The Jewish Middle Class in an Age of Social Justice

The Jewish Middle Class in an Age of Social Justice

Oct 25, 2021 By Nancy Sinkoff | Public Event video | Video Lecture

his session will explore the historian Lucy S. Dawidowicz鈥檚 challenging essay, 鈥淭he Business of American Jews: Notes on a Work in Progress鈥 (1992), which called for a reassessment of Jewish economic social mobility as apositivevalue in Jewish life.

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Journeying through Jewish History

Journeying through Jewish History

Jul 21, 2017 By Nancy Sinkoff | Commentary | Masei | Mattot

I first encountered this book in my supplementary Hebrew school at Temple Emanuel of Great Neck when I was a teenager. The documents, photographs, newspaper reports and Yiddish language characters entranced me then. . . . and still do. At that tender age, I thought I wanted to grow up to be a marine biologist. Instead, embedded in my young soul, those images of East European Jews, who had journeyed鈥攍ike our forebears in this week鈥檚 parashah (Numbers 33:1-37)鈥攆rom far away to a land they did not know, propelled me on a lifelong journey as a historian of the Jews of Eastern Europe.

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