:: Amram Scholar Series

Thought-Provoking Programs for the WHC Community

The Amram Scholar Series offers a stimulating program of free lectures throughout the year in which world-renowned speakers, authors, scholars, political leaders, policy analysts, and theologians share their perspectives on timely issues or their research into history.

Programming in this 55th year since the founding of the series will continue on January 24th at 10:30 a.m., when we present Anne & Emmett, a deeply moving one-act play by Janet Langhart Cohen. This production is dedicated to the memory of slain civil rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and will be followed by a question-and-answer session with the playwright, who advocates for issues of race and reconciliation. The Amram Scholar Series thanks the Congregation’s Marcella Rittner Scholar Series Fund and the Ethel and Joseph D. Blatt Memorial Lecture Endowment Fund for support of this special program.

Kicking off our Spring Semester on March 7th, author Bruce Feiler will return to the Amram Series to discuss his latest book, America’s Prophet: Moses and the American Story. Moses is America's true founding father. So says Bruce Feiler, the bestselling author of Walking the Bible and Abraham, who returns to the Amram Scholar Series to discuss his latest book, America's Prophet: Moses and the American Story. A journalist and engaging speaker who approaches his subject by way of visits to historic sites, Feiler journeys through almost 400 years of American history as he traces the symbolic importance of Moses as the prophet who led his people from oppression in Egypt to independence in the Promised Land.

On Sunday, April 25th at 5:00 pm, the Amram series will present a thrilling festival of Jewish cabaret: Dancing on the edge of a Volcano. Join us for an entrancing evening program of music, song and Jewish musical history with the celebrated New Budapest Orpheum Society and Professor Philip Bohlman, president of the Music Department of the University of Chicago. Over wine and hors d’oeuvres, experience the joy and creative spirit of pre-Holocaust European Jewish cabaret.

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As always, your presence and probing questions provide the essential catalyst for challenging dialogue. We also encourage you to recommend lecturers or topics, to assist at book sales and author-signings, and to help arrange program publicity.