Free Virtual Event
HANK GREENBERG: THE HERO WHO DIDN’T WANT TO BE ONE
A conversation with Mark Kurlansky
Dive into the inspiring story of a Bronx ballplayer turned role model for the ages. Bestselling author Mark Kurlansky will explore the life of baseball legend Hank Greenberg in conversation with Rabbi Cosgrove. They’ll discuss Greenberg’s spectacular discipline as an aspiring ballplayer, the complexity of his decision not to play on Yom Kippur, and the cultural context of virulent anti-Semitism in which his career played out.
This event will be recorded. The recording will be posted at jewishlives.org/video within 2 weeks after the event.
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About the Speakers
Rabbi Elliot J. Cosgrove is Senior Rabbi of Park Avenue Synagogue in New York City. In 1999 he was ordained at The Jewish Theological Seminary, and subsequently earned a Ph.D. at the University of Chicago Divinity School. He serves on the Executive Committee of the Rabbinical Assembly and the Editorial Board of Conservative Judaism. An officer of the New York Board of Rabbis, he is an advisor on interfaith affairs to the Anti-Defamation League and a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. He is the author of ten volumes of sermons and the editor of Jewish Theology in Our Time.
Mark Kurlansky has written, edited, or contributed to twenty books, which have been translated into twenty-five languages and won numerous prizes. His previous books Cod, Salt, 1968, and The Food of a Younger Land were all New York Times best-sellers.
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