PHOTO GALLERY
North Side Celebration
June 1, 2008
Minnesota History Center
Kate Searls giving a curator led tour of the "We Couldn’t Live at Home" exhibit.
Participants were asked to describe what home means to them. Their responses created this poetry quilt.
North Side Walking Tour
May 31, 2008
Minneapolis
This walking tour highlighted some of the gathering places of North Minneapolis’s Jewish community in the early 20th century. This tour included three synagogues as well as the Emmanuel Cohen Community Center and the Jewish Sheltering Home for Children. Participants heard about the architectural history of these buildings and the communities that have – and continue to gather here.
Click here to read the North Side Walking Tour.
Please email jtarshish@jhsum.org if you would like to be notified when we run the tour again.
Israel's 60th
May 7, 2008
Metrodome
Attendees of Israel’s 60th anniversary celebration enjoyed JHSUM’s exhibit about Zionism in the Upper Midwest.
Click here to see our newest panel about Max Lowenthal.
Photo courtesy of Lou “The photo guy” Michaels
Participants got a chance to meet Leon Frankel, a hero of the Israeli War of Independence.
WWII Preservation Spectacular!
May 4, 2008
Minnesota History Center
Participants enjoyed first hand accounts from WWII veterans including Jeanne Bearmon, Dick Brown, Leon Frankel, Joe Garelick and Morris Hoffman. The panel discussion was moderated by Linda Schloff.
Participants viewing JHSUM’s WWII exhibit.
Artistic Expressions of Family History:
A Hands-on Art Workshop with Susan Weinberg
February 17, 2008
We created an opportunity for people interested in family history to express it through art. Anyone who has been involved in family history has likely accumulated old family photographs, immigration records or family letters. While my usual medium is paint, I thought collage would lend itself to using the kind of materials that family history buffs collect--photos, documents,
letters and keepsakes. In the workshop, we combined traditional collage with digital collage. We used scanned or copied images rather than originals. Digital collage enabled us to change the size of an image or even the color. We then cut out the image and incorporated it into a traditional composition with multiple layers of imagery, texture and language.
Collage is most effective when you come to it with a playful spirit. Our workshop participants definitely embraced that spirit as they explored their individual family stories. Their work tackled family mysteries, celebrated loved family members and linked the family heirlooms and rituals of their ancestors to the present.
~ Susan Weinberg
Artist and workshop leader
Click on the participants name below to see examples of their artwork and to find out more about the story behind their collage.
Judi Brandon
Amy Ollendorf
Sharron Steinfeldt
Linda Ward
Susan Weinberg
Sheltering Home Chronicles “I Couldn’t Live at Home” Performance Series
November 10, 2007
The Jewish Historical Society of the Upper Midwest (JHSUM) and the Minneapolis Public Library’s collaborative exhibit and performance series, “I Couldn’t Live At Home,” continued with a program Saturday afternoon, Nov 10, Minneapolis Central Library.
The event brought together an eclectic group of performers to showcase the diverse communities affected by and working to ameliorate the plight of Minnesota’s children and youth who must live away from home.
See photos of the event here
Listen to audio clips here
Jewish Genealogy Basics Workshop
January 28, 2007
Susan Weinberg, a talented local genealogist lead a workshop on Jewish Genealogy Basics to a packed audience. Her workshop included must see genealogy Web sites, immigration resources and ideas on searching and organizing your family tree.
Genealogy Search Tools at Annual Meeting
September, 2005
Linda Schloff (left), JHSUM director and Isabel Levinson, JHSUM president, with Stephen Morse, keynote speaker at the JHSUM annual meeting September 18 at the Sabes JCC. Computer technology guru and amateur genealogist Morse presented A Potpourri of Genealogical Search Tools,
showcasing the Internet search engine that he developed to trace his family history through Ellis Island.
Bike Tour of North Side Minneapolis
August, 2005
Linda Schloff, JHSUM director (center, rainbow shirt), led a lively bike tour of North Side Minneapolis, a formerly Jewish neighborhood.
Jews and Catholics Celebrate the Capital City
October 24, 2004
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JHSUM co-sponsored a distinguished panel discussion celebrating 150 years of Jewish-Catholic relations in St. Paul on Sunday, October 24 at the Cathedral of St. Paul.
More than 100 people turned out to hear a lively panel reflect on how and why Catholics and Jews forged alliances in St. Paul and what was different about their relations in neighboring Minneapolis. |
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Archbishop Harry J. Flynn gave welcoming remarks and panelists included Larry Cohen, former St. Paul Mayor; Theodore Collins, JD; Linda Schloff, director of the Jewish Historical Society; Mary Wingerd, St. Cloud State University; Sister Kristine Athans, BVM, Professor Emerita, St. Paul Seminary School of Divinity of the University of St. Thomas; and Alan Ruvelson (pictured above), recipient of an Opus Sancti Thomae Medal from Saint Thomas Academy. Ellen Kennedy, University of St. Thomas, served as moderator.
The event was co-sponsored by the Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis, the Jay Phillips Center for Jewish-Christian Learning, the Jewish Historical Society of the Upper Midwest, and the Office of Mission at the University of St. Thomas.
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JHSUM received a plaque celebrating 150 years of Jewish-Catholic cooperation in St. Paul at a recent interfaith panel discussion held at the Cathedral of St. Paul. Gene Scapanski, vice president for mission at the University of St. Thomas, commended JHSUM for its role in fostering positive interfaith relations and presented the award to JHSUM leaders on behalf of the Commission for Ecumenism and Interreligious Affairs of the Archdiocese of Saint Paul and Minneapolis, the Jay Phillips Center for Jewish-Christian Learning and the Office of Mission of the University of St. Thomas.
The plaque reads, “Celebrating 150 years of Jewish-Catholic relations in the city of St. Paul, October 24, 2004,” and will hang permanently in Hayden Hall at the Cathedral.
