BOOK LAUNCH EVENT: Joshua Leifer, Tablets Shattered: The End of an American Jewish Century and the Future of Jewish Life
יום ד׳, 26 במרץ
|Reading Allenby (Allenby Street 43)
From esteemed journalist Joshua Leifer, a definitive look at the history and future of the American Jewish community at a moment when the familiar pillars of Jewish identity have started to collapse. This event is free and open to the public.
Time & Location
26 במרץ 2025, 19:00 – 21:30
Reading Allenby (Allenby Street 43), Allenby St 43, Tel Aviv-Yafo, 6332517, Israel
About the event
Author Joshua Leifer will talk about his recent book Tablets Shattered, The End of an American Jewish Century and the Future of Jewish Life.
Tablets Shattered is Joshua Leifer’s lively and personal history of the fractured American Jewish present. Formed in the middle decades of the twentieth century, the settled-upon pillars of American Jewish self-definition (Americanism, Zionism, and liberalism) have begun to collapse. The binding trauma of Holocaust memory grows ever-more attenuated; soon there will be no living survivors. After two millennia of Jewish life defined by diasporic existence, the majority of the world’s Jews will live in a sovereign Jewish state by 2050. Against the backdrop of national political crises, resurgent global antisemitism, and the horrors of the Israel-Hamas war in Gaza, Leifer provides an illuminating and meticulously reported map of contemporary Jewish life and a sober conjecture about its future.
Leifer begins with the history of Jewish immigrants in…