Jewish Lives Summer with Park Avenue Synagogue
Hank Greenberg: The Hero who Didn't Want to Be One
Rabbi Cosgrove and author Mark Kurlansky
Thu / Jul 9 / 7:00 pm (Eastern Time)
Location: Zoom
During a summer without baseball, get club seats to hear the inspiring story of a Bronx ballplayer turned role model. Discover Greenberg’s spectacular discipline as an aspiring rookie, the complexity of his decision not to play on Yom Kippur, and the cultural context of virulent antisemitism in which his career played out.
Mark Kurlansky is a prizewinning author and has written, edited, or contributed to twenty books, which have been translated into twenty-five languages.
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This event is co-sponsored by the United Synagogue of Conservative Judaism.