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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
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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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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
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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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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220222T160000
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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\n“
URL:https://cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net/event/holocaust-and-the-human-spirit-yad-vashem-3/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220222T140000
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SUMMARY:Arab-Israeli Conflict with Avi Ben-Hur
DESCRIPTION:This course aims to unpack the causes and core issues that relate to the Conflict. The goal is to make the subject accessible to educators.About this event\nThe Arab-Israeli conflict plays a large (some would claim outsized) role in current events. This course aims to unpack the causes and core issues that relate to the Conflict. The goal is to make the subject accessible to educators and to give them the tools with which to grapple in the classroom with the subject at large and with breaking news. While this course is a primer on the subject\, the Q & A following each session is designed to enable the participants to engage with related issues on a higher resolution. Each section will be accompanied with suggestions for further exploration. The earlier lectures will approach the Conflict from two intersecting directions: \nThree concentric levels: \nThe International aspect (e.g. the Cold War)\nThe Regional aspect (the Middle East at large)\nThe leadership (of the countries at conflict)\nMultiple narratives: \nThe Jewish/Israeli narrative\nThe Arab/Palestinian narrative\nThe later sessions will put a greater focus on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and the continuing friction or détente between Israel and other regional actors. \nA concerted effort will be made to present the historical processes in an even-handed and balanced way\, while keeping in mind that this is a loaded topic for many people. We have no illusions that everyone will emerge from each lesson in agreement with the presenter or with their fellow participants. The key to a successful program will be the mutual respect paid to each and every person (including the presenter)\, particularly in the part designed for discussion/dialogue (i.e. the Q & A). By approaching the subject this way we strive to “model” how we believe education should work. Open hearts\, open minds and tolerance are the core values that inform CWB’s work. \nArab Israeli Conflict with Avi Ben Hur image\nAvi Ben Hur\nScholar in Residence \nA Brooklyn native\, Avi Ben-Hur moved to Israel in 1983. From 2003-2008 Avi was Director of the Archaeological Seminars School for Israeli Tour Guides. In 2008 Avi participated in re-writing the curriculum of the National Guiding courses for the Israeli Ministry of Tourism. As a “Scholar in Residence\, Avi has lectured\, taught and facilitated workshops in the US\, Warsaw\, Prague\, Berlin and Greece. From 1996-2000\, Avi taught in Yad Vashem’s International School for Holocaust Studies. As a guide\, Avi has specialized working with organizations focusing on political issues (such as AIPAC & CIJA)\, inter-faith programs and Holocaust studies.
URL:https://cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net/event/arab-israeli-conflict-with-avi-ben-hur-7/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220215T160000
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SUMMARY:Book Discussion "Love with No Tomorrow"
DESCRIPTION:This program is geared for educators\, but open to all.(Act 48 credit hours or a letter of participation is available upon request.) \nThe book discussions will be offered on the following dates and times:\nFebruary 1\, 2022 | 4:00-5:00pm\nFebruary 8\, 2022 | 4:00-5:00pm\nAuthor Talk : February 15\, 2022 | 4:00-5:00pm\nAbout the Book:\nLove at first sight. During the Holocaust. Bonds as strong as steel\, forged in the flames of hate.\nThese are extraordinary stories of love affairs during the most dangerous\, degrading\, and deadly conditions of genocidal persecution. The extreme lengths to which two people will go to express their love\, and the superhuman strength that is derived from such love\, is the stuff of miracles and endless inspiration. This little-known aspect of the Holocaust\, seen through the eyes of those in love\, is a unique contribution to our understanding of the best and the worst qualities of human nature. This book must be read by anyone who wants to know more about life and love enduring the most horrendous conditions one could imagine.\nWe will be reading these chapters together:\nForeword Dr Michael Berenbaum 14\nJoseph and Rebecca Bau 20\nNardus and Sipora Groen 117\nVictor and Regina Lewis 162\nJacob and Reisel Najman 192\nLunia and Leo Weiss 253\nDr. Josh Andy \nDr. Josh Andy is a full time teacher at Winchester Thurston School\, and an educational programs leader and Holocaust scholar with Classrooms Without Borders. An accomplished and award winning educator\, Dr. Andy holds a Ph.D. in Russian and East European Studies from Birmingham University and teaches in the Upper School. In addition to teaching Genocide and Holocaust Studies\, he teaches a course on the modern Middle East\, Multicultural America\, and AP European history. Next year he will teach Russian history. He has traveled internationally to study global cultures and issues as part of his work to design engaging courses for his students. He earned WT’s Mary Houston Griffin Award for Excellence in Teaching in 2014\, which funded his trip to Amman\, Jordan\, to develop his Middle East course.. \nMindelle Pierce \nMindelle Pierce has dedicated over fifteen years of her career to studying and teaching the history of the Holocaust. As a child of Holocaust survivors herself\, she has a personal connection and insight into this history. Mindelle continues to contribute her knowledge and research to many renowned organizations\, including the U.S Holocaust Memorial Museum in New York; the Museum of Jewish Heritage; and Manhattan College. She lives in Margate City\, New Jersey.
URL:https://cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net/event/book-discussion-love-with-no-tomorrow/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220210T150000
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SUMMARY:Film Discussion "Ghosts of the Third Reich"
DESCRIPTION:“Ghosts of the Third Reich” documents the poignant and anguished stories of descendants of the Nazis\, who confront their family’s past and communicate their most profound feelings of guilt by inheritance. These individuals\, whose family members were supporters\, officers\, and elite of the Nazi regime\, share a common desire to distance themselves from Nazi ideology and the actions of their ancestors; and to liberate themselves from the guilt\, shame\, and pain that continue to levy a heavy price seventy years later. The confrontation with the inheritance of the Nazi legacy is powerfully evoked further in the inclusion of moments from The Austrian Encounter\, a focal point for dialogue between descendants of Nazi perpetrators and survivors of the Holocaust. \nClaudia Ehrlich Sobral \nClaudia is a cultural anthropologist and an award-winning documentary filmmaker. She was born in São Paulo\, Brazil\, and has lived extensively throughout the United States and Europe. Sobral’s involvement with documentary filmmaking began in 2005 while she was living in Rome. She worked on several documentary film projects at SDcinematografica\, including the Sinking of the Andrea Doria\, the Battle of Monte Cassino\, and the Fall of Benito Mussolini. A trip to Berlin in 2006 ignited her curiosity about the life experiences of descendants of the Nazis. As a third-generation in a family of Holocaust survivors\, this topic is of personal interest to her. The results of her research and several interviews provided her with materials to produce and co-direct her first documentary titled “The Ghosts of the Third Reich.” It was broadcast on National Geographic Channel in Asia\, South America\, Europe\, and Australia and on History Channel Italy. Her most recent award-winning documentary Hotel Everest chronicles the experiences of Palestinians and Israelis peace activists who made their life mission to build a future of freedom\, self-determination\, and dignity for all. Along with her film work\, Sobral has over 20 years of experience in the museum field and community arts both in New York and Los Angeles. Most of the projects she has curated fostered diversity and inclusion through the visual arts. In addition\, she has been involved for a few years with an initiative that brings Jewish and Muslim women together in Los Angeles known as Abraham’s Daughters. \nBernd Wollschlaeger\, MD\, FAAFP\, FASAM is a board-certified family physician in private practice (Aventura\, FL). He received his medical education in Germany and Israel and completed his residency training at Jackson Memorial Hospital\, Miami\, FL. He received additional training in addiction medicine and is a Fellow of the American Society of Addiction Medicine. Dr. Wollschlaeger also serves as a Clinical Assistant Professor of Family Medicine at the University of Miami School of Medicine\, The Florida International\, and the Florida State University College of Medicine. Dr. Wollschlaeger is also a book author\, and his book “A German Life: Against All Odds Change is Possible” describes his struggle growing up in Germany in the shadow of his Father\, a highly-decorated WWII tank commander\, and Nazi officer. He eventually converted to Judaism\, emigrated to Israel\, and served in the Israel Defense Forces as a Medical Officer. \nSamson Munn \nSamson is a medical school professor and physician\, a radiologist\, now in Los Angeles\, formerly in Boston. A son of two Nazi\, murder camp survivors\, he first took part in the pioneering\, small\, intensive group of sons and daughters of Holocaust perpetrators meeting with those of Holocaust survivors created by Dan Bar-On in Germany in 1992\, called To Reflect and Trust. In 1993\, he began working on creating a similar dialogue in Austria\, which he facilitated and first met in 1995 in Vienna\, and continued to meet for 26 years. Several participants are creating a new post-Holocaust related dialogue\, not specific to Austria\, which will first meet in 2022 near Paris and is enrolling now. He organized and chaired the first International Conference of Jewish – German Intensive Dialogue Groups\, which met in 1996 in Boston. In 1997 through 2001\, he was also involved in meetings in Northern Ireland. He has a special interest in murdered École de Paris artists\, and maintains the web site devoted to the painter Jacob Mącznik. A citizen of the U.S.\, Germany\, Poland and Israel\, Samson is a Fulbright Specialist in Peace and Reconciliation Studies related to such intensive\, post-genocide\, dialogue projects. \nAvi Ben Hur Scholar 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/film-discussion-ghosts-of-the-third-reich/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220209T150000
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SUMMARY:Confronting the Complexities of Holocaust Scholarship
DESCRIPTION:Reflections on the Past\, Present\, and Future of Holocaust StudiesAbout this event\nClassrooms Without Borders\, in partnership with Liberation 75\, is excited to offer the opportunity engage in our new series: Confronting the Complexity of Holocaust Scholarship: Reflections on the Past\, Present\, and Future of Holocaust Studies \nThe rise of anti-Semitism across the globe alongside the current data that points to a serious void in understanding about the Holocaust in the 21st century shines a light on a critical need to continue the task of Holocaust Scholars to honor the memory of the Shoah. \nIn each of our 9 part series we will meet Top Scholars in the field and focus on their research and scholarship. \nDr. Michael Berenbaum \nConfronting the Complexity of Holocaust Scholarship image\nDr. Michael Berenbaum is a writer\, lecturer\, and teacher consulting in the conceptual development of museums and historical films. He is director of the Sigi Ziering Institute: Exploring the Ethical and Religious Implications of the Holocaust at the American Jewish University\, where he is also a Professor of Jewish Studies. \nHe was the Executive Editor of the Second Edition of the Encyclopedia Judaica that reworked\, transformed\, improved\, broadened and deepened\, the now classic 1972 work and consists of 22 volumes\, sixteen million words with 25\,000 individual contributions to Jewish knowledge. For three years\, he was President and Chief Executive Officer of the Survivors of the Shoah Visual History Foundation. He was the Director of the United States Holocaust Research Institute at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum and the Hymen Goldman Adjunct Professor of Theology at Georgetown University in Washington\, D.C. From 1988–93 he served as Project Director of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum\, overseeing its creation. He also served as Deputy Director of the President’s Commission on the Holocaust\, where he authored its Report to the President. \nBerenbaum is the author and editor of twenty books\, scores of scholarly articles\, and hundreds of journalistic pieces. His most recent books include: Not Your Father’s Antisemitism\, A Promise to Remember: The Holocaust in the Words and Voices of Its Survivors and After the Passion Has Passed: American Religious Consequences\, a collection of essays on Jews\, Judaism and Christianity\, Religious Tolerance and Pluralism occasioned by the controversy that swirled around Mel Gibson’s film\, The Passion. He was the conceptual developer on the Illinois Holocaust Museum and Educational Center and played a similar function as conceptual developer and chief curator of the Belzec Memorial at the site of the Death Camp. He is currently at work on the Memorial Museum to Macedonian Jewry in Skopje\, the Dallas Holocaust and Human Rights Museum\, and the Holocaust and Humanity Center in Cincinnati\, Ohio. \nThank you to our partner \nConfronting the Complexity of Holocaust Scholarship image
URL:https://cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net/event/confronting-the-complexities-of-holocaust-scholarship-3/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220208T160000
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SUMMARY:Weekly Book Discussion Mindelle Pierce "Love With No Tomorrow"
DESCRIPTION:This program is geared for educators\, but open to all.(Act 48 credit hours or a letter of participation is available upon request.) \nThe book discussions will be offered on the following dates and times:\nFebruary 1\, 2022 | 4:00-5:00pm\nFebruary 8\, 2022 | 4:00-5:00pm\nAuthor Talk : February 15\, 2022 | 4:00-5:00pm\nAbout the Book:\nLove at first sight. During the Holocaust. Bonds as strong as steel\, forged in the flames of hate.\nThese are extraordinary stories of love affairs during the most dangerous\, degrading\, and deadly conditions of genocidal persecution. The extreme lengths to which two people will go to express their love\, and the superhuman strength that is derived from such love\, is the stuff of miracles and endless inspiration. This little-known aspect of the Holocaust\, seen through the eyes of those in love\, is a unique contribution to our understanding of the best and the worst qualities of human nature. This book must be read by anyone who wants to know more about life and love enduring the most horrendous conditions one could imagine.\nWe will be reading these chapters together:\nForeword Dr Michael Berenbaum 14\nJoseph and Rebecca Bau 20\nNardus and Sipora Groen 117\nVictor and Regina Lewis 162\nJacob and Reisel Najman 192\nLunia and Leo Weiss 253\nDr. Josh Andy \nDr. Josh Andy is a full time teacher at Winchester Thurston School\, and an educational programs leader and Holocaust scholar with Classrooms Without Borders. An accomplished and award winning educator\, Dr. Andy holds a Ph.D. in Russian and East European Studies from Birmingham University and teaches in the Upper School. In addition to teaching Genocide and Holocaust Studies\, he teaches a course on the modern Middle East\, Multicultural America\, and AP European history. Next year he will teach Russian history. He has traveled internationally to study global cultures and issues as part of his work to design engaging courses for his students. He earned WT’s Mary Houston Griffin Award for Excellence in Teaching in 2014\, which funded his trip to Amman\, Jordan\, to develop his Middle East course.. \nMindelle Pierce \nMindelle Pierce has dedicated over fifteen years of her career to studying and teaching the history of the Holocaust. As a child of Holocaust survivors herself\, she has a personal connection and insight into this history. Mindelle continues to contribute her knowledge and research to many renowned organizations\, including the U.S Holocaust Memorial Museum in New York; the Museum of Jewish Heritage; and Manhattan College. She lives in Margate City\, New Jersey.
URL:https://cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net/event/weekly-book-discussion-mindelle-pierce-love-with-no-tomorrow-2/
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SUMMARY:Our Lives Berlin as Refuge
DESCRIPTION:After the end of the Second World War\, Berlin became a place of refuge for Jewish Displaced Persons (DP). They called themselves she’erit hapletah\, “the last survivors”. For most of them\, Germany – as the country of the perpetrators – was the last place they wanted to stay. In Mariendorf\, Zehlendorf and Reinickendorf camps were established in which Jewish DPs often lived for several years. \nJohanna Blender \nJohanna Blender is currently working on her M.A. thesis in Public History at the Freie Universität Berlin. After two years of volunteering for Action Reconciliation Service for Peace in Berlin and Tel Aviv\, she studied History and Anglistics at Humboldt University and University College Dublin. Recently\, she curated an exhibition on Berlin as a city of refuge for Jewish Displaced Persons after 1945. \nIn Partnership with Germany Close Up:
URL:https://cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net/event/our-lives-berlin-as-refuge/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220201T160000
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SUMMARY:Weekly Book Discussion Mindelle Pierce "Love With No Tomorrow"
DESCRIPTION:This program is geared for educators\, but open to all.(Act 48 credit hours or a letter of participation is available upon request.) \nThe book discussions will be offered on the following dates and times:\nFebruary 1\, 2022 | 4:00-5:00pm\nFebruary 8\, 2022 | 4:00-5:00pm\nAuthor Talk : February 15\, 2022 | 4:00-5:00pm\nAbout the Book:\nLove at first sight. During the Holocaust. Bonds as strong as steel\, forged in the flames of hate.\nThese are extraordinary stories of love affairs during the most dangerous\, degrading\, and deadly conditions of genocidal persecution. The extreme lengths to which two people will go to express their love\, and the superhuman strength that is derived from such love\, is the stuff of miracles and endless inspiration. This little-known aspect of the Holocaust\, seen through the eyes of those in love\, is a unique contribution to our understanding of the best and the worst qualities of human nature. This book must be read by anyone who wants to know more about life and love enduring the most horrendous conditions one could imagine.\nWe will be reading these chapters together:\nForeword Dr Michael Berenbaum 14\nJoseph and Rebecca Bau 20\nNardus and Sipora Groen 117\nVictor and Regina Lewis 162\nJacob and Reisel Najman 192\nLunia and Leo Weiss 253\nDr. Josh Andy \nDr. Josh Andy is a full time teacher at Winchester Thurston School\, and an educational programs leader and Holocaust scholar with Classrooms Without Borders. An accomplished and award winning educator\, Dr. Andy holds a Ph.D. in Russian and East European Studies from Birmingham University and teaches in the Upper School. In addition to teaching Genocide and Holocaust Studies\, he teaches a course on the modern Middle East\, Multicultural America\, and AP European history. Next year he will teach Russian history. He has traveled internationally to study global cultures and issues as part of his work to design engaging courses for his students. He earned WT’s Mary Houston Griffin Award for Excellence in Teaching in 2014\, which funded his trip to Amman\, Jordan\, to develop his Middle East course.. \nMindelle Pierce \nMindelle Pierce has dedicated over fifteen years of her career to studying and teaching the history of the Holocaust. As a child of Holocaust survivors herself\, she has a personal connection and insight into this history. Mindelle continues to contribute her knowledge and research to many renowned organizations\, including the U.S Holocaust Memorial Museum in New York; the Museum of Jewish Heritage; and Manhattan College. She lives in Margate City\, New Jersey.
URL:https://cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net/event/weekly-book-discussion-mindelle-pierce-love-with-no-tomorrow/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220127T000000
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SUMMARY:TEACH IN - International Holocaust Remembrance Day
DESCRIPTION:A CWB Community Wide TEACH INWe invite all Holocaust Educators to participate on January 27\, 2022 to celebrate Jewish spiritual resistance during Nazi occupation. Just RSVP to receive lesson plans\, resources and a link to screen the film\, “Who Will Write Our History” by Roberta Grossman! \n“What we were unable to cry and shriek out to the world we buried in the ground…” so wrote Dawid Graber\, aged 19\, from within the Warsaw Ghetto. Graber’s words meet visitors today to the Jewish Historical Institute in Warsaw. The new permanent exhibit at JHI documents and remembers Emanuel Ringelblum and Oyneg Shabes – their work in creating the Warsaw Ghetto archive. The Ringelblum (Ghetto) archive was a weapon against Nazi oppression\, a way for the Jews of Warsaw to resist – to write their own history. Ringelblum and Oyneg Shabes goal was to explain to future historians and humanity what life was like in the Warsaw Ghetto from the Jewish perspective. Clandestinely complied from 1940 until the destruction of the ghetto after the Ghetto uprising in 1943\, the Archive contains testimonies from Warsaw Jews\, it provides a documentary record of the fate of the Warsaw Jewry. Ten metal boxes and steel milk canisters held the archive when it was buried between those years. The first tranche was found on 18 September 1946\, the final pieces four years later. \nUtilizing the history and stories contained within the Oyneg Shabes archive\, Classrooms Without Borders will host a virtual ‘teach in;’ we invite schools and school districts\, teachers and students to engage in the study of Emanuel Ringelblum and Oyneg Shabes on the same day\, Thursday January 27\, 2022\, International Holocaust Remembrance Day. Around Pittsburgh\, West Virginia\, Ohio\, Florida\, and across the United States\, including schools in Israel and Poland\, teachers and students will all learn about this act of spiritual resistance from within the Warsaw Ghetto. \n*A virtual tour and teacher workshop on the Ringelblum archive and Oyneg Shabes was held before the TEACH IN for participating educators.
URL:https://cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net/event/teach-in-international-holocaust-remembrance-day/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220125T160000
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SUMMARY:Rebecca Donner " All the Frequent Trouble of Our Days"
DESCRIPTION:Classrooms Without Borders is honored to bring Rebecca Donner author of the book “All the Frequent Troubles of Our Days” to our community of educators and learners.ALL THE FREQUENT TROUBLES OF OUR DAYS\nBorn and raised in Milwaukee\, Mildred Harnack was twenty-six when she enrolled in a PhD program in Germany and witnessed the meteoric rise of the Nazi party. In 1932\, she began holding secret meetings in her apartment—a small band of political activists that by 1940 had grown into the largest underground resistance group in Berlin. She recruited working-class Germans into the resistance\, helped Jews escape\, plotted acts of sabotage\, and collaborated in writing leaflets that denounced Hitler’s regime. Her coconspirators circulated through Berlin under the cover of night\, slipping the leaflets into mailboxes\, public restrooms\, phone booths. When the first shots of the Second World War were fired she became a spy\, couriering top-secret intelligence to the Allies. On the eve of her escape to Sweden\, she was ambushed by the Gestapo. At a Nazi military court\, a panel of five judges sentenced her to six years at a prison camp\, but Hitler overruled the decision and ordered her execution. On February 16\, 1943\, she was strapped to a guillotine and beheaded. \nHistorians identify Mildred Harnack as the only American in the leadership of the German resistance\, yet her remarkable story has remained almost unknown until now. \nHarnack’s great-great-niece Rebecca Donner draws on her extensive archival research in Germany\, Russia\, England\, and the U.S. as well as newly uncovered documents in her family archive to produce this astonishing work of narrative nonfiction. Fusing elements of biography\, real-life political thriller\, and scholarly detective story\, Donner brilliantly interweaves letters\, diary entries\, notes smuggled out of a Berlin prison\, testimony of survivors\, and a trove of declassified intelligence documents into a powerful\, enthralling story\, reconstructing the moral courage of an enigmatic woman nearly erased by history. \nA New York Times Notable Book of 2021\nA New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice\nA New York Times Book Review Critics’ Top Book of 2021\nA Wall Street Journal Best Book of 2021\nA Time Magazine Must-Read Book of 2021\nThe Economist’s Best Book of 2021\nA New York Post Best Book of 2021\nA Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Best Book of 2021\nAn Oprah Daily Best New Book of August\nA BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week\nA New York Public Library Book of the Week\nA Publishers Weekly Top Ten Book of 2021\nA Barnes & Noble Best History Book of 2021\nA Barnes & Noble Best Audiobook of 2021 \nRebecca Donner \nRebecca Donner is the author of the instant New York Times bestseller All the Frequent Troubles of Our Days\, published by Little\, Brown in the US and Canongate in the UK. A Hebrew translation is forthcoming in 2022 from Matar Publishing in Israel. All the Frequent Troubles of Our Days was selected as a New York Times Critics’ Top Book of 2021\, a New York Times Notable Book\, and a New York Times Editors’ Choice. It was also named one of the Best Books of 2021 by the Wall Street Journal\, Time Magazine\, and The Economist. \nAll the Frequent Troubles of Our Days was recently longlisted for the 2022 PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for Biography. \nBorn in Canada\, Donner was educated at the University of California at Berkeley and Columbia University. She is the author of Sunset Terrace\, a critically acclaimed novel\, and Burnout\, a graphic novel about ecoterrorism. Her essays\, reportage\, and reviews have appeared in numerous publications\, including the New York Times and Bookforum. \nRebecca Donner was a 2018-19 fellow at the Leon Levy Center for Biography at the City University of New York\, is a two-time Yaddo fellow\, and has twice been awarded fellowships by the Ucross Foundation. She has also held residencies at Virginia Center for the Creative Arts and Vermont Studio Center. Donner is a member of the National Book Critics Circle\, and has taught writing at Wesleyan University\, Columbia University\, and Barnard College. \nDr. Josh Andy \nDr. Josh Andy is a full time teacher at Winchester Thurston School\, and an educational programs leader and Holocaust scholar with Classrooms Without Borders. An accomplished and award winning educator\, Dr. Andy holds a Ph.D. in Russian and East European Studies from Birmingham University and teaches in the Upper School. In addition to teaching Genocide and Holocaust Studies\, he teaches a course on the modern Middle East\, Multicultural America\, and AP European history. Next year he will teach Russian history. He has traveled internationally to study global cultures and issues as part of his work to design engaging courses for his students. He earned WT’s Mary Houston Griffin Award for Excellence in Teaching in 2014\, which funded his trip to Amman\, Jordan\, to develop his Middle East course.
URL:https://cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net/event/rebecca-donner-all-the-frequent-trouble-of-our-days/
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SUMMARY:Arab-Israeli Conflict with Avi Ben-Hur
DESCRIPTION:This course aims to unpack the causes and core issues that relate to the Conflict. The goal is to make the subject accessible to educators.About this event\nThe Arab-Israeli conflict plays a large (some would claim outsized) role in current events. This course aims to unpack the causes and core issues that relate to the Conflict. The goal is to make the subject accessible to educators and to give them the tools with which to grapple in the classroom with the subject at large and with breaking news. While this course is a primer on the subject\, the Q & A following each session is designed to enable the participants to engage with related issues on a higher resolution. Each section will be accompanied with suggestions for further exploration. The earlier lectures will approach the Conflict from two intersecting directions: \nThree concentric levels: \nThe International aspect (e.g. the Cold War)\nThe Regional aspect (the Middle East at large)\nThe leadership (of the countries at conflict)\nMultiple narratives: \nThe Jewish/Israeli narrative\nThe Arab/Palestinian narrative\nThe later sessions will put a greater focus on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and the continuing friction or détente between Israel and other regional actors. \nA concerted effort will be made to present the historical processes in an even-handed and balanced way\, while keeping in mind that this is a loaded topic for many people. We have no illusions that everyone will emerge from each lesson in agreement with the presenter or with their fellow participants. The key to a successful program will be the mutual respect paid to each and every person (including the presenter)\, particularly in the part designed for discussion/dialogue (i.e. the Q & A). By approaching the subject this way we strive to “model” how we believe education should work. Open hearts\, open minds and tolerance are the core values that inform CWB’s work. \nArab Israeli Conflict with Avi Ben Hur image\nAvi Ben Hur\nScholar in Residence \nA Brooklyn native\, Avi Ben-Hur moved to Israel in 1983. From 2003-2008 Avi was Director of the Archaeological Seminars School for Israeli Tour Guides. In 2008 Avi participated in re-writing the curriculum of the National Guiding courses for the Israeli Ministry of Tourism. As a “Scholar in Residence\, Avi has lectured\, taught and facilitated workshops in the US\, Warsaw\, Prague\, Berlin and Greece. From 1996-2000\, Avi taught in Yad Vashem’s International School for Holocaust Studies. As a guide\, Avi has specialized working with organizations focusing on political issues (such as AIPAC & CIJA)\, inter-faith programs and Holocaust studies.
URL:https://cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net/event/arab-israeli-conflict-with-avi-ben-hur-6/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220120T130000
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SUMMARY:Holocaust Museums and Memorials Around the World
DESCRIPTION:Classrooms Without Borders\, in coordination with Tali Nates\, Founder and Director of the Johannesburg Genocide & Holocaust Centre\, and in partnership with the Maltz Museum of Jewish Heritage\, Liberation75\,  and the USC Shoah Foundation is pleased to embark on this new innovative Museums and Memorial series where we will highlight different angles of complex memory; grappling with the challenges faced in defining representation of both Lived Memory and Historical Memory. \nAlongside CWB Scholars we will travel with Museum historians\, experts\, and contemporary witnesses to 10 different regions. We will explore the history behind the exhibits\, discuss the nature of memory and memorials\, and discover how the world remembers the Shoah and honors the lives we lost. We will also explore how that memory is interconnected to genocides\, both past and present. Our experts will challenge us to grapple with issues of cultural identity\, responsibility to community\, and decision-making\, as well as ways in which individuals and nations responded\, or failed to respond\, to the crisis through close examination of the Museum’s artifacts and memorials. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n \n\nTali Nates\, founder and director of the Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Centre (a member of the South African Holocaust & Genocide Foundation)\, is a historian who lectured internationally on Holocaust education\, genocide prevention\, reconciliation and human rights. She has presented at numerous conferences and seminars including at the United Nations in New York in 2016. Tali is a fellow of the Salzburg Global Seminar and participated in the first Summer Education Academy of the International Nuremberg Principles Academy in 2016. She published many articles and contributed chapters to different books\, the latest\, God\, Faith & Identity from the Ashes: Reflections of Children and Grandchildren of Holocaust Survivors. \nTali serves on the Academic Advisory Group of the School of Social Science\, Monash University\, South Africa. Tali was chosen as one of the top 100 newsworthy and noteworthy women in South Africa (Mail & Guardian) and awarded the KIA Community Service Award. She acts as a scholar and leader of Holocaust and Genocide study-tours to Eastern Europe and Rwanda. Tali is one of the founders of ‘Holocaust Survivors Services’ and ‘Rwanda Genocide Survivors Services’ in Johannesburg. Born to a family of Holocaust survivors\, Tali’s father and uncle were saved by Oskar Schindler. \n\nThank you to our partners\n  
URL:https://cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net/event/holocaust-museums-and-memorials-around-the-world-6/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220119T160000
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SUMMARY:Using Holocaust films in the classroom\, with Holocaust film scholar and author Rich Brownstein in conversation with Dr. Michael Berenbaum
DESCRIPTION:Using Holocaust films in the classroom\, with Holocaust film scholar and author Rich Brownstein in conversation with Dr. Michael Berenbaum\nWednesday\, January 19\, 2022\n4:00pm-5:30pm ET \nREGISTER \nExplore the greatest narrative Holocaust film ever made while discovering the impact of Holocaust genre films.\nSince 1945\, more than 440 narrative Holocaust feature films and made-for-television movies have been produced\, in dozens of languages by more than 40 countries.  Holocaust films have spanned every conceivable theatrical style\, including drama\, melodrama\, docudrama\, comedy\, farce\, science fiction\, time travel\, live-action\, animation and streaming.  Holocaust films are so critically accepted that at least one has been nominated for at least one Academy Award ever other year\, including 20 for Best Foreign Language Film.  Still more daunting\, 75 of these films have functionally disappeared.  How was all this unwieldy information unified into one volume of history\, analysis\, pedagogy\, commentary\, recommendations\, reviews and lists? \nFrom Anne Frank to Schindler’s List to Jojo Rabbit\, Holocaust films are put into historical and artistic perspective and are discussed through many lenses: historically\, chronologically\, thematically\, sociologically\, geographically and individually. The filmmakers behind these films are also contextualized\, including Charlie Chaplin\, Sidney Lumet\, Woody Allen\, Quentin Tarantino\, Steven Spielberg and Roman Polanski. This book also includes recommendations and reviews of the 50 best Holocaust films\, an educational guide\, and a detailed listing of each Holocaust film. \nRich Brownstein created a monumental guide to Holocaust related film\, Holocaust Cinema Complete: A History and Analysis of 400 Films\, with a Teaching Guide\, This text provides context for creative decisions\, successes and failures\, historical shifts\, and career paths of renowned filmmakers. \nJoin CWB to explore the greatest narrative Holocaust films ever made and explore why so many American–produced Holocaust films have been nominated for at least one Oscar.\nRich Brownstein \nA Holocaust & Jewish Film expert\, Rich Brownstein has lectured for Yad Vashem’s International School of Holocaust Studies since 2014\, specializing in the history and use of Holocaust films in the classrooms.\n​\nRich Brownstein was born in Portland\, Oregon in 1962. Most of his undergraduate work at Reed College was in psychology. By the time he graduated\, three of his experiments were on their way to being published in the top social psychology journals in the world. Those studies are still being cited today. During college\, too\, Rich was a Sunday school teacher specializing in Holocaust education and also on the board of the Oregon Holocaust Resource Center (now the Oregon Jewish Museum and Center for Holocaust Education). \nA few years after college Rich moved to Los Angeles\, working with Zucker\, Abrahams and Zucker Productions. Rich was the associate producer on one of David Zucker’s projects\, directed by Trey Parker and Matt Stone\, just before they created South Park. In fact\, there is a South Park character that Rich inspired. \nRich then founded The Transcription Company\, starting from an apartment in Hollywood. Initially\, his company transcribed the raw interviews for tabloid TV shows such as Fox’s A Current Affair\, NBC’s Access Hollywood\, and King World’s Inside Edition/American Journal. Eventually\, every network and studio used his company\, including: NPR\, Oprah\, ABC News\, Curb Your Enthusiasm and even Playboy videos. At theend of Nightline when transcripts were offered\, those were produced and processed by his company. By the time Rich sold the company in 2003 to move his family to Israel\, Rich had over 100 employees and contractors. \nIn Israel\, Rich became a professor of Jewish and Holocaust film for the Young Judaea Your Course program\, accredited by the American Jewish University of Los Angeles. For a decade\, Rich taught hundreds of college students during their “gap year” about film and critical reasoning. His teaching methods and theories about Holocaust films eventually came to the attention of Yad Vashem’s International School for Holocaust Studies where Rich has been a lecturer since 2014\, specializing in the use of narrative Holocaust films in the classroom. Thousands of educators worldwide use his methods. \nAlong the way Rich also sang “Louie Louie” with The Kingsmen\, taught Stan Lee how to use Microsoft Word\, read Shas\, worked with the man who wagged the tail of the Lion in the Wizard of Oz\, and Rich also accumulated the largest collection of basketball memorabilia in the world\, all of it related to his beloved Portland Trail Blazers. \nDr. Michael Berenbaum \nDr. Michael Berenbaum is a writer\, lecturer\, and teacher consulting in the conceptual development of museums and historical films. He is director of the Sigi Ziering Institute: Exploring the Ethical and Religious Implications of the Holocaust at the American Jewish University\, where he is also a Professor of Jewish Studies. \nHe was the Executive Editor of the Second Edition of the Encyclopedia Judaica that reworked\, transformed\, improved\, broadened and deepened\, the now classic 1972 work and consists of 22 volumes\, sixteen million words with 25\,000 individual contributions to Jewish knowledge. For three years\, he was President and Chief Executive Officer of the Survivors of the Shoah Visual History Foundation. He was the Director of the United States Holocaust Research Institute at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum and the Hymen Goldman Adjunct Professor of Theology at Georgetown University in Washington\, D.C. From 1988–93 he served as Project Director of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum\, overseeing its creation. He also served as Deputy Director of the President’s Commission on the Holocaust\, where he authored its Report to the President. \nBerenbaum is the author and editor of twenty books\, scores of scholarly articles\, and hundreds of journalistic pieces. His most recent books include: Not Your Father’s Antisemitism\, A Promise to Remember: The Holocaust in the Words and Voices of Its Survivors and After the Passion Has Passed: American Religious Consequences\, a collection of essays on Jews\, Judaism and Christianity\, Religious Tolerance and Pluralism occasioned by the controversy that swirled around Mel Gibson’s film\, The Passion. He was the conceptual developer on the Illinois Holocaust Museum and Educational Center and played a similar function as conceptual developer and chief curator of the Belzec Memorial at the site of the Death Camp. He is currently at work on the Memorial Museum to Macedonian Jewry in Skopje\, the Dallas Holocaust and Human Rights Museum\, and the Holocaust and Humanity Center in Cincinnati\, Ohio. \nThank you to our Partners:\nThe full inclusion of people of all abilities is a core value of Classrooms Without Borders. For questions or to make requests for special accommodations contact melissa@classroomswithoutborders.org
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SUMMARY:Using Holocaust Films in the Classroom - Rich Brownstein
DESCRIPTION:Explore the greatest narrative Holocaust film ever made while discovering the impact of Holocaust genre films.Since 1945\, more than 440 narrative Holocaust feature films and made-for-television movies have been produced\, in dozens of languages by more than 40 countries. Holocaust films have spanned every conceivable theatrical style\, including drama\, melodrama\, docudrama\, comedy\, farce\, science fiction\, time travel\, live-action\, animation and streaming. Holocaust films are so critically accepted that at least one has been nominated for at least one Academy Award ever other year\, including 20 for Best Foreign Language Film. Still more daunting\, 75 of these films have functionally disappeared. How was all this unwieldy information unified into one volume of history\, analysis\, pedagogy\, commentary\, recommendations\, reviews and lists? \nFrom Anne Frank to Schindler’s List to Jojo Rabbit\, Holocaust films are put into historical and artistic perspective and are discussed through many lenses: historically\, chronologically\, thematically\, sociologically\, geographically and individually. The filmmakers behind these films are also contextualized\, including Charlie Chaplin\, Sidney Lumet\, Woody Allen\, Quentin Tarantino\, Steven Spielberg and Roman Polanski. This book also includes recommendations and reviews of the 50 best Holocaust films\, an educational guide\, and a detailed listing of each Holocaust film. \nRich Brownstein created a monumental guide to Holocaust related film\, Holocaust Cinema Complete: A History and Analysis of 400 Films\, with a Teaching Guide\, This text provides context for creative decisions\, successes and failures\, historical shifts\, and career paths of renowned filmmakers. \nJoin CWB to explore the greatest narrative Holocaust films ever made and explore why so many American–produced Holocaust films have been nominated for at least one Oscar.\nRich Brownstein \nA Holocaust & Jewish Film expert\, Rich Brownstein has lectured for Yad Vashem’s International School of Holocaust Studies since 2014\, specializing in the history and use of Holocaust films in the classrooms.\n​\nRich Brownstein was born in Portland\, Oregon in 1962. Most of his undergraduate work at Reed College was in psychology. By the time he graduated\, three of his experiments were on their way to being published in the top social psychology journals in the world. Those studies are still being cited today. During college\, too\, Rich was a Sunday school teacher specializing in Holocaust education and also on the board of the Oregon Holocaust Resource Center (now the Oregon Jewish Museum and Center for Holocaust Education). \nA few years after college Rich moved to Los Angeles\, working with Zucker\, Abrahams and Zucker Productions. Rich was the associate producer on one of David Zucker’s projects\, directed by Trey Parker and Matt Stone\, just before they created South Park. In fact\, there is a South Park character that Rich inspired. \nRich then founded The Transcription Company\, starting from an apartment in Hollywood. Initially\, his company transcribed the raw interviews for tabloid TV shows such as Fox’s A Current Affair\, NBC’s Access Hollywood\, and King World’s Inside Edition/American Journal. Eventually\, every network and studio used his company\, including: NPR\, Oprah\, ABC News\, Curb Your Enthusiasm and even Playboy videos. At theend of Nightline when transcripts were offered\, those were produced and processed by his company. By the time Rich sold the company in 2003 to move his family to Israel\, Rich had over 100 employees and contractors. \nIn Israel\, Rich became a professor of Jewish and Holocaust film for the Young Judaea Your Course program\, accredited by the American Jewish University of Los Angeles. For a decade\, Rich taught hundreds of college students during their “gap year” about film and critical reasoning. His teaching methods and theories about Holocaust films eventually came to the attention of Yad Vashem’s International School for Holocaust Studies where Rich has been a lecturer since 2014\, specializing in the use of narrative Holocaust films in the classroom. Thousands of educators worldwide use his methods. \nAlong the way Rich also sang “Louie Louie” with The Kingsmen\, taught Stan Lee how to use Microsoft Word\, read Shas\, worked with the man who wagged the tail of the Lion in the Wizard of Oz\, and Rich also accumulated the largest collection of basketball memorabilia in the world\, all of it related to his beloved Portland Trail Blazers. \nDr. Michael Berenbaum \nDr. Michael Berenbaum is a writer\, lecturer\, and teacher consulting in the conceptual development of museums and historical films. He is director of the Sigi Ziering Institute: Exploring the Ethical and Religious Implications of the Holocaust at the American Jewish University\, where he is also a Professor of Jewish Studies. \nHe was the Executive Editor of the Second Edition of the Encyclopedia Judaica that reworked\, transformed\, improved\, broadened and deepened\, the now classic 1972 work and consists of 22 volumes\, sixteen million words with 25\,000 individual contributions to Jewish knowledge. For three years\, he was President and Chief Executive Officer of the Survivors of the Shoah Visual History Foundation. He was the Director of the United States Holocaust Research Institute at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum and the Hymen Goldman Adjunct Professor of Theology at Georgetown University in Washington\, D.C. From 1988–93 he served as Project Director of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum\, overseeing its creation. He also served as Deputy Director of the President’s Commission on the Holocaust\, where he authored its Report to the President. \nBerenbaum is the author and editor of twenty books\, scores of scholarly articles\, and hundreds of journalistic pieces. His most recent books include: Not Your Father’s Antisemitism\, A Promise to Remember: The Holocaust in the Words and Voices of Its Survivors and After the Passion Has Passed: American Religious Consequences\, a collection of essays on Jews\, Judaism and Christianity\, Religious Tolerance and Pluralism occasioned by the controversy that swirled around Mel Gibson’s film\, The Passion. He was the conceptual developer on the Illinois Holocaust Museum and Educational Center and played a similar function as conceptual developer and chief curator of the Belzec Memorial at the site of the Death Camp. He is currently at work on the Memorial Museum to Macedonian Jewry in Skopje\, the Dallas Holocaust and Human Rights Museum\, and the Holocaust and Humanity Center in Cincinnati\, Ohio.
URL:https://cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net/event/using-holocaust-films-in-the-classroom-rich-brownstein/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220118T160000
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SUMMARY:Weekly Book Discussion Rebecca Donner " All the Frequent Trouble of Our Days"
DESCRIPTION:This program is geared for educators\, but open to all.(Act 48 credit hours or a letter of participation is available upon request.) \nThe book discussions will be offered on the following dates and times: \nJanuary 4\, 2022 | 4:00-5:00pm\nJanuary 11\, 2022 | 4:00-5:00pm\nJanuary 18\, 2022 | 4:00-5:00pm\nAbout The Book \nBorn and raised in Milwaukee\, Mildred Harnack was twenty-six when she enrolled in a PhD program in Germany and witnessed the meteoric rise of the Nazi party. In 1932\, she began holding secret meetings in her apartment–a small band of political activists that by 1940 had grown into the largest underground resistance group in Berlin. She recruited working-class Germans into the resistance\, helped Jews escape\, plotted acts of sabotage\, and collaborated in writing leaflets that denounced Hitler and called for revolution. Her coconspirators circulated through Berlin under the cover of night\, slipping the leaflets into mailboxes\, public restrooms\, phone booths. When the first shots of the Second World War were fired\, she became a spy\, couriering top-secret intelligence to the Allies. On the eve of her escape to Sweden\, she was ambushed by the Gestapo. At a Nazi military court\, a panel of five judges sentenced her to six years at a prison camp\, but Hitler overruled the decision and ordered her execution. On February 16\, 1943\, she was strapped to a guillotine and beheaded. \nHistorians identify Mildred Harnack as the only American in the leadership of the German resistance\, yet her remarkable story has remained almost unknown until now. \nHarnack’s great-great-niece Rebecca Donner draws on her extensive archival research in Germany\, Russia\, England\, and the U.S. as well as newly uncovered documents in her family archive to produce this astonishing work of narrative nonfiction. Fusing elements of biography\, real-life political thriller\, and scholarly detective story\, Donner brilliantly interweaves letters\, diary entries\, notes smuggled out of a Berlin prison\, survivors’ testimony\, and a trove of declassified intelligence documents into a powerful\, epic story\, reconstructing the moral courage of an enigmatic woman nearly erased by history. \nDr. Josh Andy \nDr. Josh Andy is a full time teacher at Winchester Thurston School\, and an educational programs leader and Holocaust scholar with Classrooms Without Borders. An accomplished and award winning educator\, Dr. Andy holds a Ph.D. in Russian and East European Studies from Birmingham University and teaches in the Upper School. In addition to teaching Genocide and Holocaust Studies\, he teaches a course on the modern Middle East\, Multicultural America\, and AP European history. Next year he will teach Russian history. He has traveled internationally to study global cultures and issues as part of his work to design engaging courses for his students. He earned WT’s Mary Houston Griffin Award for Excellence in Teaching in 2014\, which funded his trip to Amman\, Jordan\, to develop his Middle East course. \nAbout the Author Rebecca Donner \nRebecca Donner is the author of the instant New York Times bestseller All the Frequent Troubles of Our Days\, published by Little\, Brown in the US and Canongate in the UK. A Hebrew translation is forthcoming from Matar Publishing in Israel. \nBorn in Canada\, Donner was educated at the University of California at Berkeley and Columbia University. She is the author of Sunset Terrace\, a critically acclaimed novel\, and Burnout\, a graphic novel about ecoterrorism. Her essays\, reportage\, and reviews have appeared in numerous publications\, including the New York Times and Bookforum. \nRebecca Donner was recently shortlisted for a Fulbright Award. She was a 2018-19 fellow at the Leon Levy Center for Biography at the City University of New York\, is a two-time Yaddo fellow\, and has twice been awarded fellowships by Ucross Foundation. She has also held residencies at Virginia Center for the Creative Arts and Vermont Studio Center. Donner is a member of the National Book Critics Circle\, and has taught writing at Wesleyan University\, Columbia University\, and Barnard College.
URL:https://cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net/event/weekly-book-discussion-rebecca-donner-all-the-frequent-trouble-of-our-days-3/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220113T000000
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SUMMARY:Post Film Discussion of "In Search of My Sister" with Film Director: Jawad Mir\, Mr. Babur Ilchi\, Program Director Campaign for Uyghurs\, Sabrina Sohail: Executive Director of The Peace Project\, and Serena Oberstein: Executive Director Jewish World Watch
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net/event/post-film-discussion-of-in-search-of-my-sister-with-film-director-jawad-mir-mr-babur-ilchi-program-director-campaign-for-uyghurs-sabrina-sohail-executive-director-of-the-peace-project-and-ser/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220113T000000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220113T000000
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SUMMARY:Film Discussion "In Search of My Sister"
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net/event/film-discussion-in-search-of-my-sister/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220112T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220112T150000
DTSTAMP:20260708T232428
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SUMMARY:Confronting the Complexity of Holocaust Scholarship Series with Dr. Michael Berenbaum in conversation with guest speaker Dr. Wendy Lower "Using Photographs as Evidence"
DESCRIPTION:Confronting the Complexity of Holocaust Scholarship: Reflections on the Past\, Present\, and Future of Holocaust Studies\nWednesday\, June 8\, 2022\n3PM ET\nZoom | Registration required and closes 30 minutes prior to the start of the program \nREGISTER \nClassrooms Without Borders\, in partnership with Liberation75\, is excited to offer the opportunity to engage in our unique series: Confronting the Complexity of Holocaust Scholarship: Reflections on the Past\, Present\, and Future of Holocaust Studies\nThe rise of anti-Semitism across the globe alongside the current data that points to a serious void in understanding about the Holocaust in the 21st century shines a light on a critical need to continue the task of Holocaust Scholars to honor the memory of the Shoah.\nIn each of our 9 part series we will meet Top Scholars in the field and focus on their research and scholarship.\nThe 9th and Final Session in this series will feature: Haunted Laughter: Jonathan Friedman in conversation with Dr. Michael Berenbaum on the use of comedy as a literary form to depict Adolf Hitler\, The Third Reich\, and the Holocaust.\nDr. Michael Berenbaum \nDr. Michael Berenbaum is a writer\, lecturer\, and teacher consulting in the conceptual development of museums and historical films. He is director of the Sigi Ziering Institute: Exploring the Ethical and Religious Implications of the Holocaust at the American Jewish University\, where he is also a Professor of Jewish Studies. \nHe was the Executive Editor of the Second Edition of the Encyclopedia Judaica that reworked\, transformed\, improved\, broadened and deepened\, the now classic 1972 work and consists of 22 volumes\, sixteen million words with 25\,000 individual contributions to Jewish knowledge. For three years\, he was President and Chief Executive Officer of the Survivors of the Shoah Visual History Foundation. He was the Director of the United States Holocaust Research Institute at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum and the Hymen Goldman Adjunct Professor of Theology at Georgetown University in Washington\, D.C. From 1988–93 he served as Project Director of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum\, overseeing its creation. He also served as Deputy Director of the President’s Commission on the Holocaust\, where he authored its Report to the President. \nBerenbaum is the author and editor of twenty books\, scores of scholarly articles\, and hundreds of journalistic pieces. His most recent books include: Not Your Father’s Antisemitism\, A Promise to Remember: The Holocaust in the Words and Voices of Its Survivors and After the Passion Has Passed: American Religious Consequences\, a collection of essays on Jews\, Judaism and Christianity\, Religious Tolerance and Pluralism occasioned by the controversy that swirled around Mel Gibson’s film\, The Passion. He was the conceptual developer on the Illinois Holocaust Museum and Educational Center and played a similar function as conceptual developer and chief curator of the Belzec Memorial at the site of the Death Camp. He is currently at work on the Memorial Museum to Macedonian Jewry in Skopje\, the Dallas Holocaust and Human Rights Museum\, and the Holocaust and Humanity Center in Cincinnati\, Ohio. \nProfessor Jonathan Friedman \nJonathan Friedman is currently Professor of History and the Director of Holocaust and Genocide Studies at West Chester University in West Chester\, Pennsylvania. He has been at West Chester since 2002. Before that\, he worked as a historian at both the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington\, D.C. and the Survivors of the Shoah Visual History Foundation in Los Angeles. He has edited five books and authored five as well\, including\, most recently\, Haunted Laughter: Representations of Adolf Hitler\, The Third Reich\, and The Holocaust in Comedic Film and Television (Rowman and Littlefield/Lexington Books\, 2022).  \nPrevious Sessions in this Series:\nOctober 13\, 2021 3PM ET: Women and the Holocaust with Dr. Carol Rittner RSM Distinguished Professor of Holocaust & Genocide Studies Emerita\nNovember 10\, 2021 at 3pm ET: Six Million!? with Documentary Film Maker: David Fisher\nDecember 8\, 2021 at 3pm ET: Auschwitz: Not Long Ago\, Not Far Away.\nJanuary 12\, 2022 at 3pm ET: Wendy Lower: Using Photographs as Evidence\nFebruary 9\, 2022 at 3pm ET: Antisemitism and Book Banning in 2022?\nMarch 9\, 2022 at 3pm ET: Professor Larry Langer; the foremost scholar of the Holocaust in the field of literature and testimony\nApril 13\, 2022 at 3pm ET: Jonathan Petropoulos\, Ph.D.\, the world’s leading scholar on Nazi stolen art\nMay 11\, 2022 at 3pm ET: Mark Weizmann\, speaking on Holocaust denial\, minimization\, trivialization\, and distortion\nThank you to our partner: \nThe full inclusion of people of all abilities is a core value of Classrooms Without Borders. For questions or to make requests for special accommodations contact melissa@classroomswithoutborders.org
URL:https://cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net/event/confronting-the-complexity-of-holocaust-scholarship-series-with-dr-michael-berenbaum-in-conversation-with-guest-speaker-dr-wendy-lower-using-photographs-as-evidence/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220112T150000
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SUMMARY:Confronting the Complexities of Holocaust Scholarship
DESCRIPTION:Reflections on the Past\, Present\, and Future of Holocaust StudiesAbout this event\nClassrooms Without Borders\, in partnership with Liberation 75\, is excited to offer the opportunity engage in our new series: Confronting the Complexity of Holocaust Scholarship: Reflections on the Past\, Present\, and Future of Holocaust Studies \nThe rise of anti-Semitism across the globe alongside the current data that points to a serious void in understanding about the Holocaust in the 21st century shines a light on a critical need to continue the task of Holocaust Scholars to honor the memory of the Shoah. \nIn each of our 9 part series we will meet Top Scholars in the field and focus on their research and scholarship. \nDr. Michael Berenbaum \nConfronting the Complexity of Holocaust Scholarship image\nDr. Michael Berenbaum is a writer\, lecturer\, and teacher consulting in the conceptual development of museums and historical films. He is director of the Sigi Ziering Institute: Exploring the Ethical and Religious Implications of the Holocaust at the American Jewish University\, where he is also a Professor of Jewish Studies. \nHe was the Executive Editor of the Second Edition of the Encyclopedia Judaica that reworked\, transformed\, improved\, broadened and deepened\, the now classic 1972 work and consists of 22 volumes\, sixteen million words with 25\,000 individual contributions to Jewish knowledge. For three years\, he was President and Chief Executive Officer of the Survivors of the Shoah Visual History Foundation. He was the Director of the United States Holocaust Research Institute at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum and the Hymen Goldman Adjunct Professor of Theology at Georgetown University in Washington\, D.C. From 1988–93 he served as Project Director of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum\, overseeing its creation. He also served as Deputy Director of the President’s Commission on the Holocaust\, where he authored its Report to the President. \nBerenbaum is the author and editor of twenty books\, scores of scholarly articles\, and hundreds of journalistic pieces. His most recent books include: Not Your Father’s Antisemitism\, A Promise to Remember: The Holocaust in the Words and Voices of Its Survivors and After the Passion Has Passed: American Religious Consequences\, a collection of essays on Jews\, Judaism and Christianity\, Religious Tolerance and Pluralism occasioned by the controversy that swirled around Mel Gibson’s film\, The Passion. He was the conceptual developer on the Illinois Holocaust Museum and Educational Center and played a similar function as conceptual developer and chief curator of the Belzec Memorial at the site of the Death Camp. He is currently at work on the Memorial Museum to Macedonian Jewry in Skopje\, the Dallas Holocaust and Human Rights Museum\, and the Holocaust and Humanity Center in Cincinnati\, Ohio. \nThank you to our partner \nConfronting the Complexity of Holocaust Scholarship image
URL:https://cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net/event/confronting-the-complexities-of-holocaust-scholarship-2/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220111T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220111T160000
DTSTAMP:20260708T232428
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SUMMARY:Weekly Book Discussion Rebecca Donner " All the Frequent Trouble of Our Days"
DESCRIPTION:This program is geared for educators\, but open to all.(Act 48 credit hours or a letter of participation is available upon request.) \nThe book discussions will be offered on the following dates and times: \nJanuary 4\, 2022 | 4:00-5:00pm\nJanuary 11\, 2022 | 4:00-5:00pm\nJanuary 18\, 2022 | 4:00-5:00pm\nAbout The Book \nBorn and raised in Milwaukee\, Mildred Harnack was twenty-six when she enrolled in a PhD program in Germany and witnessed the meteoric rise of the Nazi party. In 1932\, she began holding secret meetings in her apartment–a small band of political activists that by 1940 had grown into the largest underground resistance group in Berlin. She recruited working-class Germans into the resistance\, helped Jews escape\, plotted acts of sabotage\, and collaborated in writing leaflets that denounced Hitler and called for revolution. Her coconspirators circulated through Berlin under the cover of night\, slipping the leaflets into mailboxes\, public restrooms\, phone booths. When the first shots of the Second World War were fired\, she became a spy\, couriering top-secret intelligence to the Allies. On the eve of her escape to Sweden\, she was ambushed by the Gestapo. At a Nazi military court\, a panel of five judges sentenced her to six years at a prison camp\, but Hitler overruled the decision and ordered her execution. On February 16\, 1943\, she was strapped to a guillotine and beheaded. \nHistorians identify Mildred Harnack as the only American in the leadership of the German resistance\, yet her remarkable story has remained almost unknown until now. \nHarnack’s great-great-niece Rebecca Donner draws on her extensive archival research in Germany\, Russia\, England\, and the U.S. as well as newly uncovered documents in her family archive to produce this astonishing work of narrative nonfiction. Fusing elements of biography\, real-life political thriller\, and scholarly detective story\, Donner brilliantly interweaves letters\, diary entries\, notes smuggled out of a Berlin prison\, survivors’ testimony\, and a trove of declassified intelligence documents into a powerful\, epic story\, reconstructing the moral courage of an enigmatic woman nearly erased by history. \nDr. Josh Andy \nDr. Josh Andy is a full time teacher at Winchester Thurston School\, and an educational programs leader and Holocaust scholar with Classrooms Without Borders. An accomplished and award winning educator\, Dr. Andy holds a Ph.D. in Russian and East European Studies from Birmingham University and teaches in the Upper School. In addition to teaching Genocide and Holocaust Studies\, he teaches a course on the modern Middle East\, Multicultural America\, and AP European history. Next year he will teach Russian history. He has traveled internationally to study global cultures and issues as part of his work to design engaging courses for his students. He earned WT’s Mary Houston Griffin Award for Excellence in Teaching in 2014\, which funded his trip to Amman\, Jordan\, to develop his Middle East course. \nAbout the Author Rebecca Donner \nRebecca Donner is the author of the instant New York Times bestseller All the Frequent Troubles of Our Days\, published by Little\, Brown in the US and Canongate in the UK. A Hebrew translation is forthcoming from Matar Publishing in Israel. \nBorn in Canada\, Donner was educated at the University of California at Berkeley and Columbia University. She is the author of Sunset Terrace\, a critically acclaimed novel\, and Burnout\, a graphic novel about ecoterrorism. Her essays\, reportage\, and reviews have appeared in numerous publications\, including the New York Times and Bookforum. \nRebecca Donner was recently shortlisted for a Fulbright Award. She was a 2018-19 fellow at the Leon Levy Center for Biography at the City University of New York\, is a two-time Yaddo fellow\, and has twice been awarded fellowships by Ucross Foundation. She has also held residencies at Virginia Center for the Creative Arts and Vermont Studio Center. Donner is a member of the National Book Critics Circle\, and has taught writing at Wesleyan University\, Columbia University\, and Barnard College.
URL:https://cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net/event/weekly-book-discussion-rebecca-donner-all-the-frequent-trouble-of-our-days-2/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220106T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220106T160000
DTSTAMP:20260708T232428
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SUMMARY:The Ringleblum Archives: Virtual Tour and Teacher Training
DESCRIPTION:The Ringelblum Archives: Virtual Tour and Teacher Training with Dr. Katarzyna Person and Helise Lieberman\nThursday\, January 6\, 2022\n4:00pm-5:30pm \nJoin CWB as we explore this “Archive More Important Than Life” and prepare for a community wide Teach-In on International Holocaust Remembrance Day\, 27 January 2022\nREGISTER \n“What we were unable to cry and shriek out to the world we buried in the ground. . . . I would love to see the moment in which the great treasure will be dug up and scream the truth at the world. So the world may know all. So the ones who did not live through it may be glad\, and we may feel like veterans with medals on our chest. We would be the fathers\, the teachers\, and educators of the future…But no\, we shall certainly not live to see it\, . . . . ” – David Graber\, 19 years old\, Warsaw Ghetto in Kassow\, Samuel\, Who Will Write Our History\, 3\nWho writes history? The underground archive of the Warsaw Ghetto was started by historian and high school history teacher\, Emanuel Ringelblum\, and created by a clandestine group who vowed to defeat Nazi propaganda by detailing everyday life in the ghetto from the voices of the Jewish inhabitants. Ringelblum enlisted people of all ages\, occupations and classes to record their daily lives through words\, photographs\, receipts\, tram tickets\, candy wrappers\, theater tickets and drawings. He hoped for the vivid\, personal detail that could illuminate the human meaning of the moment. A social historian committed to telling the truth\, the Oyneg Shabes (Yiddish for “joy of the Sabbath”) was a unique form of resistance. Burying the archives beneath the buildings of the ghetto in metal boxes and steel milk canisters\, Ringelblum hoped and believed these pages would survive even if the writers did not. \nThis virtual tour and teacher training workshop will look closely at some of these documents and afford teachers the opportunity to include the Ringelblum Archive in their classes. Together we will consider how we can introduce these artifacts and guide our students towards a discussion about the different forms of resistance. \nThe Ringelblum Archives consist of a collection of 1680 archival units (approx. 25\,000 pages) retrieved from the ruins of the Warsaw Ghetto. \nThe Archives comprise government documents\, materials concerning the ghetto resistance\, testimonies of the fate of Jewish communities during the Holocaust\, literature\, works of art and private correspondence collected by victims of the Holocaust in order to pass on information about the Holocaust to future generations. This collection is absolutely unique\, both in terms of its origin and its historic value. It mainly concerns the largest ghetto in Nazi-occupied Europe (approximately 500\,000 inhabitants)\, but in fact it covers the whole of occupied Poland\, documenting the Shoah\, the fate of its Jewish community of 3.500\,000 people. Nearly all the creators of the Ringelblum Archives perished\, either in the ghetto or in the extermination camps. \nDr. Katarzyna Person \nKatarzyna Person is a historian of Eastern European Jewish History working in the Emanuel Ringelblum Jewish Historical Institute in Warsaw\, where she leads the Ringelblum Archive publishing project.  After completing her Ph.D. at the University of London in 2010\, Dr. Person has held postdoctoral fellowships from the International Institute for Holocaust Research in Yad Vashem\, the Center for Jewish History in New York City\, and La Fondation pour la Mémoire de la Shoah in Paris. She was awarded habilitation (a post-doctoral degree) from the Polish Academy of Science. She has written a number of articles on the Holocaust and its aftermath in occupied Europe. Her most recent book\, Warsaw Ghetto Police. The Jewish Order Service during the Nazi Occupation was published by the Cornell University Press 2021. \nHelise Lieberman \nHelise Lieberman is the director of the Taube Center for Jewish Life & Learning\, a position she has held since 2009. A former Hillel director\, she was the founding principal of the Lauder-Morasha Day School in Warsaw and has served as a consultant to the Rothschild Foundation (Hanadiv) Europe\, the Westbury Group\, POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews\, and to the JDC – Baltics. Ms. Lieberman was awarded the Bene Merito Medal by the Polish Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 2015.  She is engaged in Pan-European and cross-communal Jewish heritage education and serves on the boards of Hillel Poland and the Lauder-Morasha School. A dual citizen (U.S. and Poland)\, Ms. Lieberman has lived in Warsaw since 1994. \nThank you to our partners:\nThe full inclusion of people of all abilities is a core value of Classrooms Without Borders. For questions or to make requests for special accommodations contact melissa@classroomswithoutborders.org
URL:https://cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net/event/the-ringleblum-archives-virtual-tour-and-teacher-training/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220106T000000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220106T000000
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SUMMARY:Ringleblum Archives: Virtual Tour and Teacher Training
DESCRIPTION:Join CWB as we explore this “Archive More Important Than Life” and prepare for a community wide Teach-In on International Holocaust Remembrance Day\, 27 January 2022\n“What we were unable to cry and shriek out to the world we buried in the ground. . . . I would love to see the moment in which the great treasure will be dug up and scream the truth at the world. So the world may know all. So the ones who did not live through it may be glad\, and we may feel like veterans with medals on our chest. We would be the fathers\, the teachers\, and educators of the future…But no\, we shall certainly not live to see it\, . . . . ” – David Graber\, 19 years old\, Warsaw Ghetto in Kassow\, Samuel\, Who Will Write Our History\, 3\nWho writes history? The underground archive of the Warsaw Ghetto was started by historian and high school history teacher\, Emanuel Ringelblum\, and created by a clandestine group who vowed to defeat Nazi propaganda by detailing everyday life in the ghetto from the voices of the Jewish inhabitants. Ringelblum enlisted people of all ages\, occupations and classes to record their daily lives through words\, photographs\, receipts\, tram tickets\, candy wrappers\, theater tickets and drawings. He hoped for the vivid\, personal detail that could illuminate the human meaning of the moment. A social historian committed to telling the truth\, the Oyneg Shabes (Yiddish for “joy of the Sabbath”) was a unique form of resistance. Burying the archives beneath the buildings of the ghetto in metal boxes and steel milk canisters\, Ringelblum hoped and believed these pages would survive even if the writers did not. \nThis virtual tour and teacher training workshop will look closely at some of these documents and afford teachers the opportunity to include the Ringelblum Archive in their classes. Together we will consider how we can introduce these artifacts and guide our students towards a discussion about the different forms of resistance. \nThe Ringelblum Archives consist of a collection of 1680 archival units (approx. 25\,000 pages) retrieved from the ruins of the Warsaw Ghetto. \nThe Archives comprise government documents\, materials concerning the ghetto resistance\, testimonies of the fate of Jewish communities during the Holocaust\, literature\, works of art and private correspondence collected by victims of the Holocaust in order to pass on information about the Holocaust to future generations. This collection is absolutely unique\, both in terms of its origin and its historic value. It mainly concerns the largest ghetto in Nazi-occupied Europe (approximately 500\,000 inhabitants)\, but in fact it covers the whole of occupied Poland\, documenting the Shoah\, the fate of its Jewish community of 3.500\,000 people. Nearly all the creators of the Ringelblum Archives perished\, either in the ghetto or in the extermination camps. \nDr. Katarzyna Person \nKatarzyna Person is a historian of Eastern European Jewish History working in the Emanuel Ringelblum Jewish Historical Institute in Warsaw\, where she leads the Ringelblum Archive publishing project. After completing her Ph.D. at the University of London in 2010\, Dr. Person has held postdoctoral fellowships from the International Institute for Holocaust Research in Yad Vashem\, the Center for Jewish History in New York City\, and La Fondation pour la Mémoire de la Shoah in Paris. She was awarded habilitation (a post-doctoral degree) from the Polish Academy of Science. She has written a number of articles on the Holocaust and its aftermath in occupied Europe. Her most recent book\, Warsaw Ghetto Police. The Jewish Order Service during the Nazi Occupation was published by the Cornell University Press 2021. \nHelise Lieberman \nHelise Lieberman is the director of the Taube Center for Jewish Life & Learning\, a position she has held since 2009. A former Hillel director\, she was the founding principal of the Lauder-Morasha Day School in Warsaw and has served as a consultant to the Rothschild Foundation (Hanadiv) Europe\, the Westbury Group\, POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews\, and to the JDC – Baltics. Ms. Lieberman was awarded the Bene Merito Medal by the Polish Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 2015. She is engaged in Pan-European and cross-communal Jewish heritage education and serves on the boards of Hillel Poland and the Lauder-Morasha School. A dual citizen (U.S. and Poland)\, Ms. Lieberman has lived in Warsaw since 1994.
URL:https://cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net/event/ringleblum-archives-virtual-tour-and-teacher-training/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220104T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220104T160000
DTSTAMP:20260708T232428
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SUMMARY:Weekly Book Discussion Rebecca Donner " All the Frequent Trouble of Our Days"
DESCRIPTION:This program is geared for educators\, but open to all.(Act 48 credit hours or a letter of participation is available upon request.) \nThe book discussions will be offered on the following dates and times: \nJanuary 4\, 2022 | 4:00-5:00pm\nJanuary 11\, 2022 | 4:00-5:00pm\nJanuary 18\, 2022 | 4:00-5:00pm\nAbout The Book \nBorn and raised in Milwaukee\, Mildred Harnack was twenty-six when she enrolled in a PhD program in Germany and witnessed the meteoric rise of the Nazi party. In 1932\, she began holding secret meetings in her apartment–a small band of political activists that by 1940 had grown into the largest underground resistance group in Berlin. She recruited working-class Germans into the resistance\, helped Jews escape\, plotted acts of sabotage\, and collaborated in writing leaflets that denounced Hitler and called for revolution. Her coconspirators circulated through Berlin under the cover of night\, slipping the leaflets into mailboxes\, public restrooms\, phone booths. When the first shots of the Second World War were fired\, she became a spy\, couriering top-secret intelligence to the Allies. On the eve of her escape to Sweden\, she was ambushed by the Gestapo. At a Nazi military court\, a panel of five judges sentenced her to six years at a prison camp\, but Hitler overruled the decision and ordered her execution. On February 16\, 1943\, she was strapped to a guillotine and beheaded. \nHistorians identify Mildred Harnack as the only American in the leadership of the German resistance\, yet her remarkable story has remained almost unknown until now. \nHarnack’s great-great-niece Rebecca Donner draws on her extensive archival research in Germany\, Russia\, England\, and the U.S. as well as newly uncovered documents in her family archive to produce this astonishing work of narrative nonfiction. Fusing elements of biography\, real-life political thriller\, and scholarly detective story\, Donner brilliantly interweaves letters\, diary entries\, notes smuggled out of a Berlin prison\, survivors’ testimony\, and a trove of declassified intelligence documents into a powerful\, epic story\, reconstructing the moral courage of an enigmatic woman nearly erased by history. \nDr. Josh Andy \nDr. Josh Andy is a full time teacher at Winchester Thurston School\, and an educational programs leader and Holocaust scholar with Classrooms Without Borders. An accomplished and award winning educator\, Dr. Andy holds a Ph.D. in Russian and East European Studies from Birmingham University and teaches in the Upper School. In addition to teaching Genocide and Holocaust Studies\, he teaches a course on the modern Middle East\, Multicultural America\, and AP European history. Next year he will teach Russian history. He has traveled internationally to study global cultures and issues as part of his work to design engaging courses for his students. He earned WT’s Mary Houston Griffin Award for Excellence in Teaching in 2014\, which funded his trip to Amman\, Jordan\, to develop his Middle East course. \nAbout the Author Rebecca Donner \nRebecca Donner is the author of the instant New York Times bestseller All the Frequent Troubles of Our Days\, published by Little\, Brown in the US and Canongate in the UK. A Hebrew translation is forthcoming from Matar Publishing in Israel. \nBorn in Canada\, Donner was educated at the University of California at Berkeley and Columbia University. She is the author of Sunset Terrace\, a critically acclaimed novel\, and Burnout\, a graphic novel about ecoterrorism. Her essays\, reportage\, and reviews have appeared in numerous publications\, including the New York Times and Bookforum. \nRebecca Donner was recently shortlisted for a Fulbright Award. She was a 2018-19 fellow at the Leon Levy Center for Biography at the City University of New York\, is a two-time Yaddo fellow\, and has twice been awarded fellowships by Ucross Foundation. She has also held residencies at Virginia Center for the Creative Arts and Vermont Studio Center. Donner is a member of the National Book Critics Circle\, and has taught writing at Wesleyan University\, Columbia University\, and Barnard College.
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SUMMARY:Arab Israeli Conflict IV with Avi Ben Hur
DESCRIPTION:Arab Israeli Conflict with Avi Ben Hur\nTuesday\, May 31\, 2022\n2:00-3:30 ET\nZOOM | Registration required and closes 30 minutes prior to the start of the program \nREGISTER \nArab-Israeli Conflict Course with CWB In House Scholar Avi Ben Hur\nThe Arab-Israeli conflict plays a large (some would claim outsized) role in current events. This course aims to unpack the causes and core issues that relate to the Conflict. The goal is to make the subject accessible to educators and to give them the tools with which to grapple in the classroom with the subject at large and with breaking news. While this course is a primer on the subject\, the Q & A following each session is designed to enable the participants to engage with related issues on a higher resolution. Each section will be accompanied with suggestions for further exploration. The earlier lectures will approach the Conflict from two intersecting directions: \nThree concentric levels:\nThe International aspect (e.g. the Cold War)\nThe Regional aspect (the Middle East at large)\nThe leadership (of the countries at conflict)\nMultiple narratives:\nThe Jewish/Israeli narrative\nThe Arab/Palestinian narrative\nThe later sessions will put a greater focus on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and the continuing friction or détente between Israel and other regional actors. \nA concerted effort will be made to present the historical processes in an even-handed and balanced way\, while keeping in mind that this is a loaded topic for many people. We have no illusions that everyone will emerge from each lesson in agreement with the presenter or with their fellow participants. The key to a successful program will be the mutual respect paid to each and every person (including the presenter)\, particularly in the part designed for discussion/dialogue (i.e. the Q & A). By approaching the subject this way we strive to “model” how we believe education should work. Open hearts\, open minds and tolerance are the core values that inform CWB’s work. \nSession IX: Israel and the Palestinians 1987-2021\nIn December 1987\, the Palestinians re-entered the Israeli consciousness with the outbreak of massive civil disobedience that spread from the Gaza Strip to the West Bank in the so-called “Intifada.” Although this uprising petered out by 1991\, by September 1993 Israeli and PLO representatives began a political process in an attempt to come to a final peace agreement between the sides. These talks and accords continued until the summer of 2000 when they collapsed in Camp David. Within weeks a second Intifada broke out which was characterized by Palestinian bombing attacks on the Israeli civilian population. Israel responded with force and the construction of a barrier to thwart the bombers. In 2005 Israel decided to disengage from the Gaza Strip. This resulted in the armed takeover of the Strip by Hamas in 2007 and 4 subsequent conflicts with Israel in 2008/9\, 2012\, 2014 and 2021. Direct negotiations between Israel and the Palestinians have not existed for the past 6 years. \nSubjects to be covered: The 1st Intifada\, the Oslo Process\, 2nd Intifada\, Gaza redeployment\, 2005-2021 \nPast Sessions:\nSeptember 12\, 2021 | Background to the conflict (Jewish Nationalism – the rise of the Zionist Movement\, Arab Nationalism – the rise of the Palestinian National Movement)\nOctober 10\, 2021 | The British Mandate Period – 1922-1948\nNovember 21\, 2021 | The War for Independence/Nakba part I\nDecember 21\, 2021 | The War for Independence/Nakba part II\nJanuary 25\, 2022 | Israel Copes with Strategic Challenges – the Rise of Pan-Arabism and Nasser\nFebruary 22\, 2022 | The Six Days War\nMarch 29\, 2022 | The War of Attrition and the Yom Kippur War\nApril 26\, 2022 | The P.L.O. & Fighting Terror\, Peace with Egypt\, the First Lebanon War\nFinal SESSION in this series: \nJune 21\, 2022\nAll sessions will be 2:00pm-3:30pm ET. \nAvi Ben-Hur\nScholar in Residence \nA Brooklyn native\, Avi Ben-Hur moved to Israel in 1983. From 2003-2008 Avi was Director of the Archaeological Seminars School for Israeli Tour Guides. In 2008 Avi participated in re-writing the curriculum of the National Guiding courses for the Israeli Ministry of Tourism. As a “Scholar in Residence\, Avi has lectured\, taught and facilitated workshops in the US\, Warsaw\, Prague\, Berlin and Greece. From 1996-2000\, Avi taught in Yad Vashem’s International School for Holocaust Studies. As a guide\, Avi has specialized working with organizations focusing on political issues (such as AIPAC & CIJA)\, inter-faith programs and Holocaust studies. At Present\, Avi is an examiner for the Israeli Ministry of Tourism Licensing Boards and is the ongoing scholar in residence of Classrooms Without Borders. \nThe full inclusion of people of all abilities is a core value of Classrooms Without Borders. For questions or to make requests for special accommodations contact ellen@classroomswithoutborders.org \nThe full inclusion of people of all abilities is a core value of Classrooms Without Borders. For questions or to make requests for special accommodations contact melissa@classroomswithoutborders.org
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