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Thu, May 1 2025 3 Iyyar 5785

Sunday, June 1, 2025 5 Sivan 5785

10:30 AM - 12:15 PM

American Book Fest Award Finalist &; Gold Medal Literary Award

On July 30, 1902, tens of thousands of mourners lined the streets of New York’s Lower East Side to bid farewell to the city’s chief rabbi, Jacob Joseph. During the procession antisemitic factory workers rained scraps of steel, iron bolts, and scalding water down, injuring hundreds of mourners. The police did not distinguish aggressors from victims, and began beating up Jews, injuring dozens. Fed up with being persecuted, New York’s deftly pursued justice for the victims, forcing change within the police department, and engineering the resignation of the police commissioner.

Scott D. Seligman is a national award-winning author of narrative non-fiction with a special interest in the history and biography of Americans. He holds an undergraduate degree in American history from Princeton University and a master's degree from Harvard University.

Click here for the 2nd author presentation in this series, Carville’s Cure: Leprosy, Stigma, and the Fight for Justice with Pam Fessler.

Sponsored by the Association of Jewish Libraries and B’nai Israel Blumberg-Zalis Library.

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