Museum of Jewish Heritage – a Living Memorial to the Holocaust
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Thursday February 25 7:00pm EST
The Megillah in Yiddish
Join the Museum and the National Yiddish Theatre Folksbiene for a simkhe (celebration) in honor of Purim. The evening will feature a lively reading of the Meglies Ester (Book of Esther) in Yiddish as translated by the great poet Yehoash followed by a festive musical per......More
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Sunday February 28 2:00pm EST
Stories Survive: Ruth Gruener
Ruth Gruener’s parents owned a candy shop in her hometown of Lvov Poland (now Lviv Ukraine) where she was born in 1933. Ruth’s life changed forever as a six year old girl. Living first under Soviet occupation and then under Nazi rule she was forced into a ghetto and la......More
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Tuesday March 2 7:00pm EST
Legacies: Daniel Libeskind
An international figure in architecture and urban design Daniel Libeskind is renowned for his ability to evoke cultural memory in buildings. His work includes the Jewish Museum in Berlin the Contemporary Jewish Museum in San Francisco and the Danish Jewish Museum in Cop......More
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Thursday March 4 2:00am EST
Behind the Spectacle: Jews, Circuses, and Nazi Germany
Circuses were a popular form of entertainment in Nazi Germany and across Europe in the decades leading up to World War II. Jewish circus artists helped shape the industry in the late 19th century and some—including a Jewish acrobat named Irene Danner—were saved by circu......More
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Tuesday March 9 5:00pm EST
Justice, Truth, And Memory In Jewish Argentina
After World War II Argentina became home to one of the world’s largest communities of Holocaust survivors at the same time as the country provided refuge to many former Nazis. Today this complex legacy of the Holocaust interacts with other legacies of violence in Argent......More
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Thursday March 11 2:00pm EST
A New Perspective On The Rescue Of Denmark’s Jews
More than 7 000 Danish Jews were evacuated to Sweden in October 1943. After crossing the Øresund by boat and landing on Swedish shores approximately 6 000 of the refugees were interviewed by the Swedish Police Authority to whom they disclosed a wealth of information abo......More
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