Dr. JAMES HERSHBERG
Congregation Beth Shalom of Clifton Park will sponsor a luncheon program at the synagogue, 688, Clifton Park Center Rd., Clifton Park featuring Dr. James Hershberg on, Sunday, April 7, at 11 a.m. The historian will review the Manhattan Project and J. Robert Oppenheimer, director of the Manhattan Project’s Los Alamos Laboratory during World War II. Following the lecture will be a luncheon, also at the synagogue, hosted by Phyllis and Lew Morrison. This program is open to the public and there is no charge for attendance.
Hershberg’s first book, James B. Conant: Harvard to Hiroshima and the Making of the Nuclear Age (1993) examined the making of the atomic bomb. Its focus was on Conant who was Oppenheimer’s boss (and close friend), according to program organizers. In addition to authoring several other publications, Hershberg is a professor of history and international affairs at George Washington University. Hershberg also ran the Woodrow Wilson Center’s Cold War International History Project.
Hershberg has connections with the Albany Jewish community. Both sets of his grandparents, Ethel and Bill Ackerman, and Ben and Ann Hershberg were leaders in the community, as were his uncles Dan Hershberg and Dr. Lewis Morrison, according to organizers.
