America’s Jewish Questions at 250 Years with Beth Wenger, and Lila Corwin Berman, Deborah Dash Moore, and Emily Tamkin

Lila Corwin Berman is the Paul & Sylvia Steinberg Professor of American Jewish History and the director of the Goldstein-Goren Center for American Jewish History at New York University. Her newest book, Who Is American? Belonging and the Question of Jewish Citizenship, will be published in spring 2026 by Princeton University Press. She is also author of The American Jewish Philanthropic Complex: The History of a Multibillion-Dollar Institution (2020) and Metropolitan Jews: Politics, Race, and Religion in Postwar Detroit (2015).

Deborah Dash Moore is Jonathan Freedman Distinguished University Professor of History and Judaic Studies at the University of Michigan. She is the author of Walkers in the City: Jewish Street Photographers of Midcentury New York (2023), Urban Origins of American Judaism (2014), and GI Jews: How World War II Changed a Generation (2004).

Beth S. Wenger is Moritz and Josephine Berg Professor of History and Associate Dean for Graduate Studies in the School of Arts & Sciences at the University of Pennsylvania. She is the author of History Lessons: The Creation of American Jewish Heritage and New York Jews (2010), The Jewish Americans: Three Centuries of Jewish Voices in America (2007) and The Great Depression: Uncertain Promise (1996).

Emily Tamkin is the author of The Influence of Soros (2020) and Bad Jews (2022) and a forthcoming third book on Holocaust consciousness. She writes and reports regularly for the Forward, where she is a contributing columnist, as well as Haaretz, the New Republic, Slate, and the Washington Post, among other publications. Previously, she covered foreign affairs on staff at Foreign Policy and BuzzFeed Newsand US politics and foreign policy at the New Statesman.