Please join Wilton Library and the Wilton Coalition to Combat Antisemitism for an talk with Mark Oppenheimer, NY Times columnist, Pulitzer grantee and author of Squirrel Hill, the Tree of Life Synagogue Shooting and the Soul of a Neighborhood.
Mark Oppenheimer has been covering American religion for 25 years. He holds a PhD in religious studies from Yale, and has taught at Stanford, Wesleyan, Wellesley, NYU, Boston College, and Yale, where he was the founding director of the Yale Journalism Initiative. He wrote the “Beliefs” column for The New York Times from 2010 – 2016, and has also written for The New Yorker, The Nation, GQ, Slate, and many more. He created Unorthodox, the world’s most popular podcast about Jewish life and culture, and more recently hosted the multi-part podcast, Gatecrashers, about the history of Jews and antisemitism at Ivy League schools. He is the author of five books, including Squirrel Hill. Since 2023, he has been director of open learning at American Jewish University. Mark lives in Connecticut with his wife, four daughters, one son, and two dogs.

Elm Street Books will be selling copies of the book, which the author will sign after the program.

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