One of the foremost scholars of American Jewish history, Dr. Jonathan Sarna, speaks with B’nai B’rith CEO Dan Mariaschin about Jewish life during Gilded Age America, one of the most consequential time periods for the history of American Jewry.

Dr. Sarna is co-editor of a new anthology titled, “Yearning to Breathe Free: Jews in Gilded Age America. Essays By Twenty Scholars,” and is the Joseph H. and Belle R. Braun Professor of American Jewish History at Brandeis University. Watch the interview here.