Life Against Death, Volume 1: America and Israel -

Irving Greenberg is a preeminent Jewish thinker, theologian, activist, president of the J.J. Greenberg Institute for the Advancement of Jewish Life, and senior scholar-in-residence at Hadar. He served as a founding president of CLAL: The National Jewish Center for Learning and Leadership, founding president of the Jewish Life Network/Steinhardt Foundation, activist/founder of the Student Struggle for Soviet Jewry, chair of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, and rabbi of the Riverdale Jewish Center. He is the author of multiple volumes, including The Triumph of Life: A Narrative Theology of Judaism (JPS, 2024) and For the Sake of Heaven and Earth: The New Encounter between Judaism and Christianity (JPS, 2004). Greenberg won the 2024 National Jewish Book Award's Lifetime Achievement Award.