March 9, 2001
Noted Jewish historian and scholar Jeffrey S. Gurock will speak on "American Orthodoxy's Era of Non-Observance" as he presents the 2001 Adam Cherrick Lecture in Jewish Studies at 7 p.m. Tuesday in the Women's Building Formal Lounge.
Gurock is the Libby M. Klaperman Professor of Jewish History at Yeshiva University, where he is also academic assistant to the president. Gurock is the author or editor of 11 books, including "When Harlem was Jewish, 1870-1930," "American Jewish Orthodoxy in Historical Perspective" and "A Modern Heretic and a Traditional Community: Mordecai M. Kaplan, Orthodoxy and American Judaism," which he co-authored with Jacob J. Schacter. This last work won the 1999 Saul Viener Award from the American Jewish Historical Society for the best book in the field of American Jewish history. He is working on a new book titled "Clash and Clamor: Judaism's Encounter with American Sports."
His lecture identifies and analyzes the religious values and observance patterns of the rank and file that attended American Orthodox synagogues in the first half of the 20th century. In so doing, it speaks to the largely-untold story of what Orthodox and Conservative Jews and their synagogues and rabbis once had in common.
The lecture is free and open to the public. The lecture is sponsored by the University's Arts & Sciences program in Jewish, Islamic and Near Eastern Studies and The Adam Cherrick Fund In Jewish Studies. For additional information, contact Iris Wright at 935-8567.
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