Evening Upstairs Presents Jonathan Sarna
Bestselling author Jonathan Sarna will discuss his provocative new book When General Grant Expelled the Jews at the McCraken County Public Library on November 15, 2012 at 7:00 p.m.
The book examines the profound and still relevant questions regarding the document known as General Orders Number 11, a footnote to Civil War history.
Dr. Sarna is the Joseph H. & Belle R. Braun Professor of American Jewish History at Brandeis University and Chief Historian of the new National Museum of American Jewish History.
Dubbed by the Forward newspaper in 2004 as one of America’s fifty most influential American Jews, he was Chief Historian for the 350th commemoration of the American Jewish community, and is recognized as a leading commentator on American Jewish history, religion and life. In 2009, he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Dr. Sarna has written, edited, or co-edited more than twenty books, including the new Jews and the Civil War: A Reader and A Time to Every Purpose: Letters to a Young Jew. He is best known for the acclaimed American Judaism: A History. Winner of the Jewish Book Council’s “Jewish Book of the Year Award” in 2004, it has been praised as being “the single best description of American Judaism during its 350 years on American soil.”
For more information contact Bobbie Wrinkle at 270-442-2510 ext. 119 or bwrinkle@mclib.net.