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Media Contact: Laura Soll-Broxterman (860) 688-4499
AUTHOR CHERYL LYNN GREENBERG TO SPEAK ABOUT HER NEW BOOK ON BLACK-JEWISH RELATIONS
AT SUNDAY, MARCH 26 BREAKFAST AT CONGREGATION BETH AHM IN WINDSOR
WINDSOR, CONN., March 13, 2006 – The community is invited to a special preview of a new book about the Black-Jewish alliance in 20th Century America at Congregation Beth Ahm in Windsor. On Sunday, March 26 at 9:45 a.m., Cheryl Lynn Greenberg, Author and Professor of History at Trinity College in Hartford will talk about “Troubling the Waters: Black-Jewish Relations in the American Century”, which will debut in June. This special breakfast will be held at the synagogue, located on 362 Palisado Avenue (Route 159) in Windsor. People should call Congregation Beth Ahm at (860) 688-9989 to reserve a seat.
Prof. Greenberg’s new book explores if there ever really was a Black-Jewish alliance in 20th Century America and if there was, what happened to it? In her new book, she answers these questions more definitively than they have ever been answered before, drawing the richest portrait yet of what was less an alliance than a tumultuous political engagement--but one that energized the civil rights revolution, shaped the agenda of liberalism, and affected the course of American politics as a whole. Prof. Greenberg also is the author of "Or Does it Explode?": Black Harlem in the Great Depression”.
Congregation Beth Ahm welcomes individuals and families from throughout Greater Hartford, including interfaith families. Most of its members live in Windsor, Suffield, Windsor Locks, Bloomfield, Enfield, the Farmington Valley, and South Windsor. Congregation Beth Ahm was created by 16 families in 1951 and initially was known as The Jewish Community of Greater Windsor. In September 1960, it opened it doors in a newly built synagogue on 362 Palisado Avenue. The synagogue’s religious school’s small classroom learning begins for children as young as four years of age.
People who wish to
attend the March 26 event should call Congregation Beth Ahm at
(860) 688-9989 to reserve a seat.