UPCOMING & ONGOING EVENTS
Foundations of Jewish
Genealogical Research
February 2–April 6, 2009
Monday, 7:00–9:00 p.m.
Continue exploring the field of Jewish genealogy with an 8-week course that will give you the resources to research your own family origins.
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Sunday, November 23, 2008
3:00 p.m.
Hebrew College, Berenson Hall
Free and open to the public
Advanced registration required; seating is limited
Questions?
events@hebrewcollege.edu
617-559-8733
Once home to a vibrant Jewish community, former Eastern Galicia is now part
of Ukraine, where all traces of a Jewish past are being eradicated in the name
of a fiercely aggressive Ukrainian nationalism.
Omer Bartov, an international authority on genocide, traces the destruction
of the region’s Jewish communities under Nazi and Soviet rule, and explores
the contemporary politics of memory in Ukraine. His lecture draws on his
most recent book,
Erased: Vanishing Traces of Jewish Galicia in Present-Day
Ukraine (Princeton, 2007).
The lecture will be followed by a course in Jewish genealogical research
beginning February 2, 2009.
The genealogy lectureship and course are made possible with the generous support of Harvey Krueger and the Stone Charitable Foundation. Cosponsored by the Jewish Genealogical Society
of Greater Boston.
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Emily Corbató
Terezin: The Small Fortress, Cell (2004)
Toned silver gelatin print
11” x 14” (framed)
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November 9, 2008–
January 31, 2009
Hebrew College
Goldman Gallery
Carol Cohen
Emily Corbató
Karen Frostig
Barbara Milman
Stepheny Kotzen Riemer
More info about the artists
Read the article that appeared in the
Boston Globe about the exhibit opening.
Seventy years after Kristallnacht—a two-day, anti-Semitic rampage in Nazi Germany that foreshadowed Hitler’s Final Solution—few still live who can bear witness to the Shoah. As firsthand memories fade, we are challenged to reclaim the cataclysmic events of that dark period, lest the lessons of Jewish genocide be reduced to a few paragraphs in high school history texts.
Working in diverse media, five artists take on that challenge: What does it mean to be standing again—in the ghettos, on the train platforms, in the camps, before the firing squads—with the victims and survivors, as Jews in 21st-century America?
The exhibit is supported by a generous gift from the estate of Mary Mackenzie.
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Directions to
Hebrew College
Parking spaces fill up quickly; ride sharing is encouraged.
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