Rebecca Greene: American Jews and Immigration Laws: Myth and Reality, 1880 to the Present

Rebecca Greene will discuss why Jews came to the United States, what they confronted, and how they responded.

Rebecca Greene was an attorney at Central Jersey Legal Services for many years and before that, taught history at NJIT, Lehman College, Colgate University, and the University of Maryland. She graduated from Barnard College in 1968 (B.A. History); Washington University in St. Louis 1970 (History); Columbia University 1977 (Ph.D. in history); and she has a J.D. from Rutgers Law School in Newark.