Erica Brown in discussion with Aaron Koller.

In celebration of the publication of The Book of Esther: Power, Fate and Fragility in Exile (Maggid/OU Press).

Dr. Erica Brown is the director of the Mayberg Center for Jewish Education and Leadership at The George Washington University and the author of twelve books.

Aaron Koller is professor of Near Eastern studies at Yeshiva University, where he is chair Beren Department of Jewish Studies. His last book was Esther in Ancient Jewish Thought (Cambridge University Press), and his next is Unbinding Isaac: The Akedah in Jewish Thought (forthcoming from JPS/University of Nebraska Press in 2020).

*This event is free and open to the public and is sponsored by The Jewish Center, 929 English and by Ardell Borodach and Rachel Wolf & Andrew Borodach, Kira and Julia in commemoration of the second yarzheit of Dr. Gerold Borodach, Yaakov Nissan ben Avraham ve’Hessie.