2025 Wyner Family Jewish Heritage Center Benefit Dinner

The Jews of Boston: The Book, The People, The History

Join the Wyner Family Jewish Heritage Center for a very special evening honoring the 30th anniversary of the publication of The Jews of Boston. Enjoy a conversation with the book's editors and scholars Jonathan D. Sarna and Ellen Smith, moderated by Rabbi Daniel Judson. Hear how this influential book became one of the most successful Jewish community histories in the country, and why it remains the definitive history of Jewish Boston to this day.

Dietary laws will be observed. Kosher dinners from Catering by Andrew available by request.

Cocktail attire. 

Program featuring
 

Barry Shrage

Barry Shrage was president of Combined Jewish Philanthropies for 31 years and was instrumental in the publication of The Jews of Boston. He currently teaches in the Hornstein Jewish Professional Leadership Program at Brandeis University. 
 

Jonathan D. Sarna, PhD 

Jonathan D. Sarna, PhD, co-editor of The Jews of Boston, is University Professor and the Joseph H. and Belle R. Braun Professor of American Jewish History at Brandeis University. He is also Chief Historian of the Weitzman National Museum of American Jewish History and chairs the Academic Advisory and Editorial Boards of the American Jewish Archives.
 

Ellen Smith 

Ellen Smith, co-editor of The Jews of Boston, is Professor Emerita of Brandeis University where she directed the Hornstein Jewish Professional Leadership Program and taught courses in American Jewish history, museum studies, and visual and material culture. 
 

Rabbi Daniel Judson 

Rabbi Daniel Judson, panel moderator, is the Provost of Hebrew College and serves as a lecturer in Jewish history. He received his doctorate in Jewish History from Brandeis University and is currently working on a book on the history of American Zionism. 

Editor Benefactors

Lionel and Vivian Spiro
Justin Wyner