Lehrhaus Judaica is a unique non-denominational Jewish studies adult school. Every course is open to the general public, and all interested adults are welcome, regardless of age, religion, or ethnicity.
Lehrhaus Founding Director Fred Rosenbaum’s new book, Cosmopolitans: A Social and Cultural History of the Bay Area (UC Press, 2009), is featured as the cover story in the January 29 issue of j. The Jewish News Weekly. Click here to read the full story: From Gold Rush to gay rights: new book chronicles history of Jewish life in Bay Area
As Lehrhaus celebrates our 36th Anniversary this year, we thank you for your help. If you’d like to show continued support, please click here to donate.
Welcome to Lehrhaus Judaica’s new and much improved website, thanks to 55 Minutes. We wanted to open our website to you for class registration. Please keep in mind that this is a work in progress. In the next few months you’ll be able to watch our website develop. Thanks for joining us for the ride!
Click on “Courses” above and browse our winter/spring offerings.
Lehrhaus Judaica will celebrate its 36th anniversary with a gala dinner on Sunday, February 21, 2010, at 5:30 p.m., at the Palace Hotel in San Francisco. We will honor Eve Bernstein, one of the most energetic and effective Jewish community leaders in Northern California.
Bernstein has been at the forefront of the Jewish community day school movement, having been president of Brandeis-Hillel Day School and co-chair of its two capital campaigns.
As president of Lehrhaus Judaica since 2003, Bernstein has inaugurated and supported many innovative programs: education for the elderly, Israel studies, overseas study tours, digital educational technology, and classes for Jewish day school communities.
The keynote speaker will be Mark Yudof, the president of the University of California since June 2008. As the leader of one of the world’s leading public research universities, he was recently instrumental in reinstating UC’s Education Abroad Program at Hebrew University in Jerusalem.
If you are interested in attending the gala, purchasing sponsorship packages, or buying an ad in the tribute book, please call Debbie Rosenfeld-Caparaz at 510-845-6420 ext. 12.
This year, we are implementing our Going Green initiative, hoping to significantly reduce the amount of paper we use every year. You may notice that the Winter/Spring 2009 catalog is about two-thirds the size of recent catalogs.
Please keep in mind that we are offering the same number of classes this semester that we have in previous semesters.
All we’ve done is shorten course descriptions and remove faculty bios. Complete course descriptions and faculty bios will all be available online. Please note that we always have many more courses online than we do in our catalog. When a class comes together after we’ve already gone to print, we still want you to know about it. Please spend some time browsing our new site in January and take a look at classes that may not have made the deadline for our print run. We hope our soon-to-be-launched new and improved website will help you more easily find classes, teachers, study-tours, special events, and more.
Join us for one or all of Fred Rosenbaum’s talks on different themes in his new book, Cosmopolitans: A Social and Cultural History of the Bay Area (UC Press, 2009).
Click here to read a review of the book in the San Francisco Chronicle.
The book was also recently selected as recommended reading by the San Francisco Chronicle.
Cosmopolitans: The Jews of the Bay Area
Tuesday, January 26, 6 pm
Book Passage, Ferry Building, San Francisco
Jewish Californians and the Rise of San Francisco, with authors Fred Rosenbaum and Frances Dinkelspiel, Moderated by Francesco Spagnolo
Thursday, January 28, 7 pm
JCCSF, San Francisco
Cosmopolitans: The Jews of the Bay Area from the Gold Rush to the Present
Wednesday, February 3, 5 pm
Taube Center for Jewish Studies
Koret Pavilion, 2nd floor at the Ziff Center, Stanford
Artistic Creativity and Political Activism: The Jews of the Bay Area from the Gold Rush to the Present
Wednesday, February 24, 7 pm
Peninsula JCC, Foster City
Cosmopolitans: The Jews of the Bay Area from the Gold Rush to the Present
Thursday, April 29, 7 pm
Congregation Beth El, Berkeley
Early Emancipation: Bay Area Jewish Women from the Gold Rush to the Present
Wednesday, May 5, 7 pm
Oshman Family JCC, Palo Alto