Events
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Finding Your History, Telling Your Story
Artist talk and reception 6 pm, Lecture 7:30pm
Tuesday, March 20th
Sabes JCC, 4330 S. Cedar Lake Road
Free
JHSUM presents “Finding Your History, Telling Your Story” Genealogy lecture on Tuesday, March 20, 2012 at 7:30 p.m. at the Sabes JCC. The lecture will be presented by videographer Max Orenstein and genealogist and artist Susan Weinberg. If you are interested in genealogy but don’t know where to start, this event is for you! Take the first steps of your genealogy journey with two seasoned professionals.Weinberg and Orenstein will discuss their approaches to genealogy as an artist and a videographer and what inspired them to explore their family’s stories.
The lecture is in conjunction with Susan Weinberg’s art exhibit on display in the Eiger-Zaidenweber Holocaust Resource Center located on the second floor of the Sabes JCC. The exhibition features art work from previous Weinberg exhibitions “A Hole in Time,” The Silence Speaks Loudly,” and selected works from her Jewish Identity and Legacy Project. In addition to Weinberg’s painting are photographs of the Eiger-Zaidenweber family in Radom, Poland. The Eiger-Zaidenweber families survived the Holocaust and were instrumental in promoting Holocaust education in Minnesota. There will be an artist reception and talk with Susan Weinberg and Dora Zaidenweber immediately before the genealogy lecture. All are invited to attend the reception. Please RSVP to history@jhsum.org
No Generation of Silence:
American Jews and the Holocaust in the Post-War Era
March 21 7:30 pm
Temple Israel
2324 Emerson Ave S, Minneapolis
Free
American Jews in the two decades after the end of World War II found many ways to make the tragedy that had engulfed their people in Europe at the hands of the German Nazis a part of their communal culture. The Holocaust loomed large for them. How did postwar American Jews experiment with language and ideas to keep alive the memories of those who had perished in Europe— and use their memories to effect changes in the world of the late 1940s through the early 1960s?
Hasia Diner is Paul S. and Sylvia Steinberg Professor of American Jewish History at New York University and director of the Goldstein Goren Center for American Jewish History. Her many books include We Remember with Reverence and Love: American Jews and the Myth of Silence After the Holocaust, 1945–1962, winner of the 2010 National Jewish Book Award in American Jewish Studies. She was the recipient of a 2010 Guggenheim Fellowship. Click here for more info.
Roads Taken: Peddlers and the Great Jewish Migration
March 22 12:00pm- 1:30pm
308 Elmer L. Andersen Library
Free
Hasia Diner, Paul S. and Sylvia Steinberg Professor of American Jewish History; Professor of Hebrew and Judaic Studies, New York University, will present “Roads Taken: Peddlers and the Great Jewish Migration.” Click here for more info.
Exhibits by Susan Weinberg
Eiger-Zaidenweber Holocaust Resource Center
Second floor of the Barry Family Campus, 4330 South Cedar Lake, Minneapolis
Ongoing through June 30, 2012
Susan’s work explores Jewish identity, and asks the question of who will tell Jewish history, especially that of the Holocaust, for future generations. Her work has taken her on a personal journey to Lithuania and Poland, where she discovered a shared past with Dora Zaidenweber, once a resident of Radom, Poland. This journey led her to interview Jewish Minnesotans who survived the Holocaust, whose stories she has interpreted in her paintings. Click here to read a review of Susan’s previous exhibit.
Presenters: Talmud Torah of Minneapolis, Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies, Jewish Historical Society of the Upper Midwest, Tychman Shapiro Gallery.
The Eiger-Zaidenweber Holocaust Resource Center is located on the second floor of the Barry Family Campus, 4330 South Cedar Lake Road, Minneapolis, 55416. The Resource Center is open Monday through Thursday 7:30 am to 9 PM Friday 7:30 am to 6 PM. Sunday 9 AM to 1 PM. Closed for Jewish Holidays. For more information please contact the Talmud Torah of Minneapolis at 952.381.3300.
Above: A Hole in Time by Susan Weinberg
Recent Past Events
A Time Capsule Revealed
Thursday, November 10, 7pm
St. Paul JCC 1375 St. Paul Avenue, Saint Paul
Adina Hoffman & Peter Cole
Sacred Trash: The Lost and Found World of the Cairo Geniza
MacArthur-winning poet and translator Peter Cole and acclaimed essayist Adina Hoffman tell the story of the retrieval from an Egyptian geniza—a repository for worn-out texts—of the most vital cache of Jewish manuscripts ever discovered. Presenting a panoramic view of nine hundred years of vibrant Mediterranean Judaism, Hoffman and Cole bring modern readers into the heart of this little know trove, whose contents have rightly been dubbed “the Living Sea Scrolls,” and the adventurous characters who revealed its depth. A gripping tale of adventure and redemption.
Internationally renowned scholar and author on Holocaust denial Deborah Lipstadt to speak at CoffmanWednesday, October 26, 7:00 p.m.
Coffman Theater, Coffman Memorial Union, on the East Bank of the U of M
The Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies (CHGS) proudly presents the Bernard and Fern Badzin Lecture featuring Deborah Lipstadt, Dorot Professor of Modern Jewish and Holocaust Studies at Emory University and author of internationally acclaimed books related to the Holocaust.
Wednesday, October 26, 2011 at 7:00 p.m. at the Coffman Theater, Coffman Memorial Union, on the East Bank of the University of Minnesota.
Dr. Lipstadt will speak on Holocaust Denial: A New Form of Anti-Semitism and her recent critically acclaimed book The Eichmann Trial.
The event is free and open to the public; however, reservations are required. To reserve your tickets please click here or call the reservation line at 612-626-2587.
JHSUM Annual Meeting
Sunday, October 16th 2-4 pm
Shirley Chapman Sholom Home East- 740 Kay Avenue St. Paul, MN 55102
Saint Paul’s Jewish Neighborhoods – We Built Community exhibit opening and talk presented by Linda Mack Schloff, JHSUM past Director of Collections, Exhibits and Publications. Linda will be discussing JHSUM’s upcoming Upper Midwest Jewish History Journal Who Knew? Stories Unearthed From the Archives. Take an armchair tour of St. Paul. Free and open to the community. Refreshments will be served.
Picture: Mt. Zion Women’s Sisterhood members looking at a Shabbat dinner table setting. Left to right: Mrs. Allan Firestone, Mrs. Max Whitefield, and Mrs. Joseph Stein.
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