November 9th marks 80 years since KristallNacht, the Night of Broken Glass, widely viewed as the beginning of the Final Solution and the Holocaust. Kesherite Gershon Greenberg will lecture and lead a discussion on the responses at the time to Kristallnacht in the U.S., Land of Israel, and Eastern Europe by Ultra-Orthodox, Hasidic, mystical, and religious nationalist thinkers.

Gershon Greenberg is Visiting Professor in the Department of Jewish Thought, Hebrew University of Jerusalem and Professor of Philosophy and Religion at American University, Washington, D.C. His most recent book, Justice is Like the Great Deep: Orthodox Theological Responses to the Holocaust [Hebrew], was published by Mossad Harav Kook in 2016.