Joseph Schechtman – Across Continents—From Europe to the US, from Revisionism to American Conservatism

Working Group will be sponsored by Tulane University’s Grant Center for the American Jewish Experience as part of a larger effort to bring scholars from different disciplines and fields together, expanding scholarship and teaching on the American Jewish Experience.

The Revisionist Zionism in North America Working Group will have three Zoom sessions – one in February, one in March, and one in April.

Topics will focus on:

• February The Bergson Group and American power establishment (Led by Rafael Medoff, Yeshiva University)
• March The Netanyahus and Revisionist Zionism in America (Led by Avi Shilon, New York University & Tel Hai College)
• April American Jews and Political Power, Meir Kahane (Led by Monty Penkower, Professor Emeritus, Machon Lander Graduate School)