In a post-October 7th world and in the midst of a second Trump Administration, the American Jewish community is at a critical crossroads, prompting reappraisal of its past and present for insight into the future. Join the Workers Circle's Anthony Russell on either September 9, September 16 — or both — for a conversation on these issues and more with Emily Tamkin, contributing columnist at the Forward and regular contributor at Slate and the Washington Post, among other publications, and author of Bad Jews: A History of American Jewish Politics and Identities and The Influence of Soros: Politics, Power, and the Struggle for an Open Society.
We will be raffling off two of Emily Tamkin's books to guests who attend the webinar live.
Biographies
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Emily Tamkin is a journalist and the author of The Influence of Soros and Bad Jews and is at work on a third book on Holocaust remembrance in pop culture, politics, and foreign policy. She is a contributing columnist at the Forward and writes regularly for the New Republic, Slate, and the Washington Post, among other publications. Previously, she covered US foreign affairs at Foreign Policy and BuzzFeed News and foreign policy, society, and politics as US editor at the New Statesman. She has been the recipient of a Fulbright fellowship, a Heinrich Böll fellowship, a Council on Foreign Relations International Affairs Fellowship, and was part of the inaugural class of Shalom Hartman writers and journalists. She lives in Washington, DC.
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Anthony Russell is a vocalist, composer and arranger specializing in music in the Yiddish language. His work in Ashkenazi Jewish musical forms led to an exploration of his own ethnic roots through the research, arrangement and performance of a hundred years of African American music, resulting in the EP Convergence (2018), a collaboration with klezmer consort Veretski Pass exploring the sounds and themes of one hundred years of African American and Ashkenazi Jewish music.
CO-SPONSORED BY:
Be'chol Lashon, Boston Workers Circle, Jews for a Secular Democracy, Jews For Racial & Economic Justice, J Street, T'ruah
