Rabbi Morris in conversation with Matthias Lehmann

Join Rabbi Morris in conversation with Matthias Lehmann. He will speak on his book  “Emissaries from the Holy Land: How Sephardic Rabbis Created a Unified Mediterranean Jewish Community”

Matthias B. Lehmann is the Teller Family Chair in Jewish History at the University of California, Irvine. He is the author of Ladino Rabbinic Literature and Ottoman Sephardic Culture (2005), Emissaries from the Holy Land (2014), co-author of The Jews: A History (2019), and co-editor of Jews and the Mediterranean (2020). He is currently finishing a biography of the nineteenth-century Jewish railroad entrepreneur and philanthropist, Baron Maurice de Hirsch.

Free for Members, £5 for non members

Bookings close at 12 midday on day of the event