Book Launch: The Light of Learning: Hasidism in Poland on the Eve of the Holocaust with Dr. Glenn Dynner

The Light of Learning: Hasidism in Poland on the Eve of the Holocaust

With Ger, Lubavitch, Bobov, and Piaseczner Niggunim by the Jon Madoff Trio

The Light of Learning tells the story of a late-hour Hasidic revival in Poland powered by rigorous Torah study in yeshivas, Bais Yaakov schools, and eventually in underground bunkers during the Holocaust. Torah study emerges as a potent cultural resistance against assimilationist pressures, antisemitism, and anti-Jewish violence.

• Congregation Agudath Sholom Stamford, CT
• March 6, 2024.
• 6:00 Nosh and Polish Vodka Tasting with Yoni Miller  
• 7:00 Lecture and Musical Presentation
• Glenn Dynner, Ph.D., is the Carl and Dorothy Bennett Professor of Judaic Studies and Director of the Bennett Center at Fairfield University; Editor of the journal Shofar: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Jewish Studies; and a recent Guggenheim Fellow. He is author of “Men of Silk”: The Hasidic Conquest of Polish Jewish Society (Oxford University Press, 2006), and Yankel’s Tavern: Jews, Liquor & Life in the Kingdom of Poland (Oxford University Press, 2014). 

Presented free of charge to the community in tribute to the memory of Dr. Hesh Romanowitz