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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
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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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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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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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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/
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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
URL:https://cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net/event/arab-israeli-conflict-iv-with-avi-ben-hur/
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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)
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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.
URL:https://cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net/event/virtual-tour-of-israel-gems-of-the-holy-land/
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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)
URL:https://cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net/event/weekly-book-discussions-people-love-dead-jews-with-dr-josh-andy/
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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
URL:https://cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net/event/muranow-post-film-discussion-with-film-director-chen-shelach-in-conversation-with-natalia-aleksiun/
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SUMMARY:Confronting the Complexity of Holocaust Scholarship Six Million! with Documentary Filmmaker David Fisher
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-six-million-with-documentary-filmmaker-david-fisher/
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SUMMARY:Hollywood Composers Musicians in Exile with Inbal Megiddo\, Cello and Jian Liu\, Piano
DESCRIPTION:Hollywood Composers: Musicians in Exile with Inbal Megiddo\, Cello and Jian Liu\, Piano\nTuesday\, November 9\, 2021\n4:00pm-5:30pm ET \nREGISTER \nA unique evening showcasing the concert music and film scores of the Golden Age of Cinema\, composed by leading Jewish European composers who fled the Holocaust and settled in Hollywood. Composers such as Erich Korngold\, Ernst Toch\, and Franz Waxman\, provide a glimpse into the immigrant’s journey to and experience in America. From resilience to reinvention in Hollywood\, these composers wrote music for some of the greatest blockbusters and transformed America’s musical landscape.\nThe concert will be a multimedia experience\, with live performance (via zoom) of concert music\, preceded by clips of the films that showcase the scores. \nInbal is passionate about the genre of suppressed composers. She searches for the music of composers who were persecuted and silenced\, and through performances\, give them voice and recognition. \nPrior to each live performance\, a selection or sample of a film featuring the score will be presented for each composer. Inbal will provide commentary on the connection between the film scores and concert music and brief discussion of the history and events these composers faced. There will be time for a Q&A session with the audience at the end of the program. \nErich Wolfgang Korngold (Austria\, 1897 – 1957) Cello Concerto\, Op. 37\nMiklós Rózsa (Hungary\, 1907 – 1995) Love Theme from El Cid\nJoseph Achron (Lithuania\, 1886-1943) Hebrew Melody\nMario Castelnuovo-Tedesco (Italy\, 1895 – 1968) Figaro\, from Barber of Seville by Rossini\nGeorge Gershwin (USA\, 1898 – 1937) Tribute to Blue Note Records\, New York Blue Note Record Label\, co-founded by Jewish refugees Alfred Lion & Francis Wolff (1939) Summertime\nCellist Inbal Megiddo\nCellist Inbal Megiddo has performed as soloist with many of the great orchestras and in major concert halls around the world\, including recitals in the Kennedy Center\, Carnegie Hall\, with the Berlin Symphony at the Philharmonie and a recital at the Staatsoper. At her New York debut at the Lincoln Center her playing was hailed by the press as having “magical expression and technical expertise.” Recent releases include a recording of the complete Bach Cello Suites and Debussy’s Sonatas and Trio\, which were nominated for Best Classical Album in the NZ Music Awards. She gave the NZ premieres of the Weinberg\, Villa Lobos\, and Barber Cello Concertos\, with her playing described as “Superb!…Virtuosic\, brilliant and powerful”. Other recent highlights include performances with the National Symphony Orchestra of Ireland\, Ukraine Philharmonic\, Lithuanian Philharmonic\, collaborations with preeminent conductors including Daniel Barenboim\, Shlomo Mintz\, and Lior Shambadal\, and concert tours throughout Europe\, North America\, and Asia. \nMs. Megiddo is Associate Professor in Cello at the New Zealand School of Music\, and has held faculty positions at the Oberlin Conservatory of Music and Yale University. She has been guest artist at festivals such as the International Cello Congress\, Beijing International Chamber Music Festival and Melbourne Cello Festival. She has given masterclasses at institutions around the world\, including many of the major music schools in North America\, Europe\, Israel\, and Australasia. Ms. Megiddo recently completed a doctoral thesis on the teaching methods of the legendary Aldo Parisot\, and is founder and director of the Cellophonia International Festival in Wellington. \nDr. Jian Liu\nBorn in China and educated in China and the USA\, Dr. Jian Liu is an internationally celebrated concert pianist\, chamber musician\, and educator\, and has performed and taught throughout Europe\, Asia\, and North America. His artistry has taken him to some of the world’s most prestigious concert halls\, including Carnegie Hall and Lincoln Center. He has also recorded many CDs\, one of which\, Debussy Sonatas and Piano Trio\, has been nominated as Best Classical Artist in the New Zealand Music Awards. His performances have been broadcast by various TV and radio stations including KPHO public radio (USA)\, CCTV (China)\, Suisse Romande Radio (Switzerland)\, Krakow Radio (Poland)\, Kan Radio (Israel) and Radio New Zealand. Dr. Liu is currently the Programme Director of Classical Performance and Head of Piano Studies at New Zealand School of Music. Dr. Liu holds a Doctor of Musical Arts degree from Yale School of Music\, where he was a student and assistant of Professor Claude Frank. \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:Virtual Israel Tours with Rabbi Jonty Blackman
DESCRIPTION:Until 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:"What Will Become of Us" Film and Post Screening Discussion
DESCRIPTION:“What Will Become of Us” Film and Post Screening Discussion with filmmaker Stephanie Ayanian\, Rev. Fr. Hratch Sargsyan\, and Anthony Barsamian in conversation with Dr. Mark Cole \nSunday\, November 7\, 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\, November 3) \nREGISTER \nClassrooms Without Borders and the Maltz Museum of Jewish Heritage are excited to offer the opportunity to watch the film “What Will Become of Us” and engage in a post-film discussion with the documentary filmmaker Stephanie Ayanian\, Rev. Fr. Hratch Sargsyan\, and Anthony Barsamian in conversation with Dr. Mark Cole.  \nThis is the first program in this special film series co-sponsored by \n A 60-Minute Feature Documentary about Armenians in America \n100 years ago\, Armenians were nearly annihilated by Genocide. Today\, often unrecognized\, it remains defining – but the long shadow of the Genocide creates a burden for young Armenian Americans that discourages them from taking up their culture. What Will Become of Us follows six Armenian Americans – famous and otherwise – as they navigate the 100th anniversary of the Genocide\, forging identities for the next 100 years. How can Armenian Americans honor their past\, while unshackling themselves from its trauma? \nIn 1915\, 1.5 million Armenians were killed in a genocide by the Ottoman Turks. One of the world’s ancient civilizations was nearly destroyed. Today\, many countries\, including Turkey and the United States\, do not recognize the Genocide because it is geopolitically inconvenient. Without recognition\, the long shadow of genocide persists. \nFor Armenian Americans\, the ‘long shadow’ of genocide is paralyzing. In an effort to preserve what was saved\, successive generations hold-fast to a pre-genocide conception of culture\, an idea frozen in time. The innovation needed to create a flourishing future is stymied by culturally-imposed litmus tests. The future of Armenian-American culture is in danger. \nWhat Will Become of Us moves past stayed notions of what it means to be a ‘good Armenian.’ In three dramatic acts\, the characters in What Will Become of Us travel through the American landscape while grappling with their identities and the 100th anniversary of the Armenian Genocide. Their interwoven stories build on one-another to create a cohesive narrative where the past and future are in constant tension.  \nThis is a story relatable to all immigrant communities who have faced past horrors. How can a culture pay respect to its past without being limited by it? How can a culture give individuals the freedom to define their own identities and collectively forge a hopeful future? This is not a film about genocide\, but about how to thrive despite it. \nStephanie Ayanian\nStephanie Ayanian is a film producer and director. Her documentary\, What Will Become of Us\, focuses on a small ethnic group grappling with how to maintain their cultural identities in the melting pot of America 100 years after genocide. She is currently in post production on her next film\, No Difference Between Us\, that shares the story of Father Armenag\, an Armenian-Catholic priest in Los Angeles who works tirelessly to aid Christian and Muslim refugees escaping the atrocities in Syria to secure their lives in America.  \nShe produced the independent feature Kinderwald\, an Official Selection of Munich International\, Seattle International\, Napa Valley\, and Slamdance film festivals. Ayanian co-owns storyshop\, an independent production house for creative media. Before starting storyshop\, Ayanian worked as a Senior Producer/Director for Penn State Public Broadcasting where she was the producer and co-director of Liquid Assets: The Story of Our Water Infrastructure\, for which she received the American Association of Engineering Societies Award for Journalism. The feature documentary was shown on 717 public television stations with a total of 1800 broadcasts in a 12-month period. She also produced and co-directed the Geospatial Revolution Project\, which was released episodically on the web and has screened worldwide. She holds an MFA in Film and Media Arts from Temple University and a BA in Film and Video from the Pennsylvania State University. \nShe is a third-generation Armenian American. Her grandparents survived the Armenian Genocide of 1915 as children\, grew up in the Armenian ghettos of Marseille\, France\, and came to reestablish their community in Fresno\, California. Her bedtime stories were often of her grandmother’s childhood—the Genocide\, the kidnapping of her family members\, the reuniting\, and the refugee camps.  \nRev. Fr. Hratch Sargsyan\nThe Rev. Fr. Hratch Sargsyan was born in Armavir\, Armenia\, one of two sons of Simon and Zmroukhd Sargsyan. He was christened Hovhannes\, and received his early education in local Armenian schools. \nIn 2000\, he felt the calling to become a priest and was admitted to the Vaskenian Theological Seminary in Sevan\, where he studied for four years and received a bachelor’s degree in theology. Meanwhile he served as the canon sacrist of Soorp Arakelotz Church adjacent to the seminary\, where he was responsible for the care and maintenance of the church and for assisting with services. In 2002\, the young Hovhannes was ordained to the rank of acolyte at Holy Etchmiadzin by Archbishop Nerses Bozabalian of blessed memory. \nFollowing the completion of the bachelor’s program at the Vaskenian Theological Seminary\, Fr. Hratch continued his studies at the Gevorgyan Seminary of Holy Etchmiadzin. During this period\, he also worked on preparing radio programs on religious subjects for transmission throughout Armenia. On February 23\, 2006\, on the Feast of Sts. Vartanantz\, Archbishop Bozabalian ordained the young acolyte to the diaconate. He graduated from the Gevorgyan Seminary that same year with a master’s degree in theology. \nAt Holy Etchmiadzin\, Fr. Hratch was appointed to the position of General Secretary in the Interchurch/Ecumenical Department\, where his duties included correspondence and public relations. Parallel to assuming the new position\, he took English language courses at the American University of Armenia in Yerevan\, and served as a deacon at Yerevan’s Holy Trinity Church. \nOn June 24\, 2007\, Hovhannes Sargsyan was ordained to the holy priesthood by Archbishop Vicken Aykazian at Holy Etchmiadzin\, and given the priestly name “Hratch.” The newly ordained priest began serving at St. Hovhannes Church in Sisyan in southern Armenia. Later he returned to Yerevan to serve as assistant pastor at Holy Trinity Church for one year. \nIn 2008\, His Holiness Karekin II\, the Supreme Patriarch and Catholicos of All Armenians\, assigned Fr. Hratch to serve as an intern in the Eastern Diocese of the Armenian Church of America. At the direction of Archbishop Khajag Barsamian\, Primate of the Eastern Diocese\, Fr. Hratch became the intern priest at St. John Armenian Church of Southfield\, MI. He served the parish for almost two years under the guidance of its pastor\, the Rev. Fr. Garabed Kochakian. During this time\, Fr. Hratch continued to study English and successfully completed a five-month program in Clinical Pastoral Education at Sinai-Grace Hospital in Detroit\, MI. He also made pastoral visits to other parishes in the Eastern Diocese. \nUpon the completion of his internship\, Fr. Hratch became the pastor of St. Sahag Armenian Church in Minneapolis-St. Paul\, MN. During the summer of 2011\, he was also the assistant director of the Diocesan Summer Camp program. On September 1\, 2011\, Fr. Hratch became the pastor of St. Gregory of Narek Armenian Church of Richmond Heights\, OH. \nFr. Hratch is married to Yn. Naira Azatyan. They are the proud parents of two daughters\, Tatev and Mane. \nAnthony Barsamian\nAnthony Barsamian is a graduate of the University of Massachusetts (Amherst) and Suffolk University School of Law in Boston\, Massachusetts.  Anthony is Managing Partner for over 20 years of Hutchings Barsamian Mandelcorn\, LLP.\, an 8 attorney firm concentrating on Business and Commercial Transactions\, Estate and Tax\, and Family Succession Planning located in Wellesley Hills\, Massachusetts. \nAnthony has been a Board Member of the Armenian Assembly of America since 2002 and served as Vice Chair from 2002-2004\, Chairman of the Board of Directors from 2004-2006 and is currently co-chair of the Board of Trustees beginning in 2015 to the present. He also serves on the Advisory Board of the Armenia Tree Project since 2006\, a reforestation and rural development project which has planted and monitored over 6.5 million trees in Armenia. \nAnthony has recently completed a three-year term as the first Armenian American President of the Massachusetts Council of Churches\, the oldest Christian ecumenical organization in the US\, founded in 1903. He also has represented the Eastern Diocese of the Armenian Church as a Delegate on the Board of the National Council of Churches for 12 years and served two years as the chair of the Constitution and Bylaws Committee. \nAnthony also serves on the Political Science Advisory Board for the Social and Behavioral Science Department of the University of Massachusetts (Amherst). Anthony began traveling regularly to Armenia in 1987. \nHe is a member of the executive board of World Link for Law\, a network of International Law Firms located in 70 countries. He sits on various for-profit and non-profit boards and organization and frequently speaks and regularly lectures on Estate and Tax\, and to various groups on Estate and Family Succession Planning and non-profit advocacy organization throughout the United States and Canada. \n Dr. Mark Cole- moderator\nDr. Cole began teaching in the History Department at Cleveland State University in Fall 2014. As of Summer 2021 he is also the Executive Director of the Ohio Council on Holocaust and Genocide Education. Dr. Cole specializes in modern Europe and Germany\, specifically the history of Nazism and the Holocaust\, Jewish Studies\, as well as the histories of consumption and food more generally.  He has presented his research across the United States as well as in Germany and Israel. He has been a Fellow of the Leo Baeck Institute Jerusalem\, the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington D.C.\, and the Holocaust Educational Foundation at Northwestern University.  When not changing the world one student mind at a time\, he enjoys working with his hands\, cooking\, traveling\, and playing pocket billiards.  He has one wife\, three daughters\, and a dog. \nThank you to our partner:
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SUMMARY:Session #2 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 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:Explore JCC Prague
DESCRIPTION:Classrooms Without Borders\, in collaboration with the Embassy of the Czech Republic\, invites you to join us online for a talk with Pavlína Šulcová\, director of the JCC Prague on October 21\, 2021\, at 4:30 pm EDT. Learn how Pavlina is connecting the Jewish community through new avenues. \nPavlína Šulcová \nPavlína was appointed for the job to open a modern Jewish community center nestled in Prague. Then the pandemic hit\, and she decided that rather than put her plans on hold\, she would open the first virtual Jewish Community Center (JCC). The virtual Prague JCC features a popular podcast on Judaism in Czech called J-Cast\, comics Haggadah and fun desk game (not only) for kids\, animated videos about Jewish holidays\, video recipes for making delicious Jewish cuisine at home\, and looks for new ways to reach the Jewish community and beyond. She also hopes to be able to meet in person as well\, creating a lively community center of Jewish life without borders. Her plans includes an in-person Jewish cultural center and cafe. Delve into the JCC Prague and see the exciting ways Pavlína is bringing Jewish culture and traditions to the 21st century. \nPavlína Šulcová is the director of JCC Prague. In April 2018\, she returned to Prague\, and\, as the executive director of PQ 2019\, she was responsible for the implementation of the 14th Prague Quadrennial of Performance and Space Design (PQ 2019). Between 2013–2018\, she served as deputy director of the Czech Center Tel Aviv. From 2008 to 2015\, she worked at the Embassy of the Czech Republic in Tel Aviv as the deputy commercial counselor. \nShe initiated/produced several independent Czech-Israeli art projects\, such as residential projects of Israeli artists (Dede\, Nitzan Mintz\, Geffen Refaeli\, Klone\, Flora) in Petrohradská kolektiv (2016-2017)\, two large-scale paintings by artists Dede and Nitzan Mintz at the building of the Argo Publishing House and the Ponec Theater and the exhibition of Israeli photographer Felix Lupa (2014). She also curated the group exhibition Israeli Street Moments (2018) at the Leica Gallery in Prague. She was involved in the production of the Post Bellum project in Israel (2015\, 2016\, 2017)\, Czech TV series The Graceful Legacy – Israel (2012) and the cultural events Days of Prague in Jerusalem (2012) and the Prague Tel Aviv Urban Party (2011).   \nIn regards to her studies\, she graduated from the Faculty of Social Sciences and the Faculty of Humanities\, Charles University in Prague\, majoring in political science and humanities. She wrote a bachelor’s thesis on the Israeli electoral reform of 1992\, and diploma thesis on the complexity of Israeli society. During her studies\, she received a scholarship and spent one year at the University of Haifa. In 2008\, she made an Aliya and lived in Tel Aviv for ten years. She pursued her studies in Photography and Graphic Design in Israel. She created the documentary series The Wingmen: A story of Czechoslovak pilots and air-force technicians in the service of Israel (2015). Her author’s projects include TLV24\, Tell Me What You Eat\, Israel Geometric\, Tel Aviv Street Life\, Be Our Guest\, and the blog FromTelAviv.com.  \nABOUT THE JCC PRAGUE    \nwww.jccprague.com \nJCC Prague aims to be a central hub for exploring and interpreting the richness\, variety and implications of adopting or developing a contemporary Jewish Identity through the mediums of culture\, learning and the arts. JCC offers freely accessible\, open to all\, culturally inspiring place. It will be a place for learning\, creativity and innovation. It will be a center of the Jewish life in Prague. JCC Prague aspires to be a favorite spot for Praguers as well as visitors of Prague. It will become an established part of the Jewish community\, yet it will remain an open place for all.           \nCZECH EMBASSY SERIES: Through 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 incorporates book talks\, film screenings\, lectures\, musical performances\, exhibitions\, and more.\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/explore-jcc-prague/
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SUMMARY:Germany's Election 2021: Political Wrap Up
DESCRIPTION:PLEASE NOTE: Due to the internet privacy and data security protocols of Germany\, this program WILL NOT be recorded.On Sunday September 26 Germans will cast their ballot and the Parliament will usher in a new Chancellor\, as Angela Merkel is not running for reelection following 16 years in the country’s top job.\nIn addition\, given the country’s electoral system\, it seems certain that the new government will be comprised of a coalition of at least two\, if not three\, parties.\nBoth of these factors will have major implications for Germany’s future policies\, in particular in the fields of foreign and climate change policy. \nOn October 20\, Classrooms Without Borders in partnership with Germany Close Up will present a political wrap up of the 2021 election and discuss these issues\, and more\nWe will be joined by Cerstin Gammelin\, Deputy Editor for Economic Policy in the Parliamentary Office Berlin and Prof. Dr. Roland Sturm\, Senior Fellow at IParl (Institut für Parlamentarismusforschung)\, moderated by Dr. Kaleen Gallagher. They will discuss first hand insights into the results and what can be expected from the new government.\nCerstin Gammelin\, Deputy Editor for Economic Policy in the Parliamentary Office Berlin of the Sueddeutsche Zeitung.\nCerstin Gammelin completed her degree course in material-technology at the Technical University in Chemnitz (Saxony). After the fall of the Berlin Wall she worked as an author and a journalist for the publishing house “Deutscher Fachverlag”\, the fold newspaper “Energie & Management”\, the “Spiegel” and “Financial Times Deutschland”. From 2004 to 2007 she worked as a correspondent for the biggest German weekly “Die Zeit”. From 2008 to 2015 she was European correspondent of “Süddeutsche Zeitung” in Brussels. Since 2015 she leads the economic department of the parliament office in Berlin. \nProf. Dr. Roland Sturm\, Senior Fellow at IParl (Institut für Parlamentarismusforschung)\, holds the chair of German and Comparative Politics\, European Studies and Political Economy at the Friedrich-Alexander Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg since 1996. He is co-editor of the journals „Gesellschaft-Wirtschaft-Politik“ and „Zeitschrift für Politik“. His scientific work deals with policy research\, the political system of the United Kingdom and federalism and multi-level democracy within the European Union. He has held visiting professorships at the University of Washington (Seattle)\, the Peking University and the University Pompeu Fabre (Barcelona). \nDr. Kaleen Gallagher grew up in the United States. She studied German and French at the University of Cambridge and completed a doctorate in German literature. She has lived in Germany since 2012 and works in the field of political education and as a freelance translator. \nThis midday event is geared toward both Educators and Students.  There will be ample time for Q & A. \nIn Partnership with Germany Close Up:\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/germanys-election-2021-political-wrap-up/
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SUMMARY:Virtual Tour of Israel - A Nation Marches on Its Stomach
DESCRIPTION:Until 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.
URL:https://cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net/event/virtual-tour-of-israel-a-nation-marches-on-its-stomach-2/
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SUMMARY:"The road to Babi Yar" Post-Film Discussion
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 “the road to Babi Yar” and engage in a post-film discussion with the documentary Film Maker Boris Maftsir in conversation with CWB Scholar\, Avi Ben-Hur.\n“The Road to Babi Yar” is the newest film of the documentary project by Boris Maftsir\, about the Shoah of the Jews of the Soviet Union. With the invasion of Germany into the territory of the Soviet Union on June 22\, 1941\, a new stage in the history of the Shoah began\, characterized by the massacres of Jews\, exemplified in the Ukraine. \n“The road to Babi Yar” shows the events of the first 100 days of the occupation of Ukraine\, during which the Nazis\, with the participation of local residents\, began killing Jews directly in their places of residence\, as well as the evolution of the mass murder system in hundreds of killing sites\, symbolized by Babi Yar. \nConversations with historians\, local residents – eyewitnesses to those events and Jewish survivors of the Shoah\, presented in the film\, allow us to recreate a comprehensive and painful picture of the fate of the Jews of Ukraine during the Shoah. \nBoris Maftsir\nBoris Maftsir was born in Riga\, Latvia\, in the then-Soviet Union.  In 1970 he was arrested by the KGB and sentenced to one year in prison on charges of Zionist activity. In 1971\, he emigrated to Israel\, where he enrolled as a student with the newly-established Department of Film and Television at Tel Aviv University. He graduated with the department’s first graduating class. \nMaftsir started his career as a producer with the Israeli Film Service\, where he grew to become the Service Manager. In 2009-2017\, he founded and chaired the documentary film department at the Haifa WIZO Academic Center. Throughout his distinguished career\, he has produced over 200 documentaries and directed over 30 films.  \nIn 1998-1999\, Maftsir became Director of the Department of Culture and Art at the Israeli Ministry of Education and Culture. In 1999-2001\, he was appointed Director General of the Ministry of Immigrant Absorption. In 2003-2005\, he served as Head of Delegation of the Jewish Agency in Russia\, Belarus and the Baltic States. \nIn 2006\, Maftsir was appointed Director of Yad Vashem’s Names Project\, which aimed to recover the names of the Jews murdered in the Holocaust in the USSR. This project became life-altering for him. After completing his service at Yad Vashem in 2012\, he dedicate his time fully to his multipart documentary project “Searching for the Unknown Holocaust.” Traveling all across the former Soviet countries of Ukraine\, Russia\, Belarus\, Moldova\, and the Baltics\, Maftsir is documenting events that have until now not fully become part of the collection memory of the Holocaust.  \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. \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-road-to-babi-yar-post-film-discussion/
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SUMMARY:Women in the Holocaust with Dr. Carol Rittner and Dr. Michael Berenbaum
DESCRIPTION:Classrooms 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 StudiesThe 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/women-in-the-holocaust-with-dr-carol-rittner-and-dr-michael-berenbaum/
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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.
URL:https://cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net/event/israel-update-with-avi-ben-hur-6/
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SUMMARY:Arab-Israeli Conflict with Avi Ben-Hur
DESCRIPTION:Arab-Israeli Conflict Course with CWB In House Scholar Avi Ben HurThe 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
URL:https://cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net/event/arab-israeli-conflict-with-avi-ben-hur-9/
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