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.

• Location: Congregation Agudath Sholom on March 6, 2024.
• Time: 6 p.m. Nosh and Polish Vodka Tasting with Yoni Miller and 7 p.m. Lecture and Musical Presentation
• Glenn Dynner, PhD, 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  ז״ל.

Co-Sponsored by:

• United Jewish Federation of Stamford, New Canaan and Darien
• UJA- JCC Greenwich
• Congregation Agudath Sholom
• Temple Beth El
• Temple Sinai
• Young Israel
• Jewish Historical Society of Fairfield County
• Chabad of Stamford
• Chabad of Greenwich
• JFS Greenwich