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SUMMARY:Our Lives Berlin as Refuge
DESCRIPTION:After the end of the Second World War\, Berlin became a place of refuge for Jewish Displaced Persons (DP). They called themselves she’erit hapletah\, “the last survivors”. For most of them\, Germany – as the country of the perpetrators – was the last place they wanted to stay. In Mariendorf\, Zehlendorf and Reinickendorf camps were established in which Jewish DPs often lived for several years. \nJohanna Blender \nJohanna Blender is currently working on her M.A. thesis in Public History at the Freie Universität Berlin. After two years of volunteering for Action Reconciliation Service for Peace in Berlin and Tel Aviv\, she studied History and Anglistics at Humboldt University and University College Dublin. Recently\, she curated an exhibition on Berlin as a city of refuge for Jewish Displaced Persons after 1945. \nIn Partnership with Germany Close Up:
URL:https://cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net/event/our-lives-berlin-as-refuge/
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SUMMARY:Weekly Book Discussion Mindelle Pierce "Love With No Tomorrow"
DESCRIPTION:This program is geared for educators\, but open to all.(Act 48 credit hours or a letter of participation is available upon request.) \nThe book discussions will be offered on the following dates and times:\nFebruary 1\, 2022 | 4:00-5:00pm\nFebruary 8\, 2022 | 4:00-5:00pm\nAuthor Talk : February 15\, 2022 | 4:00-5:00pm\nAbout the Book:\nLove at first sight. During the Holocaust. Bonds as strong as steel\, forged in the flames of hate.\nThese are extraordinary stories of love affairs during the most dangerous\, degrading\, and deadly conditions of genocidal persecution. The extreme lengths to which two people will go to express their love\, and the superhuman strength that is derived from such love\, is the stuff of miracles and endless inspiration. This little-known aspect of the Holocaust\, seen through the eyes of those in love\, is a unique contribution to our understanding of the best and the worst qualities of human nature. This book must be read by anyone who wants to know more about life and love enduring the most horrendous conditions one could imagine.\nWe will be reading these chapters together:\nForeword Dr Michael Berenbaum 14\nJoseph and Rebecca Bau 20\nNardus and Sipora Groen 117\nVictor and Regina Lewis 162\nJacob and Reisel Najman 192\nLunia and Leo Weiss 253\nDr. Josh Andy \nDr. Josh Andy is a full time teacher at Winchester Thurston School\, and an educational programs leader and Holocaust scholar with Classrooms Without Borders. An accomplished and award winning educator\, Dr. Andy holds a Ph.D. in Russian and East European Studies from Birmingham University and teaches in the Upper School. In addition to teaching Genocide and Holocaust Studies\, he teaches a course on the modern Middle East\, Multicultural America\, and AP European history. Next year he will teach Russian history. He has traveled internationally to study global cultures and issues as part of his work to design engaging courses for his students. He earned WT’s Mary Houston Griffin Award for Excellence in Teaching in 2014\, which funded his trip to Amman\, Jordan\, to develop his Middle East course.. \nMindelle Pierce \nMindelle Pierce has dedicated over fifteen years of her career to studying and teaching the history of the Holocaust. As a child of Holocaust survivors herself\, she has a personal connection and insight into this history. Mindelle continues to contribute her knowledge and research to many renowned organizations\, including the U.S Holocaust Memorial Museum in New York; the Museum of Jewish Heritage; and Manhattan College. She lives in Margate City\, New Jersey.
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SUMMARY:TEACH IN - International Holocaust Remembrance Day
DESCRIPTION:A CWB Community Wide TEACH INWe invite all Holocaust Educators to participate on January 27\, 2022 to celebrate Jewish spiritual resistance during Nazi occupation. Just RSVP to receive lesson plans\, resources and a link to screen the film\, “Who Will Write Our History” by Roberta Grossman! \n“What we were unable to cry and shriek out to the world we buried in the ground…” so wrote Dawid Graber\, aged 19\, from within the Warsaw Ghetto. Graber’s words meet visitors today to the Jewish Historical Institute in Warsaw. The new permanent exhibit at JHI documents and remembers Emanuel Ringelblum and Oyneg Shabes – their work in creating the Warsaw Ghetto archive. The Ringelblum (Ghetto) archive was a weapon against Nazi oppression\, a way for the Jews of Warsaw to resist – to write their own history. Ringelblum and Oyneg Shabes goal was to explain to future historians and humanity what life was like in the Warsaw Ghetto from the Jewish perspective. Clandestinely complied from 1940 until the destruction of the ghetto after the Ghetto uprising in 1943\, the Archive contains testimonies from Warsaw Jews\, it provides a documentary record of the fate of the Warsaw Jewry. Ten metal boxes and steel milk canisters held the archive when it was buried between those years. The first tranche was found on 18 September 1946\, the final pieces four years later. \nUtilizing the history and stories contained within the Oyneg Shabes archive\, Classrooms Without Borders will host a virtual ‘teach in;’ we invite schools and school districts\, teachers and students to engage in the study of Emanuel Ringelblum and Oyneg Shabes on the same day\, Thursday January 27\, 2022\, International Holocaust Remembrance Day. Around Pittsburgh\, West Virginia\, Ohio\, Florida\, and across the United States\, including schools in Israel and Poland\, teachers and students will all learn about this act of spiritual resistance from within the Warsaw Ghetto. \n*A virtual tour and teacher workshop on the Ringelblum archive and Oyneg Shabes was held before the TEACH IN for participating educators.
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SUMMARY:Rebecca Donner " All the Frequent Trouble of Our Days"
DESCRIPTION:Classrooms Without Borders is honored to bring Rebecca Donner author of the book “All the Frequent Troubles of Our Days” to our community of educators and learners.ALL THE FREQUENT TROUBLES OF OUR DAYS\nBorn and raised in Milwaukee\, Mildred Harnack was twenty-six when she enrolled in a PhD program in Germany and witnessed the meteoric rise of the Nazi party. In 1932\, she began holding secret meetings in her apartment—a small band of political activists that by 1940 had grown into the largest underground resistance group in Berlin. She recruited working-class Germans into the resistance\, helped Jews escape\, plotted acts of sabotage\, and collaborated in writing leaflets that denounced Hitler’s regime. Her coconspirators circulated through Berlin under the cover of night\, slipping the leaflets into mailboxes\, public restrooms\, phone booths. When the first shots of the Second World War were fired she became a spy\, couriering top-secret intelligence to the Allies. On the eve of her escape to Sweden\, she was ambushed by the Gestapo. At a Nazi military court\, a panel of five judges sentenced her to six years at a prison camp\, but Hitler overruled the decision and ordered her execution. On February 16\, 1943\, she was strapped to a guillotine and beheaded. \nHistorians identify Mildred Harnack as the only American in the leadership of the German resistance\, yet her remarkable story has remained almost unknown until now. \nHarnack’s great-great-niece Rebecca Donner draws on her extensive archival research in Germany\, Russia\, England\, and the U.S. as well as newly uncovered documents in her family archive to produce this astonishing work of narrative nonfiction. Fusing elements of biography\, real-life political thriller\, and scholarly detective story\, Donner brilliantly interweaves letters\, diary entries\, notes smuggled out of a Berlin prison\, testimony of survivors\, and a trove of declassified intelligence documents into a powerful\, enthralling story\, reconstructing the moral courage of an enigmatic woman nearly erased by history. \nA New York Times Notable Book of 2021\nA New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice\nA New York Times Book Review Critics’ Top Book of 2021\nA Wall Street Journal Best Book of 2021\nA Time Magazine Must-Read Book of 2021\nThe Economist’s Best Book of 2021\nA New York Post Best Book of 2021\nA Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Best Book of 2021\nAn Oprah Daily Best New Book of August\nA BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week\nA New York Public Library Book of the Week\nA Publishers Weekly Top Ten Book of 2021\nA Barnes & Noble Best History Book of 2021\nA Barnes & Noble Best Audiobook of 2021 \nRebecca Donner \nRebecca Donner is the author of the instant New York Times bestseller All the Frequent Troubles of Our Days\, published by Little\, Brown in the US and Canongate in the UK. A Hebrew translation is forthcoming in 2022 from Matar Publishing in Israel. All the Frequent Troubles of Our Days was selected as a New York Times Critics’ Top Book of 2021\, a New York Times Notable Book\, and a New York Times Editors’ Choice. It was also named one of the Best Books of 2021 by the Wall Street Journal\, Time Magazine\, and The Economist. \nAll the Frequent Troubles of Our Days was recently longlisted for the 2022 PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for Biography. \nBorn in Canada\, Donner was educated at the University of California at Berkeley and Columbia University. She is the author of Sunset Terrace\, a critically acclaimed novel\, and Burnout\, a graphic novel about ecoterrorism. Her essays\, reportage\, and reviews have appeared in numerous publications\, including the New York Times and Bookforum. \nRebecca Donner was a 2018-19 fellow at the Leon Levy Center for Biography at the City University of New York\, is a two-time Yaddo fellow\, and has twice been awarded fellowships by the Ucross Foundation. She has also held residencies at Virginia Center for the Creative Arts and Vermont Studio Center. Donner is a member of the National Book Critics Circle\, and has taught writing at Wesleyan University\, Columbia University\, and Barnard College. \nDr. Josh Andy \nDr. Josh Andy is a full time teacher at Winchester Thurston School\, and an educational programs leader and Holocaust scholar with Classrooms Without Borders. An accomplished and award winning educator\, Dr. Andy holds a Ph.D. in Russian and East European Studies from Birmingham University and teaches in the Upper School. In addition to teaching Genocide and Holocaust Studies\, he teaches a course on the modern Middle East\, Multicultural America\, and AP European history. Next year he will teach Russian history. He has traveled internationally to study global cultures and issues as part of his work to design engaging courses for his students. He earned WT’s Mary Houston Griffin Award for Excellence in Teaching in 2014\, which funded his trip to Amman\, Jordan\, to develop his Middle East course.
URL:https://cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net/event/rebecca-donner-all-the-frequent-trouble-of-our-days/
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SUMMARY:Arab-Israeli Conflict with Avi Ben-Hur
DESCRIPTION:This course aims to unpack the causes and core issues that relate to the Conflict. The goal is to make the subject accessible to educators.About this event\nThe Arab-Israeli conflict plays a large (some would claim outsized) role in current events. This course aims to unpack the causes and core issues that relate to the Conflict. The goal is to make the subject accessible to educators and to give them the tools with which to grapple in the classroom with the subject at large and with breaking news. While this course is a primer on the subject\, the Q & A following each session is designed to enable the participants to engage with related issues on a higher resolution. Each section will be accompanied with suggestions for further exploration. The earlier lectures will approach the Conflict from two intersecting directions: \nThree concentric levels: \nThe International aspect (e.g. the Cold War)\nThe Regional aspect (the Middle East at large)\nThe leadership (of the countries at conflict)\nMultiple narratives: \nThe Jewish/Israeli narrative\nThe Arab/Palestinian narrative\nThe later sessions will put a greater focus on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and the continuing friction or détente between Israel and other regional actors. \nA concerted effort will be made to present the historical processes in an even-handed and balanced way\, while keeping in mind that this is a loaded topic for many people. We have no illusions that everyone will emerge from each lesson in agreement with the presenter or with their fellow participants. The key to a successful program will be the mutual respect paid to each and every person (including the presenter)\, particularly in the part designed for discussion/dialogue (i.e. the Q & A). By approaching the subject this way we strive to “model” how we believe education should work. Open hearts\, open minds and tolerance are the core values that inform CWB’s work. \nArab Israeli Conflict with Avi Ben Hur image\nAvi Ben Hur\nScholar in Residence \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.
URL:https://cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net/event/arab-israeli-conflict-with-avi-ben-hur-6/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220120T130000
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SUMMARY:Holocaust Museums and Memorials Around the World
DESCRIPTION:Classrooms Without Borders\, in coordination with Tali Nates\, Founder and Director of the Johannesburg Genocide & Holocaust Centre\, and in partnership with the Maltz Museum of Jewish Heritage\, Liberation75\,  and the USC Shoah Foundation is pleased to embark on this new innovative Museums and Memorial series where we will highlight different angles of complex memory; grappling with the challenges faced in defining representation of both Lived Memory and Historical Memory. \nAlongside CWB Scholars we will travel with Museum historians\, experts\, and contemporary witnesses to 10 different regions. We will explore the history behind the exhibits\, discuss the nature of memory and memorials\, and discover how the world remembers the Shoah and honors the lives we lost. We will also explore how that memory is interconnected to genocides\, both past and present. Our experts will challenge us to grapple with issues of cultural identity\, responsibility to community\, and decision-making\, as well as ways in which individuals and nations responded\, or failed to respond\, to the crisis through close examination of the Museum’s artifacts and memorials. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n \n\nTali Nates\, founder and director of the Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Centre (a member of the South African Holocaust & Genocide Foundation)\, is a historian who lectured internationally on Holocaust education\, genocide prevention\, reconciliation and human rights. She has presented at numerous conferences and seminars including at the United Nations in New York in 2016. Tali is a fellow of the Salzburg Global Seminar and participated in the first Summer Education Academy of the International Nuremberg Principles Academy in 2016. She published many articles and contributed chapters to different books\, the latest\, God\, Faith & Identity from the Ashes: Reflections of Children and Grandchildren of Holocaust Survivors. \nTali serves on the Academic Advisory Group of the School of Social Science\, Monash University\, South Africa. Tali was chosen as one of the top 100 newsworthy and noteworthy women in South Africa (Mail & Guardian) and awarded the KIA Community Service Award. She acts as a scholar and leader of Holocaust and Genocide study-tours to Eastern Europe and Rwanda. Tali is one of the founders of ‘Holocaust Survivors Services’ and ‘Rwanda Genocide Survivors Services’ in Johannesburg. Born to a family of Holocaust survivors\, Tali’s father and uncle were saved by Oskar Schindler. \n\nThank you to our partners\n  
URL:https://cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net/event/holocaust-museums-and-memorials-around-the-world-6/
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SUMMARY:Using Holocaust films in the classroom\, with Holocaust film scholar and author Rich Brownstein in conversation with Dr. Michael Berenbaum
DESCRIPTION:Using Holocaust films in the classroom\, with Holocaust film scholar and author Rich Brownstein in conversation with Dr. Michael Berenbaum\nWednesday\, January 19\, 2022\n4:00pm-5:30pm ET \nREGISTER \nExplore the greatest narrative Holocaust film ever made while discovering the impact of Holocaust genre films.\nSince 1945\, more than 440 narrative Holocaust feature films and made-for-television movies have been produced\, in dozens of languages by more than 40 countries.  Holocaust films have spanned every conceivable theatrical style\, including drama\, melodrama\, docudrama\, comedy\, farce\, science fiction\, time travel\, live-action\, animation and streaming.  Holocaust films are so critically accepted that at least one has been nominated for at least one Academy Award ever other year\, including 20 for Best Foreign Language Film.  Still more daunting\, 75 of these films have functionally disappeared.  How was all this unwieldy information unified into one volume of history\, analysis\, pedagogy\, commentary\, recommendations\, reviews and lists? \nFrom Anne Frank to Schindler’s List to Jojo Rabbit\, Holocaust films are put into historical and artistic perspective and are discussed through many lenses: historically\, chronologically\, thematically\, sociologically\, geographically and individually. The filmmakers behind these films are also contextualized\, including Charlie Chaplin\, Sidney Lumet\, Woody Allen\, Quentin Tarantino\, Steven Spielberg and Roman Polanski. This book also includes recommendations and reviews of the 50 best Holocaust films\, an educational guide\, and a detailed listing of each Holocaust film. \nRich Brownstein created a monumental guide to Holocaust related film\, Holocaust Cinema Complete: A History and Analysis of 400 Films\, with a Teaching Guide\, This text provides context for creative decisions\, successes and failures\, historical shifts\, and career paths of renowned filmmakers. \nJoin CWB to explore the greatest narrative Holocaust films ever made and explore why so many American–produced Holocaust films have been nominated for at least one Oscar.\nRich Brownstein \nA Holocaust & Jewish Film expert\, Rich Brownstein has lectured for Yad Vashem’s International School of Holocaust Studies since 2014\, specializing in the history and use of Holocaust films in the classrooms.\n​\nRich Brownstein was born in Portland\, Oregon in 1962. Most of his undergraduate work at Reed College was in psychology. By the time he graduated\, three of his experiments were on their way to being published in the top social psychology journals in the world. Those studies are still being cited today. During college\, too\, Rich was a Sunday school teacher specializing in Holocaust education and also on the board of the Oregon Holocaust Resource Center (now the Oregon Jewish Museum and Center for Holocaust Education). \nA few years after college Rich moved to Los Angeles\, working with Zucker\, Abrahams and Zucker Productions. Rich was the associate producer on one of David Zucker’s projects\, directed by Trey Parker and Matt Stone\, just before they created South Park. In fact\, there is a South Park character that Rich inspired. \nRich then founded The Transcription Company\, starting from an apartment in Hollywood. Initially\, his company transcribed the raw interviews for tabloid TV shows such as Fox’s A Current Affair\, NBC’s Access Hollywood\, and King World’s Inside Edition/American Journal. Eventually\, every network and studio used his company\, including: NPR\, Oprah\, ABC News\, Curb Your Enthusiasm and even Playboy videos. At theend of Nightline when transcripts were offered\, those were produced and processed by his company. By the time Rich sold the company in 2003 to move his family to Israel\, Rich had over 100 employees and contractors. \nIn Israel\, Rich became a professor of Jewish and Holocaust film for the Young Judaea Your Course program\, accredited by the American Jewish University of Los Angeles. For a decade\, Rich taught hundreds of college students during their “gap year” about film and critical reasoning. His teaching methods and theories about Holocaust films eventually came to the attention of Yad Vashem’s International School for Holocaust Studies where Rich has been a lecturer since 2014\, specializing in the use of narrative Holocaust films in the classroom. Thousands of educators worldwide use his methods. \nAlong the way Rich also sang “Louie Louie” with The Kingsmen\, taught Stan Lee how to use Microsoft Word\, read Shas\, worked with the man who wagged the tail of the Lion in the Wizard of Oz\, and Rich also accumulated the largest collection of basketball memorabilia in the world\, all of it related to his beloved Portland Trail Blazers. \nDr. Michael Berenbaum \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. \nThank you to our Partners:\nThe full inclusion of people of all abilities is a core value of Classrooms Without Borders. For questions or to make requests for special accommodations contact melissa@classroomswithoutborders.org
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SUMMARY:Using Holocaust Films in the Classroom - Rich Brownstein
DESCRIPTION:Explore the greatest narrative Holocaust film ever made while discovering the impact of Holocaust genre films.Since 1945\, more than 440 narrative Holocaust feature films and made-for-television movies have been produced\, in dozens of languages by more than 40 countries. Holocaust films have spanned every conceivable theatrical style\, including drama\, melodrama\, docudrama\, comedy\, farce\, science fiction\, time travel\, live-action\, animation and streaming. Holocaust films are so critically accepted that at least one has been nominated for at least one Academy Award ever other year\, including 20 for Best Foreign Language Film. Still more daunting\, 75 of these films have functionally disappeared. How was all this unwieldy information unified into one volume of history\, analysis\, pedagogy\, commentary\, recommendations\, reviews and lists? \nFrom Anne Frank to Schindler’s List to Jojo Rabbit\, Holocaust films are put into historical and artistic perspective and are discussed through many lenses: historically\, chronologically\, thematically\, sociologically\, geographically and individually. The filmmakers behind these films are also contextualized\, including Charlie Chaplin\, Sidney Lumet\, Woody Allen\, Quentin Tarantino\, Steven Spielberg and Roman Polanski. This book also includes recommendations and reviews of the 50 best Holocaust films\, an educational guide\, and a detailed listing of each Holocaust film. \nRich Brownstein created a monumental guide to Holocaust related film\, Holocaust Cinema Complete: A History and Analysis of 400 Films\, with a Teaching Guide\, This text provides context for creative decisions\, successes and failures\, historical shifts\, and career paths of renowned filmmakers. \nJoin CWB to explore the greatest narrative Holocaust films ever made and explore why so many American–produced Holocaust films have been nominated for at least one Oscar.\nRich Brownstein \nA Holocaust & Jewish Film expert\, Rich Brownstein has lectured for Yad Vashem’s International School of Holocaust Studies since 2014\, specializing in the history and use of Holocaust films in the classrooms.\n​\nRich Brownstein was born in Portland\, Oregon in 1962. Most of his undergraduate work at Reed College was in psychology. By the time he graduated\, three of his experiments were on their way to being published in the top social psychology journals in the world. Those studies are still being cited today. During college\, too\, Rich was a Sunday school teacher specializing in Holocaust education and also on the board of the Oregon Holocaust Resource Center (now the Oregon Jewish Museum and Center for Holocaust Education). \nA few years after college Rich moved to Los Angeles\, working with Zucker\, Abrahams and Zucker Productions. Rich was the associate producer on one of David Zucker’s projects\, directed by Trey Parker and Matt Stone\, just before they created South Park. In fact\, there is a South Park character that Rich inspired. \nRich then founded The Transcription Company\, starting from an apartment in Hollywood. Initially\, his company transcribed the raw interviews for tabloid TV shows such as Fox’s A Current Affair\, NBC’s Access Hollywood\, and King World’s Inside Edition/American Journal. Eventually\, every network and studio used his company\, including: NPR\, Oprah\, ABC News\, Curb Your Enthusiasm and even Playboy videos. At theend of Nightline when transcripts were offered\, those were produced and processed by his company. By the time Rich sold the company in 2003 to move his family to Israel\, Rich had over 100 employees and contractors. \nIn Israel\, Rich became a professor of Jewish and Holocaust film for the Young Judaea Your Course program\, accredited by the American Jewish University of Los Angeles. For a decade\, Rich taught hundreds of college students during their “gap year” about film and critical reasoning. His teaching methods and theories about Holocaust films eventually came to the attention of Yad Vashem’s International School for Holocaust Studies where Rich has been a lecturer since 2014\, specializing in the use of narrative Holocaust films in the classroom. Thousands of educators worldwide use his methods. \nAlong the way Rich also sang “Louie Louie” with The Kingsmen\, taught Stan Lee how to use Microsoft Word\, read Shas\, worked with the man who wagged the tail of the Lion in the Wizard of Oz\, and Rich also accumulated the largest collection of basketball memorabilia in the world\, all of it related to his beloved Portland Trail Blazers. \nDr. Michael Berenbaum \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.
URL:https://cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net/event/using-holocaust-films-in-the-classroom-rich-brownstein/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220118T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220118T160000
DTSTAMP:20260709T000919
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SUMMARY:Weekly Book Discussion Rebecca Donner " All the Frequent Trouble of Our Days"
DESCRIPTION:This program is geared for educators\, but open to all.(Act 48 credit hours or a letter of participation is available upon request.) \nThe book discussions will be offered on the following dates and times: \nJanuary 4\, 2022 | 4:00-5:00pm\nJanuary 11\, 2022 | 4:00-5:00pm\nJanuary 18\, 2022 | 4:00-5:00pm\nAbout The Book \nBorn and raised in Milwaukee\, Mildred Harnack was twenty-six when she enrolled in a PhD program in Germany and witnessed the meteoric rise of the Nazi party. In 1932\, she began holding secret meetings in her apartment–a small band of political activists that by 1940 had grown into the largest underground resistance group in Berlin. She recruited working-class Germans into the resistance\, helped Jews escape\, plotted acts of sabotage\, and collaborated in writing leaflets that denounced Hitler and called for revolution. Her coconspirators circulated through Berlin under the cover of night\, slipping the leaflets into mailboxes\, public restrooms\, phone booths. When the first shots of the Second World War were fired\, she became a spy\, couriering top-secret intelligence to the Allies. On the eve of her escape to Sweden\, she was ambushed by the Gestapo. At a Nazi military court\, a panel of five judges sentenced her to six years at a prison camp\, but Hitler overruled the decision and ordered her execution. On February 16\, 1943\, she was strapped to a guillotine and beheaded. \nHistorians identify Mildred Harnack as the only American in the leadership of the German resistance\, yet her remarkable story has remained almost unknown until now. \nHarnack’s great-great-niece Rebecca Donner draws on her extensive archival research in Germany\, Russia\, England\, and the U.S. as well as newly uncovered documents in her family archive to produce this astonishing work of narrative nonfiction. Fusing elements of biography\, real-life political thriller\, and scholarly detective story\, Donner brilliantly interweaves letters\, diary entries\, notes smuggled out of a Berlin prison\, survivors’ testimony\, and a trove of declassified intelligence documents into a powerful\, epic story\, reconstructing the moral courage of an enigmatic woman nearly erased by history. \nDr. Josh Andy \nDr. Josh Andy is a full time teacher at Winchester Thurston School\, and an educational programs leader and Holocaust scholar with Classrooms Without Borders. An accomplished and award winning educator\, Dr. Andy holds a Ph.D. in Russian and East European Studies from Birmingham University and teaches in the Upper School. In addition to teaching Genocide and Holocaust Studies\, he teaches a course on the modern Middle East\, Multicultural America\, and AP European history. Next year he will teach Russian history. He has traveled internationally to study global cultures and issues as part of his work to design engaging courses for his students. He earned WT’s Mary Houston Griffin Award for Excellence in Teaching in 2014\, which funded his trip to Amman\, Jordan\, to develop his Middle East course. \nAbout the Author Rebecca Donner \nRebecca Donner is the author of the instant New York Times bestseller All the Frequent Troubles of Our Days\, published by Little\, Brown in the US and Canongate in the UK. A Hebrew translation is forthcoming from Matar Publishing in Israel. \nBorn in Canada\, Donner was educated at the University of California at Berkeley and Columbia University. She is the author of Sunset Terrace\, a critically acclaimed novel\, and Burnout\, a graphic novel about ecoterrorism. Her essays\, reportage\, and reviews have appeared in numerous publications\, including the New York Times and Bookforum. \nRebecca Donner was recently shortlisted for a Fulbright Award. She was a 2018-19 fellow at the Leon Levy Center for Biography at the City University of New York\, is a two-time Yaddo fellow\, and has twice been awarded fellowships by Ucross Foundation. She has also held residencies at Virginia Center for the Creative Arts and Vermont Studio Center. Donner is a member of the National Book Critics Circle\, and has taught writing at Wesleyan University\, Columbia University\, and Barnard College.
URL:https://cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net/event/weekly-book-discussion-rebecca-donner-all-the-frequent-trouble-of-our-days-3/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220113T000000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220113T000000
DTSTAMP:20260709T000919
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SUMMARY:Post Film Discussion of "In Search of My Sister" with Film Director: Jawad Mir\, Mr. Babur Ilchi\, Program Director Campaign for Uyghurs\, Sabrina Sohail: Executive Director of The Peace Project\, and Serena Oberstein: Executive Director Jewish World Watch
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net/event/post-film-discussion-of-in-search-of-my-sister-with-film-director-jawad-mir-mr-babur-ilchi-program-director-campaign-for-uyghurs-sabrina-sohail-executive-director-of-the-peace-project-and-ser/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220113T000000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220113T000000
DTSTAMP:20260709T000919
CREATED:20220505T225404Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220513T185614Z
UID:10000592-1642032000-1642032000@cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net
SUMMARY:Film Discussion "In Search of My Sister"
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net/event/film-discussion-in-search-of-my-sister/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220112T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220112T150000
DTSTAMP:20260709T000919
CREATED:20220518T170439Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220518T170439Z
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SUMMARY:Confronting the Complexity of Holocaust Scholarship Series with Dr. Michael Berenbaum in conversation with guest speaker Dr. Wendy Lower "Using Photographs as Evidence"
DESCRIPTION:Confronting the Complexity of Holocaust Scholarship: Reflections on the Past\, Present\, and Future of Holocaust Studies\nWednesday\, June 8\, 2022\n3PM ET\nZoom | Registration required and closes 30 minutes prior to the start of the program \nREGISTER \nClassrooms Without Borders\, in partnership with Liberation75\, is excited to offer the opportunity to engage in our unique series: Confronting the Complexity of Holocaust Scholarship: Reflections on the Past\, Present\, and Future of Holocaust Studies\nThe rise of anti-Semitism across the globe alongside the current data that points to a serious void in understanding about the Holocaust in the 21st century shines a light on a critical need to continue the task of Holocaust Scholars to honor the memory of the Shoah.\nIn each of our 9 part series we will meet Top Scholars in the field and focus on their research and scholarship.\nThe 9th and Final Session in this series will feature: Haunted Laughter: Jonathan Friedman in conversation with Dr. Michael Berenbaum on the use of comedy as a literary form to depict Adolf Hitler\, The Third Reich\, and the Holocaust.\nDr. Michael Berenbaum \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. \nProfessor Jonathan Friedman \nJonathan Friedman is currently Professor of History and the Director of Holocaust and Genocide Studies at West Chester University in West Chester\, Pennsylvania. He has been at West Chester since 2002. Before that\, he worked as a historian at both the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington\, D.C. and the Survivors of the Shoah Visual History Foundation in Los Angeles. He has edited five books and authored five as well\, including\, most recently\, Haunted Laughter: Representations of Adolf Hitler\, The Third Reich\, and The Holocaust in Comedic Film and Television (Rowman and Littlefield/Lexington Books\, 2022).  \nPrevious Sessions in this Series:\nOctober 13\, 2021 3PM ET: Women and the Holocaust with Dr. Carol Rittner RSM Distinguished Professor of Holocaust & Genocide Studies Emerita\nNovember 10\, 2021 at 3pm ET: Six Million!? with Documentary Film Maker: David Fisher\nDecember 8\, 2021 at 3pm ET: Auschwitz: Not Long Ago\, Not Far Away.\nJanuary 12\, 2022 at 3pm ET: Wendy Lower: Using Photographs as Evidence\nFebruary 9\, 2022 at 3pm ET: Antisemitism and Book Banning in 2022?\nMarch 9\, 2022 at 3pm ET: Professor Larry Langer; the foremost scholar of the Holocaust in the field of literature and testimony\nApril 13\, 2022 at 3pm ET: Jonathan Petropoulos\, Ph.D.\, the world’s leading scholar on Nazi stolen art\nMay 11\, 2022 at 3pm ET: Mark Weizmann\, speaking on Holocaust denial\, minimization\, trivialization\, and distortion\nThank you to our partner: \nThe full inclusion of people of all abilities is a core value of Classrooms Without Borders. For questions or to make requests for special accommodations contact melissa@classroomswithoutborders.org
URL:https://cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net/event/confronting-the-complexity-of-holocaust-scholarship-series-with-dr-michael-berenbaum-in-conversation-with-guest-speaker-dr-wendy-lower-using-photographs-as-evidence/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220112T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220112T150000
DTSTAMP:20260709T000919
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SUMMARY:Confronting the Complexities of Holocaust Scholarship
DESCRIPTION:Reflections on the Past\, Present\, and Future of Holocaust StudiesAbout this event\nClassrooms Without Borders\, in partnership with Liberation 75\, is excited to offer the opportunity engage in our new series: Confronting the Complexity of Holocaust Scholarship: Reflections on the Past\, Present\, and Future of Holocaust Studies \nThe rise of anti-Semitism across the globe alongside the current data that points to a serious void in understanding about the Holocaust in the 21st century shines a light on a critical need to continue the task of Holocaust Scholars to honor the memory of the Shoah. \nIn each of our 9 part series we will meet Top Scholars in the field and focus on their research and scholarship. \nDr. Michael Berenbaum \nConfronting the Complexity of Holocaust Scholarship image\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. \nThank you to our partner \nConfronting the Complexity of Holocaust Scholarship image
URL:https://cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net/event/confronting-the-complexities-of-holocaust-scholarship-2/
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220111T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220111T160000
DTSTAMP:20260709T000919
CREATED:20220505T225142Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220513T184219Z
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SUMMARY:Weekly Book Discussion Rebecca Donner " All the Frequent Trouble of Our Days"
DESCRIPTION:This program is geared for educators\, but open to all.(Act 48 credit hours or a letter of participation is available upon request.) \nThe book discussions will be offered on the following dates and times: \nJanuary 4\, 2022 | 4:00-5:00pm\nJanuary 11\, 2022 | 4:00-5:00pm\nJanuary 18\, 2022 | 4:00-5:00pm\nAbout The Book \nBorn and raised in Milwaukee\, Mildred Harnack was twenty-six when she enrolled in a PhD program in Germany and witnessed the meteoric rise of the Nazi party. In 1932\, she began holding secret meetings in her apartment–a small band of political activists that by 1940 had grown into the largest underground resistance group in Berlin. She recruited working-class Germans into the resistance\, helped Jews escape\, plotted acts of sabotage\, and collaborated in writing leaflets that denounced Hitler and called for revolution. Her coconspirators circulated through Berlin under the cover of night\, slipping the leaflets into mailboxes\, public restrooms\, phone booths. When the first shots of the Second World War were fired\, she became a spy\, couriering top-secret intelligence to the Allies. On the eve of her escape to Sweden\, she was ambushed by the Gestapo. At a Nazi military court\, a panel of five judges sentenced her to six years at a prison camp\, but Hitler overruled the decision and ordered her execution. On February 16\, 1943\, she was strapped to a guillotine and beheaded. \nHistorians identify Mildred Harnack as the only American in the leadership of the German resistance\, yet her remarkable story has remained almost unknown until now. \nHarnack’s great-great-niece Rebecca Donner draws on her extensive archival research in Germany\, Russia\, England\, and the U.S. as well as newly uncovered documents in her family archive to produce this astonishing work of narrative nonfiction. Fusing elements of biography\, real-life political thriller\, and scholarly detective story\, Donner brilliantly interweaves letters\, diary entries\, notes smuggled out of a Berlin prison\, survivors’ testimony\, and a trove of declassified intelligence documents into a powerful\, epic story\, reconstructing the moral courage of an enigmatic woman nearly erased by history. \nDr. Josh Andy \nDr. Josh Andy is a full time teacher at Winchester Thurston School\, and an educational programs leader and Holocaust scholar with Classrooms Without Borders. An accomplished and award winning educator\, Dr. Andy holds a Ph.D. in Russian and East European Studies from Birmingham University and teaches in the Upper School. In addition to teaching Genocide and Holocaust Studies\, he teaches a course on the modern Middle East\, Multicultural America\, and AP European history. Next year he will teach Russian history. He has traveled internationally to study global cultures and issues as part of his work to design engaging courses for his students. He earned WT’s Mary Houston Griffin Award for Excellence in Teaching in 2014\, which funded his trip to Amman\, Jordan\, to develop his Middle East course. \nAbout the Author Rebecca Donner \nRebecca Donner is the author of the instant New York Times bestseller All the Frequent Troubles of Our Days\, published by Little\, Brown in the US and Canongate in the UK. A Hebrew translation is forthcoming from Matar Publishing in Israel. \nBorn in Canada\, Donner was educated at the University of California at Berkeley and Columbia University. She is the author of Sunset Terrace\, a critically acclaimed novel\, and Burnout\, a graphic novel about ecoterrorism. Her essays\, reportage\, and reviews have appeared in numerous publications\, including the New York Times and Bookforum. \nRebecca Donner was recently shortlisted for a Fulbright Award. She was a 2018-19 fellow at the Leon Levy Center for Biography at the City University of New York\, is a two-time Yaddo fellow\, and has twice been awarded fellowships by Ucross Foundation. She has also held residencies at Virginia Center for the Creative Arts and Vermont Studio Center. Donner is a member of the National Book Critics Circle\, and has taught writing at Wesleyan University\, Columbia University\, and Barnard College.
URL:https://cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net/event/weekly-book-discussion-rebecca-donner-all-the-frequent-trouble-of-our-days-2/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220106T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220106T160000
DTSTAMP:20260709T000919
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SUMMARY:The Ringleblum Archives: Virtual Tour and Teacher Training
DESCRIPTION:The Ringelblum Archives: Virtual Tour and Teacher Training with Dr. Katarzyna Person and Helise Lieberman\nThursday\, January 6\, 2022\n4:00pm-5:30pm \nJoin CWB as we explore this “Archive More Important Than Life” and prepare for a community wide Teach-In on International Holocaust Remembrance Day\, 27 January 2022\nREGISTER \n“What we were unable to cry and shriek out to the world we buried in the ground. . . . I would love to see the moment in which the great treasure will be dug up and scream the truth at the world. So the world may know all. So the ones who did not live through it may be glad\, and we may feel like veterans with medals on our chest. We would be the fathers\, the teachers\, and educators of the future…But no\, we shall certainly not live to see it\, . . . . ” – David Graber\, 19 years old\, Warsaw Ghetto in Kassow\, Samuel\, Who Will Write Our History\, 3\nWho writes history? The underground archive of the Warsaw Ghetto was started by historian and high school history teacher\, Emanuel Ringelblum\, and created by a clandestine group who vowed to defeat Nazi propaganda by detailing everyday life in the ghetto from the voices of the Jewish inhabitants. Ringelblum enlisted people of all ages\, occupations and classes to record their daily lives through words\, photographs\, receipts\, tram tickets\, candy wrappers\, theater tickets and drawings. He hoped for the vivid\, personal detail that could illuminate the human meaning of the moment. A social historian committed to telling the truth\, the Oyneg Shabes (Yiddish for “joy of the Sabbath”) was a unique form of resistance. Burying the archives beneath the buildings of the ghetto in metal boxes and steel milk canisters\, Ringelblum hoped and believed these pages would survive even if the writers did not. \nThis virtual tour and teacher training workshop will look closely at some of these documents and afford teachers the opportunity to include the Ringelblum Archive in their classes. Together we will consider how we can introduce these artifacts and guide our students towards a discussion about the different forms of resistance. \nThe Ringelblum Archives consist of a collection of 1680 archival units (approx. 25\,000 pages) retrieved from the ruins of the Warsaw Ghetto. \nThe Archives comprise government documents\, materials concerning the ghetto resistance\, testimonies of the fate of Jewish communities during the Holocaust\, literature\, works of art and private correspondence collected by victims of the Holocaust in order to pass on information about the Holocaust to future generations. This collection is absolutely unique\, both in terms of its origin and its historic value. It mainly concerns the largest ghetto in Nazi-occupied Europe (approximately 500\,000 inhabitants)\, but in fact it covers the whole of occupied Poland\, documenting the Shoah\, the fate of its Jewish community of 3.500\,000 people. Nearly all the creators of the Ringelblum Archives perished\, either in the ghetto or in the extermination camps. \nDr. Katarzyna Person \nKatarzyna Person is a historian of Eastern European Jewish History working in the Emanuel Ringelblum Jewish Historical Institute in Warsaw\, where she leads the Ringelblum Archive publishing project.  After completing her Ph.D. at the University of London in 2010\, Dr. Person has held postdoctoral fellowships from the International Institute for Holocaust Research in Yad Vashem\, the Center for Jewish History in New York City\, and La Fondation pour la Mémoire de la Shoah in Paris. She was awarded habilitation (a post-doctoral degree) from the Polish Academy of Science. She has written a number of articles on the Holocaust and its aftermath in occupied Europe. Her most recent book\, Warsaw Ghetto Police. The Jewish Order Service during the Nazi Occupation was published by the Cornell University Press 2021. \nHelise Lieberman \nHelise Lieberman is the director of the Taube Center for Jewish Life & Learning\, a position she has held since 2009. A former Hillel director\, she was the founding principal of the Lauder-Morasha Day School in Warsaw and has served as a consultant to the Rothschild Foundation (Hanadiv) Europe\, the Westbury Group\, POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews\, and to the JDC – Baltics. Ms. Lieberman was awarded the Bene Merito Medal by the Polish Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 2015.  She is engaged in Pan-European and cross-communal Jewish heritage education and serves on the boards of Hillel Poland and the Lauder-Morasha School. A dual citizen (U.S. and Poland)\, Ms. Lieberman has lived in Warsaw since 1994. \nThank you to our partners:\nThe full inclusion of people of all abilities is a core value of Classrooms Without Borders. For questions or to make requests for special accommodations contact melissa@classroomswithoutborders.org
URL:https://cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net/event/the-ringleblum-archives-virtual-tour-and-teacher-training/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220106T000000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220106T000000
DTSTAMP:20260709T000919
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SUMMARY:Ringleblum Archives: Virtual Tour and Teacher Training
DESCRIPTION:Join CWB as we explore this “Archive More Important Than Life” and prepare for a community wide Teach-In on International Holocaust Remembrance Day\, 27 January 2022\n“What we were unable to cry and shriek out to the world we buried in the ground. . . . I would love to see the moment in which the great treasure will be dug up and scream the truth at the world. So the world may know all. So the ones who did not live through it may be glad\, and we may feel like veterans with medals on our chest. We would be the fathers\, the teachers\, and educators of the future…But no\, we shall certainly not live to see it\, . . . . ” – David Graber\, 19 years old\, Warsaw Ghetto in Kassow\, Samuel\, Who Will Write Our History\, 3\nWho writes history? The underground archive of the Warsaw Ghetto was started by historian and high school history teacher\, Emanuel Ringelblum\, and created by a clandestine group who vowed to defeat Nazi propaganda by detailing everyday life in the ghetto from the voices of the Jewish inhabitants. Ringelblum enlisted people of all ages\, occupations and classes to record their daily lives through words\, photographs\, receipts\, tram tickets\, candy wrappers\, theater tickets and drawings. He hoped for the vivid\, personal detail that could illuminate the human meaning of the moment. A social historian committed to telling the truth\, the Oyneg Shabes (Yiddish for “joy of the Sabbath”) was a unique form of resistance. Burying the archives beneath the buildings of the ghetto in metal boxes and steel milk canisters\, Ringelblum hoped and believed these pages would survive even if the writers did not. \nThis virtual tour and teacher training workshop will look closely at some of these documents and afford teachers the opportunity to include the Ringelblum Archive in their classes. Together we will consider how we can introduce these artifacts and guide our students towards a discussion about the different forms of resistance. \nThe Ringelblum Archives consist of a collection of 1680 archival units (approx. 25\,000 pages) retrieved from the ruins of the Warsaw Ghetto. \nThe Archives comprise government documents\, materials concerning the ghetto resistance\, testimonies of the fate of Jewish communities during the Holocaust\, literature\, works of art and private correspondence collected by victims of the Holocaust in order to pass on information about the Holocaust to future generations. This collection is absolutely unique\, both in terms of its origin and its historic value. It mainly concerns the largest ghetto in Nazi-occupied Europe (approximately 500\,000 inhabitants)\, but in fact it covers the whole of occupied Poland\, documenting the Shoah\, the fate of its Jewish community of 3.500\,000 people. Nearly all the creators of the Ringelblum Archives perished\, either in the ghetto or in the extermination camps. \nDr. Katarzyna Person \nKatarzyna Person is a historian of Eastern European Jewish History working in the Emanuel Ringelblum Jewish Historical Institute in Warsaw\, where she leads the Ringelblum Archive publishing project. After completing her Ph.D. at the University of London in 2010\, Dr. Person has held postdoctoral fellowships from the International Institute for Holocaust Research in Yad Vashem\, the Center for Jewish History in New York City\, and La Fondation pour la Mémoire de la Shoah in Paris. She was awarded habilitation (a post-doctoral degree) from the Polish Academy of Science. She has written a number of articles on the Holocaust and its aftermath in occupied Europe. Her most recent book\, Warsaw Ghetto Police. The Jewish Order Service during the Nazi Occupation was published by the Cornell University Press 2021. \nHelise Lieberman \nHelise Lieberman is the director of the Taube Center for Jewish Life & Learning\, a position she has held since 2009. A former Hillel director\, she was the founding principal of the Lauder-Morasha Day School in Warsaw and has served as a consultant to the Rothschild Foundation (Hanadiv) Europe\, the Westbury Group\, POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews\, and to the JDC – Baltics. Ms. Lieberman was awarded the Bene Merito Medal by the Polish Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 2015. She is engaged in Pan-European and cross-communal Jewish heritage education and serves on the boards of Hillel Poland and the Lauder-Morasha School. A dual citizen (U.S. and Poland)\, Ms. Lieberman has lived in Warsaw since 1994.
URL:https://cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net/event/ringleblum-archives-virtual-tour-and-teacher-training/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220104T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220104T160000
DTSTAMP:20260709T000919
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SUMMARY:Weekly Book Discussion Rebecca Donner " All the Frequent Trouble of Our Days"
DESCRIPTION:This program is geared for educators\, but open to all.(Act 48 credit hours or a letter of participation is available upon request.) \nThe book discussions will be offered on the following dates and times: \nJanuary 4\, 2022 | 4:00-5:00pm\nJanuary 11\, 2022 | 4:00-5:00pm\nJanuary 18\, 2022 | 4:00-5:00pm\nAbout The Book \nBorn and raised in Milwaukee\, Mildred Harnack was twenty-six when she enrolled in a PhD program in Germany and witnessed the meteoric rise of the Nazi party. In 1932\, she began holding secret meetings in her apartment–a small band of political activists that by 1940 had grown into the largest underground resistance group in Berlin. She recruited working-class Germans into the resistance\, helped Jews escape\, plotted acts of sabotage\, and collaborated in writing leaflets that denounced Hitler and called for revolution. Her coconspirators circulated through Berlin under the cover of night\, slipping the leaflets into mailboxes\, public restrooms\, phone booths. When the first shots of the Second World War were fired\, she became a spy\, couriering top-secret intelligence to the Allies. On the eve of her escape to Sweden\, she was ambushed by the Gestapo. At a Nazi military court\, a panel of five judges sentenced her to six years at a prison camp\, but Hitler overruled the decision and ordered her execution. On February 16\, 1943\, she was strapped to a guillotine and beheaded. \nHistorians identify Mildred Harnack as the only American in the leadership of the German resistance\, yet her remarkable story has remained almost unknown until now. \nHarnack’s great-great-niece Rebecca Donner draws on her extensive archival research in Germany\, Russia\, England\, and the U.S. as well as newly uncovered documents in her family archive to produce this astonishing work of narrative nonfiction. Fusing elements of biography\, real-life political thriller\, and scholarly detective story\, Donner brilliantly interweaves letters\, diary entries\, notes smuggled out of a Berlin prison\, survivors’ testimony\, and a trove of declassified intelligence documents into a powerful\, epic story\, reconstructing the moral courage of an enigmatic woman nearly erased by history. \nDr. Josh Andy \nDr. Josh Andy is a full time teacher at Winchester Thurston School\, and an educational programs leader and Holocaust scholar with Classrooms Without Borders. An accomplished and award winning educator\, Dr. Andy holds a Ph.D. in Russian and East European Studies from Birmingham University and teaches in the Upper School. In addition to teaching Genocide and Holocaust Studies\, he teaches a course on the modern Middle East\, Multicultural America\, and AP European history. Next year he will teach Russian history. He has traveled internationally to study global cultures and issues as part of his work to design engaging courses for his students. He earned WT’s Mary Houston Griffin Award for Excellence in Teaching in 2014\, which funded his trip to Amman\, Jordan\, to develop his Middle East course. \nAbout the Author Rebecca Donner \nRebecca Donner is the author of the instant New York Times bestseller All the Frequent Troubles of Our Days\, published by Little\, Brown in the US and Canongate in the UK. A Hebrew translation is forthcoming from Matar Publishing in Israel. \nBorn in Canada\, Donner was educated at the University of California at Berkeley and Columbia University. She is the author of Sunset Terrace\, a critically acclaimed novel\, and Burnout\, a graphic novel about ecoterrorism. Her essays\, reportage\, and reviews have appeared in numerous publications\, including the New York Times and Bookforum. \nRebecca Donner was recently shortlisted for a Fulbright Award. She was a 2018-19 fellow at the Leon Levy Center for Biography at the City University of New York\, is a two-time Yaddo fellow\, and has twice been awarded fellowships by Ucross Foundation. She has also held residencies at Virginia Center for the Creative Arts and Vermont Studio Center. Donner is a member of the National Book Critics Circle\, and has taught writing at Wesleyan University\, Columbia University\, and Barnard College.
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SUMMARY:Arab Israeli Conflict IV with Avi Ben Hur
DESCRIPTION:Arab Israeli Conflict with Avi Ben Hur\nTuesday\, May 31\, 2022\n2:00-3:30 ET\nZOOM | Registration required and closes 30 minutes prior to the start of the program \nREGISTER \nArab-Israeli Conflict Course with CWB In House Scholar Avi Ben Hur\nThe Arab-Israeli conflict plays a large (some would claim outsized) role in current events. This course aims to unpack the causes and core issues that relate to the Conflict. The goal is to make the subject accessible to educators and to give them the tools with which to grapple in the classroom with the subject at large and with breaking news. While this course is a primer on the subject\, the Q & A following each session is designed to enable the participants to engage with related issues on a higher resolution. Each section will be accompanied with suggestions for further exploration. The earlier lectures will approach the Conflict from two intersecting directions: \nThree concentric levels:\nThe International aspect (e.g. the Cold War)\nThe Regional aspect (the Middle East at large)\nThe leadership (of the countries at conflict)\nMultiple narratives:\nThe Jewish/Israeli narrative\nThe Arab/Palestinian narrative\nThe later sessions will put a greater focus on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and the continuing friction or détente between Israel and other regional actors. \nA concerted effort will be made to present the historical processes in an even-handed and balanced way\, while keeping in mind that this is a loaded topic for many people. We have no illusions that everyone will emerge from each lesson in agreement with the presenter or with their fellow participants. The key to a successful program will be the mutual respect paid to each and every person (including the presenter)\, particularly in the part designed for discussion/dialogue (i.e. the Q & A). By approaching the subject this way we strive to “model” how we believe education should work. Open hearts\, open minds and tolerance are the core values that inform CWB’s work. \nSession IX: Israel and the Palestinians 1987-2021\nIn December 1987\, the Palestinians re-entered the Israeli consciousness with the outbreak of massive civil disobedience that spread from the Gaza Strip to the West Bank in the so-called “Intifada.” Although this uprising petered out by 1991\, by September 1993 Israeli and PLO representatives began a political process in an attempt to come to a final peace agreement between the sides. These talks and accords continued until the summer of 2000 when they collapsed in Camp David. Within weeks a second Intifada broke out which was characterized by Palestinian bombing attacks on the Israeli civilian population. Israel responded with force and the construction of a barrier to thwart the bombers. In 2005 Israel decided to disengage from the Gaza Strip. This resulted in the armed takeover of the Strip by Hamas in 2007 and 4 subsequent conflicts with Israel in 2008/9\, 2012\, 2014 and 2021. Direct negotiations between Israel and the Palestinians have not existed for the past 6 years. \nSubjects to be covered: The 1st Intifada\, the Oslo Process\, 2nd Intifada\, Gaza redeployment\, 2005-2021 \nPast Sessions:\nSeptember 12\, 2021 | Background to the conflict (Jewish Nationalism – the rise of the Zionist Movement\, Arab Nationalism – the rise of the Palestinian National Movement)\nOctober 10\, 2021 | The British Mandate Period – 1922-1948\nNovember 21\, 2021 | The War for Independence/Nakba part I\nDecember 21\, 2021 | The War for Independence/Nakba part II\nJanuary 25\, 2022 | Israel Copes with Strategic Challenges – the Rise of Pan-Arabism and Nasser\nFebruary 22\, 2022 | The Six Days War\nMarch 29\, 2022 | The War of Attrition and the Yom Kippur War\nApril 26\, 2022 | The P.L.O. & Fighting Terror\, Peace with Egypt\, the First Lebanon War\nFinal SESSION in this series: \nJune 21\, 2022\nAll sessions will be 2:00pm-3:30pm ET. \nAvi Ben-Hur\nScholar in Residence \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. \nThe full inclusion of people of all abilities is a core value of Classrooms Without Borders. For questions or to make requests for special accommodations contact ellen@classroomswithoutborders.org \nThe full inclusion of people of all abilities is a core value of Classrooms Without Borders. For questions or to make requests for special accommodations contact melissa@classroomswithoutborders.org
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SUMMARY:Weekly Book Discussions: "People Love Dead Jews" with Dr. Josh Andy
DESCRIPTION:This program is geared for educators\, but open to all.(Act 48 credit hours or a letter of participation is available upon request.) \nThe book discussions will be offered on the following dates and times:\nNEW DATES!\nDecember 7\, 2021 | 4:00-5:00pm\nDecember 14\, 2021 | 4:00-5:00pm\nDecember 21\, 2021 | 4:00-5:00pm\nAbout The Book \nA startling exploration of how Jewish history is exploited to flatter the living\nReflecting on subjects as far-flung as the international veneration of Anne Frank\, the blockbuster traveling exhibition called ​“Auschwitz\,” the Jewish history of the Chinese city of Harbin\, and the little known ​“righteous Gentile” Varian Fry\, Dara Horn challenges us to confront the reasons why there might be so much fascination with Jewish deaths\, as emblematic of the worst of evils the world has to offer\, and so little respect for Jewish lives\, as they continue to unfold in the present. \nHorn draws on her own family’s life — trying to explain Shakespeare’s Shylock to a curious 10-year-old\, her anger when swastikas are drawn on desks at her children’s school in New Jersey\, the profound and essential perspective offered by traditional religious practice\, prayer\, and study — to assert the vitality\, complexity\, and depth of this life against an anti-Semitism that\, far from being disarmed by the mantra of ​“Never forget\,” is on the rise \nDr. Josh Andy \nDr. Josh Andy is a full time teacher at Winchester Thurston School\, and an educational programs leader and Holocaust scholar with Classrooms Without Borders. An accomplished and award winning educator\, Dr. Andy holds a Ph.D. in Russian and East European Studies from Birmingham University and teaches in the Upper School. In addition to teaching Genocide and Holocaust Studies\, he teaches a course on the modern Middle East\, Multicultural America\, and AP European history. Next year he will teach Russian history. He has traveled internationally to study global cultures and issues as part of his work to design engaging courses for his students. He earned WT’s Mary Houston Griffin Award for Excellence in Teaching in 2014\, which funded his trip to Amman\, Jordan\, to develop his Middle East course. \nAbout the Author: Dara Horn \nDara Horn is the award-winning author of six books\, including the novels In the Image (Norton 2002)\, The World to Come (Norton 2006)\, All Other Nights (Norton 2009)\, A Guide for the Perplexed (Norton 2013)\, and Eternal Life (Norton 2018)\, and the essay collection People Love Dead Jews: Reports from a Haunted Present (Norton 2021). One of Granta magazine’s Best Young American Novelists (2007)\, she is the recipient of two National Jewish Book Awards\, the Edward Lewis Wallant Award\, the Harold U. Ribalow Award\, and the Reform Judaism Fiction Prize\, and she was a finalist for the Wingate Prize\, the Simpson Family Literary Prize\, and the Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction. \nHer books have been selected as New York Times Notable Books\, Booklist’s 25 Best Books of the Decade\, and San Francisco Chronicle’s Best Books of the Year\, and have been translated into eleven languages. Her nonfiction work has appeared in The New York Times\, The Wall Street Journal\, The Washington Post\, The Atlantic\, Smithsonian Magazine\, and The Jewish Review of Books\, among many other publications\, and she is a regular columnist for Tablet Magazine. Horn received her doctorate in comparative literature from Harvard University\, studying Yiddish and Hebrew. She has taught courses in these subjects at Sarah Lawrence College and Yeshiva University\, and held the Gerald Weinstock Visiting Professorship in Jewish Studies at Harvard. She has lectured for audiences in hundreds of venues throughout North America\, Israel\, and Australia. She lives in New Jersey with her husband and four children. \nFor those that would like to plan ahead our next book for December & January will be: ‘ All the Frequent Troubles of Our Days: The True Story of the American Woman at the Heart of the German Resistance to Hitler’ by Rebecca Donner (Author)
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SUMMARY:A Conversation with Hadar Galron
DESCRIPTION:Czech Embassy Series with Hadar Galron\nThursday\, December 16\, 2021\n3:30pm-5:00pm \nRegister \nCzech Embassy Series:\nThrough this series\, the Embassy of the Czech Republic brings a broad selection of Czech artists\, intellectuals and professionals connected to Jewish life\, history\, art and culture to engage\, educate and inspire audiences in the United States and beyond. The series will incorporate book talks\, film screenings\, lectures\, musical performances\, exhibitions\, and more. This series began on June 1\, 2021 and runs once a month.\nIntroductory words: Lukáš Přibyl: Head of Public Diplomacy\, Embassy of the Czech Republic\, Washington DC \nClassrooms Without Borders\, in partnership with the Czech Embassy\, is excited to offer this opportunity to engage in a discussion with Hadar Galron a playwright\, actress\, screenwriter and comedian based in Prague\, Czech Republic. \nHadar Galron will talk about her work in addition to her play\, My First Jewish Christmas (also known as Jewish Enough for Hitler).  \nFor many years\, the National Theatre of Prague was home to her play Mikveh\, about women living in orthodox communities with their stories and secrets intertwining. She also co-wrote such features as The Secrets and Bruriah in which Hadar plays the leading role.  In her work\, she explores themes surrounding femininity\, identity\, orthodoxy\, and sexuality.   \nThe full inclusion of people of all abilities is a core value of Classrooms Without Borders. For questions or to make requests for special accommodations contact melissa@classroomswithoutborders.org
URL:https://cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net/event/a-conversation-with-hadar-galron/
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SUMMARY:Weekly Book Discussions: "People Love Dead Jews" with Dr. Josh Andy
DESCRIPTION:This program is geared for educators\, but open to all.(Act 48 credit hours or a letter of participation is available upon request.) \nThe book discussions will be offered on the following dates and times:\nNEW DATES!\nDecember 7\, 2021 | 4:00-5:00pm\nDecember 14\, 2021 | 4:00-5:00pm\nDecember 21\, 2021 | 4:00-5:00pm\nAbout The Book \nA startling exploration of how Jewish history is exploited to flatter the living\nReflecting on subjects as far-flung as the international veneration of Anne Frank\, the blockbuster traveling exhibition called ​“Auschwitz\,” the Jewish history of the Chinese city of Harbin\, and the little known ​“righteous Gentile” Varian Fry\, Dara Horn challenges us to confront the reasons why there might be so much fascination with Jewish deaths\, as emblematic of the worst of evils the world has to offer\, and so little respect for Jewish lives\, as they continue to unfold in the present. \nHorn draws on her own family’s life — trying to explain Shakespeare’s Shylock to a curious 10-year-old\, her anger when swastikas are drawn on desks at her children’s school in New Jersey\, the profound and essential perspective offered by traditional religious practice\, prayer\, and study — to assert the vitality\, complexity\, and depth of this life against an anti-Semitism that\, far from being disarmed by the mantra of ​“Never forget\,” is on the rise \nDr. Josh Andy \nDr. Josh Andy is a full time teacher at Winchester Thurston School\, and an educational programs leader and Holocaust scholar with Classrooms Without Borders. An accomplished and award winning educator\, Dr. Andy holds a Ph.D. in Russian and East European Studies from Birmingham University and teaches in the Upper School. In addition to teaching Genocide and Holocaust Studies\, he teaches a course on the modern Middle East\, Multicultural America\, and AP European history. Next year he will teach Russian history. He has traveled internationally to study global cultures and issues as part of his work to design engaging courses for his students. He earned WT’s Mary Houston Griffin Award for Excellence in Teaching in 2014\, which funded his trip to Amman\, Jordan\, to develop his Middle East course. \nAbout the Author: Dara Horn \nDara Horn is the award-winning author of six books\, including the novels In the Image (Norton 2002)\, The World to Come (Norton 2006)\, All Other Nights (Norton 2009)\, A Guide for the Perplexed (Norton 2013)\, and Eternal Life (Norton 2018)\, and the essay collection People Love Dead Jews: Reports from a Haunted Present (Norton 2021). One of Granta magazine’s Best Young American Novelists (2007)\, she is the recipient of two National Jewish Book Awards\, the Edward Lewis Wallant Award\, the Harold U. Ribalow Award\, and the Reform Judaism Fiction Prize\, and she was a finalist for the Wingate Prize\, the Simpson Family Literary Prize\, and the Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction. \nHer books have been selected as New York Times Notable Books\, Booklist’s 25 Best Books of the Decade\, and San Francisco Chronicle’s Best Books of the Year\, and have been translated into eleven languages. Her nonfiction work has appeared in The New York Times\, The Wall Street Journal\, The Washington Post\, The Atlantic\, Smithsonian Magazine\, and The Jewish Review of Books\, among many other publications\, and she is a regular columnist for Tablet Magazine. Horn received her doctorate in comparative literature from Harvard University\, studying Yiddish and Hebrew. She has taught courses in these subjects at Sarah Lawrence College and Yeshiva University\, and held the Gerald Weinstock Visiting Professorship in Jewish Studies at Harvard. She has lectured for audiences in hundreds of venues throughout North America\, Israel\, and Australia. She lives in New Jersey with her husband and four children. \nFor those that would like to plan ahead our next book for December & January will be: ‘ All the Frequent Troubles of Our Days: The True Story of the American Woman at the Heart of the German Resistance to Hitler’ by Rebecca Donner (Author)
URL:https://cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net/event/weekly-book-discussions-people-love-dead-jews-with-dr-josh-andy-2/
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SUMMARY:Virtual Tour of Israel - Gems of the Holy Land
DESCRIPTION:Join us in Israel- virtually! Monthly tours with guide and scholar\, Rabbi Jonty Blackman\nMonday\, December 13\, 2021\n4:00 pm Eastern Time\nZoom | Registration required and closes 30 minutes prior to the start of the program \nREGISTER \nUntil you can travel again in person\, join Rabbi Jonty Blackman on a virtual trip to Israel. Through the end of the year\, Jonty will give one lecture per month for CWB’s community of learners. \nThis program is in partnership with The Jewish Federation of Greater Pittsburgh and Rodef Shalom Congregation  \nRegistrants only need to RSVP once to be registered for the entire series. \nPAST TOURS\nJuly 12: Pathway to Destruction – The twists and turns that lead to the Roman Destruction of Jerusalem 2 millennia ago. \nAugust 9: Tel Aviv – The city that doesn’t sleep – A look at the first Hebrew City and\, in many ways\, the city that is the pumping heart of the modern day State of Israel. \nSep 13: Start Up Nation – A journey following Israel’s extraordinary tale from socialist society to one of the leading nations in the technological revolution. \nOct 18: A nation marches on its stomach! – An exploration of Israel’s culinary journey from the falafel and daily rationing to the explosive culinary scene that is Israel today. \nNovember 8: Treasures of the Mediterranean – A tour following some of the wonders on the coast of Israel. \nDecember 13: Gems of the Holy Land – A peek into some of the lesser known\, but none-the-less extraordinary stories and places that dot the Land of Israel. \nJonty 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.
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SUMMARY:"My Neighbor My Killer" Post-Film discussion with filmmaker Anne Aghion\, survivor and activist Liliane Pari Umhoza in conversation with Dr. Alexis Herr
DESCRIPTION:“My Neighbor My Killer” Film and Post Screening Discussion with the documentary filmmaker Anne Aghion\, survivor and activist Liliane Pari Umuhoza in conversation with Dr. Alexis Herr \nSunday\, December 12\, 2021\n3:00-4:30pm\nZoom | Registration ends 30 minutes before the start of the program \nRegister to receive a link for the film (sent out by email starting on Wednesday\, December 8) \nREGISTER \nClassrooms Without Borders and the Maltz Museum of Jewish Heritage are excited to offer the opportunity to watch the film “My Neighbor My Killer” and engage in a post-film discussion with the documentary filmmaker Anne Aghion\, Liliane Pari Umuhoza in conversation with Dr. Alexis Herr.  \nThis special film series co-sponsored by \nMY NEIGHBOR MY KILLER\nCould you ever forgive the people who slaughtered your family? In 1994\, hundreds of thousands of Rwandan Hutus were incited to wipe out the country’s Tutsi minority. From the crowded capital to the smallest village\, local ‘patrols’ massacred lifelong friends and family members\, most often with machetes and improvised weapons. Announced in 2001\, and ending this year\, the government put in place the Gacaca Tribunals — open-air hearings with citizen-judges meant to try their neighbors and rebuild the nation. As part of this experiment in reconciliation\, confessed genocide killers are sent home from prison\, while traumatized survivors are asked to forgive them and resume living side-by-side. Filming for close to a decade in a tiny hamlet\, award-winning filmmaker Anne Aghion has charted the impact of Gacaca on survivors and perpetrators alike. Through their fear and anger\, accusations and defenses\, blurry truths\, inconsolable sadness\, and hope for life renewed\, she captures the emotional journey to coexistence. \nAnne Aghion- Producer and Director \nMultiple award-winning filmmaker Anne Aghion has been praised by critics both as a director of unique and poetic vision\, and a documentarian who conveys a strong sense of the people and places she covers. Her work has earned her\, among other honors\, a Guggenheim Fellowship\, an Emmy\, the Human Rights Watch International Film Festival’s Nestor Almendros Award for Courage in Filmmaking\, an Arts & Literary Arts Residency at the Rockefeller Foundation’s Bellagio Center\, a MacDowell Colony Elodie Osborn Fellowship\, and a UNESCO Fellini Prize. Her most recent documentary\, My Neighbor My Killer\, capped nearly ten years of filming the Gacaca (pr. ga-TCHA-tcha) justice process in post- genocide Rwanda. There\, Aghion charted the emotional impact of a system of local open-air courts that adjudicated genocide crimes\, and returned killers to their homes in exchange for confessions. \nMy Neighbor My Killer is one of the rare documentaries to be accepted in Official Selection at the 2009 Cannes Film Festival. Since then\, it has been invited to screen across the globe. It is the feature-length companion to a trilogy of hour-long films. Gacaca\, Living Together Again in Rwanda? (2003)\, and Emmy-winner In Rwanda we say… The family that does not speak dies (2005)\, have aired on television internationally. The final chapter\, The Notebooks of Memory\, was completed in 2009. \nBeyond their success as documentaries\, the Gacaca Films are recognized as a vital tool for understanding Rwanda’s bold experiment in social reconstruction. They have also had impact on the ground in Rwanda\, where they have been used by NGOs for community-based training\, and most remarkably\, were screened for tens of thousands of confessed genocide killers before their release from prison. \nPhilip Gourevitch\, author of “We Wish to Inform You that Tomorrow We Will Be Killed With Our Families\, Stories from Rwanda\,” has said of Aghion’s work that it “captures quite precisely much of what is most compelling and unsettling about Rwanda’s quest for justice after genocide.” \nMoving in an altogether different direction\, in 2008\, Aghion released Ice People\, a documentary feature that explores the physical\, emotional and spiritual adventure of living and conducting science in Antarctica. Filmed “on the ice” over the course of four months\, it was described by Variety as “staggeringly beautiful\,” and received critical praise from publications as diverse as the The New York Times\, USA Today\, ArtForum and EARTH Magazine. \nCurrently in early stages of development are film projects that will take Aghion to the Indian subcontinent\, and a multi-media art installation that will draw on her experiences in Antarctica and New Zealand. \nAghion splits her time between New York and Paris. She holds a degree in Arab Language and Literature from Barnard College at Columbia University in New York. Before making films\, she spent close to a decade at The New York Times\, and then at the International Herald Tribune in Paris. \nAghion is co-founder and Honorary President of IRIBA CENTER FOR MULTIMEDIA HERITAGE in Kigali\, a place where all Rwandans will have access to the country’s audiovisual history. \nTo learn more about Anne Aghion and her other films\, visit her website www.anneaghionfilms.com. \nLiliane Pari Umuhoza- Survivor and Activist\nLiliane Umuhoza is a Rwandan human rights advocate and founder of  “Women Genocide Survivors Retreat”  program\, supporting women survivors of the Genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda and she currently works for Foundation Rwanda as a project manager. Liliane uses her education in Peace and Conflict studies\, work with nonprofit organizations and life experience of surviving the Genocide against the Tutsi to fight against injustice and summon global dialogue and actions against human right abuses. She has spoken at events related to peace-building\, human rights and women empowerment at universities\, the UN\, the Embassy of Rwanda in Washington DC\, the Museum of Jewish Heritage in New York City and many others. Liliane is currently based in Kigali\, Rwanda.”  \nDr. Alexis Herr- moderator \nDr. Alexis Herr has dedicated her life to combating genocide and atrocity. This passion has motivated her educational and professional pursuits and translates into a strong desire to prevent human rights violations. Ms. Herr received a doctorate in Holocaust History from the Strassler Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies\, Clark University\, and currently lectures at the University of San Francisco and University of California\, Berkeley. \nShe is the recipient of numerous fellowships and awards including the Saul Kagan Claims Conference Postdoctoral Fellowship (2017-2018)\, the European Historical Research Infrastructure Fellowship (2017)\, the Pearl Resnick Postdoctoral Fellowship in Advanced Holocaust Studies\, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington\, DC (2016)\, and the Saul Kagan Claims Conference Dissertation Fellowship (2012-2014).   \nShe is the author of The Holocaust and Compensated Compliance in Italy: Fossoli di Carpi\, 1942 – 1952 (New York: Palgrave Macmillan\, 2016)\, and the editor of Rwanda: The Essential Reference Guide (Santa Barbara\, CA: ABC-CLIO\, 2018) and Sudan: The Essential Reference Guide (Santa Barbara\, CA: ABC-CLIO\, 2020). \nThank you to our partner:
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SUMMARY:Confronting the Complexity of Holocaust Scholarship\,  with Dr. Michael Berenbaum\, Session #3- Auschwitz Not Long Ago\, Not Far Away
DESCRIPTION:Confronting the Complexity of Holocaust Scholarship: Reflections on the Past\, Present\, and Future of Holocaust Studies\nWednesday\, June 8\, 2022\n3PM ET\nZoom | Registration required and closes 30 minutes prior to the start of the program \nREGISTER \nClassrooms Without Borders\, in partnership with Liberation75\, is excited to offer the opportunity to engage in our unique series: Confronting the Complexity of Holocaust Scholarship: Reflections on the Past\, Present\, and Future of Holocaust Studies\nThe rise of anti-Semitism across the globe alongside the current data that points to a serious void in understanding about the Holocaust in the 21st century shines a light on a critical need to continue the task of Holocaust Scholars to honor the memory of the Shoah.\nIn each of our 9 part series we will meet Top Scholars in the field and focus on their research and scholarship.\nThe 9th and Final Session in this series will feature: Haunted Laughter: Jonathan Friedman in conversation with Dr. Michael Berenbaum on the use of comedy as a literary form to depict Adolf Hitler\, The Third Reich\, and the Holocaust.\nDr. Michael Berenbaum \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. \nProfessor Jonathan Friedman \nJonathan Friedman is currently Professor of History and the Director of Holocaust and Genocide Studies at West Chester University in West Chester\, Pennsylvania. He has been at West Chester since 2002. Before that\, he worked as a historian at both the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington\, D.C. and the Survivors of the Shoah Visual History Foundation in Los Angeles. He has edited five books and authored five as well\, including\, most recently\, Haunted Laughter: Representations of Adolf Hitler\, The Third Reich\, and The Holocaust in Comedic Film and Television (Rowman and Littlefield/Lexington Books\, 2022).  \nPrevious Sessions in this Series:\nOctober 13\, 2021 3PM ET: Women and the Holocaust with Dr. Carol Rittner RSM Distinguished Professor of Holocaust & Genocide Studies Emerita\nNovember 10\, 2021 at 3pm ET: Six Million!? with Documentary Film Maker: David Fisher\nDecember 8\, 2021 at 3pm ET: Auschwitz: Not Long Ago\, Not Far Away.\nJanuary 12\, 2022 at 3pm ET: Wendy Lower: Using Photographs as Evidence\nFebruary 9\, 2022 at 3pm ET: Antisemitism and Book Banning in 2022?\nMarch 9\, 2022 at 3pm ET: Professor Larry Langer; the foremost scholar of the Holocaust in the field of literature and testimony\nApril 13\, 2022 at 3pm ET: Jonathan Petropoulos\, Ph.D.\, the world’s leading scholar on Nazi stolen art\nMay 11\, 2022 at 3pm ET: Mark Weizmann\, speaking on Holocaust denial\, minimization\, trivialization\, and distortion\nThank you to our partner: \nThe full inclusion of people of all abilities is a core value of Classrooms Without Borders. For questions or to make requests for special accommodations contact melissa@classroomswithoutborders.org
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SUMMARY:Weekly Book Discussions: "People Love Dead Jews" with Dr. Josh Andy
DESCRIPTION:This program is geared for educators\, but open to all.(Act 48 credit hours or a letter of participation is available upon request.) \nThe book discussions will be offered on the following dates and times:\nNEW DATES!\nDecember 7\, 2021 | 4:00-5:00pm\nDecember 14\, 2021 | 4:00-5:00pm\nDecember 21\, 2021 | 4:00-5:00pm\nAbout The Book \nA startling exploration of how Jewish history is exploited to flatter the living\nReflecting on subjects as far-flung as the international veneration of Anne Frank\, the blockbuster traveling exhibition called ​“Auschwitz\,” the Jewish history of the Chinese city of Harbin\, and the little known ​“righteous Gentile” Varian Fry\, Dara Horn challenges us to confront the reasons why there might be so much fascination with Jewish deaths\, as emblematic of the worst of evils the world has to offer\, and so little respect for Jewish lives\, as they continue to unfold in the present. \nHorn draws on her own family’s life — trying to explain Shakespeare’s Shylock to a curious 10-year-old\, her anger when swastikas are drawn on desks at her children’s school in New Jersey\, the profound and essential perspective offered by traditional religious practice\, prayer\, and study — to assert the vitality\, complexity\, and depth of this life against an anti-Semitism that\, far from being disarmed by the mantra of ​“Never forget\,” is on the rise \nDr. Josh Andy \nDr. Josh Andy is a full time teacher at Winchester Thurston School\, and an educational programs leader and Holocaust scholar with Classrooms Without Borders. An accomplished and award winning educator\, Dr. Andy holds a Ph.D. in Russian and East European Studies from Birmingham University and teaches in the Upper School. In addition to teaching Genocide and Holocaust Studies\, he teaches a course on the modern Middle East\, Multicultural America\, and AP European history. Next year he will teach Russian history. He has traveled internationally to study global cultures and issues as part of his work to design engaging courses for his students. He earned WT’s Mary Houston Griffin Award for Excellence in Teaching in 2014\, which funded his trip to Amman\, Jordan\, to develop his Middle East course. \nAbout the Author: Dara Horn \nDara Horn is the award-winning author of six books\, including the novels In the Image (Norton 2002)\, The World to Come (Norton 2006)\, All Other Nights (Norton 2009)\, A Guide for the Perplexed (Norton 2013)\, and Eternal Life (Norton 2018)\, and the essay collection People Love Dead Jews: Reports from a Haunted Present (Norton 2021). One of Granta magazine’s Best Young American Novelists (2007)\, she is the recipient of two National Jewish Book Awards\, the Edward Lewis Wallant Award\, the Harold U. Ribalow Award\, and the Reform Judaism Fiction Prize\, and she was a finalist for the Wingate Prize\, the Simpson Family Literary Prize\, and the Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction. \nHer books have been selected as New York Times Notable Books\, Booklist’s 25 Best Books of the Decade\, and San Francisco Chronicle’s Best Books of the Year\, and have been translated into eleven languages. Her nonfiction work has appeared in The New York Times\, The Wall Street Journal\, The Washington Post\, The Atlantic\, Smithsonian Magazine\, and The Jewish Review of Books\, among many other publications\, and she is a regular columnist for Tablet Magazine. Horn received her doctorate in comparative literature from Harvard University\, studying Yiddish and Hebrew. She has taught courses in these subjects at Sarah Lawrence College and Yeshiva University\, and held the Gerald Weinstock Visiting Professorship in Jewish Studies at Harvard. She has lectured for audiences in hundreds of venues throughout North America\, Israel\, and Australia. She lives in New Jersey with her husband and four children. \nFor those that would like to plan ahead our next book for December & January will be: ‘ All the Frequent Troubles of Our Days: The True Story of the American Woman at the Heart of the German Resistance to Hitler’ by Rebecca Donner (Author)
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SUMMARY:Love with No Tomorrow Tales of Romance During the Holocaust Book Launch with Mindell Pierce\, (Author)\, Rabbi Micah Becker-Klein\, and Dr. Michael Berenbaum
DESCRIPTION:Love with No Tomorrow: Tales of Romance During the Holocaust: Book Launch with Mindell Pierce\, (Author)\, Rabbi Micah Becker-Klein\, and Dr. Michael Berenbaum\nWednesday\, December 1\, 2021\n4:00pm-5:30pm ET \nRegister \nLove at first sight. During the Holocaust. Bonds as strong as steel\, forged in the flames of hate.\nThese are extraordinary stories of love affairs during the most dangerous\, degrading\, and deadly conditions of genocidal persecution. The extreme lengths to which two people will go to express their love\, and the superhuman strength that is derived from such love\, is the stuff of miracles and endless inspiration. This little-known aspect of the Holocaust\, seen through the eyes of those in love\, is a unique contribution to our understanding of the best and the worst qualities of human nature. This book must be read by anyone who wants to know more about life and love enduring the most horrendous conditions one could imagine. \nMindelle Pierce \nMindelle Pierce has dedicated over fifteen years of her career to studying and teaching the history of the Holocaust. As a child of Holocaust survivors herself\, she has a personal connection and insight into this history. Mindelle continues to contribute her knowledge and research to many renowned organizations\, including the U.S Holocaust Memorial Museum in New York; the Museum of Jewish Heritage; and Manhattan College. She lives in Margate City\, New Jersey. \nRabbi Micah Becker-Klein \nRabbi Micah Becker-Klein (RRC 2000) serves as rabbi to the Community Hvaurah of Delaware. Micah is the owner of Roasting Rabbi Coffee (roastingrabbi.com) A coffee roasting company that inspires holy elevation in each batch to be shared on special days and in everyday life. In every coffee varietal we “release the holy spark in each bean!” We believe great coffee and great people go together and value people-to-people partnerships as a means to building a world of justice. Therefore\, a percentage of profits is donated to grassroots peace efforts. \nMicah attended the List College Joint program with Columbia University and the Jewish Theological Seminary for undergraduate studies and graduate rabbinical training at the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College. He served as assistant editor for the “Kol Heneshamah: Yamim Nora’im” High Holy Day prayerbook published by the Reconstructionist Press. He has served on the faculty at the University of Delaware\, Keene State College\, and Keene State Holocaust Education Center\, and served as director of Jewish Life and Education at the Springfield Jewish Community Center in Springfield\, MA. In the area of Jewish food\, Micah is a mashgi’ach\, and specialist in “micro-shechitah” and has served as a lecturer to the Delaware Culinary Arts program. Micah has served on the Camp JRF board and served on the faculty for many years. He is married to Rachel and is the father of Sophie and Reuben. \nDr. Michael Berenbaum \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. \nThe full inclusion of people of all abilities is a core value of Classrooms Without Borders. For questions or to make requests for special accommodations contact melissa@classroomswithoutborders.org
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SUMMARY:Arab Israeli Conflict Series with Avi Ben Hur Session III
DESCRIPTION:Arab Israeli Conflict with Avi Ben Hur\nTuesday\, May 31\, 2022\n2:00-3:30 ET\nZOOM | Registration required and closes 30 minutes prior to the start of the program \nREGISTER \nArab-Israeli Conflict Course with CWB In House Scholar Avi Ben Hur\nThe Arab-Israeli conflict plays a large (some would claim outsized) role in current events. This course aims to unpack the causes and core issues that relate to the Conflict. The goal is to make the subject accessible to educators and to give them the tools with which to grapple in the classroom with the subject at large and with breaking news. While this course is a primer on the subject\, the Q & A following each session is designed to enable the participants to engage with related issues on a higher resolution. Each section will be accompanied with suggestions for further exploration. The earlier lectures will approach the Conflict from two intersecting directions: \nThree concentric levels:\nThe International aspect (e.g. the Cold War)\nThe Regional aspect (the Middle East at large)\nThe leadership (of the countries at conflict)\nMultiple narratives:\nThe Jewish/Israeli narrative\nThe Arab/Palestinian narrative\nThe later sessions will put a greater focus on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and the continuing friction or détente between Israel and other regional actors. \nA concerted effort will be made to present the historical processes in an even-handed and balanced way\, while keeping in mind that this is a loaded topic for many people. We have no illusions that everyone will emerge from each lesson in agreement with the presenter or with their fellow participants. The key to a successful program will be the mutual respect paid to each and every person (including the presenter)\, particularly in the part designed for discussion/dialogue (i.e. the Q & A). By approaching the subject this way we strive to “model” how we believe education should work. Open hearts\, open minds and tolerance are the core values that inform CWB’s work. \nSession IX: Israel and the Palestinians 1987-2021\nIn December 1987\, the Palestinians re-entered the Israeli consciousness with the outbreak of massive civil disobedience that spread from the Gaza Strip to the West Bank in the so-called “Intifada.” Although this uprising petered out by 1991\, by September 1993 Israeli and PLO representatives began a political process in an attempt to come to a final peace agreement between the sides. These talks and accords continued until the summer of 2000 when they collapsed in Camp David. Within weeks a second Intifada broke out which was characterized by Palestinian bombing attacks on the Israeli civilian population. Israel responded with force and the construction of a barrier to thwart the bombers. In 2005 Israel decided to disengage from the Gaza Strip. This resulted in the armed takeover of the Strip by Hamas in 2007 and 4 subsequent conflicts with Israel in 2008/9\, 2012\, 2014 and 2021. Direct negotiations between Israel and the Palestinians have not existed for the past 6 years. \nSubjects to be covered: The 1st Intifada\, the Oslo Process\, 2nd Intifada\, Gaza redeployment\, 2005-2021 \nPast Sessions:\nSeptember 12\, 2021 | Background to the conflict (Jewish Nationalism – the rise of the Zionist Movement\, Arab Nationalism – the rise of the Palestinian National Movement)\nOctober 10\, 2021 | The British Mandate Period – 1922-1948\nNovember 21\, 2021 | The War for Independence/Nakba part I\nDecember 21\, 2021 | The War for Independence/Nakba part II\nJanuary 25\, 2022 | Israel Copes with Strategic Challenges – the Rise of Pan-Arabism and Nasser\nFebruary 22\, 2022 | The Six Days War\nMarch 29\, 2022 | The War of Attrition and the Yom Kippur War\nApril 26\, 2022 | The P.L.O. & Fighting Terror\, Peace with Egypt\, the First Lebanon War\nFinal SESSION in this series: \nJune 21\, 2022\nAll sessions will be 2:00pm-3:30pm ET. \nAvi Ben-Hur\nScholar in Residence \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. \nThe full inclusion of people of all abilities is a core value of Classrooms Without Borders. For questions or to make requests for special accommodations contact ellen@classroomswithoutborders.org \nThe full inclusion of people of all abilities is a core value of Classrooms Without Borders. For questions or to make requests for special accommodations contact melissa@classroomswithoutborders.org
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SUMMARY:Holocaust Museums and Memorials Around the World |  Memory\, Memorials and Museums of the Holocaust and the Genocide Against the Tutsi in Rwanda: A view from the African Continent
DESCRIPTION:Classrooms Without Borders\, in coordination with Tali Nates\, Founder and Director of the Johannesburg Genocide & Holocaust Centre\, and in partnership with the Maltz Museum of Jewish Heritage\, Liberation75\,  and the USC Shoah Foundation is pleased to embark on this new innovative Museums and Memorial series where we will highlight different angles of complex memory; grappling with the the challenges faced in defining representation of both Lived Memory and Historical Memory.\nAlongside CWB Scholars we will travel with Museum historians\, experts\, and contemporary witnesses to 10 different regions. We will explore the history behind the exhibits\, discuss the nature of memory and memorials\, and discover how the world remembers the Shoah and honors the lives we lost. We will also explore how that memory is interconnected to genocides\, both past and present. Our experts will challenge us to grapple with issues of cultural identity\, responsibility to community\, and decision-making\, as well as ways in which individuals and nations responded\, or failed to respond\, to the crisis through close examination of the Museum’s artifacts and memorials. \nOur May Event in this Series: ‘Remembering the Holocaust in Austria’. will feature Hannah M. Lessing\, Dr Albert Lichtblau & Tali Nates.\nTali Nates \nTali Nates is the founder and director of the Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Centre and chair of the South African Holocaust & Genocide Foundation. She is a historian who lectures internationally on Holocaust education\, genocide prevention\, reconciliation and human rights. Tali has presented at numerous international conferences including at the United Nations (2016 & 2020). She published articles and contributed chapters to many 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) and Conceptualizing Mass Violence\, Representations\, Recollections\, and Reinterpretations (2021). In 2010\, Tali was chosen as one of the top 100 newsworthy and noteworthy women in South Africa\, by the Mail & Guardian. She won many awards including the Kia Community Service Award (South Africa\, 2015) and the Agit Gratias Award (2020\, Czech Republic). Tali serves on the Academic Advisory Group of the School of Social and Health Sciences\, Monash University (IIEMSA)\, South Africa. She was one of the founders of the Holocaust and Tutsi Genocide Survivors groups in Johannesburg. Born to a family of Holocaust survivors\, her father and uncle were saved by Oskar Schindler. The rest of the family was murdered. \nHannah Lessing \nHannah Lessing has been Secretary General of the National Fund of the Republic of Austria for Victims of National Socialism since 1995. She has also headed the General Settlement Fund since 2001 and the Fund for the Restoration of the Jewish Cemeteries in Austria since 2010 – three Funds carrying out their work in remembrance of the victims. \nHannah Lessing is Co-Head of the Austrian delegation to the “International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance” (IHRA). Since March 2011\, she has been Austria’s representative on the International Committee of the Auschwitz Foundation and Member of the Board of the Documentation Centre of Austrian Resistance. \nIn 2001\, as a member of the Austrian delegation headed by Ambassador Sucharipa\, Hannah Lessing participated in the negotiations on compensation issues conducted by Under-Secretary of State Stuart Eizenstat\, which led to the signature of the Joint Statement in Washington in 2001. Following this Agreement\, the General Settlement Fund for Victims of National Socialism was established in 2001 in order to achieve a comprehensive resolution to open questions of compensation for victims of National Socialism. \nEstablished in order to express the moral responsibility of the Republic of Austria towards victims of National Socialism\, the National Fund carries out a range of activities related to matters of restitution and compensation and the conveyance of historical awareness. \nHannah Lessing has lectured extensively on the work of the three Funds\, as well as in connection with national and international commemoration activities regarding the Holocaust. \nDr. Albert Lichtblau \nDr. Albert Lichtblau was Professor of History at the University of Salzburg\, Austria\, where he is chair and vice-chair of the Centre for Jewish Cultural History. His areas of research include contemporary history\, holocaust\, genocide and migration studies\, but also oral history and audio-visual history. Currently\, he was working on various projects like the Austrian exhibition at the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum or the Austrian Heritage Collection. \nPrevious Sessions in this Series: \nSeptember 23\, 2021 Holocaust Museums and Memorials: Session #1 ‘Generation to Generation: The Evolution of Memorialization’ With Dr. Michael Berenbaum and Tali Nates in conversation with Stephen Smith and James Young\nOctober 25th\, 2021 ‘Remembering the killing sites 80 years later’ Tali Nates alongside\, Omer Bartov\, Faina Kukliansky\, Robert Jan van Pelt.\nNovember 18th\, 2021 at 1pm ET/19h00 SAST “Memory\, Memorials and Museums of the Holocaust and the Genocide Against the Tutsi in Rwanda: A view from the African Continent”.Tali Nates alonside Myra Osrin\, Mary Kluk\, Owen Griffiths\, and Freddy Mutanguha\nJanuary 20\, 2022 “Remembering the Holocaust in Poland” Tali Nates; Featuring: Edyta Gawron (Schindler’s Museum)\, Jakub Nowakowski (Galicia Jewish Museum)\, Tomasz Kuncewicz (Director Of The Auschwitz Jewish Center)\, and Dariusz Popiela (memorials in the smaller town of Western Galicia)\nFebruary 24\, 2022 “Museums in Context – Creating a new Museum and Memorial”: Michael Berenbaum (many new museums)\, Tali Nates (Johannesburg)\, Marco Gonzalez (Guatemala)\, Rabbi Andrew Baker (Belzec).\nMarch 24\, 2022 “The Landscape of Memory in Germany”: with Dr. Florian Kemmelmeier\, Memorials in Berlin (Topography of Terror\, and an overview of the landscape of memorials). Dr. Matthias Hass\, Deputy Director House of Wannsee Conference\, Dr.  Matthias Heyl\, Director of Education\, Ravensbruck & Tali Nates (Johannesburg)\,\nUpcoming Events:\nJoin us in September and October for our 2 final sessions.\nDetails coming soon!\nThank you to our partners:\nThe full inclusion of people of all abilities is a core value of Classrooms Without Borders. For questions or to make requests for special accommodations contact melissa@classroomswithoutborders.org
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SUMMARY:Israel Update with Avi Ben Hur
DESCRIPTION:Join us for an update and overview about the current situation in Israel.You are invited to participate in an update on Israel offered once per month. Given the events in the past few months\, from the recent conflict with Gaza to the internal political upheaval in Israel there is a necessity to get an educated view from the “inside”. We are offering an opportunity to hear from our in-house scholar – Avi Ben-Hur – as he helps us navigate and understand what is happening with the cease-fire with Hamas and the potential change of leadership of the Israeli government. \nConcluding Session for this Series:\nNovember 16\, 2021 Israel and Climate Change\, Jewish worship at the Western Wall\, & Archaeology Update\nPrevious sessions:\nOctober 12\, 2021 – Covid Update\, The Temple Mount\, The Other Epidemic: Violence & Crime in Arab society\, and New Archeological Finds\nSeptember 14\, 2021 – Jail Break\, Marriage Survey\, and Archaeological Findings\nAugust 17\, 2021: Israel-Poland Relations\, Resurgence of Covid – the Delta Variant\, Climate Change & Jerusalem Wildfires\, and the Olympians\nJuly 6\, 2021: Update on the new government\, Covid-19 in Israel and more.\nJune 22\, 2021: The 36th Government of Israel- June 2021\nJune 8 & May 19: How did this happen and where is it going?\nThe present malaise confounding Israel caught everyone by surprise. How did things slide out of control so quickly? What are the major challenges facing Israel at this very moment? How is the conflict impacting the political impasse since the recent March elections? What does the future hold for the relations between Jews and Arabs in the State of Israel?\nOur scholar in residence will be speaking about all of the above issues and more this coming Wednesday… \nAvi Ben-Hur\nScholar in Residence \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.
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SUMMARY:Muranow Post Film Discussion with film director Chen Shelach in conversation with Natalia Aleksiun
DESCRIPTION:Classrooms Without Borders\, in partnership with the Maltz Museum of Jewish Heritage\, and Liberation75 is excited to offer the opportunity to watch the film “Muranow” and engage in a post-film discussion with the documentary Film  Director Chen Shelach  and CWB Scholar Natalia Aleksiun The Muranow neighborhood in Warsaw was a flourishing and important Jewish center. During World War II the neighborhood was turned into the ”Warsaw Ghetto” When the war ended the neighborhood was rebuilt with the rubble of its own destruction. Today thousands of Polish people live in the green and spacious Muranow neighborhood\, yet its dark past keeps haunting it. Polish residents claim that Jewish ghosts live in the neighborhood.  \nJews’ ghosts live In Muranow neighborhood in Warsaw. At night\, they shake off the dust and ashes that cover them and start wonder the streets that used to belong to them before the Second World War during which the neighborhood turned into the biggest ghetto in history. The neighborhood was ruined as a result of Germans’ bombarding and thousands of Jews were buried underneath the ruins of the Warsaw Ghetto. Their bodies\, as well as the ruins of the buildings\, were never removed. The remains of life served as raw materials for the building of the new neighborhood built on the ruins. The new neighborhood has the same name as the old one: “Muranow”. The streets of the new neighborhood bear the names of the streets prior to the devastation\, but other than that\, there is total disconnection between past and present. The distance between the physical\, spacious and green appearance and the human tragedy hidden under the ground is almost endless. Perhaps this is the reason why the ghosts go out at night\, to reclaim what used to be theirs in the past. Some of the Polish residents of Muranow claim they have met the ghosts. Others think that the ghosts are only a metaphor for the implications of the lives\, culture and memory that were buried. \nNatalia Aleksiun \nNatalia Aleksiun\, professor of modern Jewish history at Touro College\, New York is the incoming Harry Rich Professor of Holocaust Studies at the University of Florida-Gainesville. She studied Polish and Jewish history at the Warsaw University\, the Graduate School of Social Studies in Warsaw and Hebrew University in Jerusalem and New York University. She received her doctorates from Warsaw University and  New York University. She is the author of Where To? The Zionist Movement in Poland\, 1944–1950) (Warsaw\, 2002)\, co-editor of several volumes\, including Polin: Studies in Polish Jewry\,  vol. 29: Writing Jewish History in Eastern Europe (2017)\, and European Holocaust Studies\, vol. 3: (Places\, Spaces and Voids in the Holocaust). She is co-editor of East European Jewish Affairs. In 2019\, she published a critical edition of Gerszon Taffet’s Destruction of Żółkiew Jews. Her most recent book\, Conscious History: Polish Jewish Historians before the Holocaust\, was published in 2021 with Littman Library of Jewish Civilization. She is co-editor of East European Jewish Affairs. She is currently working on a book about the so-called cadaver affair at European universities in the 1920s and 1930s and on a project dealing with daily lives of Jews in hiding in Galicia during the Holocaust. \nChen Shelach \nChen Shelach Director\, Editor\, Script writer\nGraduate of the School of Television Professions – GivatHaviva Professional Filmography 2017 – One of the writers and content editor of “Cover Story” – the story of Israeli “Mossad” 2016 – Scriptwriter and director of “Pig in the Holy Land” – the story of the pork industry in Israel \n2014 – Scriptwriter and director (in cooperation with DokiDror) of “My Enemy\, My Partner” – the story of an Israeli and a Palestinian who build a business together \n2012 – Scriptwriter\, director and shooting of “Photo-Novella” – a private journey to the cycle of secrets and silences in the family \n2008 – Scriptwriter and director of “When Jabel Fell” – the story of combat soldiers in an elite unit who deal with the failure of a military campaign \nThank you to our partners:\nThe full inclusion of people of all abilities is a core value of Classrooms Without Borders. For questions or to make requests for special accommodations contact melissa@classroomswithoutborders.org
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