American Jewish Educators and the Soviet Jewry Movement
Tuesday, Dec 10, 2024
Tuesday, December 10 at 7 PM ET / 4 PM PT
Livestream
$57 NEI 2024 Speaker Series (includes all remaining sessions)
$15 Single Lecture
How did American Jewish educators teach young Gen-Xers in the 1970s and 80s that activism to free Soviet Jewry was a core Jewish value? What types of knowledge, emotions, commitments, and actions did they foster? What lessons can today’s educators draw to inform their work in the 2020s? How should they teach the Soviet Jewry movement, and what resources are available to help?
Shaul Kelner is an Associate Professor of Jewish Studies and Sociology at Vanderbilt University, and author of A Cold War Exodus: How American Activists Mobilized to Free Soviet Jews (NYU Press, 2024).
