Scholar-in-Residence Introduction

Professor Jonathan Kaufman, Director of Northeastern University School of Journalism
Why Write about Jews?
The tumultuous relations between Blacks and Jews in America…The re-emergence of Jews in Eastern Europe decades after we assumed the Holocaust had wiped them out…The remarkable odyssey of two Jewish families who stood astride Chinese business, economics and politics for 175 years. Pulitzer Prize winner and author Jonathan Kaufman takes us behind the scenes to talk about how he finds these stories, why he writes about them, and what they tell us.