TUESDAY NIGHTLEARNING ATTHE SHAAR Fall 2018 Semester

With the generous support from Friends of Tuesday Night Learning, we have assembled an incredibly impressive group of speakers.

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OCTOBER 9 The Decline of Democracy and What it Means for the JewsYASCHA MOUNKAuthor of “People vs Democracy: Why Our Freedom is in Danger and How to Save it” and “Stranger in My Own Country – A Jewish Family in Modern Germany”.

Lecturer on Government at Harvard University, and one of the world’s leading experts on the crisis of liberal democracy and the rise of populism.

Immortality: The Exceptional Life and Writing of Abraham SutzkeverRUTH WISSEHarvard Professor, pioneer in the academic study of Yiddish and political polemic. Author of “The Schlemiel as Modern Hero” and “The Modern Jewish Canon: A Journey Through Language and Culture”.

Being Jewish in America in the Age of TrumpJONATHAN WEISMAN Congressional Editor and Deputy Washington Editor at the New York Times and author of the novel “No. 4 Imperial Lane”

Leading Colleges and Universities: Lessons from Higher Education Leaders

STEPHEN TRACHTENBERG, President Emeritus of George Washington Universityin conversation with BERNARD SHAPIRO, Past Principal of McGill University

Dinner at the Center of the EarthNATHAN ENGLANDERAmerican short story writer and novelist. His 1999 debut short story collection “For the Relief of Unbearable Urges” won critical acclaim and the PEN/Malamud Award and went through 13 printings in hardcover. His second collection, ”What We Talk About When We talk about Anne Frank” was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize.

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NOVEMBER 6

7:30 PM – Free Admission – All are Welcome