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The Arab Spring One Year Later
Instructors: Jehon Grist and Ferad Senzai
Tues., March 6 & 13
Beth El, Berkeley
In January 2011, the self-immolation death of a Tunisian fruit-stand owner lit the flames of revolt throughout the Arab world.
What triggered the unique wave of democratic reforms, and where will it go from here?
Register here.
The class is also at the JCCSF and Congregation Beth Am.
Legacy Study Tour Info Nights
Feb. 16, 6-7:30 pm
JFCS Holocaust Center
2245 Post Street
San Francisco
Feb. 23, 6-7:30 pm
JFCS Library
2150 Post Street
San Francisco
RSVP: KatieC@jfcs.org or 415-449-3717
Out on a Ledge: Enduring the Lodz Ghetto, Auschwitz and Beyond, the compelling memoir of Eva Libitzky, co-authored by Lehrhaus founding director and award-winning historian Fred Rosenbaum will be released this fall. It tells the rarely examined story of a Hasidic girl in the Holocaust, a dutiful daughter who survived the Lodz ghetto, Auschwitz, a slave labor camp, and Theresienstadt. At the limit of human endurance, she lost her faith, but not her instincts, intelligence, or courage.
Rosenbaum researched this book not only through 100 hours of interviews, but also as part of an international team of scholars assembled by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. There he unearthed shocking documents about Eva’s Holocaust journey, data obtained from the International survivors and their families can access the ITS. Tracing Service, which had lain fallow for 65 years. At the JCCSF on October 14, he will explain how other survivors and their families can access the ITS.
In addition to numerous works on local Jewish history, Rosenbaum is the author (with Joseph Pell) of the widely acclaimed Taking Risks and (with Sonia Orbuch) of Here, There are no Sarahs.
To order Out on a Ledge (Wicker Park Press, 2010), contact Lehrhaus Judaica at 510-845-6420. The cost is $16.95.
Libitzky of Pompano Beach, Fla., will be in conversation with Rosenbaum at the JCCSF in San Francisco on October 14. Rosenbaum will also speak at the Kristallnacht commemoration at Temple Sinai in Oakland on November 9. Both events are free.
This November 9 talk is part of the 22nd Annual Contra Costa Jewish Book & Arts Festival. For information, go to www.jfed.org/bookfestival or call 925-938-7800 or 510-318-6453. Special thanks to the Tillie and Rene Molho Fund for Holocaust Remembrance of The Jewish Community Foundation of the East Bay for endowing this lecture.
Co-sponsored by the United States Holocaust
Memorial Museum
Thursday, October 14, at 7 p.m.
JCCSF
3200 California Street, San Francisco
415-292-1200
Kristallnacht commemoration
Tuesday, November 9, 7:30 p.m.
Temple Sinai
2808 Summit Street, Oakland
510-451-3263