Professor Laurel Leff will deliver the Genevieve Geller Wyner Annual Lecture at the the Wyner Family Jewish Heritage Center at New England Historic Genealogical Society

Join us for the Genevieve Geller Wyner Annual Lecture, in which Professor Laurel Leff, the JHC’s 2024 Genevieve Geller Wyner Research Fellow, will explore the tensions between Catholic and Jewish Bostonians during World War II. At the height of World War II, groups of young Irish Catholics rampaged through Boston’s Jewish neighborhoods. Boston’s Catholic Church said little, and the Jewish community responded with its own form of denial and willful ignorance, hoping to make the conflict go away. As part of her research into the American Catholic Church’s role during the Holocaust, Leff examines the fears, forebodings, and rocky relationship of these two important groups in Boston’s history.

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