The CEEBJ Rabbi Dudley Weinberg Memorial Scholar-in-Residence Weekend
Featuring Dr. Gary P. Zola, Scholar-in-Residence
The American Jewish Experience, February 19-21, 2021

Dr. Gary P. Zola will be joining us as our Scholar-in- Residence for a weekend of exciting presentations, all offered through Zoom and on all of our platforms. Rabbi Gary P. Zola, Ph.D. is the Executive Director of the Jacob Rader Marcus Center of the American Jewish Archives, and he is the Edward M. Ackerman Family Distinguished Professor of the American Jewish Experience and Reform Jewish History of the Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion in Cincinnati, Ohio.

On Saturday, Feb. 20, following the 9:00 am Sabbat Morning Study Minyan, Dr. Zola’s formal presentation will be Fascinating Documents from the American Jewish Archives beginning at 11:15 am. The Jacob Rader Marcus Center of the American Jewish Archives (AJA) is the world’s largest catalogued collection of documentary evidence on the history of North American Jewry. It is an archive composed of more than 20 million individual records. Dr. Zola will show us a few of the AJA’s most fascinating and historically significant documents and explain why.

Click here for a complete description of the Scholar-in-Residence weekend with Dr. Zola.