Jewish Life in a Democracy: Lessons in Confronting Antisemitism with Hayley Finn, Lauren Strauss and Amy E. Schwartz

Prayer for the French Republic takes a sweeping look at history and the effects of antisemitism in a country that reveres democracy and enlightenment. In this award-winning play, which sold out its Broadway run and is now at Washington DC’s Theatre J, a French Jewish family grapples with past and present threats to their security in the shadow of an antisemitic attack. Join Theater J Artistic Director Hayley Finn and Jewish historian Lauren Strauss, Senior Professorial Lecturer at American University, for a discussion of the probing—and timely—questions raised by the play about safety, assimilation and the status of Jewish life in a democracy. In conversation with Moment Book and Opinion Editor Amy E. Schwartz.

This program is part of Moment’s Antisemitism Project, supported by the Joyce and Irving Goldman Family Foundation and in partnership with Theatre J.

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