Beth Am welcomes Dr. Henry Abramson, of Lander College of Arts and Sciences in Flatbush, New York, who will be delivering the 2022 Guthaner Lecture. Dr. Abramson will give a talk about Ukraine and its Jews.

Dr. Abramson will be speaking virtually from New York City prior to the Annual Congregational Meeting. Tune in to the discussion:

• in person in the Beth Am Sanctuary*
• virtually via livestream at betham.org/streaming
• virtually via Zoom
  Public registration to receive Zoom access information has now closed. If you are a member, you can register online by logging into your ShulCloud account and completing the form below.

*Registration to attend the IN-PERSON RECEPTION in the Social Hall immediately following Dr. Abramson's talk has closed.

A native of northern Ontario, Canada, Dr. Henry Abramson received his PhD in History from the University of Toronto in 1995 and held postdoctoral and visiting appointments at Harvard, Cornell, Oxford and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He is author of six books, including A Prayer for the Government: Ukrainians and Jews in Revolutionary Times, 1917-1920 (Harvard, 1999) and Reading the Talmud: Developing Independence in Gemara Learning (Feldheim, 2006/Createspace, 2012), and many scholarly articles. His research has been recognized with prestigious fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. A sought-after lecturer, he has addressed audiences in Japan, Israel, Europe and across the United States and Canada. He has appeared in two documentary videos and is the recipient of the Excellence in the Academy Award from the National Education Association. His weekly lectures in Jewish history are viewed by thousands world wide.

The Guthaner Lecture is supported by the Ernst Guthaner Endowment Fund for Cultural and Educational Programming. Each year the Guthaner Fund makes possible outstanding cultural events for our Beth Am community, including musical programs, lecturers and scholars-in-residence. Please consider a donation to the Guthaner Fund.

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