Jewish History Scholar to Receive Rare Honor From Brandeis

WALTHAM, Mass. ( JTA ) – Brandeis will recognize Jonathan Sarna, an eminent scholar of American Jewish history, as university professor — the highest honor for a faculty member and an award given to only a handful of others. To mark the occasion Sarna, the Joseph H. and Belle R. Braun professor of American Jewish history and an award-winning author of more than 30 books, will deliver a lecture on Tuesday titled “Jews and American Politics: Historical Ideals and Contemporary Realities.” Hundreds of faculty, students, alumni, university officials, and family and friends are expected to fill the historic Spingold Theater on the Boston-area campus to hear Sarna, who began teaching at Brandeis in 1990. His talk will reveal a newly discovered 1864 document, according to an announcement by the un