Book Launch

Book Talk | Schneur Zalman Newfield | Brooklyn Odyssey: My Journey Out of Hasidim

04/29 Wednesday | 5:30pm

  •  April 29, 2026
     5:30 PM - 7:00 PM

Join the Institute for Public Knowledge on Wednesday, April 29 (5:30-7:00 PM) for an event with Schneur Zalman Newfield. He will discuss his new book, Brooklyn Odyssey: My Journey Out of Hasidim, with Steven Michael Lukes and Iddo Tavory. Schneur Zalman Newfield was raised in the Hasidic community in Brooklyn and attended Lubavitch yeshivahs in (more…)

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Book Launch

Social Infrastructure is Essential Infrastructure: How Public Spaces Make the Affordable, Joyful City Possible

05/04 Monday | 5:30pm

  •  May 4, 2026
     5:30 PM - 7:00 PM

Social Infrastructure is Essential Infrastructure: How Public Spaces Make the Affordable, Joyful City Possible. Social infrastructure—the physical places that shape our capacity to connect – is essential for the health and vitality of democratic societies. But in recent decades cities and communities across the United States have failed to build or maintain great gathering places (more…)

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Book Launch

Book Talk | Dimitry Léger | Death of the Soccer God

05/12 Tuesday | 5:30pm

  •  May 12, 2026
     5:30 PM - 7:00 PM

Join the Institute for Public Knowledge on Tuesday, May 12 (5:30-7:00 PM) for an event with Dimitry Léger. He will discuss his new book Death of the Soccer God with Rowan Ricardo Phillips. Dimitry Elias Léger was born in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, in 1971 and raised between Haiti and Brooklyn, N.Y. His father was a retired (more…)

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