(Syracuse, NY – March 2013) On Wednesday March 13 from 5:30 pm to 7:30 pm the Onondaga Historical Association will host a book signing and presentation by Matthew Silver entitled Louis Marshall and the Rise of Jewish Ethnicity in America.
Louis Marshall (December 14, 1856 – September 11, 1929) was an American corporate, constitutional and civil rights lawyer as well as a mediator and Jewish community leader who worked to secure religious, political, and cultural freedom for all minority groups.
Among the founders of the American Jewish Committee (AJC), he defended Jewish and minority rights and, though not a Zionist, he supported the Balfour Declaration. He was also a conservationist, and the force behind re-establishing the New York State College of Forestry at Syracuse University, which evolved into today’s State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry (SUNY-ESF).
For more information please visit www.cnyhistory.org/events.