Beatrice Gurwitz is Executive Director of the Lillian & Albert Small Capital Jewish Museum 9/1

She served as the deputy director of the National Humanities Alliance. Wharton Club members and guests are invited!

Beatrice Gurwitz is Executive Director of the Lillian & Albert Small Capital Jewish Museum. Prior to joining the Museum in 2024, she served as the deputy director of the National Humanities Alliance—an organization dedicated to bolstering the humanities on college campuses, promoting public engagement with the humanities, and increasing funding for humanities organizations. Additional career highlights include consulting with the National Endowment for the Humanities and the United States Department of State. She has also taught at the University of Maryland and the University of California, Berkeley, and in the New York City public school system. Gurwitz’s academic work focuses on the history of Jewish communities and other ethnic groups in Latin America, and she is the author of Argentine Jews in the Age of Revolt (Brill, 2016). She holds a BA from Wesleyan University and a PhD in History from the University of California, Berkeley.   

Wharton Club of DC Members - you can attend in-person with a free lunch or by Zoom

• President's Club/Lifetime: You and 2 guests may attend
• Other Members: Yourself only