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SUMMARY:The Ghetto Fighters' House invites you to a new Talking Memory Series Romanian Jewry during the Holocaust:  Filling in the Gaps Holocaust Public Memory in Post-Communist Romania
DESCRIPTION:The Ghetto Fighters’ House invites you to a new Talking Memory Series\nRomanian Jewry during the Holocaust:  \n\nFilling in the Gaps  \nHolocaust Public Memory in Post-Communist Romania\nGuest Speakers:  \nDr. Ana Bărbulescu \nHolocaust Reception in Romania:  Politic Acknowledgement and Mnemonic Myopia  \nOlga Stefan \nThe Future of Memory: Approaches to Fighting Antisemitism and Holocaust Forgetting through Art and Media \nAnat Bratman-Elhalel \nAudio and Video Testimonies of Romanian Holocaust Survivors \nFor the fifth and final program in the series Romanian Jewry during the Holocaust:  Filling in the Gaps\, we will focus on Holocaust Public Memory in Post-Communist Romania \nOur first speaker\, Dr. Ana Bărbulescu\, will introduce our audience to the inconsistency that characterizes the public memory of the Holocaust within the Romanian society\, focusing on why the Romanian society has difficulties to acknowledge the Holocaust of the Romanian Jews.  As the founder of the transnational platform\, Olga Stefan\, the second speaker\, will discuss the mission and activities of the platform\, the research and documentaries undertaken and produced\, and what the future might hold as so many countries in the West slide to the right. Our final speaker is Anat Bratman-Elhalel\, Director of the Ghetto Fighters’ House Archives.  She will discuss the transcription project of audio and video testimonies that have been collected over the years. This project represents a significant step in making these valuable materials accessible to the public. Included in these testimonies are accounts from survivors from Romania. The lecture will disclose these testimonies. \nThere will be an exclusive screening of Olga Stefan’s film Gestures of Resistance.  This documentary connects the personal testimonies of some of the last survivors of the Holocaust from Romania\, Czech Republic and Slovakia through their presentations of antifascist resistance and their relevance in today´s society. A link to watch the documentary will be sent to registrants close to the date of the webinar. \nThe series is in participation with A.M.I.R. Organization\, Romanian Cultural Institute in Tel Aviv\, the Wilhelm Filderman Centre for the Study of Jewish History in Romania\, the Elie Wiesel National Institute for Studying the Holocaust in Romania\, Classrooms Without Borders\, Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Center\, and the Rabin Chair Forum at George Washington University.
URL:https://cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net/event/filling-in-the-gaps-holocaust-public-memory-in-post-communist-romania/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240620T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240620T210000
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SUMMARY:Film Screening: Screams Before Silence
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a group screening and opportunity for reflections on this documentary film\, in which Sheryl Sandberg\, former COO of Meta and\nfounder of LeanIn.org\, interviews multiple eyewitnesses\, released hostages\, first responders\, medical and forensic experts and survivors. \nScreams Before Silence contains accounts of sexual violence against women. We encourage people to engage or disengage as they feel comfortable. Therapeutic support will be available on site.\nAttempts to interrupt and disturb the program may result in removal from the premises and affect future participation in JCC programs.
URL:https://cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net/event/screams-before-silence/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240613T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240614T170000
DTSTAMP:20260708T180528
CREATED:20240506T183753Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240508T140524Z
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SUMMARY:HGEN Armenian Genocide Workshop
DESCRIPTION:The Holocaust & Genocide Education Network will host a two-day workshop this June in Cleveland with a focus on the Armenian Genocide. Participants will be immersed in Armenian culture\, learn best practices for teaching the Armenian Genocide\, be provided with lessons and resources\, and come away with a better understanding of why this history is still relevant today.\n\n\nRegistration is free and all meals will be provided by the local Armenian community. Information on hotel group rates is available at the link provided to register. \n\n \nIf you have any questions\, please reach out to Misty Ebinger at mebinger@newlondon.k12.oh.us. 
URL:https://cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net/event/hgen-armenian-genocide-workshop/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240602T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240602T153000
DTSTAMP:20260708T180528
CREATED:20240515T141211Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240528T150549Z
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SUMMARY:Talking Memory series: Jewish Forced Labor in Romania\, 1940-1944
DESCRIPTION:The Ghetto Fighters’ House invites you to a new Talking Memory series\nRomanian Jewry during the Holocaust:  Filling in the Gaps\nJewish Forced Labor in Romania\, 1940-1944\nOpening Remarks: \nDr. Martin Ladislau Salamon \nDirector of the Romanian Cultural Institute\, Tel Aviv \nGuest Speakers: \nDr. Dallas Michelbacher \nJewish Forced Labor in Romania\, 1940-1944 \nGreta Barak  \nNames and Archives: 14 Jews Sent to Forced Labor\, 1943 \n The third program in the series will focus on Jewish forced labor in Romania during the Holocaust.  Between 1941 and 1944\, more than 100\,000 Romanian Jews were conscripted into forced labor under the auspices of the Romanian military’s labor service system. \nDr. Dallas Michelbacher’s presentation will look at how these laborers worked in a wide variety of contexts\, including forced labor camps\, mobile forced labor battalions\, and forced labor units raised within Romanian cities. They performed numerous types of labor in the interest of the Romanian state\, including road and railroad construction\, clearing snow from streets and railroad tracks\, work in war-related industry\, and tasks of direct military significance like building and repairing fortifications. The forced labor system was part of a larger program of persecution directed against Romanian Jews as part of the “Romanianization” policy pursued by Ion Antonescu’s regime\, the goal of which was the complete removal of Jews from the Romanian social and economic life. \nGreta Barak\, an archivist at the Ghetto Fighters’ House\, will present a war-time document stored in the GFH Archive: a note of the 89th Infantry Division of the Romanian Army concerning a group of 14 Jews sent to forced labour in October 1943. \nThe series is in participation with A.M.I.R. Organization\, Romanian Cultural Institute in Tel Aviv\, the Wilhelm Filderman Centre for the Study of Jewish History in Romania\, the Elie Wiesel National Institute for Studying the Holocaust in Romania\, Classrooms Without Borders\, Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Center\, and the Rabin Chair Forum at George Washington University.
URL:https://cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net/event/talking-memory-series-jewish-forced-labor-in-romania-1940-1944/
LOCATION:Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240526T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240526T153000
DTSTAMP:20260708T180528
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SUMMARY:Romanian Jewry during the Holocaust:  Filling in the Gaps: Military and Civilian Behavior Towards Jews  during the Holocaust in Bessarabia and Transnistria
DESCRIPTION:The Ghetto Fighters’ House invites you to a new Talking Memory series: \nRomanian Jewry during the Holocaust:  Filling in the Gaps \nJoin us for the second program on \nMilitary and Civilian Behavior Towards Jews \nduring the Holocaust in Bessarabia and Transnistria \nGuest Speakers: \nAdrian Cioflâncă \nRomanian Killing Units: The Case of the Police Companies on the Eastern Front\, 1941-1942 \nDr. Diana Dumitru \nCivilian Behavior toward Jews during the Holocaust in Bessarabia and Transnistria \nGreta Barak \nGershon Knispel’s Art Series “The Death March of the Romanian Jewry” \nThe second program in the series will focus on the military and civilian behavior towards Jews in Bessarabia and Transnistria during the Holocaust. Adrian Cioflâncă\, director of the “Wilhelm Filderman” Center for the Study of Jewish History in Romania and a member of the Collegium of the National Council for the Study of the Securitate Archives\, will discuss the role of police company attached to the Romanian Cavalry Corp\, which was an elite unit that took part in the Blitzkrieg during the Barbarossa Operation. He will also discuss his documentary film\, Memories from the Eastern Front that reveals a handsomely bound and carefully labelled photo album that bears silent witness to history as it traces the path of the 6th Regiment of the Romanian army during 1941 and 1942. \nThe presentation of Dr. Diana Dumitru\, current Ion Ratiu Visiting Professor in Romanian Studies at Georgetown University\, will delve into the painful Jewish-gentile interactions in the aftermath of the Holocaust in Bessarabia (since 1940 the Moldavian SSR)\, particularly focusing on the legacies of the of gentile collaboration with murderous Romanian authorities during World War Two. Using oral history interviews\, archival material\, and published memoirs\, the study sheds light on the sensitive and perilous context surrounding the revelation of neighbors’ involvement in murder\, betrayal\, and plunder of Jewish inhabitants during the Holocaust. \n  \nGreta Barak\, an archivist at the Ghetto Fighters’ House\, will talk about Gershon Knispel’s Art Series “The Death March of the Romanian Jewry” that is located in the museum’s art archives. A leading Israeli artist\, Gershon Knispel decided in the late 1990s to represent a chapter of the Romanian Jewry during the Holocaust\, namely the fate of the Jews from Bessarabia. \nThe series is in participation with A.M.I.R. (The Association of Romanian Jewry in Israel)\, Romanian Cultural Institute in Tel Aviv\, the Wilhelm Filderman Centre for the Study of Jewish History in Romania\, the Elie Wiesel National Institute for Studying the Holocaust in Romania\, Classrooms Without Borders\, Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Center\, and the Rabin Chair Forum at George Washington University.
URL:https://cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net/event/romanian-jewry-during-the-holocaust-filling-in-the-gaps-military-and-civilian-behavior-towards-jews-during-the-holocaust-in-bessarabia-and-transnistria/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240523T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240523T203000
DTSTAMP:20260708T180528
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SUMMARY:POSTPONED Usable History in Times of Crisis:  Reflections on 10 Years of Living in the Past
DESCRIPTION:POSTONED\n\n\nIn the summer of 2014 Tammy Hepps moved to Squirrel Hill for one year to research her family’s ancestral Jewish community of Homestead\, Pennsylvania.  Ten years later\, she’s still here and still researching.  While she has made significant strides documenting the history and personalities in the community\, some of the most profound revelations came when the history she reconstructed intersected in unexpected ways with the events she lived through\, including immigration crises\, the Tree of Life shooting\, the COVID-19 pandemic\, and the Oct. 7 attack on Israel.\n\nThrough an exploration of these parallels between past and present\, we will explore various dimensions of what it means to turn to the past to derive strength in the present.  As our American Jewish community faces unprecedented challenges\, does treating our immediate\, personal histories as wisdom literature ground us or blind us?
URL:https://cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net/event/usable-history-in-times-of-crisis-reflections-on-10-years-of-living-in-the-past/
LOCATION:ZOOM | Registration required and closes 30 minutes prior to the start of the program
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240522T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240522T153000
DTSTAMP:20260708T180528
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SUMMARY:Lessons in Resilience from the Holocaust and Genocide Dr. Khatchig Mouradian: Resisting the Armenian Genocide: Lessons in Resilience from a Clandestine Network of Humanitarians
DESCRIPTION:Join us on this transformative journey; let this series serve as your source of empowerment\, inspiring our community to find their own light within the encompassing shadows. \nKhatchig Mouradian:\nResisting the Armenian Genocide: Lessons in Resilience from a Clandestine Network of Humanitarians \nIn Conversation with Tali Nates \nDr. Khatchig Mouradian \n \nDr. Khatchig Mouradian is a lecturer in Middle Eastern\, South Asian\, and African Studies at Columbia University\, and the Armenian and Georgian Area Specialist at the Library of Congress. Mouradian is the author of the award-winning book The Resistance Network: The Armenian Genocide and Humanitarianism in Ottoman Syria\, 1915-1918. He is the co-editor of After the Ottomans: Genocide’s Long Shadow and Armenian Resilience and the forthcoming The I.B.Tauris Handbook of the Late Ottoman Empire: History and Legacy. \nTali Nates  \n\nTali Nates is the founder and director of the Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Centre (JHGC) and Chair of the South African Holocaust & Genocide Foundation (SAHGF). She is a historian who lectures internationally on Holocaust and genocide education\, memory\, reconciliation\, and human rights. Born to a family of Holocaust survivors\, her father and uncle were saved by Oskar Schindler. Tali has been involved in the creation and production of dozens of documentary films\, published many articles and contributed chapters to different books among them God\, Faith & Identity from the Ashes: Reflections of Children and Grandchildren of Holocaust Survivors (2015)\, Remembering The Holocaust in Educational Settings (2018)\, Conceptualizing Mass Violence\, Representations\, Recollections\, and Reinterpretations (2021) and The Routledge Handbook of Memory Activism (2023). \nIn 2021 she was part of the 12-member Expert Group of the Malmö Forum\, serving in an advisory capacity to the Secretariat of the Malmö Forum on their programme on Holocaust remembrance\, education and actions to combat antisemitism. Tali serves on many Advisory and Academic Boards including that of the Contested Histories Initiative\, the Interdisciplinary Academic Journal of Babyn Yar Holocaust Memorial Center and the Academic Advisory Group of the School of Social and Health Sciences\, Monash University (IIEMSA)\, South Africa. \nIn 2010\, Tali was chosen as one of the top 100 newsworthy and noteworthy women in \nSouth Africa by the Mail & Guardian newspaper and won many awards including the Kia Community Service Award (South Africa\, 2015)\, the Gratias Agit Award (2020\, Czech Republic)\, the Austrian Holocaust Memorial Award (2021) and the Goethe Medal (2022\, Germany). \nIn the midst of uncertainty and shadows\, our series on resistance stands as a beacon of hope.  \nOver the course of our 8-part series\, we aim to shed light on the stories of individuals and communities courageously facing prevailing challenges. Our mission is to create a space where narratives of resilience take center stage\, unveiling the indomitable strength of the human spirit in adversity. \nThank you to our Partners: \n \n \nFuture Events in this Series: \n\nAugust 28\, 2024 – Wolf Gruner: Resisters in Hitler’s Germany (Tentative)\nSeptember 25\, 2024 – Asya Darbinyan: Chhange and Holocaust Education (Tentative)\nOctober 23\, 2024 – Paul Lowe: Capturing the Siege of Sarajevo (Tentative)\nNovember 20\, 2024 – Sarah Brown\, PhD: Women as Perpetrators and Rescuers (Tentative)
URL:https://cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net/event/lessons-in-resilience-from-the-holocaust-and-genocide-resisting-the-armenian-genocide-lessons-in-resilience-from-a-clandestine-network-of-humanitarians/
LOCATION:ZOOM | Registration required and closes 30 minutes prior to the start of the program
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240519T124500
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240519T153000
DTSTAMP:20260708T180528
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SUMMARY:Jewish Federation of Greater Pittsburgh: Yom HaZikaron Ceremony
DESCRIPTION:CELEBRATE ISRAEL WITH YOUR COMMUNITY\n\n\n\n\n\nIN PERSON SUNDAY\, MAY 19 | 12:45 – 3:30 PM\n \nMARCH STARTS AT 1:00 PM \nCONGREGATION BETH SHALOM\n5915 BEACON ST.\, PITTSBURGH\, PA 15217 \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFree and Open to the Community\nNo Registration Required\nJoin your Pittsburgh community in person to celebrate Israel with a march\, activities and live music performed by the band HaShayara from Misgav’s Kibbutz Eshbal. The march begins at Congregation Beth Shalom and end at JCC Squirrel Hill. \nAttendees are encouraged to wear blue and white to show support! \nThere will be a live concert in the JCC at the end of the march with male and female singers. \nLight Refreshments (Dietary Laws Observed) • Free Parking
URL:https://cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net/event/jewish-federation-of-greater-pittsburgh-2024-yom-hazikaron-ceremony/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240519T124500
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240519T153000
DTSTAMP:20260708T180528
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SUMMARY:Jewish Federation of Greater Pittsburgh: 2024 Yom Ha’atzmaut
DESCRIPTION:CELEBRATE ISRAEL WITH YOUR COMMUNITY\n\n\n\n\n\nIN PERSON SUNDAY\, MAY 19 | 12:45 – 3:30 PM\nMARCH STARTS AT 1:00 PM \nCONGREGATION BETH SHALOM\n5915 BEACON ST.\, PITTSBURGH\, PA 15217 \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFree and Open to the Community\nNo Registration Required\nJoin your Pittsburgh community in person to celebrate Israel with a march\, activities and live music performed by the band HaShayara from Misgav’s Kibbutz Eshbal. The march begins at Congregation Beth Shalom and end at JCC Squirrel Hill. Attendees are encouraged to wear blue and white to show support! \nThere will be a live concert in the JCC at the end of the march with male and female singers. \nLight Refreshments (Dietary Laws Observed) • Free Parking
URL:https://cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net/event/jewish-federation-of-greater-pittsburgh-2024-yom-haatzmaut/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240512T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240512T180000
DTSTAMP:20260708T180528
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SUMMARY:Martha Liebermann: A Stolen Life In Partnership with Film Pittsburgh’s JFilm Festival
DESCRIPTION:Classrooms Without Borders is thrilled to announce our partnership with Film Pittsburgh for an extraordinary cinematic experience as part of the JFilm 2024 Film Festival! \n\nIN PERSON EVENT: \nThe Oaks Theater\n310 Allegheny River Blvd. Oakmont\, PA 15139: Time 4pm ET\nTickets will be available for JFilm’s full 2024 lineup on April 11.\n  \nIn early 1943\, Martha Liebermann\, now 85\, widow of the great impressionist painter Max Liebermann\, hopes to flee Nazi-ruled Germany. Her fear of deportation grows by the day. Rescue finally arrives in the form of the resistance fighters led by the charismatic ambassador’s widow\, Hanna Solf. The money needed for the rescue would be raised through the smuggling and sale of two legendary portraits by the Swedish painter Anders Zorn. But a Gestapo detective inspector is on their trail.  \n \n 
URL:https://cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net/event/martha-liebermann-a-stolen-life-in-partnership-with-film-pittsburghs-jfilm-festival/
LOCATION:The Oaks Theater. 310 Allegheny River Blvd. Oakmont\, PA 15139\, 310 Allegheny River Blvd.\, Oakmont\, PA\, 15139\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240509T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240509T173000
DTSTAMP:20260708T180528
CREATED:20240226T152554Z
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SUMMARY:When the Siren Cries: Yom Hazikaron Commemoration with Rabbi Jonty Blackman
DESCRIPTION:When the Siren Cries\nThis year on Israel’s Memorial Day\, the siren will sound through Israel as it does every year; but this year its ring will be much more piercing. For this year has been unlike any other. We have not only lost soldiers in battle; but we have lost ordinary citizens in ways that we can hardly bear to speak of. And through this all\, we have also been witness to heroism and fortitude that is astounding. We have also seen a coming together throughout the Jewish world of a connectedness that is deep and profound. \nThis session will honor the fallen through stories\, songs and poems that have been written in the wake of this momentous year – and we will remember and give thanks to those brave individuals who put aside their own needs to protect the nation and to protect freedom. \n\nRabbi Jonty Blackman \nJonty has led many seminars and missions in Poland and Israel and is a gifted educator and a fascinating storyteller. Jonty has a unique way of connecting his teachings to his audience\, such that their experience of learning leaves a deep and enduring impact on their lives. He weaves together Jewish history with philosophy\, culture with archaeology\, and the tragedy of the Holocaust with probing\, source-based theological questions. His intricate knowledge of Jewish history and the Holocaust\, combined with his analytical and sensitive approach to challenging philosophical questions offers students a profound educational experience.
URL:https://cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net/event/when-the-siren-cries-yom-hazikaron-commemoration-with-rabbi-jonty-blackman/
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LOCATION:https://cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net/event/when-the-siren-cries-yom-hazikaron-commemoration-with-rabbi-jonty-blackman/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240505T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240505T153000
DTSTAMP:20260708T180528
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SUMMARY:Silent Tears\, The Last Yiddish Tango
DESCRIPTION:Silent Tears\, The Last Yiddish Tango\n \n\n\nRodef Shalom Congregation\, 4905 Fifth Ave\, Pittsburgh\, PA 15213\, USA \n\n\n\nPayadora Tango performs award-winning music from Silent Tears\, The Last Yiddish Tango. From inspiring songs about survival to mournful laments\, this program\, based on poems\, testimonies\, and writings of women who survived the Holocaust\, conveys an almost indescribable depth of emotion rarely sung about.  Find out more and register to attend at rodefshalom.org/SilentTears. \n\n\nSilent Tears\, The Last Yiddish Tango is based on poems\, testimonies\, and writings of women who survived the Holocaust. The album reached #1 on World Music Charts Europe in 2023\, becoming the first Yiddish recording ever to top the chart. The project began when Dr. Paula David launched a poetry program to help elderly Holocaust survivors deal with long-term trauma from the horrific crimes they endured in their youth.   \nSilent Tears\, created by Payadora Tango\, composer Rebekah Wolkstein and journalist/producer Dan Rosenberg\, also includes works based on Holocaust survivor Molly Applebaum’s diary and memoir\, Buried Words about her experience in hiding underground in rural Poland during the Holocaust. \nFrom inspiring songs about survival to mournful laments\, this award-winning program conveys an almost indescribable depth of emotion rarely sung about. \nReservations required at rodefshalom.org/SilentTears:   \nFree for members of Rodef Shalom Congregation and Temple Sinai \n$18 for the public \nThis concert is presented by Rodef Shalom Congregation in partnership with the Holocaust Center of Pittsburgh and Classrooms without Borders \nFor a preview\, take a listen here!
URL:https://cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net/event/silent-tears-the-last-yiddish-tango/
LOCATION:Rodef Shalom Congregation Falk Library 4905 Fifth Ave\, Pittsburgh\, PA 15213\, 4905 Fifth Ave\, Pittsburgh\, PA\, 15213\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240501T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240501T153000
DTSTAMP:20260708T180528
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SUMMARY:Lessons in Resilience from the Holocaust and Genocide Featuring Johana Sliwa: An Unlikely Rescue: A Jewish Woman Who Helped Thousands of Poles during the Holocaust
DESCRIPTION:Join us on this transformative journey; let this series serve as your source of empowerment\, inspiring our community to find their own light within the encompassing shadows. \nJohana Sliwa:\nAn Unlikely Rescue: A Jewish Woman Who Helped Thousands of Poles during the Holocaust  \n \nDr. Joanna Sliwa is a historian at the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany (Claims Conference) in New York\, where she also administers academic programs. She has taught Holocaust and Jewish history at Kean University and at Rutgers University. Joanna has many years of experience working in teacher training on the Holocaust\, including in her ongoing role as Faculty Advisor to the Master Teacher Institute in Holocaust Education at the Allen and Joan Bildner Center for the Study of Jewish Life at Rutgers University – New Brunswick. Joanna’s scholarship focuses on the Holocaust in Poland and Polish Jewish history. Her first book\, Jewish Childhood in Kraków: A Microhistory of the Holocaust won the 2020 Ernst Fraenkel Prize awarded by the Wiener Holocaust Library. Her second book\, The Counterfeit Countess: The Jewish Woman Who Rescued Thousands of Poles During the Holocaust\, is co-authored with Elizabeth B. White. \nTali Nates  \n\nTali Nates is the founder and director of the Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Centre (JHGC) and Chair of the South African Holocaust & Genocide Foundation (SAHGF). She is a historian who lectures internationally on Holocaust and genocide education\, memory\, reconciliation\, and human rights. Born to a family of Holocaust survivors\, her father and uncle were saved by Oskar Schindler. Tali has been involved in the creation and production of dozens of documentary films\, published many articles and contributed chapters to different books among them God\, Faith & Identity from the Ashes: Reflections of Children and Grandchildren of Holocaust Survivors (2015)\, Remembering The Holocaust in Educational Settings (2018)\, Conceptualizing Mass Violence\, Representations\, Recollections\, and Reinterpretations (2021) and The Routledge Handbook of Memory Activism (2023). \nIn 2021 she was part of the 12-member Expert Group of the Malmö Forum\, serving in an advisory capacity to the Secretariat of the Malmö Forum on their programme on Holocaust remembrance\, education and actions to combat antisemitism. Tali serves on many Advisory and Academic Boards including that of the Contested Histories Initiative\, the Interdisciplinary Academic Journal of Babyn Yar Holocaust Memorial Center and the Academic Advisory Group of the School of Social and Health Sciences\, Monash University (IIEMSA)\, South Africa. \nIn 2010\, Tali was chosen as one of the top 100 newsworthy and noteworthy women in \nSouth Africa by the Mail & Guardian newspaper and won many awards including the Kia Community Service Award (South Africa\, 2015)\, the Gratias Agit Award (2020\, Czech Republic)\, the Austrian Holocaust Memorial Award (2021) and the Goethe Medal (2022\, Germany). \nIn the midst of uncertainty and shadows\, our series on resistance stands as a beacon of hope.  \nOver the course of our 8-part series\, we aim to shed light on the stories of individuals and communities courageously facing prevailing challenges. Our mission is to create a space where narratives of resilience take center stage\, unveiling the indomitable strength of the human spirit in adversity. \nThank you to our Partner: \n \nFuture Events in this Series: \n\nMay 22\, 2024 – Khatchig Mouradian: Resisting the Armenian Genocide: Lessons in Resilience from a Clandestine Network of Humanitarians\nAugust 28\, 2024 – Wolf Gruner: Resisters in Hitler’s Germany (Tentative)\nSeptember 25\, 2024 – Asya Darbinyan: Chhange and Holocaust Education (Tentative)\nOctober 23\, 2024 – Paul Lowe: Capturing the Siege of Sarajevo (Tentative)\nNovember 20\, 2024 – Sarah Brown\, PhD: Women as Perpetrators and Rescuers (Tentative)
URL:https://cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net/event/lessons-in-resilience-from-the-holocaust-and-genocide-featuring-johana-sliwa-an-unlikely-rescue-a-jewish-woman-who-helped-thousands-of-poles-during-the-holocaust/
LOCATION:ZOOM | Registration required and closes 30 minutes prior to the start of the program
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240421T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240421T143000
DTSTAMP:20260708T180528
CREATED:20240328T151407Z
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SUMMARY:Using Alternative Forms of Assessment: The Kindertransports as a Case Study
DESCRIPTION:Traditional assessments often fall short in capturing the depth and breadth of students’ understanding and skills. Participants in this online workshop will be exposed to alternative assessment models that can measure a student’s mastery of content knowledge and skills while using 21st-century technologies.  \nAligned with the Danielson Framework’s Critical Attributes for assessments\, the workshop will emphasize the importance of aligning assessments with instructional outcomes. The workshop will feature examples of alternative assessments by using the World War II Kindertransports\, offering educators a model for integrating children’s narratives during wartime into their courses. This fall\, Classrooms Without Borders will host a photo exhibit about the Kindertransports.  \nThis workshop will be facilitated by Kate Lukaszewicz\, Classrooms Without Borders Education Programs Director. Required pre-reading will be shared with registrants and Pennsylvania educators with a PPID can be awarded 2 Act 48 hours. 
URL:https://cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net/event/using-alternative-forms-of-assessment-the-kindertransports-as-a-case-study/
LOCATION:ZOOM | Registration required and closes 30 minutes prior to the start of the program
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240418T143000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240418T160000
DTSTAMP:20260708T180528
CREATED:20240404T175414Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240419T211339Z
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SUMMARY:Unraveling Geopolitical Turbulence and the Israel's Protests with Avi Ben-Hur
DESCRIPTION:Join us for an information event as Avi Ben-Hur\, our esteemed CWB Scholar in Residence\, delves into the intricate geopolitical implications surrounding Israel’s recent protests. Against the backdrop of the largest demonstrations since the onset of the conflict\, Avi will provide invaluable insights into the underlying causes\, societal dynamics\, and global ramifications of the unrest. \nAvi Ben-Hur will navigate through the complexities of the protests\, analyzing their impact on regional stability\, the Israeli political landscape\, and international relations. Don’t miss this exclusive opportunity to gain a deeper understanding of the ongoing upheaval and its potential implications for the future. \nAvi Ben-Hur CWB Scholar in Residence \n \nA Brooklyn native\, Avi Ben-Hur moved to Israel in 1983. From 2003-2008 Avi was Director of the Archaeological Seminars School for Israeli Tour Guides. In 2008 Avi participated in re-writing the curriculum of the National Guiding courses for the Israeli Ministry of Tourism. As a “Scholar in Residence\, Avi has lectured\, taught and facilitated workshops in the US\, Warsaw\, Prague\, Berlin and Greece. From 1996-2000\, Avi taught in Yad Vashem’s International School for Holocaust Studies. As a guide\, Avi has specialized working with organizations focusing on political issues (such as AIPAC & CIJA)\, inter-faith programs and Holocaust studies. At Present\, Avi is an examiner for the Israeli Ministry of Tourism Licensing Boards and is the ongoing scholar in residence of Classrooms Without Borders
URL:https://cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net/event/unraveling-geopolitical-turbulence-and-the-israels-protests-with-avi-ben-hur/
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LOCATION:https://cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net/event/unraveling-geopolitical-turbulence-and-the-israels-protests-with-avi-ben-hur/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240416T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240416T210000
DTSTAMP:20260708T180528
CREATED:20240227T145347Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240227T160942Z
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SUMMARY:Irena's Vow: IN THEATERS ON APRIL 15TH & APRIL 16TH
DESCRIPTION:Presents \nIRENA’S VOW \nBased on the true story of Irene Gut Opdyke  \n\nThrough the eyes of a strong-willed woman comes the remarkable true story of Irena Gut Opdyke and the triumphs of the human spirit over devastating tragedy. 19-year-old Irena Gut is promoted to housekeeper in the home of a highly respected Nazi officer when she finds out that the Jewish ghetto is about to be liquidated. Determined to help twelve Jewish workers\, she decides to shelter them in the safest place she can think of: the basement of the German commandant’s house. Over the next two years\, Irena uses her wit\, humor\, and courage to hide her friends until the end of the German occupation\, concealing them in the midst of countless Nazi parties\, a blackmail scheme\, and even the birth of a child. Her story is one of the most inspiring of our time. \n\nDirected by: Louise Archambault (Atomic Saké\, Familia)\nWritten by: Dan Gordon (Passenger 57\, Wyatt Earp)\nStarring: Sophie Nélisse (“Yellowjackets\,” 47 Meters Down: Uncaged)\, Dougray Scott (Mission: Impossible 2\, “Batwoman”)\, Andrzej Seweryn\, and Maciek Nawrocki\nProduced by: Nicholas Tabarrok\, p.g.a\, Beata Pisula\, Tim Ringuette\, Berry Meyerowitz and Jeff Sackman\nExecutive Produced by: Larry Greenberg and Leah Jaunzems\n\n \n\n*Official Selection – Toronto International Film Festival*\n*Official Selection – Woodstock Film Festival*\n*Official Selection – The JCC Chicago Jewish Film Festival*\n*Official Selection – Boston Jewish Film Festival*\n\nHere are the theaters in the Pittsburgh area: \n\nPhoenix Theatres Chartiers Valley Luxury 14 + PTX Address: 1025 Washington Pike\, Bridgeville\, PA\nAMC CLASSIC Westmoreland 15 Address: 5280 Old Rte 30\, Greensburg\, PA\nCinemark Center Township Marketplace Address: 99 Wagner Road\, Monaca\, PA\nCinemark Monroeville Mall and XD Address: 600 Monroeville Mall\, Monroeville\, PA\nCinemark North Hills and XD Address: 851 Providence Boulevard\, Pittsburgh\, PA\nCinemark Robinson Township and XD Address: 2100 Settlers Ridge Center Drive\, Robinson Township\, PA\nAMC Waterfront 22 Address: 300 West Waterfront Dr\, West Homestead\, PA
URL:https://cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net/event/irenas-vow-in-theaters-on-april-15th-april-16th/2024-04-16/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240415T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240415T210000
DTSTAMP:20260708T180528
CREATED:20240227T145347Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240227T160942Z
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SUMMARY:Irena's Vow: IN THEATERS ON APRIL 15TH & APRIL 16TH
DESCRIPTION:Presents \nIRENA’S VOW \nBased on the true story of Irene Gut Opdyke  \n\nThrough the eyes of a strong-willed woman comes the remarkable true story of Irena Gut Opdyke and the triumphs of the human spirit over devastating tragedy. 19-year-old Irena Gut is promoted to housekeeper in the home of a highly respected Nazi officer when she finds out that the Jewish ghetto is about to be liquidated. Determined to help twelve Jewish workers\, she decides to shelter them in the safest place she can think of: the basement of the German commandant’s house. Over the next two years\, Irena uses her wit\, humor\, and courage to hide her friends until the end of the German occupation\, concealing them in the midst of countless Nazi parties\, a blackmail scheme\, and even the birth of a child. Her story is one of the most inspiring of our time. \n\nDirected by: Louise Archambault (Atomic Saké\, Familia)\nWritten by: Dan Gordon (Passenger 57\, Wyatt Earp)\nStarring: Sophie Nélisse (“Yellowjackets\,” 47 Meters Down: Uncaged)\, Dougray Scott (Mission: Impossible 2\, “Batwoman”)\, Andrzej Seweryn\, and Maciek Nawrocki\nProduced by: Nicholas Tabarrok\, p.g.a\, Beata Pisula\, Tim Ringuette\, Berry Meyerowitz and Jeff Sackman\nExecutive Produced by: Larry Greenberg and Leah Jaunzems\n\n \n\n*Official Selection – Toronto International Film Festival*\n*Official Selection – Woodstock Film Festival*\n*Official Selection – The JCC Chicago Jewish Film Festival*\n*Official Selection – Boston Jewish Film Festival*\n\nHere are the theaters in the Pittsburgh area: \n\nPhoenix Theatres Chartiers Valley Luxury 14 + PTX Address: 1025 Washington Pike\, Bridgeville\, PA\nAMC CLASSIC Westmoreland 15 Address: 5280 Old Rte 30\, Greensburg\, PA\nCinemark Center Township Marketplace Address: 99 Wagner Road\, Monaca\, PA\nCinemark Monroeville Mall and XD Address: 600 Monroeville Mall\, Monroeville\, PA\nCinemark North Hills and XD Address: 851 Providence Boulevard\, Pittsburgh\, PA\nCinemark Robinson Township and XD Address: 2100 Settlers Ridge Center Drive\, Robinson Township\, PA\nAMC Waterfront 22 Address: 300 West Waterfront Dr\, West Homestead\, PA
URL:https://cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net/event/irenas-vow-in-theaters-on-april-15th-april-16th/2024-04-15/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240414T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240414T153000
DTSTAMP:20260708T180528
CREATED:20240401T103217Z
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SUMMARY:The Ghetto Fighters’ House  Talking Memory Series Presents: The Holocaust and October 7: Entangled Memory?
DESCRIPTION:The Ghetto Fighters’ House Talking Memory Series Presents:\nThe Holocaust and October 7: Entangled Memory?\nGuest Speakers: \nProf. Havi Dreifuss \nHolocaust Studies and Commemoration Amidst Ongoing October 7th: Challenges and Connections \nDr. Ohad Ofaz \nEDUT 710: What We Learned from Holocaust Survivors’ Documentation \nYaron Tzur \nFacing Today’s Challenges: Navigating Holocaust Education at the Ghetto Fighters’ House Museum \nThe events of October 7 have sent shockwaves through the global community\, deeply influencing discussions on Holocaust remembrance. In this program\, we will thoughtfully navigate the entangled memory of the Holocaust and October 7\, examining its impact on remembrance and education. \n \nOur first speaker\, Prof. Havi Dreifuss will delve into the key challenges facing Holocaust studies both in Israel and worldwide amidst the aftermath of this tragic event. How does contemporary trauma\, including rising antisemitism and other factors\, influence our understanding and interpretation of Holocaust history? What intersections and parallels can be drawn between the study of the Holocaust and the events of October 7th? Through an exploration of research\, documentation\, and commemoration\, we will seek to illuminate the complex dynamics in navigating the legacy of the Holocaust in today’s world. \nDr. Ohad Ofaz will describe how WWII\, the Holocaust\, and the experiences of Holocaust survivors played a pivotal role in the emergence of audio-visual testimony. Central to this development was the contribution of Dori Laub\, a psychiatrist and Holocaust survivor\, who initiated the first video testimony project and formed a distinctive approach of attentive and empathetic interviewing techniques. The lecture will explore the evolution of the audio-visual testimony tradition from its origins in the Holocaust era to the Edut 710 initiative aimed at documenting the stories of survivors of the October 7th atrocities. It will highlight the incorporation and modification of Laub’s ethics of listening as a core concept in the current project. \nYaron Tzur\, Director of Content Development and Digital at the Ghetto Fighters’ House\, will share the museum’s educational approach to addressing questions that have emerged since October 7 and reflect on the key messages conveyed to visitors today. \nThis program is in partnership with Classrooms Without Borders\, the Rabin Chair Forum at George Washington University\, and the Institute for the History of Polish Jewry in Tel-Aviv university.
URL:https://cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net/event/the-holocaust-and-october-7-entangled-memory/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240327T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240327T153000
DTSTAMP:20260708T180528
CREATED:20240116T193807Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240328T172401Z
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SUMMARY:Lessons in Resilience from the Holocaust and Genocide with Carl Wilkens: Rwanda’s community approach to rebuilding trust: restorative strategies for healing relationships.
DESCRIPTION:Join us on this transformative journey; let this series serve as your source of empowerment\, inspiring our community to find their own light within the encompassing shadows. \nCarl Wilkens:\n“Rwanda’s community approach to rebuilding trust: restorative strategies for healing relationships.”\nIn conversation with Tali Nates \nCarl Wilkens \n\nFor over a decade\, Carl Wilkens has been sharing stories around the globe to inspire and equip people to “enter the world of The Other.” He was the only American who chose to stay in Kigali\, Rwanda throughout the 1994 genocide. Venturing out each day into streets crackling with mortars and gunfire\, he worked his way through roadblocks of angry\, bloodstained soldiers and civilians armed with machetes and assault rifles in order to bring food\, water and medicine to groups of orphans trapped around the city. Working with Rwandan colleagues\, they helped save the lives of hundreds. His harrowing yet hopeful journey weaves together stories of tremendous risk and fierce compassion in the midst of senseless slaughter. In 2011\, Carl completed a book detailing these days titled I’m Not Leaving. A 40 minute documentary by the same title has since been released.\nCarl’s storytelling does not stop with Rwanda’s tragic history\, but moves forward to the powerful and inspiring recovery process. Among the many lessons he shares from his experience is the transformative belief that we don’t have to be defined by what we lost or our worst choices. We can be defined by what we do with what remains – what we do next after terrible choices. Each year he returns to Rwanda with students and educators to\nsee for themselves how people are working together to rebuild their country and rebuild trust. \nTali Nates  \n\nTali Nates is the founder and director of the Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Centre (JHGC) and Chair of the South African Holocaust & Genocide Foundation (SAHGF). She is a historian who lectures internationally on Holocaust and genocide education\, memory\, reconciliation\, and human rights. Born to a family of Holocaust survivors\, her father and uncle were saved by Oskar Schindler. Tali has been involved in the creation and production of dozens of documentary films\, published many articles and contributed chapters to different books among them God\, Faith & Identity from the Ashes: Reflections of Children and Grandchildren of Holocaust Survivors (2015)\, Remembering The Holocaust in Educational Settings (2018)\, Conceptualizing Mass Violence\, Representations\, Recollections\, and Reinterpretations (2021) and The Routledge Handbook of Memory Activism (2023). \nIn 2021 she was part of the 12-member Expert Group of the Malmö Forum\, serving in an advisory capacity to the Secretariat of the Malmö Forum on their programme on Holocaust remembrance\, education and actions to combat antisemitism. Tali serves on many Advisory and Academic Boards including that of the Contested Histories Initiative\, the Interdisciplinary Academic Journal of Babyn Yar Holocaust Memorial Center and the Academic Advisory Group of the School of Social and Health Sciences\, Monash University (IIEMSA)\, South Africa. \nIn 2010\, Tali was chosen as one of the top 100 newsworthy and noteworthy women in \nSouth Africa by the Mail & Guardian newspaper and won many awards including the Kia Community Service Award (South Africa\, 2015)\, the Gratias Agit Award (2020\, Czech Republic)\, the Austrian Holocaust Memorial Award (2021) and the Goethe Medal (2022\, Germany). \nIn the midst of uncertainty and shadows\, our series on resistance stands as a beacon of hope.  \nOver the course of our 8-part series\, we aim to shed light on the stories of individuals and communities courageously facing prevailing challenges. Our mission is to create a space where narratives of resilience take center stage\, unveiling the indomitable strength of the human spirit in adversity. \nThank you to our Partner: \n \nFuture Events in this Series: \n\nMay 1\, 2024 – Johana Sliwa: An Unlikely Rescue: A Jewish Woman Who Helped Thousands of Poles during the Holocaust \nMay 22\, 2024 – Khatchig Mouradian: Resisting the Armenian Genocide: Lessons in Resilience from a Clandestine Network of Humanitarians \nAugust 28\, 2024 – Wolf Gruner: Resisters in Hitler’s Germany (Tentative)\nSeptember 25\, 2024 – Asya Darbinyan: Chhange and Holocaust Education (Tentative)\nOctober 23\, 2024 – Paul Lowe: Capturing the Siege of Sarajevo (Tentative)\nNovember 20\, 2024 – Sarah Brown\, PhD: Women as Perpetrators and Rescuers (Tentative)
URL:https://cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net/event/lessons-in-resilience-from-the-holocaust-and-genocide-with-carl-wilkins-rwandas-community-approach-to-rebuilding-trust-restorative-strategies-for-healing-relationships/
LOCATION:ZOOM | Registration required and closes 30 minutes prior to the start of the program
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240325T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240325T200000
DTSTAMP:20260708T180528
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SUMMARY:Voices from Ukraine:  Oral Histories in  Times of War
DESCRIPTION:Voices from Ukraine: Oral Histories in Times of War\n\nPresentation & Dramatic Readings\nIN PERSON EVENT\nRachel Mellon Walton Room\,\nPosner Hall\, A-Floor \nModerated by Michal R. Friedman Jack Buncher Professor of Jewish Studies\, Department of History\, CMU \nFEATURING: \nEdward Serotta Executive Director of Centropa \nDr. Kristi Good of the School of Drama at CMU \nAn evening of presentations featuring the work of Centropa.org & Carnegie Mellon faculty on Ukraine at war past and present & dramatic readings of wartime diaries of Centropa’s Ukrainian teachers and students by CMU School of Drama students.\nStudent Cast: \nAnya Edwards\nMariana Garzón \nToro\nLukas Jarvi\nNathaniel \nKelderman\nKyra Klonoski\nNoah Pacht \nSponsored by the Jack Buncher Chair in Jewish Studies\, Department of History & in partnership with: of the School of Drama at CMU
URL:https://cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net/event/voices-from-ukraine-oral-histories-in-times-of-war/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240320T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240320T163000
DTSTAMP:20260708T180528
CREATED:20240104T171714Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240321T162923Z
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SUMMARY:Post Film Discussion Vishniac with Laura Bialis Producer/Director and CWB Scholar Avi Ben-Hur
DESCRIPTION:“All this life\, it’s so important to look closer\, and the world will be bigger.”\n– Roman Vishniac\n  \nFilm link delivered to registrants 3 days before our engaging post-film discussion\n \nAll Vishniac Photos: (c) Gift of Mara Vishniac Kohn\, The Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life\, University of California\, Berkeley \nFrom the cosmopolitan streets of pre-war Berlin to the shtetls in Poland and Lithuania to the Princeton offices of Albert Einstein\, VISHNIAC takes viewers on a journey\, through the lens of one of the foremost photographers of the 20th century. \nRoman Vishniac is best known for having traversed Eastern Europe from 1935 through 1938\, on assignment for the American Joint Distribution Committee\, to photograph Jewish life in Eastern Europe. The purpose of the photographs was to raise funds for impoverished Jewish communities. Few predicted that less than a decade later\, these communities would be wiped out\, and that Vishniac’s photographs would provide the last visual records of an entire world. \nVISHNIAC will explore Vishniac’s career and stunning photographs\, bring to life the world in which he worked and detail his dramatic life story and flamboyant personality. The film is directed and produced by Laura Bialis (Refuseniks\, Rock in the Red Zone)\, with executive producer Nancy Spielberg\, producer Roberta Grossman and writer Sophie Sartain. Made with the full cooperation of Vishniac’s daughter Mara Vishniac Kohn\, VISHNIAC will delve into the person and story “behind the photos. It will explore how Vishniac’s work was intricately tied to his view of the world. Finally\, the film will frame Vishniac’s legacy as a key modernist photographer and preserver of memory. Vishniac’s collection\, including over 10\,000 images\, is vast\, mysterious\, and causes us to step back in time. Through his stunning images\, the film will expose new audiences to a lost world that is quickly fading from our grasp. \nLaura Bialis Producer/Director \n\nLaura Bialis is an award-winning documentary filmmaker. Her most recent film\, Rock in the Red Zone (2015) is a personal view from the ground in Sderot\, Israel\, and an exploration into the lives of musicians creating in a conflict zone. The film was screened in over 80 cities worldwide. Bialis directed and produced the critically acclaimed documentary Refusenik (2007) a seminal film about the movement to free Soviet Jews\, which was released theatrically in fifteen cities\, broadcast on Israeli television\, and was released on Netflix. Other projects include View From the Bridge: Stories From Kosovo (2008) ; and Tak For Alt (1998)\, the story of Holocaust survivor turned Civil Rights activist Judy Meisel\, which was honored by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences\, broadcast on PBS\, and has been used extensively in high schools across the United States for Holocaust education. Laura holds a B.A. in History from Stanford University\, and an M.F.A. in Production from the USC School of Cinema Arts. \nAvi Ben-Hur CWB Scholar in Residence \n \nA Brooklyn native\, Avi Ben-Hur moved to Israel in 1983. From 2003-2008 Avi was Director of the Archaeological Seminars School for Israeli Tour Guides. In 2008 Avi participated in re-writing the curriculum of the National Guiding courses for the Israeli Ministry of Tourism. As a “Scholar in Residence\, Avi has lectured\, taught and facilitated workshops in the US\, Warsaw\, Prague\, Berlin and Greece. From 1996-2000\, Avi taught in Yad Vashem’s International School for Holocaust Studies. As a guide\, Avi has specialized working with organizations focusing on political issues (such as AIPAC & CIJA)\, inter-faith programs and Holocaust studies. At Present\, Avi is an examiner for the Israeli Ministry of Tourism Licensing Boards and is the ongoing scholar in residence of Classrooms Without Borders
URL:https://cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net/event/post-film-discussion-vishniac/
LOCATION:ZOOM | Registration required and closes 30 minutes prior to the start of the program
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240317T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240317T153000
DTSTAMP:20260708T180528
CREATED:20240218T191944Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240226T151056Z
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SUMMARY:“Bridge Over Troubled Water”: Solidarity and Civic Responsibility in Times of Crisis
DESCRIPTION:The Ghetto Fighters’ House invites you to our series: \n“Bridge Over Troubled Water”: Solidarity and Civic Responsibility in Times of Crisis \nJoin us for the fourth program: \nRescue Outside the Ghetto Walls: Warsaw 1943-44 \nThe Berman Collection \nGuest Speakers:  \nProf. Emanuel Berman \nBasia and Adolf Abraham Berman: Documenting the Rescue of Jews in Occupied Warsaw \nNoam Rachmilevitch \nSolidarity under Occupation: Organized Rescue of Jews in Warsaw 1943-1944 \nAfter the establishment of the Warsaw ghetto by the Nazis\, numerous Jews settled on the “Aryan” side of the city\, under assumed non-Jewish identities. Many managed to survive this way after the destruction of the ghetto\, though living under constant threat of being identified and killed. \nOur first speaker\, Prof. Emanuel Berman\, will share the heroic story of his parents\, Basia and Adolf Abraham Berman\, who also hid under false identities\, and were very active in a clandestine network helping fellow Jews to survive. They provided forged identity papers\, rent money\, food\, medical supplies and more\, all while risking their own lives. This period is vividly described by Basia Temkin-Berman in a diary written during the occupation. \nNoam Rachmilevitch\, a senior researcher in the Ghetto Fighters’ House archive\, will give a presentation centering on the Adolf Berman collection held in the museum’s archives. This unique collection offers insight into the practical implementation of the above-mentioned rescue efforts. Noam will focus on two key aspects of rescue: financial support and documentation supply. \nThis program is in partnership with the Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Centre\, Classrooms Without Borders\, and the Rabin Chair Forum at George Washington University.
URL:https://cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net/event/bridge-over-troubled-water-solidarity-and-civic-responsibility-in-times-of-crisis/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240317T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240317T170000
DTSTAMP:20260708T180528
CREATED:20240206T180847Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240213T184221Z
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SUMMARY:Mizrahi Music\, Feminist Perspectives
DESCRIPTION:After years of marginalization\, exoticization\, and misrepresentation\, Mizrahi musicians are reclaiming their musical roots.  \n\nMizrahi Music\, Feminist Perspectives explores the histories and current revival of the diverse musical styles of Jewish women from the Middle East and North Africa. This symposium will include scholarly analysis of this musical movement\, as well as performances that offer contemporary interpretations of ancestral musical traditions and bring forgotten women’s voices to the fore \nEvent Agenda: \nIntroductions & Lunch: Dr. Rachel Kranson & Dr. Michal R. Friedman\n1. Scholarly perspectives on Mizrahi Music\, Feminist Perspectives \nPanelists: Naama Perel\, Dr. Tamar Sella\, Re’ee Hagay \nModerator: Dr. Deane Root\n2. Performances: Naama Perel\, Shani Oshri\, Laura Elkeslassy \n3. Post-Performance \nConversation Naama Perel\, Shani Oshri\, Laura Elkeslassy\nCo-Moderators: Dr. Hilla Nehushtan & Dr. Nevine Abraham \nBios of Participants: \n\nLaura Elkeslassy: Performer vocalist whose work focuses on reclaiming Morrocan-Jewish liturgical traditions & North African folk music\nNaama Perel Tzadok: Composer of Yemenite Jewish Music\, Phd candidate in Music at the University of Pittsburgh\nDr. Tamar Sella: Assistant Professor of Ethnomusicology in the College of Music\, University of North Texas\nRe’ee Hagay: PhD candidate\, Department of Near Eastern Studies with a focus on Judaism in the Global South\, Cornell University\nShani Oshri: Performer & vocalist\, with specialties in Yemeni and Persian Classical Music
URL:https://cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net/event/mizrahi-music-feminist-perspectives/
LOCATION:University of Pittsburgh – Frick Fine Arts Auditorium 650 Schenley Drive\, Pittsburgh\, PA 15260\, 650 Schenley Drive\, Pittsburgh\, 15260\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240314T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240314T193000
DTSTAMP:20260708T180528
CREATED:20240122T205646Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240122T210515Z
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SUMMARY:Book Launch Edda Fields-Black: Combee: Harriet Tubman\, the Combahee River Raid\, and Black Freedom during the Civil War
DESCRIPTION:Classrooms Without Borders partners with Pittsburgh Arts and Lectures to present COMBEE: Harriet Tubman’s Combahee River Raid. Dr. Edda L. Fields-Black\, professor of history at Carnegie Mellon University\, unveils Tubman’s role in piloting Black soldiers to liberate 730 people who were enslaved on South Carolina’s rice plantations.\n  \nThe story of the Combahee River Raid\, one of Harriet Tubman’s most extraordinary accomplishments\, based on original documents and written by a descendant of one of the participants.\n\n\n\nMost Americans know of Harriet Tubman’s legendary life: escaping enslavement in 1849\, she led more than 60 others out of bondage via the Underground Railroad\, gave instructions on getting to freedom to scores more\, and went on to live a lifetime fighting for change. Yet the many biographies\, children’s books\, and films about Tubman omit a crucial chapter: during the Civil War\, hired by the Union Army\, she ventured into the heart of slave territory–Beaufort\, South Carolina–to live\, work\, and gather intelligence for a daring raid up the Combahee River to attack the major plantations of Rice Country\, the breadbasket of the Confederacy. \nEdda L. Fields-Black–herself a descendent of one of the participants in the raid–shows how Tubman commanded a ring of spies\, scouts\, and pilots and participated in military expeditions behind Confederate lines. On June 2\, 1863\, Tubman and her crew piloted two regiments of Black US Army soldiers\, the Second South Carolina Volunteers\, and their white commanders up coastal South Carolina’s Combahee River in three gunboats. In a matter of hours\, they torched eight rice plantations and liberated 730 people\, people whose Lowcountry Creole language and culture Tubman could not even understand. Black men who had liberated themselves from bondage on South Carolina’s Sea Island cotton plantations after the Battle of Port Royal in November 1861 enlisted in the Second South Carolina Volunteers and risked their lives in the effort. \nUsing previous unexamined documents\, including Tubman’s US Civil War Pension File\, bills of sale\, wills\, marriage settlements\, and estate papers from planters’ families\, Fields-Black brings to life intergenerational\, extended enslaved families\, neighbors\, praise-house members\, and sweethearts forced to work in South Carolina’s deadly tidal rice swamps\, sold\, and separated during the antebellum period. \n \nDr. Edda L. Fields-Black teaches history at Carnegie Mellon University and has written extensively about the history of West African rice farmers\, including in such works as Deep Roots: Rice Farmers in West Africa and the African Diaspora. She was a co-editor of Rice: Global Networks and New Histories\, which was selected as a Choice Outstanding Academic Title. Fields-Black has served as a consultant for the Smithsonian National Museum of African-American History and Culture’s permanent exhibit\, “Rice Fields of the Lowcountry.” She is the executive producer and librettist of “Unburied\, Unmourned\, Unmarked: Requiem for Rice\,” a widely performed original contemporary classical work by celebrated composer John Wineglass. \n“Edda Fields-Black takes a legendary event and an iconic figure and with pathbreaking research and elegant prose gives us a striking\, living\, and breathing history of Black courage and freedom dreams at the dawn of emancipation.” \nImani Perry\, Author of South to America: A Journey Below the Mason-Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBooks\nCombee is available for pre-order from White Whale Bookstore.
URL:https://cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net/event/book-launch-edda-fields-black-combee-harriet-tubman-the-combahee-river-raid-and-black-freedom-during-the-civil-war/
LOCATION:CARNEGIE LIBRARY LECTURE HALL\, 4440 Forbes Ave\, Pittsburgh\, PA\, 15213\, United States
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ORGANIZER;CN="Pittsburgh Arts & Lectures":MAILTO:info@pittsburghlectures.org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240313T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240313T163000
DTSTAMP:20260708T180528
CREATED:20240226T151455Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240226T151455Z
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SUMMARY:Hungary: The Last Chapter of the Holocaust
DESCRIPTION:Hungary: The Last Chapter of the Holocaust\n  \nThe height of the Holocaust was in the year 1944 with the destruction of the Jews of Hungary. Eighty years ago\, in March 1944\, German troops invaded Hungary and that spring and summer\, in just 7 short weeks\, over 430\,000 Jews were deported\, most to Auschwitz. \nHow could this have happened so late in the war? What did people know? \nDespite this\, the biggest and most effective rescue operation of the Holocaust occurred in Hungary. Join Rob Rozett\, Senior Historian at Yad Vashem\, to commemorate this anniversary and explore these issues. \nThis webinar connects to the Final Solution unit on the Echoes & Reflections website.
URL:https://cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net/event/hungary-the-last-chapter-of-the-holocaust/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240312T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240312T200000
DTSTAMP:20260708T180528
CREATED:20240214T230044Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240214T230844Z
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SUMMARY:Why the Holocaust Still Matters: An Evening with Michael Berenbaum
DESCRIPTION:Organized by McAnulty College & Graduate School of Liberal Arts: Duquesne University\n  \n \nWidely considered one of the world’s most distinguished scholars of the Holocaust and antisemitism\, Dr. Berenbaum draws on his extensive knowledge of Jewish history and thought to explore communities’ understanding of this tragedy and its enduring legacy\n\nDr. Michael Berenbaum\nBrought to you by the McAnulty College and Graduate School of Liberal Arts and the History Department Duquesne University \nDr. Michael Berenbaum Ph.D.\nDirector\, Sigi Ziering Institute\nProfessor of Jewish Studies\, American Jewish University\nFormer Project Director\, U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum \nThanks to the Pittsburgh-based non-profit Classrooms Without Borders\, teachers may seek continuing education credits by attending this event: FILL OUT THIS FORM 
URL:https://cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net/event/why-the-holocaust-still-matters-an-evening-with-michael-berenbaum/
LOCATION:McAnulty College & Graduate School of Liberal Arts Power Center Ballroom\, 1015 Forbes Ave\, Pittsburgh\, PA\, 15219\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240304T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240304T163000
DTSTAMP:20260708T180528
CREATED:20240226T151247Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240228T203331Z
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SUMMARY:Women in Resistance  
DESCRIPTION:Women in Resistance   \nHave you heard the story of resistance by women prisoners at Auschwitz – a story still shrouded in mystery? \nIn commemoration of Women’s History Month please join Sheryl Ochayon\, Project Director of Echoes from Yad Vashem\, to hear the incredible story of the women who smuggled dynamite out of the factory where they were forced to work in order to stage armed resistance. \nThis webinar connects with the Final Solution and Resistance lesson plans on the Echoes & Reflections website\, and is the subject of a new Echoes podcast for students.
URL:https://cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net/event/women-in-resistance/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240303T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240303T173000
DTSTAMP:20260708T180528
CREATED:20240131T220650Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240202T011223Z
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SUMMARY:Spring is Near\, a heartfelt tribute to the indomitable spirit of Holocaust survivor Howard Chandler
DESCRIPTION:Join us for an unforgettable event\, “Spring is Near\,” a heartfelt tribute to the indomitable spirit of Holocaust survivor Howard Chandler. This special occasion promises an evening of remembrance\, reflection\, and musical resonance. \nIn April 2011\, Howard Chandler’s remarkable journey unfolded alongside musicians\, including the talented Gilbert Bigenho and renowned vocalist Lynne Beckstrom\, during a poignant visit to Treblinka\, Majdanek\, and Auschwitz/Birkenau. His unwavering resilience in the face of post-war injustices\, including the illegal seizure of his family home\, left an indelible mark on all who shared in his story. \nThe centerpiece of the evening will be a musical performance featuring compositions by Gilbert Bigenho\, inspired by his experiences during that transformative journey. “Broken Wings\,” a moving piece for piano\, violin\, and voice\, and the three movements of “Holocaust Remembrances” serve as a powerful tribute to Howard\, his family\, and all those who endured the darkest chapters of history. \nLet us gather to honor Howard Chandler\, celebrate his enduring spirit\, and collectively embrace the hope that springs from remembrance. \nSt Peter’s Episcopal Church 4048 Brownsville Road Brentwood Pa 15227
URL:https://cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net/event/spring-is-near/
LOCATION:St Peter’s Episcopal Church 4048 Brownsville Road Brentwood Pa 15227.\, 4048 Brownsville Road\, Brentwood\, PA\, 15227\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240228T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240228T153000
DTSTAMP:20260708T180528
CREATED:20240112T160508Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240229T190116Z
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SUMMARY:Lessons in Resilience from the Holocaust and Genocide Featuring Nicole Fox: The Resilience of Female Survivors in the Aftermath of Genocide:  Memorialization and Centering Women's Experiences in Contemporary Rwanda with Tali Nates
DESCRIPTION:In the midst of uncertainty and shadows\, our series on resistance stands as a beacon of hope. Over the course of our 8-part series\, we aim to shed light on the stories of individuals and communities courageously facing prevailing challenges. Our mission is to create a space where narratives of resilience take center stage\, unveiling the indomitable strength of the human spirit in adversity.\nJoin us on this transformative journey; let this series serve as your source of empowerment\, inspiring our community to find their own light within the encompassing shadows. \nInaugural Event! Featuring Nicole Fox: \nThe Resilience of Female Survivors in the Aftermath of Genocide: \nMemorialization and Centering Women’s Experiences in Contemporary Rwanda \nNicole Fox\, PhD \n \nNicole Fox\, PhD is an Associate Professor of Criminal Justice at California State University Sacramento. Her research centers on how racial and ethnic contention impacts communities\, with a focus on how remembrances of adversity shape social change and collective memory. Her current project examines individuals who conducted acts of rescue during episodes of mass violence\, theorizing how social factors shape high-risk actions. Her 2021 book After Genocide: Memory and Reconciliation in Rwanda (University of Wisconsin Press) focuses on how memorials to past atrocity impacts community development and reconciliation for survivors of genocide and genocidal rape. Her work has been supported by the Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation\, the National Science Foundation\, Andrew Mellon Foundation\, and the American Sociological Society’s Fund for the Advancement of the Discipline\, among others. She also serves on the United Nations Economic and Social Council and contributes to the UN Commission for the Status of Women held annually at the UN headquarters. NicolefoxPhD.com \nTali Nates  \n\nTali Nates is the founder and director of the Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Centre (JHGC) and Chair of the South African Holocaust & Genocide Foundation (SAHGF). She is a historian who lectures internationally on Holocaust and genocide education\, memory\, reconciliation\, and human rights. Born to a family of Holocaust survivors\, her father and uncle were saved by Oskar Schindler. Tali has been involved in the creation and production of dozens of documentary films\, published many articles and contributed chapters to different books among them God\, Faith & Identity from the Ashes: Reflections of Children and Grandchildren of Holocaust Survivors (2015)\, Remembering The Holocaust in Educational Settings (2018)\, Conceptualizing Mass Violence\, Representations\, Recollections\, and Reinterpretations (2021) and The Routledge Handbook of Memory Activism (2023). \nIn 2021 she was part of the 12-member Expert Group of the Malmö Forum\, serving in an advisory capacity to the Secretariat of the Malmö Forum on their programme on Holocaust remembrance\, education and actions to combat antisemitism. Tali serves on many Advisory and Academic Boards including that of the Contested Histories Initiative\, the Interdisciplinary Academic Journal of Babyn Yar Holocaust Memorial Center and the Academic Advisory Group of the School of Social and Health Sciences\, Monash University (IIEMSA)\, South Africa. \nIn 2010\, Tali was chosen as one of the top 100 newsworthy and noteworthy women in \nSouth Africa by the Mail & Guardian newspaper and won many awards including the Kia Community Service Award (South Africa\, 2015)\, the Gratias Agit Award (2020\, Czech Republic)\, the Austrian Holocaust Memorial Award (2021) and the Goethe Medal (2022\, Germany). \nThank you to our Partner: \n \nFuture Events in this Series: \n\nMarch 27\, 2024-Carl Wilkins: Rwanda’s community approach to rebuilding trust: restorative strategies for healing relationships.\nMay 1\, 2024 – Johana Sliwa: An Unlikely Rescue: A Jewish Woman Who Helped Thousands of Poles during the Holocaust \nMay 22\, 2024 – Khatchig Mouradian: Resisting the Armenian Genocide: Lessons in Resilience from a Clandestine Network of Humanitarians\nAugust 28\, 2024 – Wolf Gruner: Resisters in Hitler’s Germany (Tentative)\nSeptember 25\, 2024 – Asya Darbinyan: Chhange and Holocaust Education (Tentative)\nOctober 23\, 2024 – Paul Lowe: Capturing the Siege of Sarajevo (Tentative)\nNovember 20\, 2024 – Sarah Brown\, PhD: Women as Perpetrators and Rescuers (Tentative)
URL:https://cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net/event/lessons-in-resilience-from-the-holocaust-and-genocide/
LOCATION:ZOOM | Registration required and closes 30 minutes prior to the start of the program
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240221T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240221T163000
DTSTAMP:20260708T180528
CREATED:20240115T195233Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240223T144053Z
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SUMMARY:Post Film Discussion Children of Peace with Maayan Schwartz Writer/Director and CWB Scholar Avi Ben-Hur
DESCRIPTION:About the Film: \nFor more than a century\, a persistent conflict has unfolded between Arabs and Jews. In an extraordinary departure from the norm\, a collective of visionaries chose to defy the entrenched narratives of their nationalities and histories. This daring venture led to the establishment of a village in 1970s Israel\, conceived as a social experiment. The documentary intricately follows the life trajectories of the numerous children who were nurtured in this unconventional setting. \nIn this audacious endeavor to shape a new generation\, the internal struggles of the community\, coupled with the external conflict\, tested the boundaries of their revolutionary ecosystem. Now\, these Children of Peace\, having matured into adults\, grapple with the stark realities of political turmoil\, war\, and societal segregation. Their journey unfolds against the backdrop of a transformative experiment that sought to transcend the longstanding tensions between Arabs and Jews. FIND OUT MORE CLICK HERE \nMaayan Schwartz  \n \nMaayan Schwartz completed a BFA at “Sapir – Film School”. Directed several short films both fiction and documentary. Among them the film “My friend \,Yaniv” was an official selection of IDFA 2016. And the film “Acting Weak” – Cinema south film festival (Best short film)\, Buenos Aires international Film Festival (Best experimental short film) \nAvi Ben-Hur CWB Scholar in Residence \n \nA Brooklyn native\, Avi Ben-Hur moved to Israel in 1983. From 2003-2008 Avi was Director of the Archaeological Seminars School for Israeli Tour Guides. In 2008 Avi participated in re-writing the curriculum of the National Guiding courses for the Israeli Ministry of Tourism. As a “Scholar in Residence\, Avi has lectured\, taught and facilitated workshops in the US\, Warsaw\, Prague\, Berlin and Greece. From 1996-2000\, Avi taught in Yad Vashem’s International School for Holocaust Studies. As a guide\, Avi has specialized working with organizations focusing on political issues (such as AIPAC & CIJA)\, inter-faith programs and Holocaust studies. At Present\, Avi is an examiner for the Israeli Ministry of Tourism Licensing Boards and is the ongoing scholar in residence of Classrooms Without Borders
URL:https://cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net/event/post-film-discussion-children-of-peace-with-maayan-schwartz-writer-director-and-cwb-scholar-avi-ben-hur/
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