"Your Story, My Story, and the True Story"

Thu Oct 30 2025 at 05:30 pm to 06:30 pm UTC-04:00

Institute for Israel and Jewish Studies at Columbia University | New York

The Institute for Israel and Jewish Studies at Columbia University
Publisher/HostThe Institute for Israel and Jewish Studies at Columbia University
"Your Story, My Story, and the True Story"
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Prof. Gorenberg investigates and how narratives frame the way history is written.
About this Event

Journalist, historian, and professor Gershom Gorenberg joins IIJS to explore how conflicting accounts shape our understanding of the past and present. In his lecture, “My Story, Your Story, the True Story,” Prof. Gorenberg investigates and how narratives frame the way history is written. This lecture will take place in-person at 617 Kent Hall on Thursday, October 30, at 5:30 p.m. ET.

Gershom Gorenberg is an Israeli historian and journalist and the author, most recently, of War of Shadows: Codebreakers, Spies and the Secret Struggle to Drive the Nazis from the Middle East. Based on documents that remained classified for decades, War of Shadows solves the mystery of the World War II spy affair that nearly brought Rommel’s army and SS death squads to Cairo and Jerusalem. Gorenberg previously wrote three critically acclaimed books on Israel’s history and politics - The Unmaking of Israel, The Accidental Empire: Israel and the Birth of the Settlements, 1967-1977, and The End of Days: Fundamentalism and the Struggle for the Temple Mount. He co-authored Shalom Friend, a biography of Yitzhak Rabin and winner of the National Jewish Book Award.

Gorenberg is a contributing writer for The Atlantic. He has written for The New York Times, Washington Post, , The New York Review of Books, Foreign Policy, The New Republic and Prospect Magazine (UK) and in Hebrew for Haaretz and Maariv. In recent years he has spent spring semesters at Columbia as the Knapp Senior Research Scholar at IIJS and adjunct professor at the Graduate School of Journalism, teaching a workshop on writing history. He lives in Jerusalem.

Supported by the generosity of the Kaye and Appel families.

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