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Ford Hall Forum at Suffolk University and Brandeis University Press present its First Annual Book Festival.
Jehuda Reinharz, PhD, upon the publication of his latest book, Chaim Weizmann: A Biography
In conversation with Alexander Kaye, PhD.
Thursday, November 14, 2024
6:00 p.m.
In-person and live via Zoom
Sargent Hall, 120 Tremont Street Fifth Floor Commons, Boston, MA
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In Chaim Weizmann: A Biography, Jehuda Reinharz and Motti Golani show how Weizmann, a leader of the World Zionist Organization who became the first president of Israel, advocated for a Jewish state by gaining the support of influential politicians and statesmen as well as Jews around the world. Beginning with his childhood and concluding with his tenure as president, Reinharz and Golani describe how a Russian Jew, who immigrated to the United Kingdom in the early twentieth century, was able to advance the goals of Theodor Herzl, the founder of the Zionist Organization. Weizmann is also shown as a man of human foibles – his infatuations, political machinations and elitism – as well as a man of admirable qualities – intelligence, wit, charisma, and dedication.
Jehuda Reinharz is the Richard Koret Professor of Modern Jewish History at Brandeis University, where he served as President for seventeen years. He is the author and co-author of more than thirty books in Jewish studies, including The Road to September 1939: Polish Jews, Zionists, and the Yishuv on the Eve of World War II and Zionism and the Creation of a New Society. He is the president and chief executive officer of the Jack, Joseph, and Morton Mandel Foundation.
Alexander Kaye, PhD, is the Karl, Harry, and Helen Stoll Chair of Israel Studies and associate professor in the Department of Near Eastern and Judaic Studies at Brandeis University. His recent book is The Invention of Jewish Theocracy: The Struggle for Legal Authority in Modern Israel.
Praise for Chaim Weizmann: A Biography
A scrupulously detailed work chronicles the incremental triumph of Zionism through its greatest champion.
This program is produced by GBH Forum Network.
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Ford Hall Forum at Suffolk University; Brandeis University Press; the Boston Desegregation and Busing Initiative and GBH Forum Network present:
Children on the Move: The History of Stark Solutions to Address Inequality in Boston Schools
Screening of the GBH News documentary Never Cried: Boston’s Busing Legacy and a talkback with the filmmaker Emily Judem and
A book talk with Susan E. Eaton, author of The Other Boston Busing Story: What’s Won and Lost Across the Boundary Line.
The evening’s moderator is Stephanie Leydon, executive producer of digital video, GBH News.
Thursday, November 7, 2024
Modern Theatre, 525 Washington Street, Boston, MA 02111
6:00 p.m
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Never Cried: Boston’s Busing Legacy
Two sisters confront their trauma from Boston’s busing crisis in a powerful new GBH documentary produced by GBH News’ Emily Judem and Stephanie Leydon.
In September 1974, just two days after her 14th birthday, Leola Hampton boarded a school bus that would launch her into the heart of one of the most divisive and defining moments in Boston history: court-ordered school desegregation. Hampton and her older sister, Linda Stark, were bused from their home in the predominantly Black neighborhood of Roxbury into the white, working-class neighborhood of South Boston. They navigated a violent and virulently racist high school experience so scarring that a half-century later, they are only now beginning to discuss it with each other.
The Other Boston Busing Story: What’s Won and Lost Across the Boundary Line and Susan Eaton.
METCO, America’s longest-running voluntary school desegregation program, buses black children from Boston’s city neighborhoods to predominantly white suburban schools. In contrast to the infamous violence and rage that greeted forced school busing within the city in the 1970s, the work of METCO has quietly and calmly promoted school integration. But how has this program affected the lives of its graduates? Would they choose to participate if they had it to do over again? Would they place their own children on the bus to suburbia? In The Other Boston Busing Story, sixty-five METCO graduates who are now adults answer those questions and more, vividly recalling their own stories and assessing the benefits and hardships of crossing racial and class lines on their way to school.
Susan E. Eaton is the Professor of the Practice and Director of the Sillerman Center for the Advancement of Philanthropy at Brandeis University’s Heller School for Social Policy and Management. She is the author, most recently, of Integration Nation: Immigrants, Refugees, and America at Its Best (The New Press) and The Children in Room E4: American Education on Trial. Her previous titles include The Other Boston Busing Story: What’s Won and Lost Across the Boundary Line and, with Gary Orfield, Dismantling Desegregation: The Quiet Reversal of Brown v. Board of Education.
