With Lila Corwin Berman

For well over a century, historians and Jewish community leaders have rendered Jews’ experiences in the United States as exceptionally good, an embodiment of the goodness of American liberalism. Yet, as U.S. historian Lila Corwin Berman argues, this exceptionalist tale has obscured the past and present of American antisemitism and its overlap with other forms of homegrown American illiberalism.

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Lila Corwin Berman holds the Murray Friedman Chair of American Jewish History at Temple University, where she directs the Feinstein Center for American Jewish History. She has written several award-winning books and scholarly articles about American Jewish politics, finance, and law. Her writing has also appeared in the Washington Post, the Forward, the Chronicle of Higher Education, and the Chronicle of Philanthropy. Berman is a graduate of Amherst College and received her Ph.D. from Yale University.