Jews And The Civil War

Jews And The Civil War

Author Talk with Richard Kreitner (via Zoom)

Thursday, December 10 at 8 p.m.

In a very special program, we will be hosting a Zoom talk by  Richard Kreitner author of the groundbreaking and highly praised new book, “Fear No Pharoah:  American Jews, The Civil War and the Fight to End Slavery,”. The book addresses how Jews engaged with the debates and moral questions of that tumultuous period in American history and illuminates the complex lives of  19^th century American Jewry. Kreitner’s work has been  called “revelatory” ( Wall Street Journal) .

Richard Kreitner, a resident of the Hudson Valley,  is a contributing writer at The Nation and also authored  Break It Up: Secession, Division, and the Secret History of America’s Imperfect Union. He’s been published everywhere from Slate to The New York Review of Books and hosts a podcast Think Back, about American history.