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SUMMARY:Holocaust Museums and Memorials Around the World: Museums of the Future
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. \n\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 October Event in this Series: Museums of the Future\nTali Nates \n \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. \nDr. Michael Berenbaum \n \nDr. Michael Berenbaum is a writer\, lecturer\, and teacher consulting in the conceptual development of museums and historical films. He is director of the Sigi Ziering Institute: Exploring the Ethical and Religious Implications of the Holocaust at the American Jewish University\, where he is also a Professor of Jewish Studies. \nHe was the Executive Editor of the Second Edition of the Encyclopedia Judaica that reworked\, transformed\, improved\, broadened and deepened\, the now classic 1972 work and consists of 22 volumes\, sixteen million words with 25\,000 individual contributions to Jewish knowledge. For three years\, he was President and Chief Executive Officer of the Survivors of the Shoah Visual History Foundation. He was the Director of the United States Holocaust Research Institute at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum and the Hymen Goldman Adjunct Professor of Theology at Georgetown University in Washington\, D.C. From 1988–93 he served as Project Director of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum\, overseeing its creation. He also served as Deputy Director of the President’s Commission on the Holocaust\, where he authored its Report to the President. \nBerenbaum is the author and editor of twenty books\, scores of scholarly articles\, and hundreds of journalistic pieces. His most recent books include: Not Your Father’s Antisemitism\, A Promise to Remember: The Holocaust in the Words and Voices of Its Survivors and After the Passion Has Passed: American Religious Consequences\, a collection of essays on Jews\, Judaism and Christianity\, Religious Tolerance and Pluralism occasioned by the controversy that swirled around Mel Gibson’s film\, The Passion. He was the conceptual developer on the Illinois Holocaust Museum and Educational Center and played a similar function as conceptual developer and chief curator of the Belzec Memorial at the site of the Death Camp. He is currently at work on the Memorial Museum to Macedonian Jewry in Skopje\, the Dallas Holocaust and Human Rights Museum\, and the Holocaust and Humanity Center in Cincinnati\, Ohio. \nAlice Herscovitch The Montreal Holocaust Museum \n \nAlice Herscovitch is currently a Consultant on Donor and Government Relations at the Montreal Holocaust Museum. She retired as the Museum’s Executive Director in 2019\, after 11 years in which the organisation grew considerably in terms of audience\, programming and funding. Among achievements by the MHM team during her leadership\, the Museum tripled its collection\, more than doubled its visitorship\, developed over 20 pedagogical tools\, created local\, national and international partnerships\, led a national teacher training program\, digitised and catalogued its oral history collection\, and led an initiative which successfully digitised and catalogued almost all Canadian collections of recorded survivor testimony. Faced with increasing interest and growth in its publics\, Ms. Herscovitch currently works with the Museum to assure a major expansion and its relocation to the downtown core. Having garnered significant private and government support\, the new Montreal Holocaust Museum will open in a vibrant downtown neighbourhood in Fall 2025. \nMs. Herscovitch is the former Director of Social Development at the Conférence régionale des élus\, a para-public organization devoted to the social\, economic and cultural development of the Montreal region. She was previously the Executive Director of Project Genesis\, a community advocacy organisation working on issues of social rights of marginalized populations\, from 1987 to 2003. She taught for many years at the McGill School of Social Work in social policy and was a member of the Executive Committee of Centraide of Greater Montreal\, as well as the NDG Community Council and a Board member of the Fondation du Grand Montréal. She has worked for over 30 years with people and organizations to promote progressive change on issues of social justice and to sustain non-profit organisations. \n\nPrevious Sessions in this Series: \n\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)\nMay 26\, 2022 ‘Remembering the Holocaust in Austria’. featuring Hannah M. Lessing\, Dr Albert Lichtblau & Tali Nates. \nSeptember 29\, 2022 Remembering the Holocaust in the United Kingdom featuring James Bulgin\, Michael Newman\, & Stephen Smith\n\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 compliance@classroomswithoutborders.org
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SUMMARY:Post Film Discussion Reckonings with Roberta Grossman: Writer\, Director and Producer\, Karen Heilig: Producer & July Hodara\, Co-Producer Moderated by Professor Michael Bazyler
DESCRIPTION:In the aftermath of the Holocaust\, the unprecedented destruction and plight of\nsurvivors prompts the unthinkable\n\n\nSynopsis \nThey met in secret to negotiate the unthinkable – compensation for the survivors of the largest mass genocide in history. Survivors were in urgent need of help\, but how could reparations be determined for the unprecedented destruction and suffering of a people? \nReckonings explores this untold true story set in the aftermath of the Holocaust. \nDirected by award-winning filmmaker Roberta Grossman\, Reckonings recounts the tense negotiations between Jewish and German leaders. Under the constant threat of violence\, they forged ahead\, knowing it would never be enough but hoping it could at least be an acknowledgement and a step towards healing. \n\n\n \n\n \nRoberta Grossman \nWriter\, Director and Producer \nAn award-winning filmmaker with a passion for history and social justice\, Roberta Grossman has written\, directed and produced more than 40 hours of film and television. What sets her films apart are high production values\, beautiful cinematic craftsmanship and inspiring protagonists. Grossman’s films tell stories of ordinary people doing extraordinary things in the name of justice. According to Grossman\, “making a documentary is like pushing Sisyphus’ rock up a steep mountain. The only way to summit is to have a sense of personal responsibility to tell a story that would otherwise remain untold.” \n\n\n\nKaren Heilig \nProducer \nKaren Heilig serves as the Assistant Executive Vice President of the Claims Conference and General Counsel. Since 1999 she has participated in negotiations between the Claims Conference and the German Government\, the Austrian Government and negotiations on unpaid Holocaust era insurance policies. She broke ground as the first female representative for the Claims Conference in negotiations. Understanding 70 years of compensation agreements from a personal\, legal and historical perspective\, inside the negotiating room and interacting with those who negotiated the Luxembourg Agreements – Karen was uniquely positioned to help bring this important film to life. \n\n\n\nJuly Hodara \nCo-Producer \nA native of France\, film producer and storyteller July Hodara completed her undergraduate studies at the University of California\, Berkeley before joining Katahdin Productions in 2011. The first film she produced and directed was Hidden (2006)\, an American adaptation of French documentary Les Enfants Cachés (1998) about Jewish children who survived WWII in hiding. July’s first project at Katahdin Productions was Hava Nagila (The Movie) (2012) with director Roberta Grossman. She stayed on to associate produce Above and Beyond (2014) with producer Nancy Spielberg\, On The Map (2016) with director Dani Menkin\, and Netflix Original 2018 Sundance selection Seeing Allred (2018). She co-produced 2019 Berlinale selection Who Will Write Our History (2018). \nAfter her work on those five award-winning documentary features\, she pursued her Master’s in Cinema and Media Studies at the USC School of Cinematic Arts\, graduating in 2020. July founded New Moons Productions in 2019\, a media company through which she develops various projects\, with a particular interest for women’s stories. She came on as co-producer for Katahdin features Vishniac (2023) with director Laura Bialis\, and Reckonings (2022) with the Claims Conference and the German Ministry of Finance as production partners. \n\n\n\nModerator: Professor Michael Bazyler \nProfessor Bazyler is professor of law and the 1939 Law Scholar in Holocaust and Human Rights Studies at Chapman University’s Fowler School of Law. He is the author of seven books and more than two dozen law review articles\, book chapters and essays on subjects covering law and the Holocaust\, restitution following genocide and other mass atrocities\, public international law\, international human rights law\, and international trade law and comparative law. His book\, Holocaust\, Genocide and the Law: A Quest for Justice in a Post-Holocaust World (Oxford University Press) is a winner of the 2016 National Jewish Book Award. \n \n\n\nThank you to our partners:
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220929T140000
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SUMMARY:Holocaust Museums and Memorials Around the World: Remembering the Holocaust in the United Kingdom
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. \n\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 September Event in this Series: Remembering the Holocaust in the United Kingdom\nTali Nates \n \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. \nJames Bulgin \n \nJames Bulgin is Head of Content for the new Holocaust Galleries at Imperial War Museums. He started work on the project in 2016. Before joining IWM James worked as a commercial theatre producer and director\, with work in the West End and on national tour. His BA was in English and his MA — for which he was awarded a distinction – is in Holocaust Studies. He is currently completing a PhD under the Crosslands scholarship at Royal Holloway College\, University of London\, on ideas of apocalypse in Holocaust and Cold War history. His academic research focuses on issues of representation in Holocaust literature and film. \nMichael Newman \n \nMichael Newman is Chief Executive of the Association of Jewish Refugees (AJR)\, which represents and supports Holocaust refugees and survivors in Great Britain.\nA previous Chair of the Communications Working Group\, he is a member of the UK delegation to the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA).\nAs well as being an advisor on Holocaust-era restitution issues\, guiding Holocaust survivors and refugees\, and their families\, with applications for compensation and the recovery of Holocaust era assets\, he worked with the UK government to create the position of UK Envoy for Post-Holocaust Issues and now advises incumbent Lord Eric Pickles.\nOutside of work\, Michael is President of the Anglo-Jewish Association (AJA)\, which supports Jewish students to attend higher and further education and is a founding member of the Claims Conference of which Michael is a Director.\nHe is the co-editor of Contemporary Human Rights Challenges: The Universal Declaration of Human Rights and its Continuing Relevance\, an edited collection of new essays by leading international human rights experts.\nPreviously\, Michael was a consultant to the International Commission on Holocaust Era Insurance Claims (ICHEIC) and was a researcher at the Holocaust Educational Trust\, the Britain-Israel Parliamentary Group and the Inter Parliamentary Council Against Anti-Semitism.\nHe was awarded on OBE (Officer of the Order of the British Empire) in Her Majesty The Queen’s Birthday Honours list 2021. \nStephen Smith  \n \nStephen D. Smith is Executive Chairman and co-founder of StoryFile\, the world’s first AI Conversational Video platform that brings video to life. \nStephen is an international speaker and oral historian who specializes in immersive media. \nIn addition to his role at StoryFile\, Stephen serves as Executive Director Emeritus of USC Shoah Foundation\, the archive founded by Steven Spielberg to document the Holocaust and global genocides. He is a theologian by training and in that capacity is USC Visiting Professor of Religion\, where he researches genocide related testimony. \nStephen has authored several books and has two titles forthcoming in 2022: The Trajectory of Memory and Holocaust XR. \nStephen is a member of the order of the British Empire. \nPrevious Sessions in this Series: \n\nSeptember 23\, 2021 Holocaust Museums and Memorials: ‘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 “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) \nMay 26\, 2022 ‘Remembering the Holocaust in Austria’ Hannah M. Lessing\, Dr Albert Lichtblau & Tali Nates (Johannesburg)\n\nUpcoming Events:\n\nJoin us in October for our final session.\n\nThank you to our partners:
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SUMMARY:Czech Embassy Series: Featuring Novelist\, Poet and Translator Marek Toman
DESCRIPTION:Czech 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. \nThe Embassy of the Czech Republic\, in collaboration with Classrooms without Borders\, invites you to the online discussion with Novelist\, Poet and Translator Marek Toman. \n \nNovelist\, poet and translator Marek Toman is passionately dedicated to Jewish culture—the culture of his father\, whom he lost early in life. Born in 1967\, Toman studied philosophy at Charles University\, then he worked as an art editor on Czech Radio. Since 1997 he has been employed at the Czech Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Between 2000 and 2010\, Toman worked as a diplomat in Estonia and Hungary. \nIn his novels\, he mainly devotes himself to historical topics. He is happy to surprise readers with forgotten episodes of Czech and European history which he researches thoroughly. In his works for children\, he loves to present classics of world literature\, showing children the magic power of reading. As for example in his prizewinning Cross-Eyed Jim’s Coffeehouse.
URL:https://cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net/event/czech-embassy-series-featuring-novelist-poet-and-translator-marek-toman/
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SUMMARY:Keeping Up With Kindness Interest Night and Returning Volunteers Hang
DESCRIPTION:Join us on zoom to learn about Classrooms Without Borders’ Keeping Up With Kindness program and how you can get involved! This event is for high school students only.\n\nIn the meantime\, be sure to apply to volunteer with us this year here: https://cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net/forms/keeping-up-with-kindness-volunteer-application/\n\n\nThe Keeping Up With Kindness program was created by Lauren Haffner in response to the tragic shooting on October 27\, 2018 at the Tree of Life Synagogue building. This initiative brings exemplary teen role models to K-5th grade classrooms to teach and engage children in mindful group discussions and lessons focusing on the importance of being kind to one another\, embracing diversity and standing up against bullying. \nThe program is built as a four part classroom series where teen volunteers\, bringing a passion for promoting acts of kindness\, facilitate an engaging\, interactive\, and collaborative conversation with young students in a safe\, communicative and friendly academic environment to teach and nurture a more just society that values\, above all\, kindness and respect for each other. \nAt this meeting\, we’ll learn a bit more about the program and have the opportunity to meet returning volunteers!
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SUMMARY:Post Film Discussion The Students of Umberto Primo with Director Alessandra Maioletti & Executive Producer Diane Boulanger; Moderated by Avi Ben Hur
DESCRIPTION:Post Film Discussion The Students of Umberto Primo with Director Alessandra Maioletti Moderated by Avi Ben Hur\nA Sneak Peak!\nThe link to watch the film prior to the discussion will be sent out 3 days prior to the Film Discussion. \nWe urge you to watch the film prior to the event.\n\n\nBased on discovered documents that had been long forgotten\, this docudrama tells the stories of nine Greek-Italian Jewish primary school students who were among the hundreds of Jewish children studying at Thessaloniki’s Public Italian school\, Umberto Primo\, until the 1941-1942 school year … when Nazi soldiers entered the region and forever changed the course of their histories. \nSome survived. Tragically\, some did not. \nThis Event is part of a week long series of events:  \n“Agape and Hope Resurrected in Hripsime’s Agony\, Athena’s Mourning\, and Rachel’s Heartbreak” \nClassrooms Without Borders is proud to partner with the Greek and Armenian Communities of Greater Pittsburgh on this week long series of events.  \n\n\n – ABOUT THE FILM – \nThe beautifully filmed docudrama\, The Students of Umberto Primo\, brings to life the stories of nine young Jewish students studying at the Italian school\, Umberto Primo\, in Thessaloniki\, Greece\, during the time of Nazi occupation. The project is the result of a discovery by Antonio Crescenzi of students’ essays\, graduation diplomas\, and other documents of historical importance\, that had been long forgotten in the basement of the Italian Institute of Thessaloniki (formerly the location of Italian School of Umberto Primo). Sadly\, these students never received their graduation diplomas\, or their papers\, because of Nazi persecution. Thanks to Crescenzi’s discovery and subsequent work\, 157 diplomas were presented to survivors and/or their families in January 2017. \nCrescenzi and director\, Alessandra Maoiletti\, collaborated to lovingly and respectfully research and recreate the lives of these young boys and girls\, who were just “coming of age\,” depicting their dreams and aspirations for the future and the exuberance of their youth – a youth cut short for the sole reason that they were Jewish. Some survived the Holocaust. Sadly\, some did not. \nInitially\, The Students of Umberto Primo debuted as a theatre production\, also directed by Maioletti\, which had a highly acclaimed and successful run throughout Greece. The film seeks to not only bring more life to the story\, but to also reach a broader audience with a work of important cultural and historical significance. \nIt is important now\, perhaps more than ever\, to understand the evil that lurks in this world\, and to remind people of what can happen when totalitarianism\, isolationism\, nationalism and fanatic-ideological beliefs overcome the core values and compassion of the “regular citizen.” \nDirector Alessandra Maioletti \nBorn in Athens and raised in Rome\, Alessandra Maioletti has worked as a casting director and assistant director for French\, Italian\, Greek\, and American production companies\, and as a production director for documentaries. She has collaborated with many Greek directors\, including Nikos Koundouros\, Tasos Boulmetis\, Michael Marmarinos\, Menelaos Karamagiilis\, Stelios Pavlidis\, and Dimitris lndares. \nShe is the Director\, writer and producer for “The Students of Umberto Primo”. \n \nDiane Boulanger\, Executive Producer \n \nDiane currently lives and works in both Athens\, Greece and Boston\, MA. She graduated from Boston University’s College of Communications in 1990 with a degree in Broadcasting/Film\, and moved to Greece soon thereafter\, working as a magazine editor for the English-language monthly magazine\, The Athenian. \nHer career took a different trajectory when she moved back to the States in the late 90s\, and began a career in advertising/marketing\, working for (among other ad agencies)\, the legendary Leo Burnett. Currently\, she is the principal of Kickstarter Communications\, an agency that helps smaller enterprises “get off the ground” with branding\, website design\, and other tools to help them succeed. \nDuring a visit back to Greece\, Diane reconnected with Alessandra Maioletti and met Antonio Crescenzi\, who shared with her the storyboards and vision for the film production of The Students of Umberto Primo. She fell in love with the stories and the passion behind this remarkable film and was confident that she could engender support for it from the States; and that crowdfunding would be a good way to go about it. The campaign was a success and contributed to the additional support that was garnered by the hard work of Crescenzi and Maioletti. She also provided website design and social media support to augment the campaign\, as well as her own monetary investment. \nThis incredible film has reignited a passion for great storytelling and beautiful cinematography\, and she is grateful to be a part of the talented team of people who brought these long-forgotten stories to life. \nAvi Ben-Hur\nScholar in Residence \n \nA Brooklyn native\, Avi Ben-Hur moved to Israel in 1983. From 2003-2008 Avi was Director of the Archaeological Seminars School for Israeli Tour Guides. In 2008 Avi participated in re-writing the curriculum of the National Guiding courses for the Israeli Ministry of Tourism. As a “Scholar in Residence\, Avi has lectured\, taught and facilitated workshops in the US\, Warsaw\, Prague\, Berlin and Greece. From 1996-2000\, Avi taught in Yad Vashem’s International School for Holocaust Studies. As a guide\, Avi has specialized working with organizations focusing on political issues (such as AIPAC & CIJA)\, inter-faith programs and Holocaust studies. \n\n\n \n\n \n\n\nThank you to our partners:
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SUMMARY:Pulling back the curtain – Etty Hillesum
DESCRIPTION:Please join us on Sept 13th at 7pm for\nPulling Back the Curtain – Etty Hillesum\n\n\nClassrooms Without Borders is proud to partner with the Greek and Armenian Communities of Greater Pittsburgh on our week long series of events: \n“Agape and Hope Resurrected in Hripsime’s Agony\, Athena’s Mourning\, and Rachel’s Heartbreak” \nTHIS EVENT WILL NOW TAKE PLACE ON ZOOM!\n  \n  \nCombining performance and discussion\, playwright and actor Susan Stein introduces us to Etty Hillesum and the original play\, Etty\, crafted using only Hillesum’s words\, which she tours to theaters\, universities\, school and prisons throughout the US and UK. She discusses her research\, and takes us through her discoveries\, including meeting Holocaust survivors and people in Etty’s life. She will also walk us through her own story of finding Etty. She invites the audience to join the conversation that Etty began in her diaries and letters. \nTo learn more about Etty Hillesum or Etty Project\, please visit www.ettyproject.org/. \n\n\n\nThe photo credit\, Ricardo Barros \nAbout Susan Stein \nSusan Stein is an actor\, playwright and teaching artist in New York City. Stein has spent the past 12 years touring her original one-woman play\, Etty\, to theatres\, universities\, schools and prisons throughout the United States and parts of Europe. Stein has been a visiting Artist/Scholar at Cambridge University\, Boston College\, Vanderbilt\, Colby\, St Norberts and Chapman University. She leads workshops in writing and acting throughout the US and UK. \nAs an actor\, some of Stein’s recent credits include Neil Simon’s Broadway Bound at Beck Center forthe Arts; Dominique Morisseau’s Pipeline\, and the premiere of Meridith  Friedman’s The Luckiest People. Susan studied acting at NYU Graduate School and SUNY Purchase. She was on the faculty of Princeton Day school for 13 years\, and currently is an Artist/Scholar at Classrooms Without Borders and teaches Performing History at Duquesne University which brings incarcerated men and police officers together to work towards police justice. \n\n\n\nLearn more: https://ettyproject.org/
URL:https://cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net/event/etty-writing-as-resistance/
LOCATION:Virtual
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20220911
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20220919
DTSTAMP:20260708T191133
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SUMMARY:Armenian\, Greek and Jewish Community Week Long Event
DESCRIPTION: “Agape and Hope Resurrected in Hripsime’s Agony\, Athena’s Mourning\, and Rachel’s Heartbreak”\n  \n“Who\, after all\, speaks today of the annihilation of the Armenians?”\, roared Hitler in his speech to his chief commanders in 1939 just one week before the Nazi invasion of Poland and the planned extermination of Jews. \n2022 represents the 100th year from one of humanity’s darkest periods\, a time point that inspired and ignited what eventually resulted in one of humankind’s bleakest moments. 1922 was the peak of the period between 1915-1923\, when Christians and Jews were systematically targeted for their faith and culture. The western world’s general indifference to the genocide of Christians and Jews in Anatolia\, the Pontus\, and Asia Minor would soon be used by the Nazis as the basis of their plan to exterminate the Jewish people.  \nThe Greek\, Armenian\, and Jewish Communities of Western Pennsylvania\, on account of this sad moment in our histories\, and on occasion of this marker in time\, 100 years from 1922\, are coming together in the month of September 2022 in a broad educational outreach to all of Western Pennsylvania\, in art\, music\, literature\, and history\, to first commemorate those who perished brutally and inhumanely at the hands of perpetrators\, but second\, to use this milestone in our histories to show that in the face of despair and death\, creation and inspiration for a more tolerant world was fostered and nurtured.  \nOur three communities will dedicate the month of September to the music\, literature\, and artwork that was created by those who either perished in\, or survived the genocide of Christians and Jews in Anatolia\, the Pontus\, and Asia Minor between 1915-1923 and by those who perished in\, or survived the brutal concentration camps of the Holocaust during World War II.  \nAdditionally\, the month of September will be dedicated to the music\, literature\, and artwork that was inspired by these sad moments in humankind’s history\, in the post-World War II Armenian\, Greek\, and Jewish cultures.  \nAmong the planned activities are: More details and registration to come!  \n\nExhibits of artworks of\, and inspired by the period\, by Armenians\, Greeks\, and Jews – those who perished in the genocide or the Holocaust as well as by those who were inspired by their lives and sacrifice. These artworks will be on display in a number of art galleries in Pittsburgh for the entire month of September 2022\, and accessible by the public. Webpage With Links: HERE\nSoirees of literature and poetry that will bring together members of the Armenian\, Jewish\, and Greek community of Western Pennsylvania\, especially those of the younger generation (high school and college students) who will present excerpts from literary works as well as complete poems written by those who perished and/or survived those dark periods as well as excerpts of literary works and poems inspired by their lives and sacrifice. These soirees are planned for every evening of the week between the 11th – 18th of September Webpage With Links: HERE\nA series of lectures by scholars and historians as well as by living witnesses and/or their descendants\, who will describe those dark times together with inspired commentary by community members in outreach to people of Western Pennsylvania to sensitize them that history does repeat and it is critical that those lessons direct our region and country to prevent that darkness from ever falling over the world again. Additionally\, to present how these terrible moments in time and experience shaped the cultures of the Armenian\, Greek and Jewish peoples. These events will be mostly virtual during the week of the 11th – 18th of September. Webpage With Links: HERE\n\nA concert that will bring together Armenian\, Jewish\, and Greek musicians who will present music written by those who perished and/or survived those dark periods as well as music that was inspired by their lives and sacrifice. The concert is planned for the early evening of Sunday the 18th of September and\, depending on the evolution of the COVID-19 pandemic\, may be an in-person event\, or virtual.  \nWebpage With Links: HERE
URL:https://cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net/event/armenian-greek-and-jewish-community-week-long-event/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220626T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220626T153000
DTSTAMP:20260708T191133
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SUMMARY:The Ghetto Fighters' House  Talking Memory Series presents: Artist as Witness:  The Holocaust Art of David Friedmann in the Lodz Ghetto
DESCRIPTION:The Ghetto Fighters’ House Talking Memory Series presents: \nArtist as Witness:  The Holocaust Art of David Friedmann in the Lodz Ghetto \nGuest Speaker: \nMiriam Friedmann Morris \nDavid Friedmann (1893-1980) depicted human fate as a refugee in Prague\, as a prisoner in the Lodz Ghetto\, in the Auschwitz subcamp Gleiwitz I\, and as a survivor. During his three years in the Ghetto\, he absorbed the unending misery he witnessed. With death before his eyes\, through hunger and sickness\, he worked strenuously on a series of artwork documenting the infernal daily struggle of the prisoners’ desperate situation. He wrote and illustrated a diary to publish at war’s end. He felt that\, unless one had lived it\, no one would believe the brutal inhumanity against the Jews. His art and diary would be his testimony\, but they were destroyed. Torn out from his memory he produced a new art series to show to the world in the hope that such barbarism would never happen again. \n2 PM EST | 7 PM GMT | 8 PM SAST | 9 PM Israel \nThis program is in partnership with Classrooms Without Borders\, Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Center\, and the Jewish Historical Institute.
URL:https://cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net/event/the-ghetto-fighters-house-talking-memory-series-presents-artist-as-witness-the-holocaust-art-of-david-friedmann-in-the-lodz-ghetto/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220621T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220621T153000
DTSTAMP:20260708T191133
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SUMMARY:Arab Israeli Conflict with Avi Ben Hur
DESCRIPTION:The 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:\n\nThe International aspect (e.g. the Cold War)\nThe Regional aspect (the Middle East at large)\nThe leadership (of the countries at conflict)\n\nMultiple narratives:\n\nThe Jewish/Israeli narrative\nThe Arab/Palestinian narrative\n\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 X: Israel and Lebanon – 2006-2021\, Israel and Syria – 2000-2021\, Israel and Iran – 2000-2021 \nBy 2006 Hezbollah\, an Iranian backed Shiite organization had gained a complete stranglehold over Southern Lebanon and launched a series of attacks on Israel that snow-balled into the Second Lebanon War. In the past 15 years\, Hezbollah has built up a massive arsenal of missiles which are aimed at Israel\, posing a strategic threat to both countries (Israel and Lebanon). Between 2011-2021 Syria collapsed into a civil and later international war that has torn the country apart. While Israel has stayed clear of its neighbor’s conflict\, Syrian injured were treated in Israeli hospitals. Israel has also defended itself against terror organizations that have launched attacks from Syria on its soil. One of Syria’s patrons\, Iran has been trying to achieve a nuclear offensive capability and Israel has made great efforts both diplomatically and through the use of force to prevent this. \nSubjects to be covered: Strategic threats facing Israel from Lebanon\, Syria and Iran from 2000 to the present.\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\nMay 31\, 2022 |Israel and the Palestinians 1987-2021\n  \n \nAvi Ben-Hur\nScholar in Residence \nA Brooklyn native\, Avi Ben-Hur moved to Israel in 1983. From 2003-2008 Avi was Director of the Archaeological Seminars School for Israeli Tour Guides. In 2008 Avi participated in re-writing the curriculum of the National Guiding courses for the Israeli Ministry of Tourism. As a “Scholar in Residence\, Avi has lectured\, taught and facilitated workshops in the US\, Warsaw\, Prague\, Berlin and Greece. From 1996-2000\, Avi taught in Yad Vashem’s International School for Holocaust Studies. As a guide\, Avi has specialized working with organizations focusing on political issues (such as AIPAC & CIJA)\, inter-faith programs and Holocaust studies.
URL:https://cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net/event/arab-israeli-conflict-with-avi-ben-hur/
LOCATION:ZOOM | Registration required and closes 30 minutes prior to the start of the program
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220612T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220612T163000
DTSTAMP:20260708T191133
CREATED:20220303T004012Z
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SUMMARY:2022 Poland Personally Seminar Meetings
DESCRIPTION:This program is only for educators\, students and individuals interested in travelling and learning with CWB in Poland. \nUntil then…visit the seminar webpage to learn more at classroomswithoutborders.org/seminar/poland-personally-a-study-seminar-to-poland. \n\nUpcoming Pre-Seminar Meetings/Workshops for accepted participants: \nSunday\, March 6 | 3-4:30pm  | Zoom\nSunday\, April 3 | 3-4:30pm  | Zoom\nSunday\, May 1 | 3-4:430pm | Zoom\nSunday\, June 12 | 3-4:30pm | Zoom
URL:https://cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net/event/2022-poland-personally-seminar-meetings/
LOCATION:ZOOM | Registration required and closes 30 minutes prior to the start of the program
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220612T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220612T153000
DTSTAMP:20260708T191133
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LAST-MODIFIED:20220616T144903Z
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SUMMARY:The Ghetto Fighters' House Talking Memory Series presents: Artistic Representations of the Plight of the Elderly in Terezin\, 1942-1944
DESCRIPTION:The Ghetto Fighters’ House  Talking Memory Series presents:\nCrafting Heritage: The Art of Holocaust Remembrance – A Homage to David Friedmann\nJoin us on Sunday\, June 12th \, for the second program\nArtistic Representations of the Plight of the Elderly in Terezin\, 1942-1944\nGuest Speaker: Liz Elsby\nThe Nazi ghetto of Theresienstadt (Terezin in Czech) near Prague\, is often remembered for the incredible cultural endeavors of its Jewish inmates: in appalling conditions and in the shadow of deportations to death\, the Jews there created art\, held concerts and plays\, and performed operas such as ‘ Brundibar” . \nIn reality\, almost 34\,000 people\, the majority them elderly German and Austrian Jews\, died of disease\, starvation\, and neglect withing the ghettos walls; thousands more were among the 88\,000 deported to the death camps from the ghetto. \nToday\, most of these elderly men and women remain unremembered ghosts\, whose lives\, and suffering would have been forgotten by history had not an incredible group of Theresienstadt artists felt compelled to secretly draw their plight. \nIn this talk\, we will examine the artwork these brave artists created in that hellish place and by doing so\, we will give a face to these faceless victims\, and remember their humanity. \nThis program is in partnership with Classrooms Without Borders\, Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Center\, Beit Terezin\, and the Jewish Historical Institute.
URL:https://cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net/event/crafting-heritage-the-art-of-holocaust-remembrance-a-homage-to-david-friedmann-artistic-representations-of-the-plight-of-the-elderly-in-terezin-1942-1944/
LOCATION:Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220612T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220612T143000
DTSTAMP:20260708T191133
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SUMMARY:2022 Discovering Italy Seminar Meetings
DESCRIPTION:Pre-travel meetings for 2022 Discovering Italy Seminar Workshops/Meetings. \nThis program is only for educators and individuals traveling with CWB to Italy in 2022. \nUntil then…visit the Discover Italy Seminar webpage to learn more.\n\nUpcoming Pre-travel meetings/workshops for accepted participants: \nSunday\, March 6 | 1-2:30pm  | Zoom\nSunday\, April 3 | 1-2:30pm  | Zoom\nSunday\, May 1 | 1-2:30pm | Zoom\nSunday\, June 12 | 1-2:30pm | Zoom
URL:https://cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net/event/2022-discovering-italy-seminar-meetings/
LOCATION:ZOOM | Registration required and closes 30 minutes prior to the start of the program
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220609T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220609T163000
DTSTAMP:20260708T191133
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SUMMARY:"The Fourth Window" Post-Film Discussion with filmmaker Yair Qedar
DESCRIPTION:Post Film Discussion The Fourth Window with filmmaker Yair Qedar\nThe Film link will be sent out on Sunday Morning June 5th and available to watch prior to  the event on June 9th.\n\n\nBehind the international success story of Amos Oz\, a symbol of the Israeli conscience and a writer translated into 45 languages\, lurked a double tragedy. When he was 12-years-old his mother died by suicide\, and a few years before his death his daughter accused him of being physically and mentally violent\, ending all communication with him. A series of conversations with his latest biographer presented in the film\, weaves biographical passages\, literature and conversations with the main people in his life\, as Amos Oz tells his last story. \n\n\n\nYair Qedar is an Israeli filmmaker and a civil-rights activist. His academic training on 20th-century Hebrew literature\, propelled him into The Hebrews — a documentary project on the Hebrew and Jewish literary canon\, centered on filmic portraits of Hebrew writers from the 17 century to recent days. 16 feature length documentary films were made in the project so far. The documentary films which Qedar produced – and directed with other 10 Israeli film directors – all premiered in film festivals\, aired on Israeli TV\, circulated far and wide in hundreds of cinemas\, cinematheques\, community and cultural centers\, in Israel and around the world earning 14 awards -Special Mention in Haifa film festival 2018 – Jury comments: “A unique project of artistic and historical value that wonderfully preserves via documentary films\, literary and poetic pearls\, some of which\, unfortunately\, are becoming extinct.”\, and 2016: first prize for filmmaking in the field of Jewish culture by the ministry of Education in Israel\, 2015: the Hebrews films won the prize for best television project in the Israeli Documentary competition). The project\, both digital and print\, offers altogether e14 documentary films\, a video archive and several books. In 2019\, Docaviv festival held a special retrospective for the Hebrews films\, alongside Van Leer institute in Jerusalem\, the Jewish Museum in Berlin as well as other institutions. \n\n\nAvi Ben-Hur \n \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/post-film-discussion-the-fourth-window-with-filmmaker-yair-qedar/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220608T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220608T163000
DTSTAMP:20260708T191133
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SUMMARY:Confronting the Complexity of Holocaust Scholarship
DESCRIPTION:Classrooms 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 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:\n\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\n\nThank You to Our Partner
URL:https://cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net/event/confronting-the-complexity-of-holocaust-scholarship/
LOCATION:ZOOM | Registration required and closes 30 minutes prior to the start of the program
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220531T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220531T153000
DTSTAMP:20260708T191133
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SUMMARY:Arab Israeli Conflict with Avi Ben Hur
DESCRIPTION:Arab-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:\n\nThe International aspect (e.g. the Cold War)\nThe Regional aspect (the Middle East at large)\nThe leadership (of the countries at conflict)\n\nMultiple narratives:\n\nThe Jewish/Israeli narrative\nThe Arab/Palestinian narrative\n\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: \n\nJune 21\, 2022\nAll sessions will be 2:00pm-3:30pm ET.\n\n \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. \n 
URL:https://cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net/event/arab-israeli-conflict-with-avi-ben-hur-2/
LOCATION:ZOOM | Registration required and closes 30 minutes prior to the start of the program
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SUMMARY:Holocaust Museums and Memorials Around the World
DESCRIPTION:Classrooms Without Borders\, in coordination with Tali Nates\, Founder and Director of the Johannesburg Genocide & Holocaust Centre\, and in partnership with the Maltz Museum of Jewish Heritage\, Liberation75\,  and the USC Shoah Foundation is pleased to embark on this new innovative Museums and Memorial series where we will highlight different angles of complex memory; grappling with the 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 \n \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 \n \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 \n \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: \n\nSeptember 23\, 2021 Holocaust Museums and Memorials: ‘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 “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)\,\n\nUpcoming Events:\n\nJoin us in September and October for our 2 final sessions.\nDetails coming soon!\n\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/holocaust-museums-and-memorials-around-the-world-2/
LOCATION:ZOOM | Registration required and closes 30 minutes prior to the start of the program
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SUMMARY:Author Talk with Dr. Barry Trachtenberg
DESCRIPTION:Author Talk with Dr Barry Trachtenberg \, “The Holocaust & the Exile of Yiddish: A History of the Algemeyne Entsiklopedye”\n\n\nIn the early 1930s in Berlin\, Germany\, a group of leading Eastern European Jewish intellectuals embarked upon a project to transform the lives of millions of Yiddish-speaking Jews around the world. Their goal was to publish a popular and comprehensive Yiddish language encyclopedia of general knowledge that would serve as a bridge to the modern world and as a guide to help its readers navigate their way within it. However\, soon after the Algemeyne entsiklopedye (General Encyclopedia) was announced\, Hitler’s rise to power forced its editors to flee to Paris. The scope and mission of the project repeatedly changed before its final volumes were published in New York City in 1966. \nThe Holocaust & the Exile of Yiddish untangles the complicated saga of the Algemeyne entsiklopedye and its editors. The editors continued to publish volumes and revise the encyclopedia’s mission while their primary audience\, Eastern European Jews\, faced persecution and genocide under Nazi rule\, and the challenge of reestablishing themselves in the first decades after World War II. Historian Barry Trachtenberg reveals how\, over the course of the middle decades of the twentieth century\, the project sparked tremendous controversy in Jewish cultural and political circles\, which debated what the purpose of a Yiddish encyclopedia should be\, as well as what knowledge and perspectives it should contain. Nevertheless\, this is not only a story about destruction and trauma\, but also one of tenacity and continuity\, as the encyclopedia’s compilers strove to preserve the heritage of Yiddish culture\, to document its near-total extermination in the Holocaust\, and to chart its path into the future. \n\n\n\nBarry Trachtenberg is the Michael H. and Deborah K. Rubin Presidential Chair of Jewish History at Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem\, North Carolina. His books include The United States and the Nazi Holocaust: Race\, Refuge\, and Remembrance and The Revolutionary Roots of Modern Yiddish\, 1903-1917. \nHe is the author of two additional books. The United States and the Holocaust: Race\, Refuge\, and Remembrance (Bloomsbury Press\, 2018) brings students of the Holocaust a new understanding of this complex and often controversial topic. It demonstrates that the United States’s response to the Holocaust was (and remains) intricately linked to the ever-shifting racial\, economic\, and social status of American Jewry. The Revolutionary Roots of Modern Yiddish\, 1903-1917 (Syracuse University Press\, 2008) examines the impact of the 1905 Russian Revolution on the formation of Yiddish scholarship. \nAlong with being a member of the Wake Forest program in Jewish Studies\, he serves on the Board of Scholars of Facing History and Ourselves. For five+ years he was a member of the Academic Council of the Holocaust Educational Foundation of Northwestern University. he is a member of the Academic Advisory Board of Jewish Voice for Peace.
URL:https://cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net/event/author-talk-with-dr-barry-trachtenberg/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220522T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220522T130000
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SUMMARY:Germany Close Up - Open House
DESCRIPTION:Get a first hand look at the CWB Germany Close Up program\n\n\nFor current or interested applicants of the Classrooms Without Borders Germany Close Up Travel Study Seminar taking place August 2 – 12
URL:https://cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net/event/germany-close-up-open-house/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220517T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220517T170000
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SUMMARY:Book Discussion\, The Holocaust & the Exile of Yiddish
DESCRIPTION:Weekly Book Discussions\, “The Holocaust & the Exile of Yiddish:  A History of the Algemeyne Entsiklopedye” with Dr. Josh Andy
URL:https://cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net/event/book-discussion-the-holocaust-the-exile-of-yiddish-3/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220511T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220511T163000
DTSTAMP:20260708T191133
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SUMMARY:Confronting the Complexity of Holocaust Scholarship
DESCRIPTION:Classrooms 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 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. \n  \nMark Weitzman speaking on Holocaust denial\, minimization\, trivialization\, and distortion \n  \nThank You to Our Partner
URL:https://cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net/event/confronting-the-complexity-of-holocaust-scholarship-2/
LOCATION:ZOOM | Registration required and closes 30 minutes prior to the start of the program
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SUMMARY:Book Discussion\, The Holocaust & the Exile of Yiddish
DESCRIPTION:Weekly Book Discussions\, “The Holocaust & the Exile of Yiddish:  A History of the Algemeyne Entsiklopedye” with Dr. Josh Andy
URL:https://cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net/event/book-discussion-the-holocaust-the-exile-of-yiddish-2/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220504T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220504T163000
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SUMMARY:"Our Sons" Post Film Discussion
DESCRIPTION:“Our Sons” Post Film Discussion with film director Avi Maor Marzouk and Avi Ben Hur\n\n\nDirector Avi Maor Marzouk – Avi Maor Marzouk is an Israeli director\, screenwriter\, and content editor who has worked in the film industry for twenty years. His films are focused on presenting stories that can offer a profound change in the social and political field. \nAvi Ben-Hur\, Scholar in Residence – A 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. \nSholom Rothman – Michael Levin Base Outreach Coordinator : Michael Levin Lone Soldier Foundation \nThe mission of the Michael Levin Lone Soldier Foundation is to raise awareness and strengthen commitment to IDF Lone Soldiers by promoting the core initiatives: \nWorking in partnership with individuals and organizations to fund direct support of Lone Soldiers before\, during\, and after their service. \nRaising awareness and the funds necessary to support the broad scope of daily needs of the uniquely brave and passionate young men and women serving as Lone Soldiers in Israel\, without favor and without disadvantage. \n\n\nFilm Synopsis ‘Our Sons’ \nThis touching and heart-affecting Israeli film tells the story of three lone soldiers from the Golani Brigade\, who were killed on the first day of the Israeli army’s ground entry into Gaza during Operation Eitan in 2014. These brave soldiers were Sean Carmeli\, a first-generation member of an Israeli family living in Texas\, Jordan Ben Simon\, a French Jew who grew up in antisemitic Lyon\, and Max Steinberg\, a young American Jew from Los Angeles. Tragically\, these three soldiers died in the same square mile within hours of each other. And while they never knew one another\, they are examples of how Jews from outside Israel are willing to sacrifice themselves on behalf of the Jewish people for the defense of Israel. When the country heard that they were lone soldiers and had no family in Israel\, thousands of Israelis spontaneously showed up to their funerals\, thus providing an outpouring of love and support to their families. All three soldiers were buried in a land they weren’t born in but shared a profound sense of belonging to it and of the importance of defending their homeland. \n\n\nFor more information: https://classroomswithoutborders.org/back-berlin-post-film-discussion\nIn partnership with:
URL:https://cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net/event/our-sons-post-film-discussion/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220503T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220503T170000
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SUMMARY:Book Discussion\, The Holocaust & the Exile of Yiddish
DESCRIPTION:Weekly Book Discussions\, “The Holocaust & the Exile of Yiddish: A History of the Algemeyne Entsiklopedye” with Dr. Josh Andy
URL:https://cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net/event/book-discussion-the-holocaust-the-exile-of-yiddish/
LOCATION:ZOOM | Registration required and closes 30 minutes prior to the start of the program
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220501T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220501T183000
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SUMMARY:2022 Discovering Italy Seminar Meetings
DESCRIPTION:Pre-travel meetings for 2022 Discovering Italy Seminar Workshops/Meetings. \nThis program is only for educators and individuals traveling with CWB to Italy in 2022. \nUntil then…visit the Discover Italy Seminar webpage to learn more.\n\nUpcoming Pre-travel meetings/workshops for accepted participants: \nSunday\, May 1 | 5-6:30pm | Zoom\nSunday\, June 12 | 1-2:30pm | Zoom \n  \nPAST Pre-travel meetings/workshops for accepted participants: \nSunday\, March 6 | 1-2:30pm  | Zoom\nSunday\, April 3 | 1-2:30pm  | Zoom
URL:https://cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net/event/2022-discovering-italy-seminar-meetings-2/
LOCATION:ZOOM | Registration required and closes 30 minutes prior to the start of the program
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220501T153000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220501T173000
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SUMMARY:Violins of Hope Educator Reception
DESCRIPTION:Violins of Hope Educator Reception\n\n\nGet a first-hand look at The Violins of Hope coming to Pittsburgh in October 2023. \nPlease join Classrooms Without Borders\, The Holocaust Center of Pittsburgh\, and the Anti-Defamation League for an informational and inspiring gathering to explore how we can work together to bring lessons of Hope/Resilience and Perseverance to the Pittsburgh area students in a unique way. \nImagine the impact upon your music students learning and playing music composed in the concentration camps. \nThen imagine the impact of some of your students actually playing that music on the very instruments that prisoners played in those very camps. \nImagine the ways in which history\, art and language arts students might contribute to a Time Capsule to reveal our common humanity 50 years from now\, or how your curriculum might prepare them to visit a docent-led exhibition of the Violins of Hope (travel expenses underwritten by the Violins of Hope-Pittsburgh). \nWe will explore the possibilities for collaboration among your colleagues and throughout your student body are exciting and only limited by your imagination. \nMeet with inspiring professionals whom you already know and respect: \n\nFounder and Executive Directory Classrooms Without Borders\, Dr. Zipora Gur (Tsipy)\nDirector of the Holocaust Center of Pittsburgh\, Dr. Lauren Apter Bairnsfather\nFlavio Chamis\, Music Professional\, Composer\, Conductor\, Arranger\, Producer\, Sound Engineer and Educator\nJames Pasch\, Regional Director of The ADL (Anti Defamation League)\n\n\n\nLearn More About Violins of Hope\n\n\nPresented in partnership with
URL:https://cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net/event/violins-of-hope-educator-reception/
LOCATION:Rodef Shalom Congregation: Levy Hall\, 4905 Fifth Avenue\, Pittsburgh\, PA\, 15213\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220501T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220501T143000
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SUMMARY:2022 Poland Personally Seminar Meetings
DESCRIPTION:This program is only for educators\, students and individuals interested in travelling and learning with CWB in Poland. \nUntil then…visit the seminar webpage to learn more at classroomswithoutborders.org/seminar/poland-personally-a-study-seminar-to-poland. \n\nUpcoming Pre-Seminar Meetings/Workshops for accepted participants: \nSunday\, May 1 | 1-2:30pm | Zoom\nSunday\, June 12 | 3-4:30pm | Zoom \nPAST Pre-Seminar Meetings/Workshops for accepted participants: \nSunday\, March 6 | 3-4:30pm  | Zoom\nSunday\, April 3 | 3-4:30pm  | Zoom
URL:https://cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net/event/2022-poland-personally-seminar-meetings-2/
LOCATION:ZOOM | Registration required and closes 30 minutes prior to the start of the program
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SUMMARY:Arab Israeli Conflict with Avi Ben Hur
DESCRIPTION:The 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: \n\nThe International aspect (e.g. the Cold War)\nThe Regional aspect (the Middle East at large)\nThe leadership (of the countries at conflict)\n\nMultiple narratives: \n\nThe Jewish/Israeli narrative\nThe Arab/Palestinian narrative\n\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. \nAvi Ben-HurScholar in Residence\nAvi Ben Hur \nScholar in Residence \nA Brooklyn native\, Avi Ben-Hur moved to Israel in 1983. From 2003-2008 Avi was Director of the Archaeological Seminars School for Israeli Tour Guides. In 2008 Avi participated in re-writing the curriculum of the National Guiding courses for the Israeli Ministry of Tourism. As a “Scholar in Residence\, Avi has lectured\, taught and facilitated workshops in the US\, Warsaw\, Prague\, Berlin and Greece. From 1996-2000\, Avi taught in Yad Vashem’s International School for Holocaust Studies. As a guide\, Avi has specialized working with organizations focusing on political issues (such as AIPAC & CIJA)\, inter-faith programs and Holocaust studies.
URL:https://cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net/event/arab-israeli-conflict-with-avi-ben-hur-3/
LOCATION:ZOOM | Registration required and closes 30 minutes prior to the start of the program
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SUMMARY:Author Talk with Dr Anna Hájková
DESCRIPTION:Author Talk with Dr Anna Hájková \, “The Last Ghetto: An Everyday History of Theresienstadt” with Dr. Josh Andy\n\n\nTerezín\, as it was known in Czech\, or Theresienstadt as it was known in German\, was operated by the Nazis between November 1941 and May 1945 as a transit ghetto for Central and Western European Jews before their deportation for murder in the East. Terezín was the last ghetto to be liberated\, one day after the end of World War II. \nThe Last Ghetto is the first in-depth analytical history of a prison society during the Holocaust. Rather than depict the prison society which existed within the ghetto as an exceptional one\, unique in kind and not understandable by normal analytical methods\, Anna Hájková argues that such prison societies that developed during the Holocaust are best understood as simply other instances of the societies human beings create under normal circumstances. Challenging conventional claims of Holocaust exceptionalism\, Hájková insists instead that we ought to view the Holocaust with the same analytical tools as other historical events. \nThe prison society of Terezín produced its own social hierarchies under which seemingly small differences among prisoners (of age\, ethnicity\, or previous occupation) could determine whether one ultimately lived or died. During the three and a half years of the camp’s existence\, prisoners created their own culture and habits\, bonded\, fell in love\, and forged new families. Based on extensive archival research in nine languages and on empathetic reading of victim testimonies\, The Last Ghetto is a transnational\, cultural\, social\, gender\, and organizational history of Terezín\, revealing how human society works in extremis and highlighting the key issues of responsibility\, agency and its boundaries\, and belonging. \n\n\n\nDr Anna Hájková is associate professor of modern European continental history at the University of Warwick\, UK. She holds a Ph.D. from the University of Toronto. She has been working on history of Theresienstadt since 2000\, and between 2006 and 2008 was the co-editor of Theresienstädter Studien und Dokumente. She has also co-edited the anthology Alltag im Holocaust: Jüdisches Leben im Großdeutschen Reich 1941-1945\, and co-authored The Last Veit Simons from Berlin: Holocaust\, Gender\, and the End of the German-Jewish Bourgeoisie. She has published on Theresienstadt in numerous peer-reviewed journals in English\, German\, Czech\, and French. She regularly contributes to mass media in English\, German\, and Czech in the publications Haaretz\, Süddeutsche Zeitung\, Tablet\, and Tagespiegel.
URL:https://cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net/event/author-talk-with-dr-anna-hajkova/
LOCATION:ZOOM | Registration required and closes 30 minutes prior to the start of the program
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220419T160000
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SUMMARY:Weekly Book Discussion Anna Hajkova "The Last Ghetto"
DESCRIPTION:This program is geared for educators\, but open to all.(Act 48 credit hours or a letter of participation is available upon request.) \nPast book discussions of “The Last Ghetto: An Everyday History of Theresienstadt” were held on:\nMarch 29\, 2022 | 4:00-5:00pm\nApril 5\, 2022 | 4:00-5:00pm\nApril 12\, 2022 | 4:00-5:00pm\nAuthor Talk Monday April 25th. 2022: REGISTER HERE!\nAbout The Book \nMap 1: Theresienstadt ghetto\, ca 1943. Copyright Albane Duvillier. \nTerezín\, as it was known in Czech\, or Theresienstadt as it was known in German\, was operated by the Nazis between November 1941 and May 1945 as a transit ghetto for Central and Western European Jews before their deportation for murder in the East. Terezín was the last ghetto to be liberated\, one day after the end of World War II. \nThe Last Ghetto is the first in-depth analytical history of a prison society during the Holocaust. Rather than depict the prison society which existed within the ghetto as an exceptional one\, unique in kind and not understandable by normal analytical methods\, Anna Hájková argues that such prison societies that developed during the Holocaust are best understood as simply other instances of the societies human beings create under normal circumstances. Challenging conventional claims of Holocaust exceptionalism\, Hájková insists instead that we ought to view the Holocaust with the same analytical tools as other historical events.  \nThe prison society of Terezín produced its own social hierarchies under which seemingly small differences among prisoners (of age\, ethnicity\, or previous occupation) could determine whether one ultimately lived or died. During the three and a half years of the camp’s existence\, prisoners created their own culture and habits\, bonded\, fell in love\, and forged new families. Based on extensive archival research in nine languages and on empathetic reading of victim testimonies\, The Last Ghetto is a transnational\, cultural\, social\, gender\, and organizational history of Terezín\, revealing how human society works in extremis and highlighting the key issues of responsibility\, agency and its boundaries\, and belonging. \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: Dr Anna Hájková  \nDr Anna Hájková is associate professor of modern European continental history at the University of Warwick\, UK. She holds a Ph.D. from the University of Toronto. She has been working on history of Theresienstadt since 2000\, and between 2006 and 2008 was the co-editor of Theresienstädter Studien und Dokumente. She has also co-edited the anthology Alltag im Holocaust: Jüdisches Leben im Großdeutschen Reich 1941-1945\, and co-authored The Last Veit Simons from Berlin: Holocaust\, Gender\, and the End of the German-Jewish Bourgeoisie. She has published on Theresienstadt in numerous peer-reviewed journals in English\, German\, Czech\, and French. She regularly contributes to mass media in English\, German\, and Czech in the publications Haaretz\, Süddeutsche Zeitung\, Tablet\, and Tagespiegel.
URL:https://cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net/event/weekly-book-discussion-anna-hajkova-the-last-ghetto-4/
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