Author Visit: Andrew Porwancher

American Maccabee: Theodore Roosevelt and the Jews (2025)

Wednesday, June 11 • 7:00pm-8:15pm • Zoom •

Course 13337 • $30

Professor Andrew Porwancher returns to SAS to uncover the close-knit and often surprising relationship between Theodore Roosevelt and the Jewish community. This lecture traces Roosevelt’s deep connection with the Jewish people at every step of his dazzling ascent. But it also reveals a man of contradictions whose checkered approach to Jewish issues was no less conflicted than the nation he led. Drawing on fresh research from his newest book, American Maccabee, Porwancher explores the complicated relationship between the leader of a youthful nation and the people of an ancient faith.

Session will be recorded and sent to enrolled students to view for up to one week.

ANDREW PORWANCHER is a native of Princeton, New Jersey. He earned a BA in Communication from Northwestern, an MA in history from Brown, and a PhD in history at Cambridge. He is a Professor of History at Arizona State University. He previously held fellowships at Harvard, Oxford, and Princeton. His writing has appeared in the Washington Post and Wall Street Journal.

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