Episode 15 of What Gives? The Jewish philanthropy podcast from Jewish Funders Network. (click image to listen)
Guest: Professor Lila Corwin Berman
Murray Friedman Chair of American Jewish History at Temple University and Director of the Feinstein Center for American Jewish History
The American Jewish Philanthropic Complex: The History of a Multibillion-Dollar Institution
Princeton University Press (October 13, 2020)
fascinating conversation. andres (the interviewer) comes off as being very combative and very defensive of his organization (jfn). lila (the interviewee) spends most of her time defending her thesis – the premise of her book. it was as if they weren’t even listening to each other most of the time. andres raises some interesting points which have nothing to do wtih lila, and lila raises some interesting points that have nothing to do with andres.