Agents of Change: American Jews and the Transformation of Israeli Judaism

Adam S. Ferziger holds the Rabbi Samson Raphael Hirsch Chair in the Israel and Golda Koschitzky Department of Jewish History and Contemporary Jewry at Bar-Ilan University. He is coconvener of the Oxford Summer Institute on Modern and Contemporary Judaism, University of Oxford. Ferziger is a leading scholar of Orthodox Jewish culture in the U.S. and Israel. His research focuses on the history of Jewish religious responses to modern and contemporary life, and his current project examines Jewish responses to the advent and evolution of mechanized cremation.

Please join us for this exciting book launch. Lunch will be provided and the book will be available for purchase.

Co-sponsored by NYU Press, Goldstein-Goren Center for American Jewish History, and Taub Center for Israel Studies.