Rebecca Walker: This Is What Jewish Looks Like
Monday, February 1
6:00 PM EST
Free, with an option to purchase the book
A writer, feminist and activist, Rebecca Walker is the author of Black, White and Jewish: Autobiography of a Shifting Self, her account of growing up as the only child of Jewish civil rights lawyer Mel Leventhal and Black writer Alice Walker. Most recently, she’s an author and designer of the podcast and interactive journal What's Your Story? A Journal for Everyday Evolution.
In conversation with award winning writer, director, producer Lacey Schwartz Delgado.
NOTE: Books can only be shipped to US addresses.
About the series:
This Is What Jewish Looks Like
It’s long been a point of pride that Jews are a multicultural people with roots in every corner of the planet; that we are of all hues; that our grandparents spoke Yiddish and Hindi, German and Malayalam, Hebrew and Amharic.
After all, our global Jewish community is composed of the descendants of Jews who moved to present-day Iraq after the Babylonian Exile, Chinese Jews whose ancestors were Persians traveling the Silk Road, European Jews living all across the Continent long before the word Ashkenazi was ever uttered and African Jews scattered from Ethiopia to Mali for thousands of years.
Their descendants, in turn, migrated to the United States, where an estimated 12-15 percent of the Jewish community are Jews of color, including many of African descent.
For Black History Month, The Temple Emanu-El Streicker Center will celebrate our richly diverse experience through the personal stories of four prominent Black Jews who will talk about life as a minority within a minority and discuss what the Jewish community needs to do to turn the word inclusion into a reality.
Rebecca Walker
Monday, February 1
Avishai Mekonen
Monday, February 8
Rabbi Isaama Goldstein-Stoll
Monday, February 15
Michael W. Twitty
Monday, February 22
All events in the series start at 6:00 PM EST