“The Last Holocaust Survivors” with Rachel Tesler Join award-winning filmmaker and educator Rachel Tesler for a screening and discussion of The Last Holocaust Survivors: Never Again Is Now. This powerful documentary series follows Holocaust survivors and their grandchildren as they share personal stories, explore the impact of intergenerational trauma, and confront the urgent question: Has […]
Join historians Dr. Laura Auketayeva and Dr. LaNitra Berger of George Mason University for a presentation based on a chapter from their forthcoming book, Hired to Safety, to be published by Wayne State University Press. Drawing on original archival research at Fisk University and the Leo Baeck Institute, this program tells the story of Werner […]
with Dr. Pamela S. Nadell Presented in partnership with Temple Beth-El Join award-winning historian Dr. Pamela S. Nadell for a timely examination of antisemitism in American history. Drawing on her acclaimed book, Antisemitism, an American Tradition, Dr. Nadell traces the persistence of antisemitic ideas and conspiracy theories from the colonial era to the present, revealing […]
Join the Sandra Bornstein Holocaust Education Center for a screening of From Swastika to Jim Crow, followed by a live virtual conversation with the film’s directors, Joel Sucher and Steven Fischler. From Swastika to Jim Crow tells the remarkable story of German Jewish scholars who fled Nazi persecution and joined the faculties of historically Black […]
Join historian Dr. Rebecca Brenner Graham as she explores the remarkable story of Frances Perkins, the first woman to serve in a U.S. presidential cabinet, and her little-known efforts to help Jewish refugees from Nazi Germany find refuge in the United States. Based on Dr. Graham’s acclaimed book Dear Miss Perkins, this program examines leadership, […]
Presented in partnership with the Bristol Holocaust and Genocide Center Join award-winning historian Dr. Anna Hájková for the Baxt Lecture. Based on her National Jewish Book Award-winning book, People Without […]