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Every Picture Tells a Story: Beginning Egyptian Hieroglyphs
Jehon Grist
Sun., June 17-July 29
Lehrhaus Judaica, Berkeley
Ancient Egyptian was one of the first ‘picture languages,’ employing beautiful images to express consonants, syllables and whole words. When Biblical Hebrew was born, Egyptian writing was already 2000 years old, a language rich in religious and secular literature.
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Rare Diaries and Memoirs to be Shared at Holocaust Commemoration
THE POWER OF THE WRITTEN WORD: DIARIES AND MEMOIRS FROM THE HOLOCAUST
Gloria Lyon was only a teenager in Czechoslovakia when she and her family were rounded up by the Nazis and taken to Auschwitz. Joseph Pell and Sonia Orbuch were teenagers in the Polish province Volyn, and they fled to the forest where they fought back as Partisans.
