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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
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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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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220426T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220426T153000
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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220413T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220413T163000
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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  \nJonathan Petropoulos \n  \nThank You to Our Partner
URL:https://cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net/event/confronting-the-complexity-of-holocaust-scholarship-3/
LOCATION:ZOOM | Registration required and closes 30 minutes prior to the start of the program
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SUMMARY:Book Discussion: "The Last Ghetto: An Everyday History of Theresienstadt"
DESCRIPTION:This program is geared for educators\, but open to all. \n(Act 48 credit hours or a letter of participation is available upon request.) \n\n\nAbout The Book \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 is a full time teacher at Winchester Thurston School\, and an educational programs leader and Holocaust scholar with Classrooms Without Borders. An accomplished and award winning educator\, Dr. Andy holds a Ph.D. in Russian and East European Studies from Birmingham University and teaches in the Upper School. In addition to teaching Genocide and Holocaust Studies\, he teaches a course on the modern Middle East\, Multicultural America\, and AP European history. Next year he will teach Russian history. He has traveled internationally to study global cultures and issues as part of his work to design engaging courses for his students. He earned WT’s Mary Houston Griffin Award for Excellence in Teaching in 2014\, which funded his trip to Amman\, Jordan\, to develop his Middle East course.
URL:https://cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net/event/book-discussion-the-last-ghetto-an-everyday-history-of-theresienstadt/
LOCATION:ZOOM | Registration required and closes 30 minutes prior to the start of the program
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SUMMARY:The War Against Ukraine through a lens of culture and history
DESCRIPTION:On February 24\, 2022 Russia began its invasion of Ukraine. It has caused a loss of life and destruction while uprooting hundreds of thousands of men\, women and children. The refugee crisis has quickly become monumental as neighboring countries scramble to provide necessary humanitarian needs. History and especially history of Jewish-Ukrainian relations have been cited in proclamations leading up to the attack. How do we untangle this propaganda campaign? What was the path that led to building an independent Ukrainian state?\nHow did we get here?\nWhat will it take to constrain the aggression?\nWhat does this mean for diplomacy and peace?\nJoin CWB Scholar Natalia Aleksiun and an esteemed panel of scholars and eyewitnesses as we examine this crisis and the consequences across Europe and the World. \nNatalia Aleksiun \nNatalia Aleksiun is Professor of Modern Jewish History at Touro College\, Graduate School of Jewish Studies\, New York. She has received many prestigious fellowships. She published a monograph titled Where to? The Zionist Movement in Poland\, 1944-1950 and a critical edition of Gershon Taffet’s Destruction of the Jewish Community of Żółkiew and coedited the 20th volume of Polin\, devoted to the memory of the Holocaust and the 29th volume titled Writing Jewish History in Eastern Europe. Her book Conscious History: Polish Jewish Historians before the Holocaust will be published with Littman in early 2020. She is currently working on a new book about the so-called cadaver affair at European Universities in the 1920s and 1930s and on a project dealing with daily lives of Jews in hiding in Galicia during the Holocaust. \nOmer Bartov \nJohn P. Birkelund Distinguished Professor of European History\, Professor of German Studies Born in Israel and educated at Tel Aviv University and St. Antony’s College\, Oxford\, Omer Bartov’s early research concerned the Nazi indoctrination of the Wehrmacht and the crimes it committed in World War II\, analyzed in his books\, The Eastern Front\, 1941-1945\, and Hitler’s Army. He then turned to the links between total war and genocide\, discussed in his books Murder in Our Midst\, Mirrors of Destruction\, and Germany’s War and the Holocaust. Bartov’s interest in representation also led to his study\, The “Jew” in Cinema\, which examines the recycling of antisemitic stereotypes in film. His more recent work has focused on interethnic relations in the borderlands of Eastern Europe. His book Erased (2007) investigates the politics of memory in West Ukraine\, while his most recent monograph\, Anatomy of a Genocide: The Life and Death of a Town Called Buczacz (2018) is a microhistory of ethnic coexistence and violence. The book received the National Jewish Book Award and the Yad Vashem International Book Prize for Holocaust Research\, among others\, and has been translated into several languages. Bartov has just completed a new monograph\, tentatively titled Tales from the Borderlands: Making and Unmaking the Past. His many edited volumes include Voices on War and Genocide: Three Accounts of the World Wars in a Galician Town (2020) and\, reflecting his new interest\, the forthcoming Israel/Palestine: Lands and Peoples. \nMarta Havryshko \nDr. Marta Havryshko holds a PhD in History from the Ivan Franko National University of Lviv (Ukraine). She is currently Research Associate at the Department of Contemporary History of the I. Krypiakevych Institute of Ukrainian Studies of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine. Her research interests are primarily focused on sexual violence during World War II and the Holocaust\, women’s history\, feminism\, and nationalism. Her recent publications include a book\, Overcoming Silence: Women’s War Stories (2018)\, as well as articles such as\, “Women’s Bodies as Battlefield: Sexual Violence during Soviet Counterinsurgency in Western Ukraine (1944-1953)” in Euxeinos. Governance and Culture in the Black Sea Region\, 9 (2019); “Rape in Hiding: Sexual Violence during the Holocaust in Ukraine” in Holokost i Suchasnist\, 17 (2019\, In Ukrainian); and\, “Love and Sex in Wartime: Controlling Women’s Sexuality in the Ukrainian Nationalist Underground” in Aspasia\, 12 (2018). Dr. Havryshko’s research has been supported by the German Academic Exchange Service (Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst\, DAAD)\, Yahad-In Unum\, Monash University\, Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies\, St. Gallen University\, amongst others. \nDr. Havryshko was awarded a 2019-2020 Diane and Howard Wohl Fellowship at the Jack\, Joseph and Morton Mandel Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies for her research project\, “Gender and the Holocaust: Sexual Violence against Jewish Women in Nazi-occupied Ukraine.” This project applies a feminist perspective\, placing gender at the forefront of analysis\, and aims to provide space for women’s voices about their sexual victimization and agency. \nMonday March 28th\, 2022: Featuring Elissa Bemporad and Dr. Vladyslava Moskalets\nMonday April 4th\, 2022 Featuring Dr. Mayhill C. Fowler and Dr. Olena Palko\nIn partnership with the Jack Buncher Endowed Chair in Jewish Studies at Carnegie Mellon University
URL:https://cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net/event/the-war-against-ukraine-through-a-lens-of-culture-and-history-3/
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SUMMARY:"Back in Berlin" Post-Film Discussion
DESCRIPTION:Shortly after his father’s death\, Bobby returns to his native England and discovers a suitcase full of documents\, letters and photos\, documenting the story of his family who perished in the Holocaust – the story his father never told him.He turns to Manuel\, his German-born childhood friend\, to translate the documents. Manuel\, who hails from a family steeped in cinematic history and whose aunt was married to Stanley Kubrick\, reveals that he too has recently uncovered a dark family secret: his father’s uncle was the infamous Nazi filmmaker Veit Harlan\, director of the film “Jud Suss” – banned from screening to the present day and considered the most notorious anti-Semitic propaganda film in history. Together they embark on a voyage to Berlin to discover more about their respective pasts- a journey which puts their friendship to the test. \nDr. Natalia Aleksiun \nDr. Natalia Aleksiun\, professor of modern Jewish history at Touro College\, New York is the incoming Harry Rich Professor of Holocaust Studies at the University of Florida-Gainesville. She studied Polish and Jewish history at the Warsaw University\, the Graduate School of Social Studies in Warsaw and Hebrew University in Jerusalem and New York University. She received her doctorates from Warsaw University and New York University. She is the author of Where To? The Zionist Movement in Poland\, 1944–1950) (Warsaw\, 2002)\, co-editor of several volumes\, including Polin: Studies in Polish Jewry\, vol. 29: Writing Jewish History in Eastern Europe (2017)\, and European Holocaust Studies\, vol. 3: (Places\, Spaces and Voids in the Holocaust). She is co-editor of East European Jewish Affairs. In 2019\, she published a critical edition of Gerszon Taffet’s Destruction of Żółkiew Jews. Her most recent book\, Conscious History: Polish Jewish Historians before the Holocaust\, was published in 2021 with Littman Library of Jewish Civilization. She is co-editor of East European Jewish Affairs. She is currently working on a book about the so-called cadaver affair at European universities in the 1920s and 1930s and on a project dealing with daily lives of Jews in hiding in Galicia during the Holocaust. \nBobby Lax \nBobby Lax is a seasoned TV director who started his career whilst still in England\, in the social action department of Granada TV\, one of the UK’s leading independent networks. \nAfter moving to Israel in 1992\, he worked as a director at Israel Educational Television for 6 years\, until moving on to develop a freelance career. Over the years he worked on a wide range of major TV productions\, from satire & game shows to commercials & cookery shows. He was part of the founding team & in-house director of the highly successful “Hop!” children’s channel\, and in latter years has returned to his passion for quality children’s programming\, developing and co-creating several award winning TV series’. \n“Back in Berlin ” is his first full length documentary film and received the Special Jury Mention at its premiere in the Haifa FIlm Festival in 2021.
URL:https://cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net/event/back-in-berlin-post-film-discussion/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220406T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220406T150000
DTSTAMP:20260708T205143
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SUMMARY:Czech Embassy Series: Coffee Talk with Daniel Kolsky
DESCRIPTION:The Embassy of the Czech Republic\, in collaboration with Classrooms without Borders\, invites you to the online discussion Coffee Talk\, featuring architect\, entrepreneur\, and human rights activist Daniel Kolsky. He will discuss his projects abroad\, such as educating coffee farmers in Uganda and Nicaragua\, helping the Ukraine\, as well as his Jewish activities. Through his work\, he tries to promote social change and responsibility to make the world better on multiple fronts. In his own cafe chain mamacoffee\, he focuses on building environmentally friendly\, sustainable\, fair trade products. Daniel Kolsky \nDaniel Kolsky is an architect\, entrepreneur\, and human rights activist. Since 2008\, Kolsky has worked with Prague-based Ting Architects\, devoting himself to numerous interior and residential reconstruction projects. Moreover\, he specializes in design\, with a special interest in cafe and gastronomic operations. He is the business owner of mamacoffee\, a chain of environmentally friendly cafés focusing on social responsibility via cooperation\, education\, and training of coffee farmers in Uganda\, Nicaragua\, and Brazil. He is the founder of Coffee Embassy EU and Prague Coffee Festival. For many years\, Kolsky worked on educational and cultural programs for the Czech Jewish community and the Jewish Agency for Israel. Recently\, he started Pomahej Ukraine (“Help Ukraine”)\, the largest platform of voluntary aid to support refugees from Ukraine found at www.pomahejukrajine.cz. Completing his studies at Charles University in Prague\, he graduated from the Faculty of Humanities with a B.A. and the Faculty of Education in a M.A. in 2021. His interests include playing the cello\, literature\, international relations\, human rights\, and travel. \nPhoto credit: Pavlína Šulcová and mammacoffee \nCZECH EMBASSY SERIES: Through this series\, the Embassy of the Czech Republic brings a broad selection of Czech artists\, intellectuals and professionals connected to Jewish life\, history\, art and culture to engage\, educate and inspire audiences in the United States and beyond. The series incorporates book talks\, film screenings\, lectures\, musical performances\, exhibitions\, and more.
URL:https://cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net/event/czech-embassy-series-coffee-talk-with-daniel-kolsky/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220405T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220405T173000
DTSTAMP:20260708T205143
CREATED:20220304T002351Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220304T003244Z
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SUMMARY:Book Discussion: "The Last Ghetto: An Everyday History of Theresienstadt"
DESCRIPTION:This program is geared for educators\, but open to all. \n(Act 48 credit hours or a letter of participation is available upon request.) \n\n\nAbout The Book \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 is a full time teacher at Winchester Thurston School\, and an educational programs leader and Holocaust scholar with Classrooms Without Borders. An accomplished and award winning educator\, Dr. Andy holds a Ph.D. in Russian and East European Studies from Birmingham University and teaches in the Upper School. In addition to teaching Genocide and Holocaust Studies\, he teaches a course on the modern Middle East\, Multicultural America\, and AP European history. Next year he will teach Russian history. He has traveled internationally to study global cultures and issues as part of his work to design engaging courses for his students. He earned WT’s Mary Houston Griffin Award for Excellence in Teaching in 2014\, which funded his trip to Amman\, Jordan\, to develop his Middle East course.
URL:https://cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net/event/book-discussion-the-last-ghetto-an-everyday-history-of-theresienstadt-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:20220405T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220405T160000
DTSTAMP:20260708T205143
CREATED:20220505T224402Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220513T194715Z
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SUMMARY:How Can We Write A History of the Prisoner Society? A New History of Ghetto Theresienstadt
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net/event/how-can-we-write-a-history-of-the-prisoner-society-a-new-history-of-ghetto-theresienstadt/
LOCATION:Carnegie Mellon University\, 5000 Forbes Avenue\, Pittsburgh\, PA
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220404T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220404T150000
DTSTAMP:20260708T205143
CREATED:20220505T223402Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230220T180120Z
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SUMMARY:The War Against Ukraine through a lens of culture and history
DESCRIPTION:“On February 24\, 2022 Russia began its invasion of Ukraine. It has caused a loss of life and destruction while uprooting hundreds of thousands of men\, women and children. The refugee crisis has quickly become monumental as neighboring countries scramble to provide necessary humanitarian needs. History and especially history of Jewish-Ukrainian relations have been cited in proclamations leading up to the attack. How do we untangle this propaganda campaign? What was the path that led to building an independent Ukrainian state?\nHow did we get here?\nWhat will it take to constrain the aggression?\nWhat does this mean for diplomacy and peace?\nJoin CWB Scholar Natalia Aleksiun and an esteemed panel of scholars and eyewitnesses as we examine this crisis and the consequences across Europe and the World.\nNatalia Aleksiun \nNatalia Aleksiun is Professor of Modern Jewish History at Touro College\, Graduate School of Jewish Studies\, New York. She has received many prestigious fellowships. She published a monograph titled Where to? The Zionist Movement in Poland\, 1944-1950 and a critical edition of Gershon Taffet’s Destruction of the Jewish Community of Żółkiew and coedited the 20th volume of Polin\, devoted to the memory of the Holocaust and the 29th volume titled Writing Jewish History in Eastern Europe. Her book Conscious History: Polish Jewish Historians before the Holocaust will be published with Littman in early 2020. She is currently working on a new book about the so-called cadaver affair at European Universities in the 1920s and 1930s and on a project dealing with daily lives of Jews in hiding in Galicia during the Holocaust. \nMonday March 28th\, 2022: Featuring Elissa Bemporad and Dr. Vladyslava Moskalets\nMonday April 11th\, 2022 Featuring Omer Bartov\, Dr. Marta Havryshko\nIn partnership with the Jack Buncher Endowed Chair in Jewish Studies at Carnegie Mellon University”
URL:https://cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net/event/the-war-against-ukraine-through-a-lens-of-culture-and-history-2/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220403T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220403T163000
DTSTAMP:20260708T205143
CREATED:20220303T004012Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220303T004830Z
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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-3/
LOCATION:ZOOM | Registration required and closes 30 minutes prior to the start of the program
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220403T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220403T143000
DTSTAMP:20260708T205143
CREATED:20220320T191612Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220401T205857Z
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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-3/
LOCATION:ZOOM | Registration required and closes 30 minutes prior to the start of the program
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220330T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220330T150000
DTSTAMP:20260708T205143
CREATED:20220505T223402Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220513T193654Z
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SUMMARY:"Masel Tov Cocktail" Post Film Discussion
DESCRIPTION:Classrooms Without Borders\, in partnership with Germany Close Up\, is honored to invite you to screen the short film “Masel Tov Cocktail” and join us for a post screening discussion with the filmmaker Arkadij Khaet and Dr. Lihi Nagler\, film scholar and an expert on Jewish and German Film.\nDIMITRIJ Liebermann (19) is Jewish and punched Tobi in the face. Now he’s supposed to apologize to him. But Dimitrij doesn’t exactly feel sorry. While on his way to meet up with Tobi\, he encounters a diverse representation of German society. An analysis of the status quo. \nARKADIJ KHAET \nARKADIJ KHAET was born during the final moments of the Soviet Union. A few weeks after his birth his family left the Republic of Moldova and immigrated to Germany. After graduating highschool he lived in Israel for a while\, and then moved to Cologne to start his undergraduate studies in Film and Television. As a student he started to implement his own film projects. During studies he met his Co-director colleague Mickey Paatzsch with whom he started a collaboration on several projects. Since October 2016\, Arkadij Khaet has been studying Film Directing at the Film Academy Baden-Württemberg and is currently living in Southern Germay. \nHis previous film projects include: \n2020 MASEL TOV COCKTAIL I 30 min\, co-director\, screenwriter \n2019 ALINA IM WUNDERLAND | 35min co-director\, screenwriter \n2018 USERDATE | 11min | director\, screenwriter \n2017 SCHEIDEWEG | 4 min | director\, screenwriter\, editor \n2017 HIKIKOMORI | 30 min | director\, screenwriter\, editor \n2017 ABLICHT | 7min | director\, screenwriter\, editor \n2016 THROUGH THE CURTAIN | 27 min | director\, screenwriter\, editor \nDr Lihi Nagler \nDr Lihi Nagler is a film scholar affiliated with the Department of Literature\, Art & Linguistics at The Open University of Israel. She has dual Israeli and Polish citizenships and lives in Berlin since 2007. Lihi is the Head of the non-profit organisation:´Jewish Moving Pictures: Film Curation for a Better Future’. She serves as a curator at the Jewish Film Festival Berlin and at the Warsaw Jewish Film Festival. She was a Max Planck Gesellschaft–Minerva Foundation postdoctoral fellow at the Seminar for Film Studies\, Freie Universität\, Berlin\, and was previously a visiting scholar at Harvard University\, and a lecturer at Tel University and Sapir Academic College in Israel and at Freie Universität Berlin. Lihi has more than 20 years experience of teaching and mentoring young students from around the world in Hebrew\, English and German. \nIn Partnership with Germany Close Up:
URL:https://cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net/event/masel-tov-cocktail-post-film-discussion/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220329T163000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220329T163000
DTSTAMP:20260708T205143
CREATED:20220505T222902Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220505T222902Z
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SUMMARY:Stockton Educator Training
DESCRIPTION:Classrooms Without Borders and Stockton University presents an interactive approach for enhancing research skills utilizing primary sourcesAbout this event\nUtilizing CWB’s new online database and in-school research initiative this session will explore interactive research techniques to engage students at the middle and high school levels with the personal stories and intimate events that shaped history. \nThis session will is firmly rooted in the C3 framework supporting the students skill sets of: \nAnalyzing complex and interacting factors that influenced the perspectives of people during different historical eras.\nCritiquing the usefulness of historical sources for a specific historical inquiry based on their maker\, date\, place of origin\, intended audience\, and purpose.\nGathering relevant information from multiple sources representing a wide range of views while using the origin\, authority\, structure\, context\, and corroborative value of the sources to guide the selection\nThrough careful historical investigation utilizing primary sources students will develop research skills designed to promote student agency. This database supports historical relevance and accuracy through meaningful\, relevant\, interest driven\, and tangible participation in compiling the historical record. \nStudents will explore history through their research\, while understanding the importance of sound research techniques and the historical verification process. Students will additionally anchor their writing skills in a solid foundation of historical accuracy. \nEach student will then submit their findings to the online database. These entities will be vetted by a team of in-house scholars adding to an ever growing database. \nThis process provides the student with tangible engagement in documenting the historical record promoting student agency throughoutthe process. \n		Stockton University & Classrooms Without Borders Teacher Training image\nParticipants will explore in real time the vetting process for student submission. \nUtilizing an inquiry based model this data base positions the students to become not only researchers\, but curators and archivists of the historical record. \nAdditionally participants will explore how to utilize the student driven database as a teaching tool to further complement existing units of study. \nSolid historical research is a skill set that is often undermined by access to technology. To support educators and students in making appropriate use of historical evidence and the historical sources CWB has designed this interactive student and educator facing-database. \nPresenters:\nDr. Mary Johnson: from Stockton University’s Master of Arts in Holocaust and Genocide program dedicated teacher and scholar of history. Dr. Johnson teaches as an adjunct on the college/university level and trains teachers from middle and high school backgrounds. She also has led study tours in Poland and Germany. Mary Johnson began her teaching career as a Peace Corps Volunteer Teacher in Northern Nigeria. She earned her Masters and Doctoral degrees from Washington University. Following graduate school\, she taught Women’s Studies and European History at Washington University and Temple University and spent a year as a visiting fellow at the Wellesley College Center for Research on Women. Since 1983 she has been with Facing History and Ourselves\, facilitating seminars and workshops\, writing curricula and conducting research. Currently\, she is conducting research on sexual violence during the Holocaust and genocide and deepening understanding of the Nanjing Safety Zone and other examples of safety zones during atrocities. \nEllen Resnek: Educational Programs and Outreach Manager. She has been an educator for over 20 years\, teaching in both Massachusetts and Vermont before relocating to Pennsylvania. She received her Bachelor of Arts in History from the University of Massachusetts in 1988 and holds 2 Masters Degrees in Education from Wilkes University. She has taught a wide variety of courses in the field of Social Studies\, including partnering with the University of Pittsburgh as a College in High School Educator. She is a member of the Teacher Advisory Board for The National Constitution Center; responsible for promoting high-quality\, nonpartisan\, civic education through a variety of activities and programs and a founding member of the Teacher Advisory Group for the National Council on History Education\, NCHE. She also serves as an Outreach Teacher Trainer for the Transatlantic Outreach Program. \nIn Partnship With: \n		Stockton University & Classrooms Without Borders Teacher Training image
URL:https://cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net/event/stockton-educator-training/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220329T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220329T173000
DTSTAMP:20260708T205143
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LAST-MODIFIED:20220304T003238Z
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SUMMARY:Book Discussion: "The Last Ghetto: An Everyday History of Theresienstadt"
DESCRIPTION:This program is geared for educators\, but open to all. \n(Act 48 credit hours or a letter of participation is available upon request.) \n\n\nAbout The Book \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 is a full time teacher at Winchester Thurston School\, and an educational programs leader and Holocaust scholar with Classrooms Without Borders. An accomplished and award winning educator\, Dr. Andy holds a Ph.D. in Russian and East European Studies from Birmingham University and teaches in the Upper School. In addition to teaching Genocide and Holocaust Studies\, he teaches a course on the modern Middle East\, Multicultural America\, and AP European history. Next year he will teach Russian history. He has traveled internationally to study global cultures and issues as part of his work to design engaging courses for his students. He earned WT’s Mary Houston Griffin Award for Excellence in Teaching in 2014\, which funded his trip to Amman\, Jordan\, to develop his Middle East course.
URL:https://cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net/event/book-discussion-the-last-ghetto-an-everyday-history-of-theresienstadt-3/
LOCATION:ZOOM | Registration required and closes 30 minutes prior to the start of the program
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220329T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220329T153000
DTSTAMP:20260708T205143
CREATED:20220302T230311Z
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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-4/
LOCATION:ZOOM | Registration required and closes 30 minutes prior to the start of the program
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220328T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220328T150000
DTSTAMP:20260708T205143
CREATED:20220505T222902Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230220T180045Z
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SUMMARY:The War Against Ukraine through a lens of culture and history
DESCRIPTION:“On February 24\, 2022 Russia began its invasion of Ukraine. It has caused a loss of life and destruction while uprooting hundreds of thousands of men\, women and children. The refugee crisis has quickly become monumental as neighboring countries scramble to provide necessary humanitarian needs. History and especially history of Jewish-Ukrainian relations have been cited in proclamations leading up to the attack. How do we untangle this propaganda campaign? What was the path that led to building an independent Ukrainian state?\nHow did we get here?\nWhat will it take to constrain the aggression?\nWhat does this mean for diplomacy and peace?\nJoin CWB Scholar Natalia Aleksiun and an esteemed panel of scholars and eyewitnesses as we examine this crisis and the consequences across Europe and the World. \nNatalia Aleksiun \nNatalia Aleksiun is Professor of Modern Jewish History at Touro College\, Graduate School of Jewish Studies\, New York. She has received many prestigious fellowships. She published a monograph titled Where to? The Zionist Movement in Poland\, 1944-1950 and a critical edition of Gershon Taffet’s Destruction of the Jewish Community of Żółkiew and coedited the 20th volume of Polin\, devoted to the memory of the Holocaust and the 29th volume titled Writing Jewish History in Eastern Europe. Her book Conscious History: Polish Jewish Historians before the Holocaust will be published with Littman in early 2020. She is currently working on a new book about the so-called cadaver affair at European Universities in the 1920s and 1930s and on a project dealing with daily lives of Jews in hiding in Galicia during the Holocaust. \nOmer Bartov \nJohn P. Birkelund Distinguished Professor of European History\, Professor of German Studies Born in Israel and educated at Tel Aviv University and St. Antony’s College\, Oxford\, Omer Bartov’s early research concerned the Nazi indoctrination of the Wehrmacht and the crimes it committed in World War II\, analyzed in his books\, The Eastern Front\, 1941-1945\, and Hitler’s Army. He then turned to the links between total war and genocide\, discussed in his books Murder in Our Midst\, Mirrors of Destruction\, and Germany’s War and the Holocaust. Bartov’s interest in representation also led to his study\, The “”Jew”” in Cinema\, which examines the recycling of antisemitic stereotypes in film. His more recent work has focused on interethnic relations in the borderlands of Eastern Europe. His book Erased (2007) investigates the politics of memory in West Ukraine\, while his most recent monograph\, Anatomy of a Genocide: The Life and Death of a Town Called Buczacz (2018) is a microhistory of ethnic coexistence and violence. The book received the National Jewish Book Award and the Yad Vashem International Book Prize for Holocaust Research\, among others\, and has been translated into several languages. Bartov has just completed a new monograph\, tentatively titled Tales from the Borderlands: Making and Unmaking the Past. His many edited volumes include Voices on War and Genocide: Three Accounts of the World Wars in a Galician Town (2020) and\, reflecting his new interest\, the forthcoming Israel/Palestine: Lands and Peoples. \nMarta Havryshko \nDr. Marta Havryshko holds a PhD in History from the Ivan Franko National University of Lviv (Ukraine). She is currently Research Associate at the Department of Contemporary History of the I. Krypiakevych Institute of Ukrainian Studies of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine. Her research interests are primarily focused on sexual violence during World War II and the Holocaust\, women’s history\, feminism\, and nationalism. Her recent publications include a book\, Overcoming Silence: Women’s War Stories (2018)\, as well as articles such as\, “”Women’s Bodies as Battlefield: Sexual Violence during Soviet Counterinsurgency in Western Ukraine (1944-1953)” in Euxeinos. Governance and Culture in the Black Sea Region\, 9 (2019); “Rape in Hiding: Sexual Violence during the Holocaust in Ukraine” in Holokost i Suchasnist\, 17 (2019\, In Ukrainian); and\, “Love and Sex in Wartime: Controlling Women’s Sexuality in the Ukrainian Nationalist Underground” in Aspasia\, 12 (2018). Dr. Havryshko’s research has been supported by the German Academic Exchange Service (Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst\, DAAD)\, Yahad-In Unum\, Monash University\, Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies\, St. Gallen University\, amongst others. \nDr. Havryshko was awarded a 2019-2020 Diane and Howard Wohl Fellowship at the Jack\, Joseph and Morton Mandel Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies for her research project\, “Gender and the Holocaust: Sexual Violence against Jewish Women in Nazi-occupied Ukraine.” This project applies a feminist perspective\, placing gender at the forefront of analysis\, and aims to provide space for women’s voices about their sexual victimization and agency. \nMonday March 28th\, 2022: Featuring Elissa Bemporad and Dr. Vladyslava Moskalets\nMonday April 4th\, 2022 Featuring Dr. Mayhill C. Fowler and Dr. Olena Palko\nIn partnership with the Jack Buncher Endowed Chair in Jewish Studies at Carnegie Mellon University”
URL:https://cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net/event/the-war-against-ukraine-through-a-lens-of-culture-and-history/
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SUMMARY:Holocaust Museums and Memorials Around the World
DESCRIPTION:Classrooms Without Borders\, in coordination with Tali Nates\, Founder and Director of the Johannesburg Genocide & Holocaust Centre\, and in partnership with the Maltz Museum of Jewish Heritage\, Liberation75\,  and the USC Shoah Foundation is pleased to embark on this new innovative Museums and Memorial series where we will highlight different angles of complex memory; grappling with the challenges faced in defining representation of both Lived Memory and Historical Memory. \nAlongside CWB Scholars we will travel with Museum historians\, experts\, and contemporary witnesses to 10 different regions. We will explore the history behind the exhibits\, discuss the nature of memory and memorials\, and discover how the world remembers the Shoah and honors the lives we lost. We will also explore how that memory is interconnected to genocides\, both past and present. Our experts will challenge us to grapple with issues of cultural identity\, responsibility to community\, and decision-making\, as well as ways in which individuals and nations responded\, or failed to respond\, to the crisis through close examination of the Museum’s artifacts and memorials. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n \n\nTali Nates\, founder and director of the Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Centre (a member of the South African Holocaust & Genocide Foundation)\, is a historian who lectured internationally on Holocaust education\, genocide prevention\, reconciliation and human rights. She has presented at numerous conferences and seminars including at the United Nations in New York in 2016. Tali is a fellow of the Salzburg Global Seminar and participated in the first Summer Education Academy of the International Nuremberg Principles Academy in 2016. She published many articles and contributed chapters to different books\, the latest\, God\, Faith & Identity from the Ashes: Reflections of Children and Grandchildren of Holocaust Survivors. \nTali serves on the Academic Advisory Group of the School of Social Science\, Monash University\, South Africa. Tali was chosen as one of the top 100 newsworthy and noteworthy women in South Africa (Mail & Guardian) and awarded the KIA Community Service Award. She acts as a scholar and leader of Holocaust and Genocide study-tours to Eastern Europe and Rwanda. Tali is one of the founders of ‘Holocaust Survivors Services’ and ‘Rwanda Genocide Survivors Services’ in Johannesburg. Born to a family of Holocaust survivors\, Tali’s father and uncle were saved by Oskar Schindler. \nDr. Matthias Haß works in the academic department of the House of the WannseeConference Memorial Site and Education Center. He is the curator of the travelling exhibition “The Wannsee Conference and the persecution and murder of the European Jews”. He is also working as consultant\, lecturer and educator in the fields of politics of memory\, European integration\, and international exchange programs. He has worked for a number of organizations among them UNESCO\, the Federal Association for Civic education\, the Körber Foundation\, Amziade\, Road Scholar. Mr Hass was the director of the U.S. program of Action Reconciliation Service for Peace in Philadelphia from 2005 – 2009. He studied Political Science at the Free University of Berlin and specialized in the field of Historical Foundations of politics and the Politics of Memory. Over the last years\, Mr Hass has organized a number of international exchange seminars for Canadian\, Polish\, German and American students with different organizations and universities. He has taught at the Free University in Berlin\, York University in Toronto and Touro College Berlin\, and worked at several museums and memorial sites to the Nazi past\, among them the Topography of Terror Foundation and the House of the Wannsee Conference Memorial Site and Education Center. Among his publications are “Survivors\, Victims\, Perpetrators”\, Berlin 2018\, “Holocaust Education in a Global Context” (Ed.) published by UNESCO\, Paris 2014\, ‘Gestaltetes Gedenken. Yad Vashem\, das U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum und die Stiftung Topographie des Terrors’\, Frankfurt/Main\, New York\, 2002\, and “The Politics of Memory in Germany\, Israel and the United States of America”\, Working Paper Series of The Canadian Centre for German and European Studies No. 9\, www.ccaeu.umontreal.ca/en/index.htm\, Toronto\, Montréal\, June 2004. \n \nDr. Matthias Heyl is a German historian and educationalist. After studying history\, psychology and educational science at the University of Hamburg from 1984–1992 (MA\, 1992)\, he became a research assistant at the Department of Education at the University of Hamburg from 1992–1996 (Dr. phil.\, 1996). 1998–2002 Matthias Heyl headed the research and work center “Education after / about Auschwitz” in Hamburg.  Since 2002 he has been the director of the international youth meeting place Ravensbrück and the educational services of the Ravensbrück memorial and memorial in the Brandenburg Memorials Foundation. \nHeyl is the author\, co-author and editor of numerous publications and essays on the social and educational discussion of the history of Nazi crimes. \n\n\n\nThank you to our partners
URL:https://cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net/event/holocaust-museums-and-memorials-around-the-world-4/
LOCATION:ZOOM | Registration required and closes 30 minutes prior to the start of the program
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SUMMARY:"I Am Here" Post-Film Discussion
DESCRIPTION:I Am Here – Documentary Ella Blumenthal is not your average 98-year-old. Her feisty and magnetic personality makes her past even more surprising. Follow this spirited South African Holocaust survivor as she reveals to her family her astonishing life journey and her unwavering appreciation of life.\nA life-affirming documentary that celebrates the remarkable life of Ella Blumenthal. At her 98th birthday celebrations she opens up to close friends and family about her story of survival during the Holocaust\, in a way she has never done before. Her recollections\, depicted through dynamic 2D animation\, include tales of three concentration camps\, and of narrowly escaping death in a gas chamber. Along with uplifting stories\, like Ella dissuading her niece from ending her life. The animation is juxtaposed with present day footage of Ella performing her weekly spiritual rituals\, being active in the swimming pool and walking on the promenade in Cape Town. She is not your average grandmother\, her vivacious personality and her positive outlook on life is truly inspiring. A universal message of resilience – as Ella is the epitome of the will to survive. This film could not be more relevant in a world that still defines itself by what is other. \nTali Nates: Moderator \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. \nJordy Sank \nJordy Sank is a South African director\, producer and writer known for his award-winning feature documentary I Am Here (2021) and SAFTA nominated short film The Locket (2015). With multiple projects in development and pre-production he continues his pursuit and passion for crafting emotive stories; feature films\, documentaries and narrative shorts. \nElla Blumenthal \nA 100 year old Cape Townian Holocaust Survivor with a magnetic personality\, boundless energy and a special zest for life. Having survived the atrocities of 3 concentration camps\, Majdanek\, Auschwitz and Bergen-Belsen\, she doesn’t harbor any hatred. On the contrary\, today she is a strong advocate for love\, peace and understanding. Ella Blumenthal was born in Warsaw\, Poland. She was moved into the Warsaw Ghetto in 1940\, where she participated in the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. She was deported to Majdanek in 1943\, then to Auschwitz and later to Bergen-Belsen where she remained until liberation. After the War\, she lived in Paris and Tel Aviv\, before marrying a South African and moving to Johannesburg. She lives in Cape Town and has four children\, eleven grandchildren and nine great grandchildren. \nElla Blumenthal\, in 1938 and present day\n| CREDIT: COURTESY OF SANKTUARY FILMS & BLUE FOX ENTERTAINMENT\n“I Am Here” WINNER OF:\nAudience Choice Award\, Durban International Film Festival\, 2021\nJury Award for Best SA Documentary (Oscar Qualifying)\, Durban International Film Festival\, 2021 Best Director\, Jozi Film Festival\, 2021\nAudience Choice Award for Best Documentary\, Atlanta Jewish Film Festival\, 2021\nBest Director\, Africa Human Rights Film Festival\, 2021\nAudience Choice Award\, Africa Human Rights Film Festival\, 2021
URL:https://cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net/event/i-am-here-post-film-discussion/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220309T150000
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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 \nLawrence L. Langer holds an extensive teaching background that began at the University of Connecticut in 1957\, where he was an English instructor until 1958\, when he began teaching at Simmons College as an Instructor to a Professor of English until 1976. Ensuing this\, in the Spring of 1977\, he began teaching at Yale University where he was an English lecturer and Guest Fellow of Morse College. Between 1976 and 1992\, Langer returned to Simmons College and continued there as a Professor of English and Holder of the Alumnae Endowed Chair. Presently\, Langer remains the Alumnae Chair Professor of English\, emeritus. In Fall 2002\, Langer was a Strassler Distinguished Visiting Professor in the Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies at Clark University. \nAwards \nBetween 1963 and 1964\, Lawrence L. Langer was recognized as a fulbright Professor of American Literature at the University of Graz in Graz\, Austria. Langer received an NEH Fellowship for Independent Studies and Research between 1978 and 1979.  Between 1988 and 1989\, Langer received the Outstanding Teacher of the Year Award at Simmons College.  Between 1989 and 1990\, Langer was awarded the NEH Senior Fellowship for College Teachers and Independent Scholars. During Summer 1991 and between 1993 and 1996\, Langer was the director of the National Endowment for the Humanities Seminar on “Literature of the Holocaust” at Simmons College.  Between September and December of 1996\, Langer was the JB & Maurice Senior Scholar-in-Residence at the US Holocaust Research Center of the Holocaust Museum in Washington\, DC.  From September to December of 1997\, Langer was prestiged as a Koerner Fellow for the Study of the Holocaust\, Oxford Center for Hebrew and Jewish Studies\, Yarnton Manor\, Oxford\, England.  In May 2003\, Langer served as the Resident Scholar at the Rockefeller Foundation Study and Conference Center in Bellagio\, Italy.  In 1996\, Langer was awarded the honorary degree\, Doctor of Humane Letters from Simmons College\, which he also received in 2000 from Hebrew Union College in Los Angeles and in 2002 from Ohio Wesleyan University. \nThank You to Our Partner
URL:https://cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net/event/confronting-the-complexity-of-holocaust-scholarship-4/
LOCATION:ZOOM | Registration required and closes 30 minutes prior to the start of the program
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220308T160000
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SUMMARY:Holocaust and the Human Spirit - Yad Vashem
DESCRIPTION:The Holocaust and The Human Spirit: A 3 Part Educator Training with Yad VashemAbout this event\nThe Holocaust remains the most extreme and unprecedented case of genocide where human beings committed unimaginable atrocities against their fellow men\, women and children. Yet\, in spite of the horror that surrounded them\, many thousands of people across war-torn Europe chose instead to display the very best qualities that humanity has to offer. \nPlease join us for this inspiring three-part course where we will explore the remarkable will\, courage and honor of those who stood up to defend the “human spirit”. \nThe Holocaust and The Human Spirit: Educator Training with Yad Vashem image
URL:https://cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net/event/holocaust-and-the-human-spirit-yad-vashem-2/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220306T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220306T163000
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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-4/
LOCATION:ZOOM | Registration required and closes 30 minutes prior to the start of the program
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220302T160000
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SUMMARY:Holocaust Tapestries with Ted Comet
DESCRIPTION:Ted Comet\, a 97-year old Jewish community leader will take us on a journey to view five unique tapestries woven by his late wife\, Shoshana Comet\, Holocaust survivor\, psychotherapist and artist. Each tapestry is a testament to the power of the mind to turn trauma into creative and healing energy hosted by DOROT USA.org. Educators around the country have utilized DOROT’s Tapestry tour as a unique teaching tool.Experience the Tapestry tour for yourself and bring this unique experience to your communities.\nAfter surviving the Holocaust\, Shoshana Comet (1923-2012) wove five 6-foot high tapestries which served as a means to unshackle herself from her holocaust trauma. This freed her to train to become a psychotherapist\, working with Holocaust survivors and their families who had been scarred by their experience. \nTHEODORE COMET \nTed Comet is Honorary Associate Executive Vice-President of JDC. He has been involved in Jewish communal affairs since the end of World War II when he served in France as a student volunteer in a JDC program to rehabilitate war orphans. His major career concerns have been meeting the needs of Israel and world Jewry. \nIn 1990 he joined JDC becoming its Associate Executive Vice President. It was a dramatic time as the downfall of Communism permitted entrée to Jewish communities in the former Soviet Union and Eastern Europe. There were major undertakings to help Jews now free to leave\, to rebuild local Jewish communities and to care for the large number of dependent elderly. It was also a period of dramatic rescue from Ethiopia and Sarajevo\, and saving the financially ruined Argentine Jewry. He led many missions to the former Soviet Union\, Eastern Europe\, North Africa\, India and Latin America. \nSince 1997 he was Executive Vice President of the World Council of Jewish Communal Service\, an international association of Jewish communal professionals\, which through Quadrennial gatherings in Jerusalem\, regional conferences and publications fostered networking and interchange to enhance the skills of professionals in dealing with the growing challenges facing Jewish communities. From 1968-1990\, he was Assistant Director of the Council of Jewish Federations where he wore multiple hats: \nFrom 1956-1968 he was National Director of the American Zionist Youth Foundation\, the central sponsor of Israel programs for American Jewish youth. He was founder/chairman of the Israel Parade on 5th Avenue and produced Israel folk Dance Festivals at Carnegie Hall and the World’s Fair. \nLong Active on behalf of Soviet Jewry\, he served as volunteer coordinator of the Conference on Soviet Jewry and organized the first large scale public demonstration of solidarity. In 1972 he led the first mission of Federation leaders to the Soviet Union. \nDeeply connected to the Holocaust\, his late wife was a survivor\, he represented JDC in its co-sponsorship at the Holocaust Museum in Washington of its first Conference on DP camps\, where he delivered a paper on: “Life Reborn in the Displaced Persons Camps – an Untold Story of Courage.” \nTed is a native of Cleveland\, Ohio and a graduate of Yeshiva University. He has two children\, a daughter in Boston with a degree in Social Work and a son in Jerusalem who is a Clinical Psychologist. He has six grandchildren\, eleven great grand children\, and one great grand child! A lifelong friend of Elie Wiesel\, Ted is an eloquent speaker with an inspirational story about suffering\, loss and healing that participants will never forget. \nDOROT alleviates social isolation among older adults and provides services to help them live independently as valued members of the community. We serve the Jewish and wider community\, bringing the generations together for mutual benefit.
URL:https://cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net/event/holocaust-tapestries-with-ted-comet/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220301T160000
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SUMMARY:Holocaust and the Human Spirit - Yad Vashem
DESCRIPTION:The Holocaust and The Human Spirit: A 3 Part Educator Training with Yad VashemAbout this event\nThe Holocaust remains the most extreme and unprecedented case of genocide where human beings committed unimaginable atrocities against their fellow men\, women and children. Yet\, in spite of the horror that surrounded them\, many thousands of people across war-torn Europe chose instead to display the very best qualities that humanity has to offer. \nPlease join us for this inspiring three-part course where we will explore the remarkable will\, courage and honor of those who stood up to defend the “human spirit”. \nThe Holocaust and The Human Spirit: Educator Training with Yad Vashem image
URL:https://cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net/event/holocaust-and-the-human-spirit-yad-vashem/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220224T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220224T140000
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SUMMARY:Holocaust Museums and Memorials Around the World
DESCRIPTION:Classrooms Without Borders\, in coordination with Tali Nates\, Founder and Director of the Johannesburg Genocide & Holocaust Centre\, and in partnership with the Maltz Museum of Jewish Heritage\, Liberation75\,  and the USC Shoah Foundation is pleased to embark on this new innovative Museums and Memorial series where we will highlight different angles of complex memory; grappling with the challenges faced in defining representation of both Lived Memory and Historical Memory. \nAlongside CWB Scholars we will travel with Museum historians\, experts\, and contemporary witnesses to 10 different regions. We will explore the history behind the exhibits\, discuss the nature of memory and memorials\, and discover how the world remembers the Shoah and honors the lives we lost. We will also explore how that memory is interconnected to genocides\, both past and present. Our experts will challenge us to grapple with issues of cultural identity\, responsibility to community\, and decision-making\, as well as ways in which individuals and nations responded\, or failed to respond\, to the crisis through close examination of the Museum’s artifacts and memorials. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n \n\nTali Nates\, founder and director of the Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Centre (a member of the South African Holocaust & Genocide Foundation)\, is a historian who lectured internationally on Holocaust education\, genocide prevention\, reconciliation and human rights. She has presented at numerous conferences and seminars including at the United Nations in New York in 2016. Tali is a fellow of the Salzburg Global Seminar and participated in the first Summer Education Academy of the International Nuremberg Principles Academy in 2016. She published many articles and contributed chapters to different books\, the latest\, God\, Faith & Identity from the Ashes: Reflections of Children and Grandchildren of Holocaust Survivors. \nTali serves on the Academic Advisory Group of the School of Social Science\, Monash University\, South Africa. Tali was chosen as one of the top 100 newsworthy and noteworthy women in South Africa (Mail & Guardian) and awarded the KIA Community Service Award. She acts as a scholar and leader of Holocaust and Genocide study-tours to Eastern Europe and Rwanda. Tali is one of the founders of ‘Holocaust Survivors Services’ and ‘Rwanda Genocide Survivors Services’ in Johannesburg. Born to a family of Holocaust survivors\, Tali’s father and uncle were saved by Oskar Schindler. \n\nThank you to our partners\n  
URL:https://cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net/event/holocaust-museums-and-memorials-around-the-world-7/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220223T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220223T150000
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SUMMARY:Stories from the Middle East with Journalist Jakub Szántó
DESCRIPTION:The Embassy of the Czech Republic\, in collaboration with Classrooms without Borders\, invites you to the online talk Stories from the Middle East with Czech journalist Jakub Szántó\, who spent years covering the region. He later published the book Behind the Curtain of War\, which describes his eyewitness accounts from the front lines. In his talk\, he will take viewers “behind the scenes” of wartime reporting. About the Journalist: \nJakub Szántó is a Czech journalist\, television reporter\, author and holder of several journalistic awards. From 1999\, he worked as editor in the foreign newsroom of TV Nova and eventually as its director. Since 2006\, he has worked for Czech Television\, where he has held such positions as deputy head of the Foreign Editorial Board and editor. From 2013-2018\, he was the Czech Republic’s permanent foreign correspondent for the Middle East and lived with his family in Tel Aviv. He has focused his career on the Middle East and Africa\, covering much of the international crises\, including the Second Palestinian Intifada\, Hamas-Israel conflicts\, US occupation of Iraq\, Arab Spring\, and Syrian civil war. He also covered the conflict in Chechnya\, the Georgian-Russian war (2008)\, piracy in Somalia\, the revolutions in Ukraine (2004 and 2014)\, the military coup attempt in Turkey (2016) and the civil war in Yemen (2018). \nHe is a laureate of the 2014 Journalist Award for the news coverage of the Maidan Revolution in Ukraine and the most prestigious journalist Peroutka Award in 2017. He received the Magnesia Litera Award in 2019 for his literary debut Behind the Curtain of War (Za oponou války\, 2018)\, which describes experiences from wars\, coups\, and revolutions. His most recent work is From Israestina with Love: A Reporter between Two Countries (Z Izrastiny s láskou\, 2020). \nSzántó graduated from the Faculty of Social Sciences at the Charles University and Modern History at the Central European University in Budapest. He completed his studies with a doctorate in modern history from Charles University. \nCZECH EMBASSY SERIES: Through this series\, the Embassy of the Czech Republic brings a broad selection of Czech artists\, intellectuals and professionals connected to Jewish life\, history\, art and culture to engage\, educate and inspire audiences in the United States and beyond. The series incorporates book talks\, film screenings\, lectures\, musical performances\, exhibitions\, and more.\nPhoto credit: Petr Hladík
URL:https://cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net/event/stories-from-the-middle-east-with-journalist-jakub-szanto/
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