to Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. Learn how they and scores of women maintained their Jewish identities as they wrote themselves into American history.

Pamela Nadell holds the Patrick Clendennen Chari in Women’s and Gender History and is the Director of the Jewish Studies Program at American University in Washington, D.C.

To attend this zoom webinar e-mail njhgc@mmt.mainlib.org by 4 p.m. on Tuesday, November 14.

This program is co-sponsored by the Morristown Jewish Center Beit Yisrael and The Morristown and Morris Township Library.