Ellen Eisenberg, the Dwight and Margaret Lear Professor of American History at Willamette University, is the author of Jewish Agricultural Colonies in New Jersey, 1882-1920 (1995), The First to Cry Down Injustice? Western Jews and Japanese Removal during WWII (a 2008 National Jewish Book Award finalist), and Jews of the Pacific Coast: Reinventing Community on America’s Edge (2010), co-authored with Ava F. Kahn and William Toll. Her latest work is a two volume history of Jews in Oregon, titled Embracing a Western Identity: Jewish Oregonians, 1849-1950 and The Jewish Oregon Story, 1950-2015.

Please join us every Tuesday evening this January for our Lifelong Learning Lecture Series. All lectures are open to the public and will be held in Zidell Hall of Rose Schnitzer Manor at 7:00 pm.