Kurtzer to give talk on Jewish life in America May 6

April 24, 2025

Kurtzer
Yehuda Kurtzer

Dr. Yehuda Kurtzer will give the talk "Are we at the End of a Golden Age? American Jewry in Transition" on May 6 at 7:00 p.m. in the Nebraska Union Swanson Auditorium.

He is president of the Shalom Hartman Institute and a leading thinker on the essential questions facing contemporary Jewish life, with a focus on issues of Jewish peoplehood and Zionism, the relationship between history and memory, and questions of leadership and change in the Jewish community.

He is the author of Shuva: The Future of the Jewish Past, the co-editor of The New Jewish Canon, the host of the Identity/Crisis podcast, and the author of dozens of articles and essays about contemporary Jewish life.