Jewish American Heritage Month

Posted By admin on June 26, 2020

Week of June 28, 2020

By Laurie Baron, Ph.D

(All times Pacific time)

Sunday, June 2811 a.m. Aviva Ben-Ur, Suriname: Jewish Autonomy in a Slave Society, Sephardic World

12 p.m. Raphael Zarum, What Did Churchill Really Think of the Jews?, Orange County Community Scholar Program

12 p.m. The Lady in Number Six: Music Saved My Life-Oscar Winning Documentary about Alice Herz Sommer followed by performance by Arianne Brown, Stephan Kirchgraber, and Neely Bruce, Sousa Mendes Foundation and University of Miamis Holocaust Teacher Institute

Monday, June 29,9 a.m., Daniel Shapiro, West Bank Annexation: The Impact on US-Israel Relations, Americans for Peace Now.

1:30 p.m. Eve Jochnowitz, Eating Right and Left: Food and Political Alignment in the Yiddish Press, (In Yiddish), YIVO,

Tuesday, June 309 a.m., Andrew Rehfeld, Whats Jewish about Jewish Political Thought? Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion.

9:30 a.m. Joy Landin, Arthur Slepian, and Arya Marvazy, A Jewish Conversation for Pride Month: How Far Weve Come and What Happens Next, Forward: Talks for Trying Times.

11 a.m. Philippe Nielsen, Jews and the Right in Germany 1871-1935, Leo Baeck Institute.

11 a.m., David Roet and David Makovsky, Developments in Israel and the Middle East, Magen David Adom,

12 p.m., Deborah Riley Draper, Olympic Pride, American Prejudice (1936 Olympics), Seattle Holocaust Center for Humanity.

4:30 p.m., Lynn Avadenka, Jewish Artist Experience, Vilna Shul and Hadassah Brandeis Institute.

Wednesday, July 112:30 p.m., Joshua Garroway, The Development of Jewish Views on Jesus and Christianity, Orange County Community Scholar Program,

7 p.m., Marc Dollinger, Jews, Race, and American Jewish History, Congregation Rodef Sholom of San Rafael.

Friday, July 312 p.m., Peter Boyer, Ellis Island: The Dream of America, Orange County Community Scholar Program.

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Laurie Baron, Ph.D, is professor emeritus of European History at San Diego State University; a humor columnist (in his own name and in that of his dog Elona), and is an authority on Jewish-themed movies, particularly those dealing with the Holocaust. To see an archive of his stories, please click on his byline at the top of this page. He may be contacted vialawrence.baron@sdjewishworld.com

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