Galloway, N.J. – Sharon Musher, Stockton Professor of History, will discuss her latest book on Tuesday, Oct. 21, starting at 4:30 p.m. in L-112 on the Galloway campus.

Musher will discuss and sign copies of her book, “Promised Lands: Hadassah Kaplan and the Legacy of American Jewish Women in Early Twentieth-Century Palestine.”

Musher is the granddaughter of Kaplan and the great-granddaughter of Rabbi Mordecai Kaplan, the founder of Reconstructionist Judaism, who first initiated the Bat Mitzvah as a rite of passage for Jewish girls in 1922.

Hadassah, his second daughter, went on to join a cohort of American Jewish women who studied, worked and volunteered in British Mandate Palestine. Through Hadassah’s archive of diary entries, photographs and letters, Musher illustrates her journey and how the women went on to shape American Jewry.

This event is free and open to the public. Light refreshments will be served.