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Olney Jewish Book Discussion & Author Talk - Virtual

Meet Pamela Nadell, author of "America's Jewish Women"

Join us for a virtual discussion of "America's Jewish Women" with author Pamela Nadell. All are welcome!

Limited physical copies of the book are available at Olney Library. Please call 240-773-9545 during Olney's telephone hours to confirm a copy is available before coming to the branch.

E-audio copies are available through MCPL's Hoopla resource:
https://www.hoopladigital.com/title/12344363

Registrants will be emailed information on accessing the virtual book discussion.

Please feel free to join the meeting early to check your connection, settings, etc.

Pamela Nadell is the author of America’s Jewish Women: A History from Colonial Times to Today, published in 2019 by W.W. Norton and winner of the National Jewish Book Award–Jewish Book of the Year. A professor and Patrick Clendenen Chair in Women’s and Gender History at American University in Washington, DC, she is a recipient of the university’s highest faculty award, Scholar/Teacher of the Year. Her other books include Women Who Would be Rabbis: A History of Women’s Ordination, 1889-1985. Past president of the Association for Jewish Studies, she has also received the American Jewish Historical Society’s Lee Max Friedman Award for distinguished service to the profession.

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