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SUMMARY:POSTPONED Usable History in Times of Crisis:  Reflections on 10 Years of Living in the Past
DESCRIPTION:POSTONED\n\n\nIn the summer of 2014 Tammy Hepps moved to Squirrel Hill for one year to research her family’s ancestral Jewish community of Homestead\, Pennsylvania.  Ten years later\, she’s still here and still researching.  While she has made significant strides documenting the history and personalities in the community\, some of the most profound revelations came when the history she reconstructed intersected in unexpected ways with the events she lived through\, including immigration crises\, the Tree of Life shooting\, the COVID-19 pandemic\, and the Oct. 7 attack on Israel.\n\nThrough an exploration of these parallels between past and present\, we will explore various dimensions of what it means to turn to the past to derive strength in the present.  As our American Jewish community faces unprecedented challenges\, does treating our immediate\, personal histories as wisdom literature ground us or blind us?
URL:https://cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net/event/usable-history-in-times-of-crisis-reflections-on-10-years-of-living-in-the-past/
LOCATION:ZOOM | Registration required and closes 30 minutes prior to the start of the program
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SUMMARY:Lessons in Resilience from the Holocaust and Genocide Dr. Khatchig Mouradian: Resisting the Armenian Genocide: Lessons in Resilience from a Clandestine Network of Humanitarians
DESCRIPTION:Join us on this transformative journey; let this series serve as your source of empowerment\, inspiring our community to find their own light within the encompassing shadows. \nKhatchig Mouradian:\nResisting the Armenian Genocide: Lessons in Resilience from a Clandestine Network of Humanitarians \nIn Conversation with Tali Nates \nDr. Khatchig Mouradian \n \nDr. Khatchig Mouradian is a lecturer in Middle Eastern\, South Asian\, and African Studies at Columbia University\, and the Armenian and Georgian Area Specialist at the Library of Congress. Mouradian is the author of the award-winning book The Resistance Network: The Armenian Genocide and Humanitarianism in Ottoman Syria\, 1915-1918. He is the co-editor of After the Ottomans: Genocide’s Long Shadow and Armenian Resilience and the forthcoming The I.B.Tauris Handbook of the Late Ottoman Empire: History and Legacy. \nTali Nates  \n\nTali Nates is the founder and director of the Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Centre (JHGC) and Chair of the South African Holocaust & Genocide Foundation (SAHGF). She is a historian who lectures internationally on Holocaust and genocide education\, memory\, reconciliation\, and human rights. Born to a family of Holocaust survivors\, her father and uncle were saved by Oskar Schindler. Tali has been involved in the creation and production of dozens of documentary films\, published many articles and contributed chapters to different books among them God\, Faith & Identity from the Ashes: Reflections of Children and Grandchildren of Holocaust Survivors (2015)\, Remembering The Holocaust in Educational Settings (2018)\, Conceptualizing Mass Violence\, Representations\, Recollections\, and Reinterpretations (2021) and The Routledge Handbook of Memory Activism (2023). \nIn 2021 she was part of the 12-member Expert Group of the Malmö Forum\, serving in an advisory capacity to the Secretariat of the Malmö Forum on their programme on Holocaust remembrance\, education and actions to combat antisemitism. Tali serves on many Advisory and Academic Boards including that of the Contested Histories Initiative\, the Interdisciplinary Academic Journal of Babyn Yar Holocaust Memorial Center and the Academic Advisory Group of the School of Social and Health Sciences\, Monash University (IIEMSA)\, South Africa. \nIn 2010\, Tali was chosen as one of the top 100 newsworthy and noteworthy women in \nSouth Africa by the Mail & Guardian newspaper and won many awards including the Kia Community Service Award (South Africa\, 2015)\, the Gratias Agit Award (2020\, Czech Republic)\, the Austrian Holocaust Memorial Award (2021) and the Goethe Medal (2022\, Germany). \nIn the midst of uncertainty and shadows\, our series on resistance stands as a beacon of hope.  \nOver the course of our 8-part series\, we aim to shed light on the stories of individuals and communities courageously facing prevailing challenges. Our mission is to create a space where narratives of resilience take center stage\, unveiling the indomitable strength of the human spirit in adversity. \nThank you to our Partners: \n \n \nFuture Events in this Series: \n\nAugust 28\, 2024 – Wolf Gruner: Resisters in Hitler’s Germany (Tentative)\nSeptember 25\, 2024 – Asya Darbinyan: Chhange and Holocaust Education (Tentative)\nOctober 23\, 2024 – Paul Lowe: Capturing the Siege of Sarajevo (Tentative)\nNovember 20\, 2024 – Sarah Brown\, PhD: Women as Perpetrators and Rescuers (Tentative)
URL:https://cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net/event/lessons-in-resilience-from-the-holocaust-and-genocide-resisting-the-armenian-genocide-lessons-in-resilience-from-a-clandestine-network-of-humanitarians/
LOCATION:ZOOM | Registration required and closes 30 minutes prior to the start of the program
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240501T140000
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SUMMARY:Lessons in Resilience from the Holocaust and Genocide Featuring Johana Sliwa: An Unlikely Rescue: A Jewish Woman Who Helped Thousands of Poles during the Holocaust
DESCRIPTION:Join us on this transformative journey; let this series serve as your source of empowerment\, inspiring our community to find their own light within the encompassing shadows. \nJohana Sliwa:\nAn Unlikely Rescue: A Jewish Woman Who Helped Thousands of Poles during the Holocaust  \n \nDr. Joanna Sliwa is a historian at the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany (Claims Conference) in New York\, where she also administers academic programs. She has taught Holocaust and Jewish history at Kean University and at Rutgers University. Joanna has many years of experience working in teacher training on the Holocaust\, including in her ongoing role as Faculty Advisor to the Master Teacher Institute in Holocaust Education at the Allen and Joan Bildner Center for the Study of Jewish Life at Rutgers University – New Brunswick. Joanna’s scholarship focuses on the Holocaust in Poland and Polish Jewish history. Her first book\, Jewish Childhood in Kraków: A Microhistory of the Holocaust won the 2020 Ernst Fraenkel Prize awarded by the Wiener Holocaust Library. Her second book\, The Counterfeit Countess: The Jewish Woman Who Rescued Thousands of Poles During the Holocaust\, is co-authored with Elizabeth B. White. \nTali Nates  \n\nTali Nates is the founder and director of the Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Centre (JHGC) and Chair of the South African Holocaust & Genocide Foundation (SAHGF). She is a historian who lectures internationally on Holocaust and genocide education\, memory\, reconciliation\, and human rights. Born to a family of Holocaust survivors\, her father and uncle were saved by Oskar Schindler. Tali has been involved in the creation and production of dozens of documentary films\, published many articles and contributed chapters to different books among them God\, Faith & Identity from the Ashes: Reflections of Children and Grandchildren of Holocaust Survivors (2015)\, Remembering The Holocaust in Educational Settings (2018)\, Conceptualizing Mass Violence\, Representations\, Recollections\, and Reinterpretations (2021) and The Routledge Handbook of Memory Activism (2023). \nIn 2021 she was part of the 12-member Expert Group of the Malmö Forum\, serving in an advisory capacity to the Secretariat of the Malmö Forum on their programme on Holocaust remembrance\, education and actions to combat antisemitism. Tali serves on many Advisory and Academic Boards including that of the Contested Histories Initiative\, the Interdisciplinary Academic Journal of Babyn Yar Holocaust Memorial Center and the Academic Advisory Group of the School of Social and Health Sciences\, Monash University (IIEMSA)\, South Africa. \nIn 2010\, Tali was chosen as one of the top 100 newsworthy and noteworthy women in \nSouth Africa by the Mail & Guardian newspaper and won many awards including the Kia Community Service Award (South Africa\, 2015)\, the Gratias Agit Award (2020\, Czech Republic)\, the Austrian Holocaust Memorial Award (2021) and the Goethe Medal (2022\, Germany). \nIn the midst of uncertainty and shadows\, our series on resistance stands as a beacon of hope.  \nOver the course of our 8-part series\, we aim to shed light on the stories of individuals and communities courageously facing prevailing challenges. Our mission is to create a space where narratives of resilience take center stage\, unveiling the indomitable strength of the human spirit in adversity. \nThank you to our Partner: \n \nFuture Events in this Series: \n\nMay 22\, 2024 – Khatchig Mouradian: Resisting the Armenian Genocide: Lessons in Resilience from a Clandestine Network of Humanitarians\nAugust 28\, 2024 – Wolf Gruner: Resisters in Hitler’s Germany (Tentative)\nSeptember 25\, 2024 – Asya Darbinyan: Chhange and Holocaust Education (Tentative)\nOctober 23\, 2024 – Paul Lowe: Capturing the Siege of Sarajevo (Tentative)\nNovember 20\, 2024 – Sarah Brown\, PhD: Women as Perpetrators and Rescuers (Tentative)
URL:https://cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net/event/lessons-in-resilience-from-the-holocaust-and-genocide-featuring-johana-sliwa-an-unlikely-rescue-a-jewish-woman-who-helped-thousands-of-poles-during-the-holocaust/
LOCATION:ZOOM | Registration required and closes 30 minutes prior to the start of the program
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SUMMARY:Using Alternative Forms of Assessment: The Kindertransports as a Case Study
DESCRIPTION:Traditional assessments often fall short in capturing the depth and breadth of students’ understanding and skills. Participants in this online workshop will be exposed to alternative assessment models that can measure a student’s mastery of content knowledge and skills while using 21st-century technologies.  \nAligned with the Danielson Framework’s Critical Attributes for assessments\, the workshop will emphasize the importance of aligning assessments with instructional outcomes. The workshop will feature examples of alternative assessments by using the World War II Kindertransports\, offering educators a model for integrating children’s narratives during wartime into their courses. This fall\, Classrooms Without Borders will host a photo exhibit about the Kindertransports.  \nThis workshop will be facilitated by Kate Lukaszewicz\, Classrooms Without Borders Education Programs Director. Required pre-reading will be shared with registrants and Pennsylvania educators with a PPID can be awarded 2 Act 48 hours. 
URL:https://cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net/event/using-alternative-forms-of-assessment-the-kindertransports-as-a-case-study/
LOCATION:ZOOM | Registration required and closes 30 minutes prior to the start of the program
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240327T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240327T153000
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SUMMARY:Lessons in Resilience from the Holocaust and Genocide with Carl Wilkens: Rwanda’s community approach to rebuilding trust: restorative strategies for healing relationships.
DESCRIPTION:Join us on this transformative journey; let this series serve as your source of empowerment\, inspiring our community to find their own light within the encompassing shadows. \nCarl Wilkens:\n“Rwanda’s community approach to rebuilding trust: restorative strategies for healing relationships.”\nIn conversation with Tali Nates \nCarl Wilkens \n\nFor over a decade\, Carl Wilkens has been sharing stories around the globe to inspire and equip people to “enter the world of The Other.” He was the only American who chose to stay in Kigali\, Rwanda throughout the 1994 genocide. Venturing out each day into streets crackling with mortars and gunfire\, he worked his way through roadblocks of angry\, bloodstained soldiers and civilians armed with machetes and assault rifles in order to bring food\, water and medicine to groups of orphans trapped around the city. Working with Rwandan colleagues\, they helped save the lives of hundreds. His harrowing yet hopeful journey weaves together stories of tremendous risk and fierce compassion in the midst of senseless slaughter. In 2011\, Carl completed a book detailing these days titled I’m Not Leaving. A 40 minute documentary by the same title has since been released.\nCarl’s storytelling does not stop with Rwanda’s tragic history\, but moves forward to the powerful and inspiring recovery process. Among the many lessons he shares from his experience is the transformative belief that we don’t have to be defined by what we lost or our worst choices. We can be defined by what we do with what remains – what we do next after terrible choices. Each year he returns to Rwanda with students and educators to\nsee for themselves how people are working together to rebuild their country and rebuild trust. \nTali Nates  \n\nTali Nates is the founder and director of the Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Centre (JHGC) and Chair of the South African Holocaust & Genocide Foundation (SAHGF). She is a historian who lectures internationally on Holocaust and genocide education\, memory\, reconciliation\, and human rights. Born to a family of Holocaust survivors\, her father and uncle were saved by Oskar Schindler. Tali has been involved in the creation and production of dozens of documentary films\, published many articles and contributed chapters to different books among them God\, Faith & Identity from the Ashes: Reflections of Children and Grandchildren of Holocaust Survivors (2015)\, Remembering The Holocaust in Educational Settings (2018)\, Conceptualizing Mass Violence\, Representations\, Recollections\, and Reinterpretations (2021) and The Routledge Handbook of Memory Activism (2023). \nIn 2021 she was part of the 12-member Expert Group of the Malmö Forum\, serving in an advisory capacity to the Secretariat of the Malmö Forum on their programme on Holocaust remembrance\, education and actions to combat antisemitism. Tali serves on many Advisory and Academic Boards including that of the Contested Histories Initiative\, the Interdisciplinary Academic Journal of Babyn Yar Holocaust Memorial Center and the Academic Advisory Group of the School of Social and Health Sciences\, Monash University (IIEMSA)\, South Africa. \nIn 2010\, Tali was chosen as one of the top 100 newsworthy and noteworthy women in \nSouth Africa by the Mail & Guardian newspaper and won many awards including the Kia Community Service Award (South Africa\, 2015)\, the Gratias Agit Award (2020\, Czech Republic)\, the Austrian Holocaust Memorial Award (2021) and the Goethe Medal (2022\, Germany). \nIn the midst of uncertainty and shadows\, our series on resistance stands as a beacon of hope.  \nOver the course of our 8-part series\, we aim to shed light on the stories of individuals and communities courageously facing prevailing challenges. Our mission is to create a space where narratives of resilience take center stage\, unveiling the indomitable strength of the human spirit in adversity. \nThank you to our Partner: \n \nFuture Events in this Series: \n\nMay 1\, 2024 – Johana Sliwa: An Unlikely Rescue: A Jewish Woman Who Helped Thousands of Poles during the Holocaust \nMay 22\, 2024 – Khatchig Mouradian: Resisting the Armenian Genocide: Lessons in Resilience from a Clandestine Network of Humanitarians \nAugust 28\, 2024 – Wolf Gruner: Resisters in Hitler’s Germany (Tentative)\nSeptember 25\, 2024 – Asya Darbinyan: Chhange and Holocaust Education (Tentative)\nOctober 23\, 2024 – Paul Lowe: Capturing the Siege of Sarajevo (Tentative)\nNovember 20\, 2024 – Sarah Brown\, PhD: Women as Perpetrators and Rescuers (Tentative)
URL:https://cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net/event/lessons-in-resilience-from-the-holocaust-and-genocide-with-carl-wilkins-rwandas-community-approach-to-rebuilding-trust-restorative-strategies-for-healing-relationships/
LOCATION:ZOOM | Registration required and closes 30 minutes prior to the start of the program
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240320T150000
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SUMMARY:Post Film Discussion Vishniac with Laura Bialis Producer/Director and CWB Scholar Avi Ben-Hur
DESCRIPTION:“All this life\, it’s so important to look closer\, and the world will be bigger.”\n– Roman Vishniac\n  \nFilm link delivered to registrants 3 days before our engaging post-film discussion\n \nAll Vishniac Photos: (c) Gift of Mara Vishniac Kohn\, The Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life\, University of California\, Berkeley \nFrom the cosmopolitan streets of pre-war Berlin to the shtetls in Poland and Lithuania to the Princeton offices of Albert Einstein\, VISHNIAC takes viewers on a journey\, through the lens of one of the foremost photographers of the 20th century. \nRoman Vishniac is best known for having traversed Eastern Europe from 1935 through 1938\, on assignment for the American Joint Distribution Committee\, to photograph Jewish life in Eastern Europe. The purpose of the photographs was to raise funds for impoverished Jewish communities. Few predicted that less than a decade later\, these communities would be wiped out\, and that Vishniac’s photographs would provide the last visual records of an entire world. \nVISHNIAC will explore Vishniac’s career and stunning photographs\, bring to life the world in which he worked and detail his dramatic life story and flamboyant personality. The film is directed and produced by Laura Bialis (Refuseniks\, Rock in the Red Zone)\, with executive producer Nancy Spielberg\, producer Roberta Grossman and writer Sophie Sartain. Made with the full cooperation of Vishniac’s daughter Mara Vishniac Kohn\, VISHNIAC will delve into the person and story “behind the photos. It will explore how Vishniac’s work was intricately tied to his view of the world. Finally\, the film will frame Vishniac’s legacy as a key modernist photographer and preserver of memory. Vishniac’s collection\, including over 10\,000 images\, is vast\, mysterious\, and causes us to step back in time. Through his stunning images\, the film will expose new audiences to a lost world that is quickly fading from our grasp. \nLaura Bialis Producer/Director \n\nLaura Bialis is an award-winning documentary filmmaker. Her most recent film\, Rock in the Red Zone (2015) is a personal view from the ground in Sderot\, Israel\, and an exploration into the lives of musicians creating in a conflict zone. The film was screened in over 80 cities worldwide. Bialis directed and produced the critically acclaimed documentary Refusenik (2007) a seminal film about the movement to free Soviet Jews\, which was released theatrically in fifteen cities\, broadcast on Israeli television\, and was released on Netflix. Other projects include View From the Bridge: Stories From Kosovo (2008) ; and Tak For Alt (1998)\, the story of Holocaust survivor turned Civil Rights activist Judy Meisel\, which was honored by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences\, broadcast on PBS\, and has been used extensively in high schools across the United States for Holocaust education. Laura holds a B.A. in History from Stanford University\, and an M.F.A. in Production from the USC School of Cinema Arts. \nAvi Ben-Hur CWB Scholar in Residence \n \nA Brooklyn native\, Avi Ben-Hur moved to Israel in 1983. From 2003-2008 Avi was Director of the Archaeological Seminars School for Israeli Tour Guides. In 2008 Avi participated in re-writing the curriculum of the National Guiding courses for the Israeli Ministry of Tourism. As a “Scholar in Residence\, Avi has lectured\, taught and facilitated workshops in the US\, Warsaw\, Prague\, Berlin and Greece. From 1996-2000\, Avi taught in Yad Vashem’s International School for Holocaust Studies. As a guide\, Avi has specialized working with organizations focusing on political issues (such as AIPAC & CIJA)\, inter-faith programs and Holocaust studies. At Present\, Avi is an examiner for the Israeli Ministry of Tourism Licensing Boards and is the ongoing scholar in residence of Classrooms Without Borders
URL:https://cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net/event/post-film-discussion-vishniac/
LOCATION:ZOOM | Registration required and closes 30 minutes prior to the start of the program
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240228T140000
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SUMMARY:Lessons in Resilience from the Holocaust and Genocide Featuring Nicole Fox: The Resilience of Female Survivors in the Aftermath of Genocide:  Memorialization and Centering Women's Experiences in Contemporary Rwanda with Tali Nates
DESCRIPTION:In the midst of uncertainty and shadows\, our series on resistance stands as a beacon of hope. Over the course of our 8-part series\, we aim to shed light on the stories of individuals and communities courageously facing prevailing challenges. Our mission is to create a space where narratives of resilience take center stage\, unveiling the indomitable strength of the human spirit in adversity.\nJoin us on this transformative journey; let this series serve as your source of empowerment\, inspiring our community to find their own light within the encompassing shadows. \nInaugural Event! Featuring Nicole Fox: \nThe Resilience of Female Survivors in the Aftermath of Genocide: \nMemorialization and Centering Women’s Experiences in Contemporary Rwanda \nNicole Fox\, PhD \n \nNicole Fox\, PhD is an Associate Professor of Criminal Justice at California State University Sacramento. Her research centers on how racial and ethnic contention impacts communities\, with a focus on how remembrances of adversity shape social change and collective memory. Her current project examines individuals who conducted acts of rescue during episodes of mass violence\, theorizing how social factors shape high-risk actions. Her 2021 book After Genocide: Memory and Reconciliation in Rwanda (University of Wisconsin Press) focuses on how memorials to past atrocity impacts community development and reconciliation for survivors of genocide and genocidal rape. Her work has been supported by the Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation\, the National Science Foundation\, Andrew Mellon Foundation\, and the American Sociological Society’s Fund for the Advancement of the Discipline\, among others. She also serves on the United Nations Economic and Social Council and contributes to the UN Commission for the Status of Women held annually at the UN headquarters. NicolefoxPhD.com \nTali Nates  \n\nTali Nates is the founder and director of the Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Centre (JHGC) and Chair of the South African Holocaust & Genocide Foundation (SAHGF). She is a historian who lectures internationally on Holocaust and genocide education\, memory\, reconciliation\, and human rights. Born to a family of Holocaust survivors\, her father and uncle were saved by Oskar Schindler. Tali has been involved in the creation and production of dozens of documentary films\, published many articles and contributed chapters to different books among them God\, Faith & Identity from the Ashes: Reflections of Children and Grandchildren of Holocaust Survivors (2015)\, Remembering The Holocaust in Educational Settings (2018)\, Conceptualizing Mass Violence\, Representations\, Recollections\, and Reinterpretations (2021) and The Routledge Handbook of Memory Activism (2023). \nIn 2021 she was part of the 12-member Expert Group of the Malmö Forum\, serving in an advisory capacity to the Secretariat of the Malmö Forum on their programme on Holocaust remembrance\, education and actions to combat antisemitism. Tali serves on many Advisory and Academic Boards including that of the Contested Histories Initiative\, the Interdisciplinary Academic Journal of Babyn Yar Holocaust Memorial Center and the Academic Advisory Group of the School of Social and Health Sciences\, Monash University (IIEMSA)\, South Africa. \nIn 2010\, Tali was chosen as one of the top 100 newsworthy and noteworthy women in \nSouth Africa by the Mail & Guardian newspaper and won many awards including the Kia Community Service Award (South Africa\, 2015)\, the Gratias Agit Award (2020\, Czech Republic)\, the Austrian Holocaust Memorial Award (2021) and the Goethe Medal (2022\, Germany). \nThank you to our Partner: \n \nFuture Events in this Series: \n\nMarch 27\, 2024-Carl Wilkins: Rwanda’s community approach to rebuilding trust: restorative strategies for healing relationships.\nMay 1\, 2024 – Johana Sliwa: An Unlikely Rescue: A Jewish Woman Who Helped Thousands of Poles during the Holocaust \nMay 22\, 2024 – Khatchig Mouradian: Resisting the Armenian Genocide: Lessons in Resilience from a Clandestine Network of Humanitarians\nAugust 28\, 2024 – Wolf Gruner: Resisters in Hitler’s Germany (Tentative)\nSeptember 25\, 2024 – Asya Darbinyan: Chhange and Holocaust Education (Tentative)\nOctober 23\, 2024 – Paul Lowe: Capturing the Siege of Sarajevo (Tentative)\nNovember 20\, 2024 – Sarah Brown\, PhD: Women as Perpetrators and Rescuers (Tentative)
URL:https://cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net/event/lessons-in-resilience-from-the-holocaust-and-genocide/
LOCATION:ZOOM | Registration required and closes 30 minutes prior to the start of the program
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240218T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240218T153000
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SUMMARY:Book Talk: The People on the Beach
DESCRIPTION:Book Talk: The People on the Beach\nA vivid history tracing Holocaust survivors who risked everything again for a new life in Palestine.\n  \nABOUT THE BOOK: THE PEOPLE ON THE BEACH \nOn a summer’s night in 1946 over a thousand Holocaust survivors secretly travelled to a secluded beach on the Italian Riviera. They had survived Auschwitz\, hidden in forests and endured death marches and they were now about to take on the Royal Navy. They boarded an overcrowded illegal immigrant ship intent on smashing through the British blockade of the shores of Palestine. Who were they? Where had they come from? How did they get to Italy and make contact with the elusive secret agents who were in charge of the sailing? \nAn evocative blend of history and part detective story\, this is a journey to find out who the people on the beach were and what had brought them to a remote Italian shore. Were they down trodden angst ridden survivors of a weak and passive people who went like lambs to the slaughter or aggressive imperialists off to conquer a foreign land? The People on the Beach explodes fossilised myths and gives the survivors back their voices. \nTheir forgotten story is part of a larger one that sits between two crucial events in Jewish history – the Holocaust and the declaration of the State of Israel in 1948. It is the link between the two. Seventy thousand Holocaust survivors passed through Italy between 1945-48. This is the story of that biblical exodus\, why so many Holocaust survivors felt they could not stay in the places in which they had lived for generations and how Zionism offered them a future. \nFrom Vilnius in Lithuania to Arenzano in Liguria The People on the Beach follows in their footsteps as this is a story about the present as well as the past. Those who write history in stereotypes have allowed a false history to grow up around the story of how Israel was born. It is a lack of knowledge that allows history to be distorted. If the facts are not told it leaves those who want to hijack history free to do so. \nRosie Whitehouse \n \nRosie Whitehouse is a seasoned journalist with a distinct focus on delving into the tapestry of Jewish existence post-Holocaust. Her insightful narratives grace the pages of esteemed publications such as BBC Online\, the Observer\, The Independent\, Tablet magazine\, The Jewish Chronicle\, Haaretz\, and more. A proud alumna of the London School of Economics\, Rosie also serves as a historical advisor at Centropa\, a prominent Jewish history institute headquartered in Vienna. \nDr. Josh Andy \n \nDr. Josh Andy is a full time teacher at Winchester Thurston School\, and an educational programs leader and Holocaust scholar with Classrooms Without Borders. An accomplished and award winning educator\, Dr. Andy holds a Ph.D. in Russian and East European Studies from Birmingham University and teaches in the Upper School. In addition to teaching Genocide and Holocaust Studies\, he teaches a course on the modern Middle East\, Multicultural America\, and AP European history. Next year he will teach Russian history. He has traveled internationally to study global cultures and issues as part of his work to design engaging courses for his students. He earned WT’s Mary Houston Griffin Award for Excellence in Teaching in 2014\, which funded his trip to Amman\, Jordan\, to develop his Middle East course.
URL:https://cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net/event/book-talk-the-people-on-the-beach/
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SUMMARY:Judaism's Ancient and Ongoing Roots in Israel with Avi Ben-Hur: a 3 part Course Session 3
DESCRIPTION:Embark on a thought-provoking journey through the intricate history of Israel with Avi Ben Hur in this three-part series.\nDelve into the depths of historical narratives and contested landscapes as we explore the rich heritage and complex relationships that have shaped the region. \nWe’re excited to host educators on this Zoom\, who are earning professional development credits for their learning. Consequently\, the program may differ from what we usually experience with Avi\, but he will still be expertly leading the content while he suggests instructional ideas for the educators. \nSession 3: The Israel-Hamas War \nSunday\, February 4\, 2023: 1:00 – 2:30 pm on Zoom  \nDescription: “The Israel-Hamas War” session focuses on the pivotal events of October 7\, 2023\, when paramilitary groups\, including Hamas and the Islamic Jihad Movement\, initiated coordinated armed incursions into Israeli territory and resulted in widespread casualties. This marked the first invasion since the 1948 Arab-Israeli War\, occurring on the sacred day of Sukkot. The day was dubbed the bloodiest in Israel’s history and the deadliest for Jews since the Holocaust. This session aims to provide educators with a nuanced understanding of the complex geopolitical factors surrounding the conflict and its profound impact on the region\, including the PLO\, the establishment of Hamas in the 1980s\, how Hamas took political power in the Gaza Strip\, and the circumstances that prompted this pogrom. \nAvi Ben-Hur \n \nScholar in Residence \nA Brooklyn native\, Avi Ben-Hur moved to Israel in 1983. From 2003-2008 Avi was Director of the Archaeological Seminars School for Israeli Tour Guides. In 2008 Avi participated in re-writing the curriculum of the National Guiding courses for the Israeli Ministry of Tourism. As a “Scholar in Residence\, Avi has lectured\, taught and facilitated workshops in the US\, Warsaw\, Prague\, Berlin and Greece. From 1996-2000\, Avi taught in Yad Vashem’s International School for Holocaust Studies. As a guide\, Avi has specialized working with organizations focusing on political issues (such as AIPAC & CIJA)\, inter-faith programs and Holocaust studies. At Present\, Avi is an examiner for the Israeli Ministry of Tourism Licensing Boards and is the ongoing scholar in residence of Classrooms Without Borders \nFinal Session 3: The Israel-Hamas War \nSunday\, February 4\, 2023: 1:00 – 2:30 pm on Zoom 
URL:https://cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net/event/judaisms-ancient-and-ongoing-roots-in-israel-with-avi-ben-hur-a-3-part-course-session-3/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240128T130000
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SUMMARY:Judaism's Ancient and Ongoing Roots in Israel with Avi Ben-Hur: a 3 part Course Session 2
DESCRIPTION:Embark on a thought-provoking journey through the intricate history of Israel with Avi Ben Hur in this three-part series.\nDelve into the depths of historical narratives and contested landscapes as we explore the rich heritage and complex relationships that have shaped the region. \nWe’re excited to host educators on this Zoom\, who are earning professional development credits for their learning. Consequently\, the program may differ from what we usually experience with Avi\, but he will still be expertly leading the content while he suggests instructional ideas for the educators. \nSession 2: The Arab-Israeli Conflict 101 \nSunday\, January 28\, 2024: 1:00-2:30 PM EDT on Zoom \nDescription: The “Arab-Israeli Conflict 101” course demystifies the Arab-Israeli conflict\, offering educators the tools to navigate this subject in classrooms. This session considers multiple narratives\, exploring both the Jewish/Israeli and Arab/Palestinian perspectives. Participants will examine the rise of Jewish and Arab nationalism\, British Mandate influences (1922-1948)\, the War for Independence/Nakba\, the Six Days War\, the War of Attrition\, the Yom Kippur War\, and the First and Second Intifadas. \nAvi Ben-Hur \n \nScholar in Residence \nA Brooklyn native\, Avi Ben-Hur moved to Israel in 1983. From 2003-2008 Avi was Director of the Archaeological Seminars School for Israeli Tour Guides. In 2008 Avi participated in re-writing the curriculum of the National Guiding courses for the Israeli Ministry of Tourism. As a “Scholar in Residence\, Avi has lectured\, taught and facilitated workshops in the US\, Warsaw\, Prague\, Berlin and Greece. From 1996-2000\, Avi taught in Yad Vashem’s International School for Holocaust Studies. As a guide\, Avi has specialized working with organizations focusing on political issues (such as AIPAC & CIJA)\, inter-faith programs and Holocaust studies. At Present\, Avi is an examiner for the Israeli Ministry of Tourism Licensing Boards and is the ongoing scholar in residence of Classrooms Without Borders \nSession 3: The Israel-Hamas War \nSunday\, February 4\, 2023: 1:00 – 2:30 pm on Zoom 
URL:https://cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net/event/judaisms-ancient-and-ongoing-roots-in-israel-with-avi-ben-hur-a-3-part-course-session-2/
LOCATION:ZOOM | Registration required and closes 30 minutes prior to the start of the program
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SUMMARY:Judaism's Ancient and Ongoing Roots in Israel with Avi Ben-Hur: a 3 part Course Session 1
DESCRIPTION:Embark on a thought-provoking journey through the intricate history of Israel with Avi Ben Hur in this three-part series.\nDelve into the depths of historical narratives and contested landscapes as we explore the rich heritage and complex relationships that have shaped the region. \nWe’re excited to host educators on this Zoom\, who are earning professional development credits for their learning. Consequently\, the program may differ from what we usually experience with Avi\, but he will still be expertly leading the content while he suggests instructional ideas for the educators. \nSession 1: Evaluating Jewish Historic Claims to the Land of Israel \nSunday\, January 21\, 2024: 1:00-2:30 PM EDT on Zoom \nDescription: The session dispels common misperceptions surrounding the Jewish connection to Israel and brings nuance to the notion that the land belonged exclusively to Arabs until 1948. Participants will explore the Jewish claim through archaeological\, historical\, and genetic evidence spanning the past 3\,000 years. The impact of the Land of Israel on the Jewish faith\, the rise and actions of the Jewish national movement (Zionism)\, the attainment of political sovereignty\, and territorial acquisition through defensive wars will be considered. \nParticipants will gain an understanding of the unbroken historic and religious connections between the Jewish people and the Land of Israel/Palestine\, including the First and Second Jewish commonwealths in antiquity. The session will also delve into the status of Jewish life in Palestine after the loss of national sovereignty and the subsequent Roman destruction of the Second Temple. Focus will be placed on the continuity of a Jewish demographic presence in the country\, persisting even after the great exile by the Romans and tenaciously clung to for 1900 years until the renewal of national sovereignty with the establishment of Israel in 1948. \nAvi Ben-Hur \n \nScholar in Residence \nA Brooklyn native\, Avi Ben-Hur moved to Israel in 1983. From 2003-2008 Avi was Director of the Archaeological Seminars School for Israeli Tour Guides. In 2008 Avi participated in re-writing the curriculum of the National Guiding courses for the Israeli Ministry of Tourism. As a “Scholar in Residence\, Avi has lectured\, taught and facilitated workshops in the US\, Warsaw\, Prague\, Berlin and Greece. From 1996-2000\, Avi taught in Yad Vashem’s International School for Holocaust Studies. As a guide\, Avi has specialized working with organizations focusing on political issues (such as AIPAC & CIJA)\, inter-faith programs and Holocaust studies. At Present\, Avi is an examiner for the Israeli Ministry of Tourism Licensing Boards and is the ongoing scholar in residence of Classrooms Without Borders \nSession 2: The Arab-Israeli Conflict 101 \nSunday\, January 28\, 2024: 1:00-2:30 PM EDT on Zoom  \nSession 3: The Israel-Hamas War \nSunday\, February 4\, 2023: 1:00 – 2:30 pm on Zoom 
URL:https://cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net/event/judaisms-ancient-and-ongoing-roots-in-israel-with-avi-ben-hur-a-3-part-course/
LOCATION:ZOOM | Registration required and closes 30 minutes prior to the start of the program
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SUMMARY:"One person can make a difference" with Jeannie Smith
DESCRIPTION:“One person can make a difference” with Jeannie Smith: \nA follow up to the CWB\nDecember 10 Pittsburgh premier of Irena’s\nVow\n  \n“I did not ask myself\, ‘Should I do this? But how will I do this?’ Every step of my childhood had brought me to this crossroads. I must take the right path\, or I will no longer be myself.  You must understand that I did not become a resistance fighter\, a smuggler of Jews\, a defier of the SS and the Nazis all at once. One’s first steps are always small.” \nWhen we acknowledge that everything we do affects someone else for either good or bad\, it opens our eyes. Understanding this is the antidote to how easy it is to become lulled into thinking that our actions are not enough and will not matter.  \nWhen we choose to do nothing — nothing is what we will reap. \nJeannie Smith \n \nJeannie Smith is the daughter of Polish rescuer Irene Gut Opdyke\, who received international recognition for her actions during the Holocaust while working for a high-ranking German official. \nIrene’s story became a nationally acclaimed Broadway play\, “Irena’s Vow.” Starring Tovah Feldshuh. Irena’s Vow has recently been made into a full length movie. \nIrene’s book – “In My Hands” – memories of a Holocaust rescuer from Random House gives a detailed account of her life during WWII and is used in classrooms around the country. \nThe Israeli Holocaust Commission named Irene one of the Righteous Among the Nations and received the Israel Medal of Honor at Jerusalem’s Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial. \nJeannie is a recipient of the 2015 Civil Rights award given by the Anti-Defamation League and an honorary member of the Jewish Federation of North America. Jeannie speaks for the Washington and Oregon Holocaust Speakers Bureau and many other organizations across the country and Europe.  \nShe has worked with the New York Polish Embassy regarding Polish/Jewish relations. Jeannie resides in Washington State with her husband\, Gary. She’s a mother of three sons\, a foster parent\, a grandmother of five\, and a surrogate mother to over 60 more. \nThe story she shares speaks to the power of love and encourages an undeniable truth: “One person can and does make a difference!” It speaks to the horrors and hate of the Holocaust and brings a message of faith\, love\, and hope that good can triumph over evil. It proclaims the conviction that\, one by one\, we can say no to hatred\, persecution\, and prejudice. \nLove is the greatest weapon we have;  Hate is easy – it takes courage to Love.
URL:https://cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net/event/one-person-can-make-a-difference-with-jeannie-smith/
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SUMMARY:Let the World Read and Know": The Oneg Shabbat Archives
DESCRIPTION:The Ghetto Fighters’ House invites you to a new three part series marking the 75th Anniversary of the Jewish Historical Institute\n  \nThe Oneg Shabbat Archives and Beyond: Documenting and Preserving the History of European Jewry at the Jewish Historical Institute \n“Let the World Read and Know”: The Oneg Shabbat Archives \nOpening Remarks: \nMonika Krawczyk\, Director of the Jewish Historical Institute (JHI) \nGuest Speakers: \nDr. Natalia Aleksiun  \nWho were they?  Emanuel Ringelblum and the Oneg Shabbat Writers  \nDr. Katarzyna Person   \nThe Ringelblum Archive and the Jewish Historical Institute \nFrom the moment that its existence became widely known\, the Ringelblum Archive (also known as the Underground Archive of the Warsaw Ghetto) was widely regarded as a collection of unusual significance. Under the initiative of historian Emanual Ringelblum\, a group of social activists incarcerated in the Warsaw Ghetto created the archive between 1940 and 1943 with the aim to document the persecution of Jews in occupied Poland. Emulating the working principles of YIVO (Yidisher Visnshaftlekher Institut\, Yiddish Scientific Institute)\, the Warsaw group gathered and produced a total of 35\,000 pages of documents\, in Polish\, Yiddish\, Hebrew\, and German and stowed them away secretly within the Ghetto. Among the documents were diaries\, accounts from approximately 300 Jewish communities from the whole territory of occupied Poland\, school essays\, research works\, and official German documents: like posters\, identification cards\, and food ration cards. There were also some 70 photographs and over 300 drawings and paintings.  \nThe Archive was retrieved in parts from the ruins of the Warsaw Ghetto: Part I (concealed on August 3\, 1942) was found on September 18\, 1946\, and Part II (concealed in early February 1943) was found on December 1\, 1950.   \nWho were the people who created this archive?  Dr. Natalia Aleksiun will share with us her research on the main contributors to one of the most important archives that was written as the events were happening.  \nIn her presentation\, Dr. Katarzyna Person will discuss the academic significance of the archive and the methods used to bring this extraordinary collection to the wider public.  \nThis program is in partnership with the Jewish Historical Institute in Warsaw\, the Polish Institute in Tel-Aviv\, the Grodzka Gate – NN Theatr in Lublin\, the Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Center\, Classrooms without Borders\, and the Rabin Chair Forum at George Washington University.  \n2 PM EST | 7 PM GMT | 8 PM SAST | 9 PM Israel
URL:https://cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net/event/let-the-world-read-and-know-the-oneg-shabbat-archives/
LOCATION:ZOOM | Registration required and closes 30 minutes prior to the start of the program
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SUMMARY:Holocaust Museums and Memorials Around the World: Remembering the Holocaust in the United Kingdom
DESCRIPTION:Classrooms Without Borders\, in coordination with Tali Nates\, Founder and Director of the Johannesburg Genocide & Holocaust Centre\, and in partnership with the Maltz Museum of Jewish Heritage\, Liberation75\,  and the USC Shoah Foundation is pleased to embark on this new innovative Museums and Memorial series where we will highlight different angles of complex memory; grappling with the the challenges faced in defining representation of both Lived Memory and Historical Memory. \n\nAlongside CWB Scholars we will travel with Museum historians\, experts\, and contemporary witnesses to 10 different regions. We will explore the history behind the exhibits\, discuss the nature of memory and memorials\, and discover how the world remembers the Shoah and honors the lives we lost. We will also explore how that memory is interconnected to genocides\, both past and present. Our experts will challenge us to grapple with issues of cultural identity\, responsibility to community\, and decision-making\, as well as ways in which individuals and nations responded\, or failed to respond\, to the crisis through close examination of the Museum’s artifacts and memorials. \nOur September Event in this Series: Remembering the Holocaust in the United Kingdom\nTali Nates \n \nTali Nates is the founder and director of the Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Centre and chair of the South African Holocaust & Genocide Foundation. She is a historian who lectures internationally on Holocaust education\, genocide prevention\, reconciliation and human rights. Tali has presented at numerous international conferences including at the United Nations (2016 & 2020). She published articles and contributed chapters to many books\, among them God\, Faith & Identity from the Ashes: Reflections of Children and Grandchildren of Holocaust Survivors (2015)\, Remembering The Holocaust in Educational Settings (2018) and Conceptualizing Mass Violence\, Representations\, Recollections\, and Reinterpretations (2021). In 2010\, Tali was chosen as one of the top 100 newsworthy and noteworthy women in South Africa\, by the Mail & Guardian. She won many awards including the Kia Community Service Award (South Africa\, 2015) and the Agit Gratias Award (2020\, Czech Republic). Tali serves on the Academic Advisory Group of the School of Social and Health Sciences\, Monash University (IIEMSA)\, South Africa. She was one of the founders of the Holocaust and Tutsi Genocide Survivors groups in Johannesburg. Born to a family of Holocaust survivors\, her father and uncle were saved by Oskar Schindler. The rest of the family was murdered. \nJames Bulgin \n \nJames Bulgin is Head of Content for the new Holocaust Galleries at Imperial War Museums. He started work on the project in 2016. Before joining IWM James worked as a commercial theatre producer and director\, with work in the West End and on national tour. His BA was in English and his MA — for which he was awarded a distinction – is in Holocaust Studies. He is currently completing a PhD under the Crosslands scholarship at Royal Holloway College\, University of London\, on ideas of apocalypse in Holocaust and Cold War history. His academic research focuses on issues of representation in Holocaust literature and film. \nMichael Newman \n \nMichael Newman is Chief Executive of the Association of Jewish Refugees (AJR)\, which represents and supports Holocaust refugees and survivors in Great Britain.\nA previous Chair of the Communications Working Group\, he is a member of the UK delegation to the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA).\nAs well as being an advisor on Holocaust-era restitution issues\, guiding Holocaust survivors and refugees\, and their families\, with applications for compensation and the recovery of Holocaust era assets\, he worked with the UK government to create the position of UK Envoy for Post-Holocaust Issues and now advises incumbent Lord Eric Pickles.\nOutside of work\, Michael is President of the Anglo-Jewish Association (AJA)\, which supports Jewish students to attend higher and further education and is a founding member of the Claims Conference of which Michael is a Director.\nHe is the co-editor of Contemporary Human Rights Challenges: The Universal Declaration of Human Rights and its Continuing Relevance\, an edited collection of new essays by leading international human rights experts.\nPreviously\, Michael was a consultant to the International Commission on Holocaust Era Insurance Claims (ICHEIC) and was a researcher at the Holocaust Educational Trust\, the Britain-Israel Parliamentary Group and the Inter Parliamentary Council Against Anti-Semitism.\nHe was awarded on OBE (Officer of the Order of the British Empire) in Her Majesty The Queen’s Birthday Honours list 2021. \nStephen Smith  \n \nStephen D. Smith is Executive Chairman and co-founder of StoryFile\, the world’s first AI Conversational Video platform that brings video to life. \nStephen is an international speaker and oral historian who specializes in immersive media. \nIn addition to his role at StoryFile\, Stephen serves as Executive Director Emeritus of USC Shoah Foundation\, the archive founded by Steven Spielberg to document the Holocaust and global genocides. He is a theologian by training and in that capacity is USC Visiting Professor of Religion\, where he researches genocide related testimony. \nStephen has authored several books and has two titles forthcoming in 2022: The Trajectory of Memory and Holocaust XR. \nStephen is a member of the order of the British Empire. \nPrevious Sessions in this Series: \n\nSeptember 23\, 2021 Holocaust Museums and Memorials: ‘Generation to Generation: The Evolution of Memorialization’ With Dr. Michael Berenbaum and Tali Nates in conversation with Stephen Smith and James Young\nOctober 25th\, 2021 ‘Remembering the killing sites 80 years later’ Tali Nates alongside\, Omer Bartov\, Faina Kukliansky\, Robert Jan van Pelt.\nNovember 18th\, 2021 “Memory\, Memorials and Museums of the Holocaust and the Genocide Against the Tutsi in Rwanda: A view from the African Continent”.Tali Nates alonside Myra Osrin\, Mary Kluk\, Owen Griffiths\, and Freddy Mutanguha \nJanuary 20\, 2022 “Remembering the Holocaust in Poland” Tali Nates; Featuring: Edyta Gawron (Schindler’s Museum)\, Jakub Nowakowski (Galicia Jewish Museum)\, Tomasz Kuncewicz (Director Of The Auschwitz Jewish Center)\, and Dariusz Popiela (memorials in the smaller town of Western Galicia)\nFebruary 24\, 2022 “Museums in Context – Creating a new Museum and Memorial”: Michael Berenbaum (many new museums)\, Tali Nates (Johannesburg)\, Marco Gonzalez (Guatemala)\, Rabbi Andrew Baker (Belzec). \nMarch 24\, 2022 “The Landscape of Memory in Germany”: with Dr. Florian Kemmelmeier\, Memorials in Berlin (Topography of Terror\, and an overview of the landscape of memorials). Dr. Matthias Hass\, Deputy Director House of Wannsee Conference\, Dr.  Matthias Heyl\, Director of Education\, Ravensbruck & Tali Nates (Johannesburg) \nMay 26\, 2022 ‘Remembering the Holocaust in Austria’ Hannah M. Lessing\, Dr Albert Lichtblau & Tali Nates (Johannesburg)\n\nUpcoming Events:\n\nJoin us in October for our final session.\n\nThank you to our partners:
URL:https://cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net/event/holocaust-museums-and-memorials-around-the-world/
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SUMMARY:Arab Israeli Conflict with Avi Ben Hur
DESCRIPTION:The Arab-Israeli conflict plays a large (some would claim outsized) role in current events. This course aims to unpack the causes and core issues that relate to the Conflict. The goal is to make the subject accessible to educators and to give them the tools with which to grapple in the classroom with the subject at large and with breaking news. While this course is a primer on the subject\, the Q & A following each session is designed to enable the participants to engage with related issues on a higher resolution. Each section will be accompanied with suggestions for further exploration. The earlier lectures will approach the Conflict from two intersecting directions: \nThree concentric levels:\n\nThe International aspect (e.g. the Cold War)\nThe Regional aspect (the Middle East at large)\nThe leadership (of the countries at conflict)\n\nMultiple narratives:\n\nThe Jewish/Israeli narrative\nThe Arab/Palestinian narrative\n\nThe later sessions will put a greater focus on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and the continuing friction or détente between Israel and other regional actors. \nA concerted effort will be made to present the historical processes in an even-handed and balanced way\, while keeping in mind that this is a loaded topic for many people. We have no illusions that everyone will emerge from each lesson in agreement with the presenter or with their fellow participants. The key to a successful program will be the mutual respect paid to each and every person (including the presenter)\, particularly in the part designed for discussion/dialogue (i.e. the Q & A). By approaching the subject this way we strive to “model” how we believe education should work. Open hearts\, open minds and tolerance are the core values that inform CWB’s work. \nSession X: Israel and Lebanon – 2006-2021\, Israel and Syria – 2000-2021\, Israel and Iran – 2000-2021 \nBy 2006 Hezbollah\, an Iranian backed Shiite organization had gained a complete stranglehold over Southern Lebanon and launched a series of attacks on Israel that snow-balled into the Second Lebanon War. In the past 15 years\, Hezbollah has built up a massive arsenal of missiles which are aimed at Israel\, posing a strategic threat to both countries (Israel and Lebanon). Between 2011-2021 Syria collapsed into a civil and later international war that has torn the country apart. While Israel has stayed clear of its neighbor’s conflict\, Syrian injured were treated in Israeli hospitals. Israel has also defended itself against terror organizations that have launched attacks from Syria on its soil. One of Syria’s patrons\, Iran has been trying to achieve a nuclear offensive capability and Israel has made great efforts both diplomatically and through the use of force to prevent this. \nSubjects to be covered: Strategic threats facing Israel from Lebanon\, Syria and Iran from 2000 to the present.\nPast Sessions:\nSeptember 12\, 2021 | Background to the conflict (Jewish Nationalism – the rise of the Zionist Movement\, Arab Nationalism – the rise of the Palestinian National Movement)\nOctober 10\, 2021 | The British Mandate Period – 1922-1948\nNovember 21\, 2021 | The War for Independence/Nakba part I\nDecember 21\, 2021 | The War for Independence/Nakba part II\nJanuary 25\, 2022 | Israel Copes with Strategic Challenges – the Rise of Pan-Arabism and Nasser\nFebruary 22\, 2022 | The Six Days War\nMarch 29\, 2022 | The War of Attrition and the Yom Kippur War\nApril 26\, 2022 | The P.L.O. & Fighting Terror\, Peace with Egypt\, the First Lebanon War\nMay 31\, 2022 |Israel and the Palestinians 1987-2021\n  \n \nAvi Ben-Hur\nScholar in Residence \nA Brooklyn native\, Avi Ben-Hur moved to Israel in 1983. From 2003-2008 Avi was Director of the Archaeological Seminars School for Israeli Tour Guides. In 2008 Avi participated in re-writing the curriculum of the National Guiding courses for the Israeli Ministry of Tourism. As a “Scholar in Residence\, Avi has lectured\, taught and facilitated workshops in the US\, Warsaw\, Prague\, Berlin and Greece. From 1996-2000\, Avi taught in Yad Vashem’s International School for Holocaust Studies. As a guide\, Avi has specialized working with organizations focusing on political issues (such as AIPAC & CIJA)\, inter-faith programs and Holocaust studies.
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LOCATION:ZOOM | Registration required and closes 30 minutes prior to the start of the program
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DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220612T163000
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SUMMARY:2022 Poland Personally Seminar Meetings
DESCRIPTION:This program is only for educators\, students and individuals interested in travelling and learning with CWB in Poland. \nUntil then…visit the seminar webpage to learn more at classroomswithoutborders.org/seminar/poland-personally-a-study-seminar-to-poland. \n\nUpcoming Pre-Seminar Meetings/Workshops for accepted participants: \nSunday\, March 6 | 3-4:30pm  | Zoom\nSunday\, April 3 | 3-4:30pm  | Zoom\nSunday\, May 1 | 3-4:430pm | Zoom\nSunday\, June 12 | 3-4:30pm | Zoom
URL:https://cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net/event/2022-poland-personally-seminar-meetings/
LOCATION:ZOOM | Registration required and closes 30 minutes prior to the start of the program
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220612T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220612T143000
DTSTAMP:20260709T130327
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SUMMARY:2022 Discovering Italy Seminar Meetings
DESCRIPTION:Pre-travel meetings for 2022 Discovering Italy Seminar Workshops/Meetings. \nThis program is only for educators and individuals traveling with CWB to Italy in 2022. \nUntil then…visit the Discover Italy Seminar webpage to learn more.\n\nUpcoming Pre-travel meetings/workshops for accepted participants: \nSunday\, March 6 | 1-2:30pm  | Zoom\nSunday\, April 3 | 1-2:30pm  | Zoom\nSunday\, May 1 | 1-2:30pm | Zoom\nSunday\, June 12 | 1-2:30pm | Zoom
URL:https://cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net/event/2022-discovering-italy-seminar-meetings/
LOCATION:ZOOM | Registration required and closes 30 minutes prior to the start of the program
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220608T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220608T163000
DTSTAMP:20260709T130327
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SUMMARY:Confronting the Complexity of Holocaust Scholarship
DESCRIPTION:Classrooms Without Borders\, in partnership with Liberation 75\, is excited to offer the opportunity engage in our new series: Confronting the Complexity of Holocaust Scholarship: Reflections on the Past\, Present\, and Future of Holocaust Studies \nThe rise of anti-Semitism across the globe alongside the current data that points to a serious void in understanding about the Holocaust in the 21st century shines a light on a critical need to continue the task of Holocaust Scholars to honor the memory of the Shoah. \nIn each of our 9 part series we will meet Top Scholars in the field and focus on their research and scholarship. \nDr. Michael Berenbaum is a writer\, lecturer\, and teacher consulting in the conceptual development of museums and historical films. He is director of the Sigi Ziering Institute: Exploring the Ethical and Religious Implications of the Holocaust at the American Jewish University\, where he is also a Professor of Jewish Studies. \nHe was the Executive Editor of the Second Edition of the Encyclopedia Judaica that reworked\, transformed\, improved\, broadened and deepened\, the now classic 1972 work and consists of 22 volumes\, sixteen million words with 25\,000 individual contributions to Jewish knowledge. For three years\, he was President and Chief Executive Officer of the Survivors of the Shoah Visual History Foundation. He was the Director of the United States Holocaust Research Institute at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum and the Hymen Goldman Adjunct Professor of Theology at Georgetown University in Washington\, D.C. From 1988–93 he served as Project Director of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum\, overseeing its creation. He also served as Deputy Director of the President’s Commission on the Holocaust\, where he authored its Report to the President. \nBerenbaum is the author and editor of twenty books\, scores of scholarly articles\, and hundreds of journalistic pieces. His most recent books include: Not Your Father’s Antisemitism\, A Promise to Remember: The Holocaust in the Words and Voices of Its Survivors and After the Passion Has Passed: American Religious Consequences\, a collection of essays on Jews\, Judaism and Christianity\, Religious Tolerance and Pluralism occasioned by the controversy that swirled around Mel Gibson’s film\, The Passion. He was the conceptual developer on the Illinois Holocaust Museum and Educational Center and played a similar function as conceptual developer and chief curator of the Belzec Memorial at the site of the Death Camp. He is currently at work on the Memorial Museum to Macedonian Jewry in Skopje\, the Dallas Holocaust and Human Rights Museum\, and the Holocaust and Humanity Center in Cincinnati\, Ohio. \nProfessor Jonathan Friedman \nJonathan Friedman is currently Professor of History and the Director of Holocaust and Genocide Studies at West Chester University in West Chester\, Pennsylvania. He has been at West Chester since 2002. Before that\, he worked as a historian at both the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington\, D.C. and the Survivors of the Shoah Visual History Foundation in Los Angeles. He has edited five books and authored five as well\, including\, most recently\, Haunted Laughter: Representations of Adolf Hitler\, The Third Reich\, and The Holocaust in Comedic Film and Television (Rowman and Littlefield/Lexington Books\, 2022). \nPrevious Sessions in this Series:\n\nOctober 13\, 2021 3PM ET: Women and the Holocaust with Dr. Carol Rittner RSM Distinguished Professor of Holocaust & Genocide Studies Emerita\nNovember 10\, 2021 at 3pm ET: Six Million!? with Documentary Film Maker: David Fisher\nDecember 8\, 2021 at 3pm ET: Auschwitz: Not Long Ago\, Not Far Away.\nJanuary 12\, 2022 at 3pm ET: Wendy Lower: Using Photographs as Evidence\nFebruary 9\, 2022 at 3pm ET: Antisemitism and Book Banning in 2022?\nMarch 9\, 2022 at 3pm ET: Professor Larry Langer; the foremost scholar of the Holocaust in the field of literature and testimony\nApril 13\, 2022 at 3pm ET: Jonathan Petropoulos\, Ph.D.\, the world’s leading scholar on Nazi stolen art \nMay 11\, 2022 at 3pm ET: Mark Weizmann\, speaking on Holocaust denial\, minimization\, trivialization\, and distortion\n\nThank You to Our Partner
URL:https://cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net/event/confronting-the-complexity-of-holocaust-scholarship/
LOCATION:ZOOM | Registration required and closes 30 minutes prior to the start of the program
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220531T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220531T153000
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SUMMARY:Arab Israeli Conflict with Avi Ben Hur
DESCRIPTION:Arab-Israeli Conflict Course with CWB In House Scholar Avi Ben Hur\nThe Arab-Israeli conflict plays a large (some would claim outsized) role in current events. This course aims to unpack the causes and core issues that relate to the Conflict. The goal is to make the subject accessible to educators and to give them the tools with which to grapple in the classroom with the subject at large and with breaking news. While this course is a primer on the subject\, the Q & A following each session is designed to enable the participants to engage with related issues on a higher resolution. Each section will be accompanied with suggestions for further exploration. The earlier lectures will approach the Conflict from two intersecting directions: \nThree concentric levels:\n\nThe International aspect (e.g. the Cold War)\nThe Regional aspect (the Middle East at large)\nThe leadership (of the countries at conflict)\n\nMultiple narratives:\n\nThe Jewish/Israeli narrative\nThe Arab/Palestinian narrative\n\nThe later sessions will put a greater focus on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and the continuing friction or détente between Israel and other regional actors. \nA concerted effort will be made to present the historical processes in an even-handed and balanced way\, while keeping in mind that this is a loaded topic for many people. We have no illusions that everyone will emerge from each lesson in agreement with the presenter or with their fellow participants. The key to a successful program will be the mutual respect paid to each and every person (including the presenter)\, particularly in the part designed for discussion/dialogue (i.e. the Q & A). By approaching the subject this way we strive to “model” how we believe education should work. Open hearts\, open minds and tolerance are the core values that inform CWB’s work. \nSession IX: Israel and the Palestinians 1987-2021\nIn December 1987\, the Palestinians re-entered the Israeli consciousness with the outbreak of massive civil disobedience that spread from the Gaza Strip to the West Bank in the so-called “Intifada.” Although this uprising petered out by 1991\, by September 1993 Israeli and PLO representatives began a political process in an attempt to come to a final peace agreement between the sides. These talks and accords continued until the summer of 2000 when they collapsed in Camp David. Within weeks a second Intifada broke out which was characterized by Palestinian bombing attacks on the Israeli civilian population. Israel responded with force and the construction of a barrier to thwart the bombers. In 2005 Israel decided to disengage from the Gaza Strip. This resulted in the armed takeover of the Strip by Hamas in 2007 and 4 subsequent conflicts with Israel in 2008/9\, 2012\, 2014 and 2021. Direct negotiations between Israel and the Palestinians have not existed for the past 6 years. \nSubjects to be covered: The 1st Intifada\, the Oslo Process\, 2nd Intifada\, Gaza redeployment\, 2005-2021 \nPast Sessions:\nSeptember 12\, 2021 | Background to the conflict (Jewish Nationalism – the rise of the Zionist Movement\, Arab Nationalism – the rise of the Palestinian National Movement)\nOctober 10\, 2021 | The British Mandate Period – 1922-1948\nNovember 21\, 2021 | The War for Independence/Nakba part I\nDecember 21\, 2021 | The War for Independence/Nakba part II\nJanuary 25\, 2022 | Israel Copes with Strategic Challenges – the Rise of Pan-Arabism and Nasser\nFebruary 22\, 2022 | The Six Days War\nMarch 29\, 2022 | The War of Attrition and the Yom Kippur War\nApril 26\, 2022 | The P.L.O. & Fighting Terror\, Peace with Egypt\, the First Lebanon War\nFinal SESSION in this series: \n\nJune 21\, 2022\nAll sessions will be 2:00pm-3:30pm ET.\n\n \nAvi Ben-Hur\nScholar in Residence \nA Brooklyn native\, Avi Ben-Hur moved to Israel in 1983. From 2003-2008 Avi was Director of the Archaeological Seminars School for Israeli Tour Guides. In 2008 Avi participated in re-writing the curriculum of the National Guiding courses for the Israeli Ministry of Tourism. As a “Scholar in Residence\, Avi has lectured\, taught and facilitated workshops in the US\, Warsaw\, Prague\, Berlin and Greece. From 1996-2000\, Avi taught in Yad Vashem’s International School for Holocaust Studies. As a guide\, Avi has specialized working with organizations focusing on political issues (such as AIPAC & CIJA)\, inter-faith programs and Holocaust studies. At Present\, Avi is an examiner for the Israeli Ministry of Tourism Licensing Boards and is the ongoing scholar in residence of Classrooms Without Borders. \n 
URL:https://cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net/event/arab-israeli-conflict-with-avi-ben-hur-2/
LOCATION:ZOOM | Registration required and closes 30 minutes prior to the start of the program
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DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220526T153000
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SUMMARY:Holocaust Museums and Memorials Around the World
DESCRIPTION:Classrooms Without Borders\, in coordination with Tali Nates\, Founder and Director of the Johannesburg Genocide & Holocaust Centre\, and in partnership with the Maltz Museum of Jewish Heritage\, Liberation75\,  and the USC Shoah Foundation is pleased to embark on this new innovative Museums and Memorial series where we will highlight different angles of complex memory; grappling with the the challenges faced in defining representation of both Lived Memory and Historical Memory. \nAlongside CWB Scholars we will travel with Museum historians\, experts\, and contemporary witnesses to 10 different regions. We will explore the history behind the exhibits\, discuss the nature of memory and memorials\, and discover how the world remembers the Shoah and honors the lives we lost. We will also explore how that memory is interconnected to genocides\, both past and present. Our experts will challenge us to grapple with issues of cultural identity\, responsibility to community\, and decision-making\, as well as ways in which individuals and nations responded\, or failed to respond\, to the crisis through close examination of the Museum’s artifacts and memorials. \nOur May Event in this Series: ‘Remembering the Holocaust in Austria’. will feature Hannah M. Lessing\, Dr Albert Lichtblau & Tali Nates.\nTali Nates \n \nTali Nates is the founder and director of the Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Centre and chair of the South African Holocaust & Genocide Foundation. She is a historian who lectures internationally on Holocaust education\, genocide prevention\, reconciliation and human rights. Tali has presented at numerous international conferences including at the United Nations (2016 & 2020). She published articles and contributed chapters to many books\, among them God\, Faith & Identity from the Ashes: Reflections of Children and Grandchildren of Holocaust Survivors (2015)\, Remembering The Holocaust in Educational Settings (2018) and Conceptualizing Mass Violence\, Representations\, Recollections\, and Reinterpretations (2021). In 2010\, Tali was chosen as one of the top 100 newsworthy and noteworthy women in South Africa\, by the Mail & Guardian. She won many awards including the Kia Community Service Award (South Africa\, 2015) and the Agit Gratias Award (2020\, Czech Republic). Tali serves on the Academic Advisory Group of the School of Social and Health Sciences\, Monash University (IIEMSA)\, South Africa. She was one of the founders of the Holocaust and Tutsi Genocide Survivors groups in Johannesburg. Born to a family of Holocaust survivors\, her father and uncle were saved by Oskar Schindler. The rest of the family was murdered. \nHannah Lessing \n \nHannah Lessing has been Secretary General of the National Fund of the Republic of Austria for Victims of National Socialism since 1995. She has also headed the General Settlement Fund since 2001 and the Fund for the Restoration of the Jewish Cemeteries in Austria since 2010 – three Funds carrying out their work in remembrance of the victims. \nHannah Lessing is Co-Head of the Austrian delegation to the “International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance” (IHRA). Since March 2011\, she has been Austria’s representative on the International Committee of the Auschwitz Foundation and Member of the Board of the Documentation Centre of Austrian Resistance. \nIn 2001\, as a member of the Austrian delegation headed by Ambassador Sucharipa\, Hannah Lessing participated in the negotiations on compensation issues conducted by Under-Secretary of State Stuart Eizenstat\, which led to the signature of the Joint Statement in Washington in 2001. Following this Agreement\, the General Settlement Fund for Victims of National Socialism was established in 2001 in order to achieve a comprehensive resolution to open questions of compensation for victims of National Socialism. \nEstablished in order to express the moral responsibility of the Republic of Austria towards victims of National Socialism\, the National Fund carries out a range of activities related to matters of restitution and compensation and the conveyance of historical awareness. \nHannah Lessing has lectured extensively on the work of the three Funds\, as well as in connection with national and international commemoration activities regarding the Holocaust. \nDr. Albert Lichtblau \n \nDr. Albert Lichtblau was Professor of History at the University of Salzburg\, Austria\, where he is chair and vice-chair of the Centre for Jewish Cultural History. His areas of research include contemporary history\, holocaust\, genocide and migration studies\, but also oral history and audio-visual history. Currently\, he was working on various projects like the Austrian exhibition at the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum or the Austrian Heritage Collection. \nPrevious Sessions in this Series: \n\nSeptember 23\, 2021 Holocaust Museums and Memorials: ‘Generation to Generation: The Evolution of Memorialization’ With Dr. Michael Berenbaum and Tali Nates in conversation with Stephen Smith and James Young\nOctober 25th\, 2021 ‘Remembering the killing sites 80 years later’ Tali Nates alongside\, Omer Bartov\, Faina Kukliansky\, Robert Jan van Pelt.\nNovember 18th\, 2021 “Memory\, Memorials and Museums of the Holocaust and the Genocide Against the Tutsi in Rwanda: A view from the African Continent”.Tali Nates alonside Myra Osrin\, Mary Kluk\, Owen Griffiths\, and Freddy Mutanguha \nJanuary 20\, 2022 “Remembering the Holocaust in Poland” Tali Nates; Featuring: Edyta Gawron (Schindler’s Museum)\, Jakub Nowakowski (Galicia Jewish Museum)\, Tomasz Kuncewicz (Director Of The Auschwitz Jewish Center)\, and Dariusz Popiela (memorials in the smaller town of Western Galicia)\nFebruary 24\, 2022 “Museums in Context – Creating a new Museum and Memorial”: Michael Berenbaum (many new museums)\, Tali Nates (Johannesburg)\, Marco Gonzalez (Guatemala)\, Rabbi Andrew Baker (Belzec). \nMarch 24\, 2022 “The Landscape of Memory in Germany”: with Dr. Florian Kemmelmeier\, Memorials in Berlin (Topography of Terror\, and an overview of the landscape of memorials). Dr. Matthias Hass\, Deputy Director House of Wannsee Conference\, Dr.  Matthias Heyl\, Director of Education\, Ravensbruck & Tali Nates (Johannesburg)\,\n\nUpcoming Events:\n\nJoin us in September and October for our 2 final sessions.\nDetails coming soon!\n\nThank you to our partners:\nThe full inclusion of people of all abilities is a core value of Classrooms Without Borders. For questions or to make requests for special accommodations contact melissa@classroomswithoutborders.org
URL:https://cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net/event/holocaust-museums-and-memorials-around-the-world-2/
LOCATION:ZOOM | Registration required and closes 30 minutes prior to the start of the program
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DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220511T163000
DTSTAMP:20260709T130327
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SUMMARY:Confronting the Complexity of Holocaust Scholarship
DESCRIPTION:Classrooms Without Borders\, in partnership with Liberation 75\, is excited to offer the opportunity engage in our new series: Confronting the Complexity of Holocaust Scholarship: Reflections on the Past\, Present\, and Future of Holocaust Studies \nThe rise of anti-Semitism across the globe alongside the current data that points to a serious void in understanding about the Holocaust in the 21st century shines a light on a critical need to continue the task of Holocaust Scholars to honor the memory of the Shoah. \nIn each of our 9 part series we will meet Top Scholars in the field and focus on their research and scholarship. \nDr. Michael Berenbaum is a writer\, lecturer\, and teacher consulting in the conceptual development of museums and historical films. He is director of the Sigi Ziering Institute: Exploring the Ethical and Religious Implications of the Holocaust at the American Jewish University\, where he is also a Professor of Jewish Studies. \nHe was the Executive Editor of the Second Edition of the Encyclopedia Judaica that reworked\, transformed\, improved\, broadened and deepened\, the now classic 1972 work and consists of 22 volumes\, sixteen million words with 25\,000 individual contributions to Jewish knowledge. For three years\, he was President and Chief Executive Officer of the Survivors of the Shoah Visual History Foundation. He was the Director of the United States Holocaust Research Institute at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum and the Hymen Goldman Adjunct Professor of Theology at Georgetown University in Washington\, D.C. From 1988–93 he served as Project Director of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum\, overseeing its creation. He also served as Deputy Director of the President’s Commission on the Holocaust\, where he authored its Report to the President. \nBerenbaum is the author and editor of twenty books\, scores of scholarly articles\, and hundreds of journalistic pieces. His most recent books include: Not Your Father’s Antisemitism\, A Promise to Remember: The Holocaust in the Words and Voices of Its Survivors and After the Passion Has Passed: American Religious Consequences\, a collection of essays on Jews\, Judaism and Christianity\, Religious Tolerance and Pluralism occasioned by the controversy that swirled around Mel Gibson’s film\, The Passion. He was the conceptual developer on the Illinois Holocaust Museum and Educational Center and played a similar function as conceptual developer and chief curator of the Belzec Memorial at the site of the Death Camp. He is currently at work on the Memorial Museum to Macedonian Jewry in Skopje\, the Dallas Holocaust and Human Rights Museum\, and the Holocaust and Humanity Center in Cincinnati\, Ohio. \n  \nMark Weitzman speaking on Holocaust denial\, minimization\, trivialization\, and distortion \n  \nThank You to Our Partner
URL:https://cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net/event/confronting-the-complexity-of-holocaust-scholarship-2/
LOCATION:ZOOM | Registration required and closes 30 minutes prior to the start of the program
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220503T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220503T170000
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SUMMARY:Book Discussion\, The Holocaust & the Exile of Yiddish
DESCRIPTION:Weekly Book Discussions\, “The Holocaust & the Exile of Yiddish: A History of the Algemeyne Entsiklopedye” with Dr. Josh Andy
URL:https://cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net/event/book-discussion-the-holocaust-the-exile-of-yiddish/
LOCATION:ZOOM | Registration required and closes 30 minutes prior to the start of the program
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220501T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220501T183000
DTSTAMP:20260709T130327
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LAST-MODIFIED:20220413T162410Z
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SUMMARY:2022 Discovering Italy Seminar Meetings
DESCRIPTION:Pre-travel meetings for 2022 Discovering Italy Seminar Workshops/Meetings. \nThis program is only for educators and individuals traveling with CWB to Italy in 2022. \nUntil then…visit the Discover Italy Seminar webpage to learn more.\n\nUpcoming Pre-travel meetings/workshops for accepted participants: \nSunday\, May 1 | 5-6:30pm | Zoom\nSunday\, June 12 | 1-2:30pm | Zoom \n  \nPAST Pre-travel meetings/workshops for accepted participants: \nSunday\, March 6 | 1-2:30pm  | Zoom\nSunday\, April 3 | 1-2:30pm  | Zoom
URL:https://cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net/event/2022-discovering-italy-seminar-meetings-2/
LOCATION:ZOOM | Registration required and closes 30 minutes prior to the start of the program
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220501T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220501T143000
DTSTAMP:20260709T130327
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LAST-MODIFIED:20220426T231537Z
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SUMMARY:2022 Poland Personally Seminar Meetings
DESCRIPTION:This program is only for educators\, students and individuals interested in travelling and learning with CWB in Poland. \nUntil then…visit the seminar webpage to learn more at classroomswithoutborders.org/seminar/poland-personally-a-study-seminar-to-poland. \n\nUpcoming Pre-Seminar Meetings/Workshops for accepted participants: \nSunday\, May 1 | 1-2:30pm | Zoom\nSunday\, June 12 | 3-4:30pm | Zoom \nPAST Pre-Seminar Meetings/Workshops for accepted participants: \nSunday\, March 6 | 3-4:30pm  | Zoom\nSunday\, April 3 | 3-4:30pm  | Zoom
URL:https://cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net/event/2022-poland-personally-seminar-meetings-2/
LOCATION:ZOOM | Registration required and closes 30 minutes prior to the start of the program
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220426T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220426T153000
DTSTAMP:20260709T130327
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SUMMARY:Arab Israeli Conflict with Avi Ben Hur
DESCRIPTION:The Arab-Israeli conflict plays a large (some would claim outsized) role in current events. This course aims to unpack the causes and core issues that relate to the Conflict. The goal is to make the subject accessible to educators and to give them the tools with which to grapple in the classroom with the subject at large and with breaking news. While this course is a primer on the subject\, the Q & A following each session is designed to enable the participants to engage with related issues on a higher resolution. Each section will be accompanied with suggestions for further exploration. The earlier lectures will approach the Conflict from two intersecting directions: \nThree concentric levels: \n\nThe International aspect (e.g. the Cold War)\nThe Regional aspect (the Middle East at large)\nThe leadership (of the countries at conflict)\n\nMultiple narratives: \n\nThe Jewish/Israeli narrative\nThe Arab/Palestinian narrative\n\nThe later sessions will put a greater focus on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and the continuing friction or détente between Israel and other regional actors. \nA concerted effort will be made to present the historical processes in an even-handed and balanced way\, while keeping in mind that this is a loaded topic for many people. We have no illusions that everyone will emerge from each lesson in agreement with the presenter or with their fellow participants. The key to a successful program will be the mutual respect paid to each and every person (including the presenter)\, particularly in the part designed for discussion/dialogue (i.e. the Q & A). By approaching the subject this way we strive to “model” how we believe education should work. Open hearts\, open minds and tolerance are the core values that inform CWB’s work. \nAvi Ben-HurScholar in Residence\nAvi Ben Hur \nScholar in Residence \nA Brooklyn native\, Avi Ben-Hur moved to Israel in 1983. From 2003-2008 Avi was Director of the Archaeological Seminars School for Israeli Tour Guides. In 2008 Avi participated in re-writing the curriculum of the National Guiding courses for the Israeli Ministry of Tourism. As a “Scholar in Residence\, Avi has lectured\, taught and facilitated workshops in the US\, Warsaw\, Prague\, Berlin and Greece. From 1996-2000\, Avi taught in Yad Vashem’s International School for Holocaust Studies. As a guide\, Avi has specialized working with organizations focusing on political issues (such as AIPAC & CIJA)\, inter-faith programs and Holocaust studies.
URL:https://cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net/event/arab-israeli-conflict-with-avi-ben-hur-3/
LOCATION:ZOOM | Registration required and closes 30 minutes prior to the start of the program
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220425T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220425T173000
DTSTAMP:20260709T130327
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SUMMARY:Author Talk with Dr Anna Hájková
DESCRIPTION:Author Talk with Dr Anna Hájková \, “The Last Ghetto: An Everyday History of Theresienstadt” with Dr. Josh Andy\n\n\nTerezín\, as it was known in Czech\, or Theresienstadt as it was known in German\, was operated by the Nazis between November 1941 and May 1945 as a transit ghetto for Central and Western European Jews before their deportation for murder in the East. Terezín was the last ghetto to be liberated\, one day after the end of World War II. \nThe Last Ghetto is the first in-depth analytical history of a prison society during the Holocaust. Rather than depict the prison society which existed within the ghetto as an exceptional one\, unique in kind and not understandable by normal analytical methods\, Anna Hájková argues that such prison societies that developed during the Holocaust are best understood as simply other instances of the societies human beings create under normal circumstances. Challenging conventional claims of Holocaust exceptionalism\, Hájková insists instead that we ought to view the Holocaust with the same analytical tools as other historical events. \nThe prison society of Terezín produced its own social hierarchies under which seemingly small differences among prisoners (of age\, ethnicity\, or previous occupation) could determine whether one ultimately lived or died. During the three and a half years of the camp’s existence\, prisoners created their own culture and habits\, bonded\, fell in love\, and forged new families. Based on extensive archival research in nine languages and on empathetic reading of victim testimonies\, The Last Ghetto is a transnational\, cultural\, social\, gender\, and organizational history of Terezín\, revealing how human society works in extremis and highlighting the key issues of responsibility\, agency and its boundaries\, and belonging. \n\n\n\nDr Anna Hájková is associate professor of modern European continental history at the University of Warwick\, UK. She holds a Ph.D. from the University of Toronto. She has been working on history of Theresienstadt since 2000\, and between 2006 and 2008 was the co-editor of Theresienstädter Studien und Dokumente. She has also co-edited the anthology Alltag im Holocaust: Jüdisches Leben im Großdeutschen Reich 1941-1945\, and co-authored The Last Veit Simons from Berlin: Holocaust\, Gender\, and the End of the German-Jewish Bourgeoisie. She has published on Theresienstadt in numerous peer-reviewed journals in English\, German\, Czech\, and French. She regularly contributes to mass media in English\, German\, and Czech in the publications Haaretz\, Süddeutsche Zeitung\, Tablet\, and Tagespiegel.
URL:https://cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net/event/author-talk-with-dr-anna-hajkova/
LOCATION:ZOOM | Registration required and closes 30 minutes prior to the start of the program
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220413T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220413T163000
DTSTAMP:20260709T130327
CREATED:20220303T002245Z
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SUMMARY:Confronting the Complexity of Holocaust Scholarship
DESCRIPTION:Classrooms Without Borders\, in partnership with Liberation 75\, is excited to offer the opportunity engage in our new series: Confronting the Complexity of Holocaust Scholarship: Reflections on the Past\, Present\, and Future of Holocaust Studies \nThe rise of anti-Semitism across the globe alongside the current data that points to a serious void in understanding about the Holocaust in the 21st century shines a light on a critical need to continue the task of Holocaust Scholars to honor the memory of the Shoah. \nIn each of our 9 part series we will meet Top Scholars in the field and focus on their research and scholarship. \nDr. Michael Berenbaum is a writer\, lecturer\, and teacher consulting in the conceptual development of museums and historical films. He is director of the Sigi Ziering Institute: Exploring the Ethical and Religious Implications of the Holocaust at the American Jewish University\, where he is also a Professor of Jewish Studies. \nHe was the Executive Editor of the Second Edition of the Encyclopedia Judaica that reworked\, transformed\, improved\, broadened and deepened\, the now classic 1972 work and consists of 22 volumes\, sixteen million words with 25\,000 individual contributions to Jewish knowledge. For three years\, he was President and Chief Executive Officer of the Survivors of the Shoah Visual History Foundation. He was the Director of the United States Holocaust Research Institute at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum and the Hymen Goldman Adjunct Professor of Theology at Georgetown University in Washington\, D.C. From 1988–93 he served as Project Director of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum\, overseeing its creation. He also served as Deputy Director of the President’s Commission on the Holocaust\, where he authored its Report to the President. \nBerenbaum is the author and editor of twenty books\, scores of scholarly articles\, and hundreds of journalistic pieces. His most recent books include: Not Your Father’s Antisemitism\, A Promise to Remember: The Holocaust in the Words and Voices of Its Survivors and After the Passion Has Passed: American Religious Consequences\, a collection of essays on Jews\, Judaism and Christianity\, Religious Tolerance and Pluralism occasioned by the controversy that swirled around Mel Gibson’s film\, The Passion. He was the conceptual developer on the Illinois Holocaust Museum and Educational Center and played a similar function as conceptual developer and chief curator of the Belzec Memorial at the site of the Death Camp. He is currently at work on the Memorial Museum to Macedonian Jewry in Skopje\, the Dallas Holocaust and Human Rights Museum\, and the Holocaust and Humanity Center in Cincinnati\, Ohio. \n  \nJonathan Petropoulos \n  \nThank You to Our Partner
URL:https://cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net/event/confronting-the-complexity-of-holocaust-scholarship-3/
LOCATION:ZOOM | Registration required and closes 30 minutes prior to the start of the program
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220412T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220412T173000
DTSTAMP:20260709T130327
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SUMMARY:Book Discussion: "The Last Ghetto: An Everyday History of Theresienstadt"
DESCRIPTION:This program is geared for educators\, but open to all. \n(Act 48 credit hours or a letter of participation is available upon request.) \n\n\nAbout The Book \nTerezín\, as it was known in Czech\, or Theresienstadt as it was known in German\, was operated by the Nazis between November 1941 and May 1945 as a transit ghetto for Central and Western European Jews before their deportation for murder in the East. Terezín was the last ghetto to be liberated\, one day after the end of World War II. \nThe Last Ghetto is the first in-depth analytical history of a prison society during the Holocaust. Rather than depict the prison society which existed within the ghetto as an exceptional one\, unique in kind and not understandable by normal analytical methods\, Anna Hájková argues that such prison societies that developed during the Holocaust are best understood as simply other instances of the societies human beings create under normal circumstances. Challenging conventional claims of Holocaust exceptionalism\, Hájková insists instead that we ought to view the Holocaust with the same analytical tools as other historical events. \nThe prison society of Terezín produced its own social hierarchies under which seemingly small differences among prisoners (of age\, ethnicity\, or previous occupation) could determine whether one ultimately lived or died. During the three and a half years of the camp’s existence\, prisoners created their own culture and habits\, bonded\, fell in love\, and forged new families. Based on extensive archival research in nine languages and on empathetic reading of victim testimonies\, The Last Ghetto is a transnational\, cultural\, social\, gender\, and organizational history of Terezín\, revealing how human society works in extremis and highlighting the key issues of responsibility\, agency and its boundaries\, and belonging. \nDr. Josh Andy is a full time teacher at Winchester Thurston School\, and an educational programs leader and Holocaust scholar with Classrooms Without Borders. An accomplished and award winning educator\, Dr. Andy holds a Ph.D. in Russian and East European Studies from Birmingham University and teaches in the Upper School. In addition to teaching Genocide and Holocaust Studies\, he teaches a course on the modern Middle East\, Multicultural America\, and AP European history. Next year he will teach Russian history. He has traveled internationally to study global cultures and issues as part of his work to design engaging courses for his students. He earned WT’s Mary Houston Griffin Award for Excellence in Teaching in 2014\, which funded his trip to Amman\, Jordan\, to develop his Middle East course.
URL:https://cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net/event/book-discussion-the-last-ghetto-an-everyday-history-of-theresienstadt/
LOCATION:ZOOM | Registration required and closes 30 minutes prior to the start of the program
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220405T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220405T173000
DTSTAMP:20260709T130327
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SUMMARY:Book Discussion: "The Last Ghetto: An Everyday History of Theresienstadt"
DESCRIPTION:This program is geared for educators\, but open to all. \n(Act 48 credit hours or a letter of participation is available upon request.) \n\n\nAbout The Book \nTerezín\, as it was known in Czech\, or Theresienstadt as it was known in German\, was operated by the Nazis between November 1941 and May 1945 as a transit ghetto for Central and Western European Jews before their deportation for murder in the East. Terezín was the last ghetto to be liberated\, one day after the end of World War II. \nThe Last Ghetto is the first in-depth analytical history of a prison society during the Holocaust. Rather than depict the prison society which existed within the ghetto as an exceptional one\, unique in kind and not understandable by normal analytical methods\, Anna Hájková argues that such prison societies that developed during the Holocaust are best understood as simply other instances of the societies human beings create under normal circumstances. Challenging conventional claims of Holocaust exceptionalism\, Hájková insists instead that we ought to view the Holocaust with the same analytical tools as other historical events. \nThe prison society of Terezín produced its own social hierarchies under which seemingly small differences among prisoners (of age\, ethnicity\, or previous occupation) could determine whether one ultimately lived or died. During the three and a half years of the camp’s existence\, prisoners created their own culture and habits\, bonded\, fell in love\, and forged new families. Based on extensive archival research in nine languages and on empathetic reading of victim testimonies\, The Last Ghetto is a transnational\, cultural\, social\, gender\, and organizational history of Terezín\, revealing how human society works in extremis and highlighting the key issues of responsibility\, agency and its boundaries\, and belonging. \nDr. Josh Andy is a full time teacher at Winchester Thurston School\, and an educational programs leader and Holocaust scholar with Classrooms Without Borders. An accomplished and award winning educator\, Dr. Andy holds a Ph.D. in Russian and East European Studies from Birmingham University and teaches in the Upper School. In addition to teaching Genocide and Holocaust Studies\, he teaches a course on the modern Middle East\, Multicultural America\, and AP European history. Next year he will teach Russian history. He has traveled internationally to study global cultures and issues as part of his work to design engaging courses for his students. He earned WT’s Mary Houston Griffin Award for Excellence in Teaching in 2014\, which funded his trip to Amman\, Jordan\, to develop his Middle East course.
URL:https://cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net/event/book-discussion-the-last-ghetto-an-everyday-history-of-theresienstadt-2/
LOCATION:ZOOM | Registration required and closes 30 minutes prior to the start of the program
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220403T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220403T163000
DTSTAMP:20260709T130327
CREATED:20220303T004012Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220303T004830Z
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SUMMARY:2022 Poland Personally Seminar Meetings
DESCRIPTION:This program is only for educators\, students and individuals interested in travelling and learning with CWB in Poland. \nUntil then…visit the seminar webpage to learn more at classroomswithoutborders.org/seminar/poland-personally-a-study-seminar-to-poland. \n\nUpcoming Pre-Seminar Meetings/Workshops for accepted participants: \nSunday\, March 6 | 3-4:30pm  | Zoom\nSunday\, April 3 | 3-4:30pm  | Zoom\nSunday\, May 1 | 3-4:430pm | Zoom\nSunday\, June 12 | 3-4:30pm | Zoom
URL:https://cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net/event/2022-poland-personally-seminar-meetings-3/
LOCATION:ZOOM | Registration required and closes 30 minutes prior to the start of the program
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