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SUMMARY:Jewish Genealogy Society of Pittsburgh First Annual Special Interest Week
DESCRIPTION:Jewish Genealogy Society of Pittsburgh in Partnership with the Rauh Jewish Archives host First Annual Special Interest Week \nThousands of Jewish immigrants from historic Galicia (including parts of present-day Poland and Ukraine) settled in Western Pennsylvania at the turn of the 20th century. For our first annual “Special Interest Days\,” the Jewish Genealogy Society of Pittsburgh and the Rauh Jewish Archives at the Heinz History Center are celebrating these ancestors of the community. \nCome for:\n• a display of rare materials from local Galitzianer organizations\, including Machsikei Hadas Congregation\,\n• one-on-one no-appointment research assistance with directors of the Jewish Genealogy Society\,\n• a take-home pocket guide to the historic Galitzianer community throughout Western Pennsylvania\,\n• a chance to connect with other local Galitzianers.
URL:https://cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net/event/jewish-genealogy-society-of-pittsburgh-first-annual-special-interest-week/2023-10-04/
LOCATION:Heinz History Center\, 1212 Smallman Street\, Pittsburgh\, PA\, 15222\, United States
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SUMMARY:CHRISTIANS & JEWS – FROM CONFLICT TO COEXISTENCE
DESCRIPTION:Today\, the nexus between Judaism and Christianity marks a high point in the history of Jewish-Christian relations. \nBut this was not always the case. Since the C2nd CE\, mainstream Christianity was resolutely anti-Jewish.\nThe myth of Jews as Christ-killers fuelled anti-Judaism and antisemitism through the Christian centuries and it was not until after the Holocaust that the Church embarked on a path towards reconciliation with the Jewish people.\nIn this short course we will trace the trajectory of Jewish-Christian relations from a position of conflict to one of coexistence. \nFor more than a decade\, Paul Forgasz was principal of the secondary (grades 7-12) campus of Mt Scopus College\, a large K-12 Jewish day school in Melbourne\, Australia. He also lectured in Bible and Jewish history at Monash University’s Australian Centre for Jewish Civilisation and taught about Jewish education\, as well as school leadership\, in the university’s Faculty of Education. Since 2010\, Paul has also curated and led Jewish study tours to various European destinations under the auspices of the Jewish Museum of Australia. For most of his professional life\, Paul has also been actively involved in Jewish-Christian dialogue and he also works closely with teachers in the Catholic education sector.
URL:https://cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net/event/christians-jews-from-conflict-to-coexistence/
LOCATION:Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231001T170000
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SUMMARY:Truman and Israel: and The Behind-the-Scenes Story of US Support for Statehood in 1948
DESCRIPTION:Featuring Dr. Robert P. Watson in Conversation with Dr. Miriam Klein Kassenoff\n  \nJoin the Holocaust Institute at the University of Miami\, School of Education & Human Development kick off the 2023-2024 Sunday Salon Series with author\, historian\, professor and lecturer\, Dr. Robert Watson\, in an intriguing & enlightening virtual program about President Harry Truman and his role in the United States’ recognition of the statehood of Israel. \nThe long-awaited moment arrived in 1948. Yet\, there was considerable opposition to statehood abroad and the new fledgling state would need not only political credibility around the world\, but support from the US\, international trading partners\, investment\, a military\, and more. Using extensive interviews with former aides to Truman and archival research\, Dr. Watson explores the important and productive relationship between Harry Truman and leaders such as Dr. Chaim Weizmann\, Abba Eban\, and David Ben-Gurion\, with emphasis given to both the political and diplomatic deal- making that occurred behind the scenes and the moral courage demonstrated during that critical decision. \n \nDr. Robert P. Watson is an award-winning author who has published over 45 books and 200 scholarly articles and essays on topics in political and military history\, as well as two multi-edition\, multi-volume encyclopedia sets on the presidents and first ladies. Watson co-convened several national conferences\, co-founded the annual Truman Legacy Symposium for the Truman Presidential Library\, and served on the boards of numerous academic associations\, community organizations\, and the Harry Truman Foundation\, Calvin Coolidge Foundation\, and George McGovern Center for Leadership. Watson was the editor of the journal White House Studies\, assistant editor/reviews editor of The Social Science Journal\, and Presidency Book Series editor for SUNY Press. He has been a visiting scholar/lecturer with such historic sites as the Truman Presidential Library\, Ford Presidential Museum\, Illinois Holocaust Museum\, West Point\, National Archives\, Smithsonian Institution\, Pentagon\, Museum of the American Revolution\, American Revolution Institute\, Gilder-Lehrman Institute\, National Museum of the US Navy\, George Washington’s Mount Vernon\, Society of the Cincinnati\, James Madison’s Montpelier\, Frances Tavern Museum\, US Capitol Historical Society\, National Civil War Museum\, Gettysburg National Battlefield\, National Institutes of Health\, Mount Rushmore\, and Andersonville Historic Site. He is one of a select group of historians invited to rank the U.S. presidents. \nAs a community leader\, Watson has hosted many voter registration drives\, workshops for social studies teachers\, and civic education programs for schools\, and served as a judge for History Day contests\, pronouncer for spelling bees\, and moderator for political debates and community town halls. He co-founded three non-profits dedicated to civic engagement\, political reform\, and fact-checking political ads and\, with his then-teenage son\, hosted an annual writing contest for five years for students in Florida. \nDr. Watson is the recipient of many awards for his contributions to the study of the presidency\, election commentary\, community service\, civics programs\, and efforts to combat anti-Semitism and incivility. Robert was born in Harrisburg\, Pennsylvania\, attended public schools in nearby Hershey\, and educated at Virginia Tech\, where he lettered on the football and track teams. He holds the titles Distinguished Professor of American History\, Avron Fogelman Research Professor\, and Director of Project Civitas at Lynn University and Senior Fellow with Senator Bob Graham’s Florida Joint Center for Citizenship. He is the proud father of Alexander and Isabella.
URL:https://cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net/event/truman-and-israel-and-the-behind-the-scenes-story-of-us-support-for-statehood-in-1948/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230927T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230927T163000
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SUMMARY:Salvaged Pages: Teaching Young Writers’ Diaries in the Classroom
DESCRIPTION:Salvaged Pages: Teaching Young Writers’ Diaries in the Classroom\n  \nAlexandra Zapruder\, author of Salvaged Pages: Young Writers’ Diaries of the Holocaust will speak about teaching youth diaries as historical and literary records in the classroom. She will describe her research\, the diversity and scope of youth diaries from the Holocaust\, and the particular significance of adolescent writings. She will offer a framework for thinking about the value of these primary sources for teachers\, and will share resources\, including those from Echoes & Reflections. Finally\, she will discuss her ongoing work to study the writings of young people throughout history and into the present. \nThis webinar connects to the Studying the Holocaust and The Ghettos units on the Echoes & Reflections website.
URL:https://cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net/event/salvaged-pages-teaching-young-writers-diaries-in-the-classroom/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230921T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230921T153000
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SUMMARY:The Holocaust as an Interdisciplinary Tapestry
DESCRIPTION:An 8 Part Series exploring the multifaceted discipline of Holocaust Studies through unique and previously unexplored lenses\nClassrooms Without Borders\, in coordination with Tali Nates\, Founder and Director of the Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Centre\, Madene Shachar\, Director\, “Talking Memory” online lecture series & International Educational Programs the Ghetto Fighters’ House\, Esther Toporek Finder\, member of the GSI Coordinating Council\, Generations of the Shoah and in partnership with Liberation75 is pleased to embark on this new innovative series “The Holocaust as an Interdisciplinary Tapestry”. \nThis 8 part series will engage with scholars and experts who grapple with themes related to Holocaust studies. The series will explore the multifaceted discipline of Holocaust Studies through different lenses. The series will include scholars whose research and publications shed new light in this field of study that continues to grow and develop. Our experts will challenge us to understand the causes\, impacts\, and legacies of the Holocaust. \nOur sixth event in this series will feature a talk on Jewish Studies with Prof Shirli Gilbert (Director\, Sir Martin Gilbert Learning Centre and Prof at UCL)\, Prof Adam Mendelsohn (Director\, Kaplan Centre for Jewish Studies and Research\, UCT) and Prof Yael Siman (Associate Professor\, the Iberoamericana University\, Mexico) \nShirli Gilbert \nShirli Gilbert is Professor of Modern Jewish History at University College London and the co-editor of Jewish Historical Studies. She holds a D. Phil in Modern History from the University of Oxford and was a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Society of Fellows at the University of Michigan. Her research focuses on the Holocaust and its legacies\, modern Jewish identity\, and Jews in South Africa\, and her books include Music in the Holocaust (2005)\, From Things Lost: Forgotten Letters and the Legacy of the Holocaust (2017) and most recently\, with Avril Alba\, Holocaust Memory and Racism in the Postwar World (2017). \nAdam D. Mendelsohn \n \nAdam D. Mendelsohn is Director of the Kaplan Centre for Jewish Studies and Associate Professor of History at the University of Cape Town. The Centre\, the only of its kind in Africa\, conducts research focused on Jews in southern Africa\, past and present. He is the co-author of a recent report on racism\, xenophobia\, and antisemitism on social media in South Africa conducted in collaboration with the Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Centre and KAS Media Africa. \nYael Siman  \n \nYael Siman has a Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of Chicago. She is the academic coordinator of the graduate program in social and political sciences at Iberoamericana University Mexico City. She is a member of the Mexican National Council of Science and an affiliated researcher of the Center for Advanced Genocide Research. She has investigated the displacement and migration trajectories of Holocaust survivors who immigrated to Mexico and is currently working on an edited volume on the Holocaust and Latin America. \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 Partners:\n \n \n \n \n \nFuture Events in this Series:  \n\nOctober 26 2023 Gender Studies\nNovember 16 2023 Memory Studies: Museums and Memorials\n\nPast Events in this Series: \n\nFebruary 23 2023 Psychiatry and the Holocaust\nMarch 23 2023  Ethics and Law\nApril 27 2023 Education\nMay 18 2023 Film \nJune 15 2023 German Professionals and the Holocaust
URL:https://cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net/event/the-holocaust-as-an-interdisciplinary-tapestry-7/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230920T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230920T173000
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SUMMARY:Empowering Educators: The Defiant Requiem Foundation's Innovative Teacher Training Program
DESCRIPTION:Join us for an immersive journey into the past and present\, empowering you to enrich your teaching with resilience and creativity.\n\n\nSession 1: September 13th \nIn the first part of a two-part series\, The Defiant Requiem Foundation will introduce educators to the little-known but meaningful story of Jewish conductor Rafael Schächter and a group of prisoners in Terezín concentration camp who learned to sing Giuseppe Verdi’s Requiem Mass as an act of creative resistance. Participants will watch the 45 minute classroom-length version of the Defiant Requiem documentary film together and then join in a discussion with Foundation President Murry Sidlin. Maestro Sidlin will take questions about the story of Defiant Requiem and put it in the larger context of creative\, artistic\, and intellectual life in Terezín. \nSession 2: September 20th \nIn the second part of the two-part series\, Education Director Alexandra Zapruder will introduce educators to Defiant Requiem’s curriculum materials and programs\, focusing especially on modules designed for high school teachers in a variety of disciplines including social studies\, English language arts\, music\, and art. Through small group work and discussion\, teachers will also be introduced to several stories of contemporary acts of cultural resistance and will learn how they can bring these inspiring stories to their students. \n\n\nConductor\, Defiant Requiem Foundation \nMurry Sidlin\, a conductor with a unique gift for engaging audiences\, continues a diverse and distinctive musical career. He is the president and creative director of The Defiant Requiem Foundation\, an organization that sponsors live concert performances of Defiant Requiem: Verdi at Terezín and Hours of Freedom: The Story of the Terezín Composer; as well as other projects including the documentary film\, Defiant Requiem; a new docudrama called Mass Appeal\, 1943\, which was premiered in June 2017; and The Rafael Schächter Institute for Arts and Humanities at Terezín. In addition\, he lectures extensively on the arts and humanities as practiced by the prisoners in the Theresienstadt (Terezín) Concentration Camp. \nMr. Sidlin began his career as assistant conductor of the Baltimore Symphony under Sergiu Comissiona and then was appointed resident conductor of the National Symphony Orchestra by Antal Doráti. He has served as music director of the New Haven and Long Beach (California) Symphonies\, the Tulsa Philharmonic\, and the Connecticut Ballet. \n\n\n\nAlexandra Zapruder \nAlexandra Zapruder began her career as a member of the founding staff of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington\, D.C. A graduate of Smith College\, she served on the curatorial team for the museum’s exhibition for young visitors\, Remember The Children\, Daniel’s Story. She earned her Ed.M. in Education at Harvard University in 1995. \nIn 2002\, Alexandra completed her first book\, Salvaged Pages: Young Writers’ Diaries of the Holocaust\, which was published by Yale University Press and won the National Jewish Book Award in the Holocaust category. It has since been published in Dutch and Italian. She wrote and co-produced I’m Still Here\, a documentary film for young audiences based on her book\, which aired on MTV in May 2005 and was nominated for two Emmy awards. In the fall of 2015\, she completed a second paperback edition and a multimedia edition of Salvaged Pages and\, in conjunction with Facing History and Ourselves\, published related educational materials designed for middle and high school teachers. She contributed an essay about young writers’ diaries to the Anne Frank House Permanent Catalogue\, which was published in eight languages. \nIn November 2016\, she published her second book\, Twenty-Six Seconds: A Personal History of the Zapruder Film\, which tells the story of her grandfather’s home movie of President Kennedy’s assassination. She curated a permanent exhibition titled And Still I Write: Young Diarists on War and Genocide which opened at Holocaust Museum Houston in 2019. In 2020\, in partnership with EIHR\, she launched a project called Dispatches from Quarantine which provided a platform for young people to document their real-time experiences of life during the Covid-19 Pandemic and published an online gallery showcasing their contributions in prose\, poetry\, photography\, art\, and song. In 2021-22\, she ghostwrote a forthcoming memoir about a German-Jewish refugee family during the Holocaust and consulted on an online-exhibition at the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research on the diary of Yitskhok Rudashevski from the Vilna Ghetto. \nAlexandra serves as the Education Director of The Defiant Requiem Foundation. She also sits on the Board of Directors for the Educators’ Institute for Human Rights (EIHR)\, a nonprofit that develops partnerships with teachers in post-conflict countries to provide training in best practices on human rights\, genocide prevention\, and Holocaust education. \nShe has been published in Parade\, LitHub\, Smithsonian\, and The New York Times.
URL:https://cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net/event/empowering-educators-the-defiant-requiem-foundations-innovative-teacher-training-program/2023-09-20/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230919T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230919T173000
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SUMMARY:"War and Harmony: Leonard Cohen's Yom Kippur Reflections"-with Rabbi Jonty Blackman
DESCRIPTION:As Yom Kippur approaches and we commemorate 50 years since the Yom Kippur War\, join us for a unique and soul-stirring event that weaves together music\, history\, and art. Delve into the heart of the war through the lens of legendary musician Leonard Cohen and his compositions that resonate with the tumultuous times. Drawing inspiration from the book shared by Matti Friedman\, we’ll explore Cohen’s profound connection to the war and the soulful notes he created during that period. This session offers a fresh perspective on the significance of Yom Kippur\, inviting you to reflect and connect in a way that’s both thought-provoking and deeply moving. Don’t miss this opportunity to experience the power of music and storytelling as we prepare for the Fast. \nJoin Rabbi Jonty Blackman for an illuminating event\n\n\n\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/war-and-harmony-with-rabbi-jonty-blackman/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230919T150000
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SUMMARY:ONE SHTETL’S STORY: A MICROCOSM OF THE LIFE AND FATE OF JEWISH CIVILIZATION IN EUROPE
DESCRIPTION:On the eve of the Holocaust there were hundreds of little Jewish towns (shtetls) in Europe.\n \nWhat was life in them like? \nDuring the Holocaust\, each and every one of these shtetls was erased and their Jews murdered. How did this occur? \nYad Vashem educator Shifra Waxman will explore the culture\, life\, and fate of the shtetl of Parczew as a microcosm to tell the broader story of the history and destiny of Eastern European Jewry. This webinar connects to the Echoes & Reflections Prewar Jewish Life and Final Solution units.
URL:https://cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net/event/one-shtetls-story-a-microcosm-of-the-life-and-fate-of-jewish-civilization-in-europe/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230913T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230913T173000
DTSTAMP:20260708T230539
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SUMMARY:Empowering Educators: The Defiant Requiem Foundation's Innovative Teacher Training Program
DESCRIPTION:Join us for an immersive journey into the past and present\, empowering you to enrich your teaching with resilience and creativity.\n\n\nSession 1: September 13th \nIn the first part of a two-part series\, The Defiant Requiem Foundation will introduce educators to the little-known but meaningful story of Jewish conductor Rafael Schächter and a group of prisoners in Terezín concentration camp who learned to sing Giuseppe Verdi’s Requiem Mass as an act of creative resistance. Participants will watch the 45 minute classroom-length version of the Defiant Requiem documentary film together and then join in a discussion with Foundation President Murry Sidlin. Maestro Sidlin will take questions about the story of Defiant Requiem and put it in the larger context of creative\, artistic\, and intellectual life in Terezín. \nSession 2: September 20th \nIn the second part of the two-part series\, Education Director Alexandra Zapruder will introduce educators to Defiant Requiem’s curriculum materials and programs\, focusing especially on modules designed for high school teachers in a variety of disciplines including social studies\, English language arts\, music\, and art. Through small group work and discussion\, teachers will also be introduced to several stories of contemporary acts of cultural resistance and will learn how they can bring these inspiring stories to their students. \n\n\nConductor\, Defiant Requiem Foundation \nMurry Sidlin\, a conductor with a unique gift for engaging audiences\, continues a diverse and distinctive musical career. He is the president and creative director of The Defiant Requiem Foundation\, an organization that sponsors live concert performances of Defiant Requiem: Verdi at Terezín and Hours of Freedom: The Story of the Terezín Composer; as well as other projects including the documentary film\, Defiant Requiem; a new docudrama called Mass Appeal\, 1943\, which was premiered in June 2017; and The Rafael Schächter Institute for Arts and Humanities at Terezín. In addition\, he lectures extensively on the arts and humanities as practiced by the prisoners in the Theresienstadt (Terezín) Concentration Camp. \nMr. Sidlin began his career as assistant conductor of the Baltimore Symphony under Sergiu Comissiona and then was appointed resident conductor of the National Symphony Orchestra by Antal Doráti. He has served as music director of the New Haven and Long Beach (California) Symphonies\, the Tulsa Philharmonic\, and the Connecticut Ballet. \n\n\n\nAlexandra Zapruder \nAlexandra Zapruder began her career as a member of the founding staff of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington\, D.C. A graduate of Smith College\, she served on the curatorial team for the museum’s exhibition for young visitors\, Remember The Children\, Daniel’s Story. She earned her Ed.M. in Education at Harvard University in 1995. \nIn 2002\, Alexandra completed her first book\, Salvaged Pages: Young Writers’ Diaries of the Holocaust\, which was published by Yale University Press and won the National Jewish Book Award in the Holocaust category. It has since been published in Dutch and Italian. She wrote and co-produced I’m Still Here\, a documentary film for young audiences based on her book\, which aired on MTV in May 2005 and was nominated for two Emmy awards. In the fall of 2015\, she completed a second paperback edition and a multimedia edition of Salvaged Pages and\, in conjunction with Facing History and Ourselves\, published related educational materials designed for middle and high school teachers. She contributed an essay about young writers’ diaries to the Anne Frank House Permanent Catalogue\, which was published in eight languages. \nIn November 2016\, she published her second book\, Twenty-Six Seconds: A Personal History of the Zapruder Film\, which tells the story of her grandfather’s home movie of President Kennedy’s assassination. She curated a permanent exhibition titled And Still I Write: Young Diarists on War and Genocide which opened at Holocaust Museum Houston in 2019. In 2020\, in partnership with EIHR\, she launched a project called Dispatches from Quarantine which provided a platform for young people to document their real-time experiences of life during the Covid-19 Pandemic and published an online gallery showcasing their contributions in prose\, poetry\, photography\, art\, and song. In 2021-22\, she ghostwrote a forthcoming memoir about a German-Jewish refugee family during the Holocaust and consulted on an online-exhibition at the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research on the diary of Yitskhok Rudashevski from the Vilna Ghetto. \nAlexandra serves as the Education Director of The Defiant Requiem Foundation. She also sits on the Board of Directors for the Educators’ Institute for Human Rights (EIHR)\, a nonprofit that develops partnerships with teachers in post-conflict countries to provide training in best practices on human rights\, genocide prevention\, and Holocaust education. \nShe has been published in Parade\, LitHub\, Smithsonian\, and The New York Times.
URL:https://cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net/event/empowering-educators-the-defiant-requiem-foundations-innovative-teacher-training-program/2023-09-13/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230913T083000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230913T143000
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SUMMARY:America and the Holocaust
DESCRIPTION:Join the author\, Barbara Stern Burstin\, and the illustrator\, Fred Carlson\,  of the graphic booklet\, America and the Holocaust. as they relay the interesting process of its creation and publication as well as how to use this colorful and engaging resource with middle and high school students. \nThis session focuses on the American perspective of the Holocaust and how to convey an understanding of its history and challenges today. Participants will receive a free copy of the graphic booklet. \n \nView the WQED session HERE: \nThe Holocaust: Reaching a New Generation \n“America and the Holocaust” is a new approach to teaching the lessons learned from history\, while reaching a younger\, broader audience. Written by historian Barbara Burstin\, who teaches at the University of Pittsburgh and Carnegie Mellon University\, the “graphic booklet” focuses on the need to combat hate and bigotry. It also examines what the United States did – and didn’t do – for European Jews.
URL:https://cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net/event/america-and-the-holocaust/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230911T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230926T210000
DTSTAMP:20260708T230539
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SUMMARY:Examining & Responding to Antisemitism in American Culture and Society\, September 2023
DESCRIPTION:Participate in this asynchronous online course for a guided\, facilitator-led exploration of Echoes & Reflections resources that support the teaching strategies to help your students understand contemporary antisemitism. We applaud your commitment to teaching this topic and are eager to support you to ensure your students are able to engage in thoughtful\, engaging\, and historically accurate learning. \nCourse Details: \n\nCourse opens on September 11th at 7AM EST; approximately 4 hours to complete in total – at no cost\nProceed at your own pace each week\, be supported by an instructor\, and enjoy interaction with other educators\nComplete all activities for a 4-hour certificate\nGraduate credit available through the University of the Pacific. Please visit their site for more information.\n\nAfter completing this course\, you will be able to: \n\nDefine contemporary manifestations of antisemitism\, both different and the same as traditional forms of antisemitism present before and during the Holocaust.\nDiscover and utilize classroom lessons and resources to help students explore the persistence\, particularity\, and impact of antisemitism worldwide including how antisemitism animates white nationalism.\nExplore ways to support students’ commitment and ability to respond to and prevent antisemitism and other forms of prejudice.\nUnderstand that all hatred is intertwined\, reflect on the skills needed for students to respond effectively to antisemitism and other forms of bias.
URL:https://cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net/event/examining-responding-to-antisemitism-in-american-culture-and-society-september-2023/
LOCATION:Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230910T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230910T170000
DTSTAMP:20260708T230540
CREATED:20230816T111724Z
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SUMMARY:Marching Down Freedom's Road  2023 Reunion and Open House
DESCRIPTION:Join CWB for an Afternoon of Inspiration\n\n\nMarching Down Freedom’s Road Open House Seminar 2024 &\nReunion 2023!\n  \nClassrooms Without Borders invites you to join us for an inspiring gathering to reconnect with friends and continue the conversations on bringing the seminar learning back to your schools and communities! \nSunday September 10\, 2023 \n3:00 – 5:00  pm \nRodef Shalom Congregation \nALC 1 4905 Fifth Ave\, Pittsburgh\, PA 15213
URL:https://cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net/event/marching-down-freedoms-road-2023-reunion-and-open-house/
LOCATION:Rodef Shalom Congregation  ALC 1\, 4905 Fifth Ave\, Pittsburgh\, PA\, 15213\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230823T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230823T210000
DTSTAMP:20260708T230540
CREATED:20230808T135502Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230808T140637Z
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SUMMARY:SNEAK PEAK Golda
DESCRIPTION:Directed by Academy Award® winner Guy Nattiv\, Golda is a ticking-clock thriller set during the tense 19 days of the Yom Kippur War in 1973.\n  \nIsraeli Prime Minister Golda Meir (Academy Award® winner Helen Mirren)\, faced with the potential of Israel’s complete destruction\, must navigate overwhelming odds\, a skeptical cabinet\, and a complex relationship with US Secretary of State Henry Kissinger (Liev Schreiber)\, with millions of lives in the balance. Her tough leadership and compassion would ultimately decide the fate of her nation and leave her with a controversial legacy around the world. \nThis special event\, held two days before its nationwide release (August 25) will feature an exclusive Q&A with Helen Mirren and director Guy Nattiv.\n \n\n \nIN PERSON EVENT ONLY: DOORS OPEN at 6:30pm ET \nAMC Waterfront 22\n300 West Waterfront Dr.\, West Homestead\, Pennsylvania 15120
URL:https://cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net/event/sneak-peak-golda/
LOCATION:AMC Waterfront 22\, AMC Waterfront 22 300 West Waterfront Dr.\, West\, Homestead\, Pennsylvania 15120\, 15120\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230822T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230822T123000
DTSTAMP:20260708T230540
CREATED:20230711T010913Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230808T143651Z
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SUMMARY:The Armenian Genocide (1915-23) and Reverberations for The 21st Century
DESCRIPTION:  The Armenian Genocide (1915-23) and Reverberations for The 21st Century\n  \nThis workshop highlights lessons on the Armenian Genocide on how the Armenians preserve their culture since the genocide and how current geopolitics in the Middle East perpetuate early 20th century hatreds.  The workshop leaders\, Jackie Kemper and Mary Johnson\, attended the inaugural study tour of the Genocide Education Project in the summer of 2022 and will share information on the Genocide Education Project as well as lesson plans focusing on the legacy of the Armenian Genocide. \nJackie Kemper:  Jackie teaches in York\, PA.  Over her 25 year career she has taught middle and high school history at all levels (Honors\, Academic and Dual enrollment).  She is currently teaching World History\, Honors Government\, Holocaust Literature\, Modern 20th Century and a WW2/Holocaust elective. She has been teaching the Holocaust since 2001 and has created three courses that focus on the Holocaust and Genocide.  Her commitment to Holocaust Education led her to earn a MA in Holocaust and Genocide Studies in 2016 from Gratz College.  She was appointed as a United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Fellow for 2018-2019.  In the summer of 2022 she participated bin the Genocide Education Armenian Fellowship in Armenia and has committed to sharing her experience with other educators. \nMary Johnson\, Ph.D.:  Mary began her career as a Peace Corps Volunteer Teacher in Northern Nigeria.  She earned her Masters and Doctoral degrees from Washington University.  Following graduate school she taught Women’s Studies and European History at Washington University and Temple University and spent two years as a visiting fellow at the Wellesley College Center for Research on Women.  From 1983 til 2020\, she was the Senior Historian for Facing History and Ourselves\, facilitating seminars and workshops\, writing curricula and conducting research.  Currently\, she is an affiliate and adjunct professor for the Masters in Holocaust and Genocide Program at Stockton University.  Her recent research focuses on the Nanjing atrocities and the Comfort Women and connections between Climate Change and Mass Violence/Genocide.  She is also in the process of writing Teaching Tough Topics: Holocaust and Genocide Education in the 21st Century (2023 expected publication). \nJoin from PC\, Mac\, Linux\, iOS or Android: https://stockton.zoom.us/j/95831653943 \nNo passcode is necessary.
URL:https://cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net/event/the-armenian-genocide-1915-23-and-reverberations-for-the-21st-century/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230814T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230814T163000
DTSTAMP:20260708T230540
CREATED:20230808T113837Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230808T114004Z
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SUMMARY:THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE FINAL SOLUTION
DESCRIPTION:How did the Nazis plan the Holocaust?\n\n\nThis webinar will explore the systematic mass murder of the Jews that came to be known as the “Final Solution of the Jewish Question.”\n\nUsing primary sources\, Yad Vashem educator Jonathan Matthews will take us through the progression of critical decisions that led to the genocide of European Jewry.\n\nThis webinar connects to the Echoes & Reflections Final Solution Unit.
URL:https://cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net/event/the-development-of-the-final-solution/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230813T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230813T203000
DTSTAMP:20260708T230540
CREATED:20230808T193849Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230808T201627Z
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SUMMARY:Modeling and Teaching Peace: Bringing Big Concepts into Everyday Life
DESCRIPTION:Modeling and Teaching Peace:\nBringing Big Concepts into Everyday Life\nHow do we introduce peace-building language? \n \nJess Kavinsky brings us an overview of conflict\, systems thinking\, and a breakdown of the Institute for Economics and Peace’s Eight Pillars of Peace. \n \nWe’ll learn about different models for building sustainable peace\, geared toward educators who wish to teach concepts of peace-building with their students.
URL:https://cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net/event/modeling-and-teaching-peace-bringing-big-concepts-into-everyday-life/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230801T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230801T210000
DTSTAMP:20260708T230540
CREATED:20230703T163752Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230703T163810Z
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SUMMARY:Villa Maria Education & Spirituality Center 10th Annual Nostra Aetate 
DESCRIPTION:The 10th Annual Nostra Aetate \n\nTuesday\, August 1\, 2023 at 2:00 pm & 7:00 pm with Dr. Michal Bar-Asher Siegal \n\nNostra aetate (from Latin: “In our time”) is the Declaration on the Relation of the Church with Non-Christian Religions of the Second Vatican Council. Passed by a vote of 2\,221 to 88 of the assembled bishops\, this declaration was promulgated on 28 October 1965 by Pope Paul VI. It is the shortest of the 16 final documents of the Council and “the first in Catholic history to focus on the relationship that Catholics have with Jews.” It “reveres the work of God in all the major faith traditions.” It begins by stating its purpose of reflecting on what humankind has in common in these times when people are being drawn closer together. \nDr. Michal Bar-Asher Siegal  will present two lectures: \n\nThe Rabbi who was a Monk: On Christians Monasticism and the Babylonian Talmud at 2:00 pm\nWhen a Heretic and a Rabbi Meet: On Jewish-Christian Dialogues over Scripture at 7:00 pm.\n\nThis event is free. An optional dinner is being offered for $10 per person at 5:25 pm. \nEvent is co-sponsored by Rev. George Balasko and Rabbi Joseph P. Schonberger. \nMichal Bar-Asher Siegal is a scholar of rabbinic Judaism. Her work focuses on aspects of Jewish-Christian interactions in the ancient world and compares between Early Christian and rabbinic sources. She is a faculty member at The Goldstein-Goren Department of Jewish Thought\, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev\, and was an elected member of the Israel Young Academy of Sciences. She is the Horace Goldsmith Visiting Professor in Judaic Studies\, Yale University Associate Professor.  Her first book is Early Christian Monastic Literature and the Babylonian Talmud (Cambridge University Press\, 2013\, winner of the 2014 Manfred Lautenschlaeger Award). Her second book is Jewish – Christian Dialogues on Scripture in Late Antiquity: Heretic Narratives of the Babylonian Talmud (Cambridge University Press\, 2019\, a finalist\, National Jewish Book Award \, 2019). \nRegistration is preferred. \nLecture Cost: Free to the public – Optional Dinner Cost: $10 \nFor more information: vmesc.org or call 724-964-8886. \nVMESC is in Villa Maria\, PA\, approximately one mile from the Pennsylvania/Ohio state line. From Ohio\, travel 422 East\, turn right onto Evergreen Road.  From Pennsylvania\, travel 422 West\, turn left onto Evergreen Road\, travel one mile and turn right onto Villa Marie Road and follow the signage for 225 Villa Marie Road. It’s about an hour from Pittsburgh.
URL:https://cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net/event/villa-maria-education-spirituality-center-10th-annual-nostra-aetate/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230730T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230730T213000
DTSTAMP:20260708T230540
CREATED:20230505T171009Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230505T171155Z
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SUMMARY:KNOWbodies: Knowledge Through Perspective Speaker Series Welcomes Steven Pressman\, Director/Producer of the documentary\, 'The Levys of Monticello' Sunday\, July 30th\, 2023
DESCRIPTION:Steven Pressman\, Director/Producer of the documentary\, ‘The Levys of Monticello’\n  \nA history enthusiast and admirer of Jefferson\, Pressman loves telling “great Jewish stories no one has ever heart of – Little known episodes in American History.” \n  \n \nWhen Thomas Jefferson died in 1826\, he left behind a mountain of personal debt\, which forced his heirs to sell his beloved Monticello and all of its possessions. ‘The Levys of Monticello’ is a documentary film that tells the little-known story of the Levy family\, who owned and carefully preserved Monticello for nearly a century – far longer than Jefferson or his descendants. This remarkable story also addresses the criticism and antisemitism they faced as they tirelessly worked to preserve the historic estate for the education of generations to come. \nShowing of the Levys of Monticello\, followed by a talk with Mr. Pressman and Q&A. \nLauri Ann West Community Center Members: $10 \nNon Members: $15 \n\nAdvance registration is required. \n*Food will be available to purchase from Aspinwall Everyday Gourmet Cafe \nPlease direct all questions to Nadine Ostrowski at nfostrowski@lauriannwestcc.org or 412-828-8566. \n 
URL:https://cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net/event/knowbodies-knowledge-through-perspective-speaker/
LOCATION:Lauri Ann West Community Center 1220 Powers Run Road Pittsburgh\, PA 15238\, 1220 Powers Run Road\, Pittsburgh\, PA\, 15238\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230625T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230625T153000
DTSTAMP:20260708T230540
CREATED:20230608T180109Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230609T114025Z
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SUMMARY:The Ghetto Fighters' House: Talking Memory series Romanian Jewry during the Holocaust:  Filling in the Gaps
DESCRIPTION:The Ghetto Fighters’ House invites you to a new Talking Memory series \nRomanian Jewry during the Holocaust:  Filling in the Gaps\nJune 25th : The Iasi Pogrom in Romania  \nOpening Remarks: \nYigal Cohen \nCEO\, Ghetto Fighters’ House \nGuest Speakers: \nGreta Barak \nArchivist\, Ghetto Fighters’ House \nWartime Commemoration of the Iasi Pogrom: Yitzhak Benditer’s Synagogue Memorial Plaques \nH.E. Dr. Radu Ioanid\,  \nAmbassador of Romania in the State of Israel \nThe Iasi Pogrom:  One of the Most Brutal Chapters in the History of Romanian Jewry during the Holocaust \nLyonell Flis\, Holocaust child survivor of the Iasi pogrom will give testimony \nThe first program in this series will focus on the pogrom of Iasi that took place on June 29\, 1941.  Greta Barak from the Ghetto Fighters’ House will present a memorial tablet from the museum’s archive that commemorates the names of the worshippers at one of the synagogues in Iasi (Jassy) who were massacred in the pogrom that took place there. \nDr. Radu Ioanid\, Ambassador of Romania in the State of Israel\, will give a presentation on why the Holocaust in Eastern Europe is still a forgotten one\, including the pogrom in Iasi. As he will show\, this pogrom was a major outbreak of violent anti-semitism\, yet it was neither isolated nor fortuitous; rather\, it was part of a long series of mass murders committed by Romanian fascists. The pogrom was organized by the SSI (the Romanian Intelligence Service) in co-ordination with the General Staff of the Romanian Army. At least 6\,000 Jews were murdered in the town of Iasi and another 2\,600 perished in two death trains. The perpetrators were Romanian soldiers\, gendarmes and police mobs from Iasi\, and German soldiers. The Iasi pogrom was followed by the systematic deportation and extermination of the Jews from Bessarabia and Bukovina\, and by the extermination of Ukrainian Jews from Transnistria. \nThe program will conclude with the personal testimony of Lyonel Fliss\, a Holocaust survivor who lives in Johannesburg today. He was 6 years old at the time of the pogrom in Iasi. His relatives were murdered there and on the death trains. Last year\, he received the highest medal of honour from the Romanian government. \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/the-ghetto-fighters-house-talking-memory-series-romanian-jewry-during-the-holocaust-filling-in-the-gaps/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230621T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230621T173000
DTSTAMP:20260708T230540
CREATED:20230129T012425Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230628T102446Z
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SUMMARY:America and The Holocaust: A Series of Colloquies
DESCRIPTION:Dr. Michael Berenbaum joins CWB for a groundbreaking look into the controversy surrounding America and the Holocaust.\n\n\nClassrooms Without Borders is excited to offer the opportunity share our new series: America and The Holocaust: A Series of Colloquies. \nThe new PBS Documentary U.S. and the Holocaust has sparked debate over America’s response to one of the greatest humanitarian crises of the 20th century. \nIn each of our 6 part series Dr. Michael Berenbaum will explore this complicated debate. \nEach session will feature an scholar whose work will shed new light on the topic and challenge us to reframe our understanding of the complex portrait of national inaction. \nOur 6th and Final session in this Series\nFeaturing a Conversation with Michael Berenbaum and Elliot Resnick on “Representative Sol Bloom: The Moral Conflicts of an American-Jewish Congressman During the Holocaust”\n\n\nDr. Michael Berenbaum \n\n\n\nDr. Michael Berenbaum is a writer\, lecturer\, and teacher consulting in the conceptual development of museums and historical films. He is director of the Sigi Ziering Institute: Exploring the Ethical and Religious Implications of the Holocaust at the American Jewish University\, where he is also a Professor of Jewish Studies. \nHe was the Executive Editor of the Second Edition of the Encyclopedia Judaica that reworked\, transformed\, improved\, broadened and deepened\, the now classic 1972 work and consists of 22 volumes\, sixteen million words with 25\,000 individual contributions to Jewish knowledge. For three years\, he was President and Chief Executive Officer of the Survivors of the Shoah Visual History Foundation. He was the Director of the United States Holocaust Research Institute at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum and the Hymen Goldman Adjunct Professor of Theology at Georgetown University in Washington\, D.C. From 1988–93 he served as Project Director of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum\, overseeing its creation. He also served as Deputy Director of the President’s Commission on the Holocaust\, where he authored its Report to the President. \nBerenbaum is the author and editor of twenty books\, scores of scholarly articles\, and hundreds of journalistic pieces. His most recent books include: Not Your Father’s Antisemitism\, A Promise to Remember: The Holocaust in the Words and Voices of Its Survivors and After the Passion Has Passed: American Religious Consequences\, a collection of essays on Jews\, Judaism and Christianity\, Religious Tolerance and Pluralism occasioned by the controversy that swirled around Mel Gibson’s film\, The Passion. He was the conceptual developer on the Illinois Holocaust Museum and Educational Center and played a similar function as conceptual developer and chief curator of the Belzec Memorial at the site of the Death Camp. He is currently at work on the Memorial Museum to Macedonian Jewry in Skopje\, the Dallas Holocaust and Human Rights Museum\, and the Holocaust and Humanity Center in Cincinnati\, Ohio. \nElliot Resnick\, PhD \n \nElliot Resnick\, PhD\, is the former chief editor of The Jewish Press and the author of several books\, including the soon-to-be-published America First: The Story of the Most Powerful Jew in Congress During the Holocaust. \nPast Sessions: \n\nJanuary 18th 2023: A conversation with award winning filmmaker Pierre Savage on Varian Fry: The First American honored as a Righteous Among the Nations of the Earth by Yad Vashem for the rescue of a Cultural Elite in Vichy France 1940-1941.\nFebruary 15th 2023 featuring A Discussion Surrounding “Ben Hecht: The Legendary Writer Who Mobilized Hollywood on Behalf of the European Jews” Featuring: Rick Richman\nMarch 15th 2023 Refuge Must Be Given\, Eleanor Roosevelt and the Holocaust: Featuring: John Sears\nApril 26th 2023 Session Featuring: Charles Gallagher S.J.\, on Nazis in Copley Square \nMay 17th 2023 A conversation between Michael Berlin and Michael Berenbaum on the relationship between Hollywood and the Nazis as it shaped America’s understanding of the world across the Sea.\n\n \n \nFounded in 1981 as a series of conferences on the Holocaust and its contemporary meaning\, the Holocaust Memorial Resource and Education Center of Florida opened its current museum in 1986\, founded by Holocaust Survivor and local philanthropist\, Tess Wise. Located in Maitland\, just outside Orlando\, the Holocaust Center attracts visitors from around the world. Its mission is to use the history and lessons of the Holocaust to build a just and caring community free of antisemitism and all forms of prejudice and bigotry. The Holocaust Memorial Resource and Education Center will transform into the Holocaust Museum of Hope & Humanity\, a lakefront museum in Downtown Orlando and the first-ever built from the ground up in partnership with the USC Shoah Foundation. To learn more about the Holocaust Center\, visit www.holocaustedu.org.
URL:https://cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net/event/america-and-the-holocaust-a-series-of-colloquies/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230615T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230615T153000
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SUMMARY:The Holocaust as an Interdisciplinary Tapestry
DESCRIPTION:An 8 Part Series exploring the multifaceted discipline of Holocaust Studies through unique and previously unexplored lenses\nClassrooms Without Borders\, in coordination with Tali Nates\, Founder and Director of the Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Centre\, Madene Shachar\, Director\, “Talking Memory” online lecture series & International Educational Programs the Ghetto Fighters’ House\, Esther Toporek Finder\, member of the GSI Coordinating Council\, Generations of the Shoah and in partnership with Liberation75 is pleased to embark on this new innovative series “The Holocaust as an Interdisciplinary Tapestry”. \nThis 8 part series will engage with scholars and experts who grapple with themes related to Holocaust studies. The series will explore the multifaceted discipline of Holocaust Studies through different lenses. The series will include scholars whose research and publications shed new light in this field of study that continues to grow and develop. Our experts will challenge us to understand the causes\, impacts\, and legacies of the Holocaust. \nOur 5th Session will feature \nDr. William Frederick Meinecke Jr. \nGerman Professionals and the Holocaust\n  \nThe most significant perpetrators of the crimes committed during the Holocaust are well known: Hitler\, Himmler\, and Heydrich\, as well as the SS\, among others. But less known are the contributions of “ordinary” people—doctors\, lawyers\, teachers\, civil servants\, officers\, and other professionals throughout German society—whose individual actions\, when taken together\, resulted in dire consequences. Put simply\, the Holocaust could not have happened without them. This program will explore the motives and contribution of ordinary German professionals and their contribution to the Nazi racial agenda and to Nazi crimes. \nWilliam Frederick Meinecke Jr. \n29 May 2012\, Historian\, William Meinecke\, stands for a staff portrait\nWilliam Frederick Meinecke Jr.: Born May 16\, 1961 in Baltimore Maryland. He received his undergraduate degree in German and History from the University of Maryland\, Baltimore County in 1983. He attended the University of Bonn and Berlin in Germany and received his MA (1988) and also his Ph.D. (1998) in history from the University of Maryland at College Park. The title of his dissertation was Conflicting Loyalties: The Supreme Court in Weimar and Nazi Germany 1918-1945. In 1992 William joined the staff of the Wexner Learning Center of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington DC.  He was on the design team of the center’s multi-media program on the Holocaust\, the Historical Atlas of the Holocaust (Book and CD-ROM) and the Student Learning web site on the Holocaust. His book\, Nazi Ideology and the Holocaust was published by the Museum in December 2007. In June 2000 William joined the staff of Museum’s Education Division. For the last twenty years William has worked with law enforcement officers\, judges\, prosecutors and attorneys in the Law Enforcement and Society: Lessons of the Holocaust training program. He is currently working in the Museum’s Levine Institute for Holocaust Education on programming for the Initiative on the Holocaust and Professional Leadership. \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 Partners\n \n \n \n \n \nFuture Events in this Series:  \n\nSeptember 21 2023 Judaic Studies\nOctober 26 2023 Gender Studies\nNovember 16 2023 TBC \n\nPast Events in this Series: \n\nFebruary 23 2023 Psychiatry and the Holocaust\nMarch 23 2023  Ethics and Law\nApril 27 2023 Education\nMay 18 2023 Film
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SUMMARY:Post Film Discussion Traces: Portraits of Resistance\, Survival and Resolve
DESCRIPTION:Post Film Discussion Traces Trilogy: Portraits of Resistance\, Survival and Resolve\nwith Executive producer\nDr. Judith S. Goldstein and Writer Samuel George\nModerated by Avi Ben Hur\n\n\nEncouraging resistance and resilience through \ndocumentary film\n  \nHumanity in Action is a proud producer of enlightening\, affecting and poignant documentary films. From short animated films to feature-length documentary productions\, Humanity in Action films tackle difficult and harrowing subject matter\, while calling viewers to take on increased democratic responsibility in line with the organization’s mission. \nSeventy-seven years after the fall of Nazi Germany\, the Holocaust stands as a staggering crime against humanity\, and the world continues to grapple with the deep void of the six million souls lost. Yet\, in the face of unfathomable horror\, fleeting moments of bravery and generosity remind us of our capacity for courage and compassion even under the most harrowing circumstances. \nThe Traces trilogy brings three such histories to life and to new audiences. Developed by an international team of documentarians\, researchers and animators\, the trilogy preserves these critical stories for future generations. \nThe Traces trilogy is a Humanity in Action production\, with generous support from the Alfred Landecker Foundation and the Danish Foreign Ministry. It includes the films Voices in the Void\, Two Trees in Jerusalem and My Father’s War. \n \n\n \n\n\nExecutive producer Dr. Judith S. Goldstein  \nDr. Goldstein received a Bachelors degree from Cornell University in 1962 with a concentration on European and American history. As a Woodrow Wilson Scholar at Columbia University\, she then studied for a Masters degree in European history. In 1972\, Judith completed her doctoral studies at Columbia University after writing her dissertation on “The Politics of Ethnic Pressure: The American Jewish Committee Fight Against Immigration Restriction:1906-1917.” This work was the beginning of a sustained concentration on immigration and diversity in America and Europe. She then continued to work at Columbia University over 10 years by focusing on an oral history project on Ethnic Groups and American Foreign Policy. In 1992\, William Morrow published her book Crossing Lines: Histories of Jews and Gentiles in Three Communities. In 2006\, Rutger University Press published Inventing Great Neck: Jewish Identity and American Dreams. Judith worked as the Executive Director of Thanks To Scandinavia\, started by the Danish pianist Victor Borge to acknowledge Scandinavians who resisted Nazism and protected Jews during the Second World War. In 1997\, Judith founded Humanity in Action and has served as its Executive Director until April 2023. Programs have included fellowships and internships in Europe and the United States\, annual publications\, photography exhibitions\, films\, and conferences. Over 23 years the organization has engaged over 2\,750 college and university students in its programs and raised over $31 million. Judith has served on the Board of The Frances Perkins Foundation and the Somes Pond Center\, and is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. \n\n\n\nWriter Samuel George \nis a documentary filmmaker\, writer\, and an analyst of international affairs. His films bring viewers up close and personal to people and communities facing the challenges and opportunities of the 21st century. From the Turkish-Syrian border\, to the maquiladora districts of Juarez\, Mexico\, to incipient political movements in Naples\, Italy\, George’s films offer candid reflections of daily life that allow viewers to draw their own conclusions. Serving as the Bertelsmann Foundation’s Global Market & Digital Advisor\, his recent documentaries include Out to Vote\, Go-Go City: Displacement & Protest in Washington\, DC\, and Swing State Florida. His written projects include the graphic book The No Collar Economy\, and its follow-up\, Our Digital World. George holds a master’s degree in international politics and economics from the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) in Washington\, DC. He is currently completing a PhD at that same institution. \n\n\n\n\nAvi Ben-Hur \nScholar in Residence \nAvi Ben-Hur is an Israeli-American scholar and guide who has been living in Jerusalem since 1983. From 2003-2008 Avi directed a national guiding school for Archaeological Seminars. Avi is a lecturer and field guide in the University of Haifa’s Tourism school and has taught in Yad Vashem’s International School for Holocaust Studies. \nAs a scholar in residence\, Avi has run seminars for Classrooms Without Borders and the Florence Melton School for Adult Jewish Education in Greece\, Berlin\, Prague\, Israel and Poland. \nAvi’s expertise lies in the geo-political issues underlying the Arab-Israeli conflict\, Interfaith encounters and in Holocaust studies. \n\n\n\nThank you to our partners:
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SUMMARY:“Erwin Blumenfeld (1897-1968)\, from Berlin to New York. A Life in Photography”
DESCRIPTION:“Erwin Blumenfeld (1897-1968)\, from Berlin to New York. A Life in Photography”\n  \nPhotographer Erwin Blumenfeld (1897-1969) survived two world wars to become one of the world’s most highly-paid fashion photographers and a key influence on the development of photography as an art form. An experimenter and innovator\, he produced an extensive body of work including drawings\, collages\, portraits and nudes\, celebrity portraiture\, advertising campaigns and his renowned fashion photography both in black and white and color. Yet one of the most innovative photographers of the 20th century is little known today – and the reasons for this lie in his unconventional lifestyle. \n \nIn this talk\, Paris-based granddaughter Nadia Blumenfeld Charbit gives her personal insights into the life and work of the photographer Erwin Blumenfeld. Introduced by Rachel Stern\, director of the Fritz Ascher Society. Organized by The Fritz Ascher Society for Persecuted\, Ostracized and Banned Art\, New York.
URL:https://cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net/event/erwin-blumenfeld-1897-1968-from-berlin-to-new-york-a-life-in-photography/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230605T150000
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SUMMARY:WHY DIDN’T THE ALLIES BOMB AUSCHWITZ?
DESCRIPTION:Could the Allies have done more during the Holocaust to stop the murders in the extermination camps or to slow down the progression of events thereby saving lives?\n\nThe question of what the Allies could have or should have done has been widely discussed and debated. Dr. Joel Zisenwine\, head of Yad Vashem’s Righteous Among the Nation Department\, offers an insightful look into this question.\n\n\nThis webinar connects to Lesson Plan Unit 9 on the Echoes & Reflections website.
URL:https://cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net/event/why-didnt-the-allies-bomb-auschwitz/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230601T150000
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SUMMARY:HOLOCAUST DENIAL AND DISTORTION
DESCRIPTION:How do we address Holocaust denial? \nIn this webinar\, Dr. Efraim Zuroff\, known as “The Last of the Nazi Hunters\,” discusses how to debunk Holocaust denial and speaks on Holocaust distortion\, a new and growing threat that seeks to rewrite the narrative of the Holocaust. \nThis webinar connects with Lesson Plan Unit 11 on the Echoes & Reflections website. \n \n 
URL:https://cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net/event/holocaust-denial-and-distortion/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230521T150000
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SUMMARY:'Cycles of Violence and Peace in Cambodia'
DESCRIPTION:Honoring the National Day of Remembrance for the \nCambodian Genocide\n\n\nCambodia’s story is often dominated by the 3 years and 8 months when the Khmer Rouge controlled the country. The horrors of this time\, in the midst of 3 decades of war\, often overshadows the incredible resiliency of Cambodians in overcoming such violence and working to bring peace to their country. \nJoin us as we explore Cambodia’s history through a timeline (cycle) and four stained glass windows. These windows reflect the country’s turbulent history\, but more importantly remind us that Cambodia’s future is brighter than the past. \n\n\nកាស ស្ព័រ – Casper Gils \nDirector of the Cambodia Peace Gallery \nBorn in 1985\, Casper Gils is Museum Director of the Cambodia Peace Gallery in Battambang and in his free time an enthusiastic historian and long distance cyclist. \nCasper was born in the Netherlands and is engaged to Pisey Seng\, who is a teacher at Ek Phnom High School in Battambang. \nIn the Netherlands he studied archaeology and mainly worked on Neolithic and WW2 excavations and educational programs in order to make archaeology understandable for the public.
URL:https://cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net/event/cycles-of-violence-and-peace-in-cambodia/
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SUMMARY:Talking Memory program marking the 80th anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising
DESCRIPTION:The Ghetto Fighters’ House invites you to a special\nTalking Memory program marking\nthe 80th anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising\nOpening Remarks\nYigal Cohen\, CEO Ghetto Fighters’ House  \nJulia Mackiewicz\, Polish Institute in Tel Aviv \nRound Table: Remembering the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising in Israel \nGuest Speakers: \nTamar Herzberg – Yad Mordechai\nNoam Leibman – Moreshet\nAnat Bratman-Elhalel – Ghetto Fighters’ House \nKeynote Speaker: \nDr. Avinoam Patt \nThe Battle of Warsaw’s Jews: The Afterlife of the Revolt \nOn April 23\, 1943\, the Jewish Telegraphic Agency delivered the news of the Warsaw Ghetto Revolt\, relaying a report received in Stockholm the day before with the headline “Nazis Start Mass-Execution of Warsaw Jews on Passover; Victims Broadcast S.O.S.” The timing of the revolt\, taking place as it did in the spring of 1943\, the deadliest year of WWII for European Jewry\, influenced the manner in which it was reported\, interpreted\, and understood. Through an examination of the ways in which the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising was reported in April and May of 1943\, we can begin to understand how and why the event was transformed into both a symbol of Jewish resistance\, Jewish sacrifice\, and Jewish martyrdom during and after World War II. Soon after the revolt was suppressed in May 1943\, representatives from the Jewish Labor Bund in New York and the Zionist movement in the Yishuv began to dispute both the heroes of the revolt and its true political and ideological significance. While historians have generally seen the politicization of the revolt occurring after the war\, with the first encounter of the survivors with their new homes\, the polemics of 1944 between the Bund and the Labor Zionists (with the role of the Revisionists left out of early narratives) makes clear that within one year of the revolt\, the battle for credit in Jewish public opinion meant the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising was too great a symbol to relinquish to the political enemy. By the first anniversary after the Uprising (April 19\, 1944) Jewish communities organized solemn commemorations in New York\, London\, Tel Aviv and elsewhere to recall Warsaw as a “fortress of freedom” and as the “Masada of Warsaw.” Responding to this politicization during the war\, it was the surviving ghetto fighters themselves who would play a critical role in writing their own “three lines in history.” \nThis program is in partnership with the Polish Institute in Tel Aviv\, Moreshet Holocaust & Research Center\, Yad Mordechai Museum\, 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-program-marking-the-80th-anniversary-of-the-warsaw-ghetto-uprising/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230518T140000
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SUMMARY:The Holocaust as an Interdisciplinary Tapestry
DESCRIPTION:Join CWB and our partners as we explore the multifaceted discipline of Holocaust Studies through unique and previously unexplored lenses. \n “Holocaust Cinema: How ‘A Film Unfinished’ Questions Archival Footage”  \nFeaturing Annette Insdorf \nThe growing genre of Holocaust Cinema includes films made by members of the third generation of survivors in Israel.  \nInsdorf will discuss two exemplary documentaries: “Numbered” (2012\, Dana Doron & Uriel Sinai\, Israel\, 55 minutes) focuses on the tattoos of Auschwitz survivors – who view their numbers in unique ways – as well as the process of recording and representing survivors. “A Film Unfinished” is directed by Yael Hersonski (2010\, Israel\, 88 minutes). She juxtaposes archival footage of the Warsaw Ghetto – taken by Nazis throughout May 1942 – with a contemporary interrogation of whether images can be trusted. \nAnnette Insdorf \n \nAnnette Insdorf is Professor of Film at Columbia University’s School of the Arts\, and Moderator of the popular “Reel Pieces” series at Manhattan’s 92Y\, where she has interviewed almost 300 film celebrities. She is the author of the landmark study\, Indelible Shadows: Film and the Holocaust (with a foreword by Elie Wiesel); Double Lives\, Second Chances: The Cinema of Krzysztof Kieslowski; Francois Truffaut\, a study of the French director’s work; Philip Kaufman\, and Intimations: The Cinema of Wojciech Has. Her latest book is Cinematic Overtures: How to Read Opening Scenes\, currently in its fourth printing. \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 Partners\n \n \n \n \n \nFuture Events in this Series:  \n\nJune 15 2023 Police and Military\nSeptember 21 2023 Judaic Studies\nOctober 26 2023 Gender Studies\nNovember 16 2023 Memory Studies: Museums and Memorials\n\nPast Events in this Series: \n\nFebruary 23 2023 Psychiatry and the Holocaust\nMarch 23 2023  Ethics and Law\nApril 27th 2023 Education
URL:https://cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net/event/the-holocaust-as-an-interdisciplinary-tapestry-6/
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SUMMARY:America and The Holocaust: A Series of Colloquies
DESCRIPTION:Dr. Michael Berenbaum joins CWB for a groundbreaking look into the controversy surrounding America and the Holocaust.\n\n\nClassrooms Without Borders is excited to offer the opportunity share our new series: America and The Holocaust: A Series of Colloquies. \nThe new PBS Documentary U.S. and the Holocaust has sparked debate over America’s response to one of the greatest humanitarian crises of the 20th century. \nIn each of our 6 part series Dr. Michael Berenbaum will explore this complicated debate. \nEach session will feature an scholar whose work will shed new light on the topic and challenge us to reframe our understanding of the complex portrait of national inaction. \nMay 17th 2023 Session Featuring\nA conversation between Michael Berlin and Michael Berenbaum \nDuring the 1930s and 1940s there were a number of films depicting Hitler and the Nazi assault against the Jews – it was not yet called the Holocaust\, in fact it was a “crime without name.” As part of our five part series on America and the Holocaust\, we will consider the relationship between Hollywood and the Nazis as it shaped America’s understanding of the world across the Sea. \nMichael Berlin\, screenwriter and founder of the Jewish Film Festival of Orange County\, CA. \nMichael Berlin\, Ph.D.\, associate professor of Screenwriting\, Cal State Long Beach\, screenwriter and producer\, currently works for ABC and Wide World Disney. He has written and produced over 150 episodes of dramatic TV scripts ranging from award winning “Cagney and Lacy\,” “Miami Vice\,” “Quantum Leap\,” “The Commish\,” “Murder She Wrote\,” and “Sisters” to Steven Spielberg’s “Earth 2” and Gene Rodenbury’s “Earth: Final Conflict.” Feature film credits include “Breaking Point\,” “Gaudi\,” “Robo Warriors\,” and “Anguish\,” the winner of 10 European awards including Best Picture at the Sitges Film Festival\, Spain. A Ph.D. psychologist\, he is a former associate professor of Psychology and Film and dean of Academic Affairs at the College of Developmental Studies in Los Angeles. He has been the host of Orange County’s University Synagogue Jewish Film Festival for 10 years\, and is currently Adjunct Film Curator at the Bower’s Museum of Cultural Art. \n\n\nDr. Michael Berenbaum \n\n\n\nDr. Michael Berenbaum is a writer\, lecturer\, and teacher consulting in the conceptual development of museums and historical films. He is director of the Sigi Ziering Institute: Exploring the Ethical and Religious Implications of the Holocaust at the American Jewish University\, where he is also a Professor of Jewish Studies. \nHe was the Executive Editor of the Second Edition of the Encyclopedia Judaica that reworked\, transformed\, improved\, broadened and deepened\, the now classic 1972 work and consists of 22 volumes\, sixteen million words with 25\,000 individual contributions to Jewish knowledge. For three years\, he was President and Chief Executive Officer of the Survivors of the Shoah Visual History Foundation. He was the Director of the United States Holocaust Research Institute at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum and the Hymen Goldman Adjunct Professor of Theology at Georgetown University in Washington\, D.C. From 1988–93 he served as Project Director of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum\, overseeing its creation. He also served as Deputy Director of the President’s Commission on the Holocaust\, where he authored its Report to the President. \nBerenbaum is the author and editor of twenty books\, scores of scholarly articles\, and hundreds of journalistic pieces. His most recent books include: Not Your Father’s Antisemitism\, A Promise to Remember: The Holocaust in the Words and Voices of Its Survivors and After the Passion Has Passed: American Religious Consequences\, a collection of essays on Jews\, Judaism and Christianity\, Religious Tolerance and Pluralism occasioned by the controversy that swirled around Mel Gibson’s film\, The Passion. He was the conceptual developer on the Illinois Holocaust Museum and Educational Center and played a similar function as conceptual developer and chief curator of the Belzec Memorial at the site of the Death Camp. He is currently at work on the Memorial Museum to Macedonian Jewry in Skopje\, the Dallas Holocaust and Human Rights Museum\, and the Holocaust and Humanity Center in Cincinnati\, Ohio. \nFuture Sessions in this Series: \n\nJune Guest COMING SOON!\n\nPast Sessions: \n\nJanuary 18th 2023: A conversation with award winning filmmaker Pierre Savage on Varian Fry: The First American honored as a Righteous Among the Nations of the Earth by Yad Vashem for the rescue of a Cultural Elite in Vichy France 1940-1941.\nFebruary 15th 2023 featuring A Discussion Surrounding “Ben Hecht: The Legendary Writer Who Mobilized Hollywood on Behalf of the European Jews” Featuring: Rick Richman\nMarch 15th 2023 Refuge Must Be Given\, Eleanor Roosevelt and the Holocaust: Featuring: John Sears\n April 26th 2023 Session Featuring: Charles Gallagher S.J.\, on Nazis in Copley Square\n\nThank you to our Partners \n \n \nFounded in 1981 as a series of conferences on the Holocaust and its contemporary meaning\, the Holocaust Memorial Resource and Education Center of Florida opened its current museum in 1986\, founded by Holocaust Survivor and local philanthropist\, Tess Wise. Located in Maitland\, just outside Orlando\, the Holocaust Center attracts visitors from around the world. Its mission is to use the history and lessons of the Holocaust to build a just and caring community free of antisemitism and all forms of prejudice and bigotry. The Holocaust Memorial Resource and Education Center will transform into the Holocaust Museum of Hope & Humanity\, a lakefront museum in Downtown Orlando and the first-ever built from the ground up in partnership with the USC Shoah Foundation. To learn more about the Holocaust Center\, visit www.holocaustedu.org.
URL:https://cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net/event/america-and-the-holocaust-a-series-of-colloquies-5-2/
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SUMMARY:Post Film Discussion Game Changers with Director Noam Sobovitz and Professor Zimeremann
DESCRIPTION:Post Film Discussion Game Changers\n\n\nSynopsis \nHow did a football match between enemies become a turning point in history? Twenty-five years after the Holocaust\, against insurmountable emotional and political barriers and threats of terror\, Israel national team and German Borussia Munchegladbach met in a match whose importance marked the beginning of the normalization between Israel and Germany. Through interviews with former German and Israeli footballers\, historians\, and diplomats\, along with rare archival materials\, the film examines the power of personal friendships to bring down the wall between nations\, and of football\, to pave the way between adversaries. \nNoam Sobovitz: Director \n \nNoam Sobovitz is a young-generation Israeli filmmaker and “Game Changers” is his debute feature doc. A graduate of Tel Aviv University film school\, Noam was the editorial producer of a docu-series about the ultra-orthodox media in Israel “The Right Not to Know” for KAN 11. His film “Homecoming” for HOT won the best short film at Astra Film Festival. \n \n\n \n \nThank you to our partners
URL:https://cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net/event/post-film-discussion-game-changers-with-director-noam-sobovitz/
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