Dr. Lila Corwin Berman

April 12, 2026; 10:00 – 11:30am

Throughout US history, Jews sought one primary thing from the law: equal protection as individuals. Yet even in their quest for individual rights, some Jews wondered if individual equality actually guaranteed group equality. In this talk, Berman mines history to expose the dilemmas American Jews face today when they rely on the law to protect them—as a group—from discrimination.

Lila Corwin Berman is the Paul & Sylvia Steinberg Professor of American Jewish History at New York University, where she directs the Goldstein-Goren Center for American Jewish History. Her new book, Who Is American? Belonging and the Question of Jewish Citizenship, will be published by Princeton University Press in April 2026.

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