February 2012 Events |
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Wednesday, February 1, 2012 |
Lecture Presentation Roots and Restlessness in American Culture Lecture/Presentation: A Second Life for the Jews in Europe: Shoah & Virtual Memory Rachel Baum (Sam and Helen Stahl Center for Jewish Studies) 7:00pm
Sister Camille Kliebhan Conference Center Cardinal Stritch University Fox Point, WI
In Spring 2009, a Jewish magazine dedicated an issue to memory. This would not bear mention, except that the magazine, 2Life, exists on Second Life (SL), a simulated world. Several new developments on Second Life had made the issue of memory particularly pressing to its Jewish residents: the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum opened an exhibit on Kristallnacht; an elderly Holocaust survivor gave her testimony; and a new sim (simulated reality) offered an experience of the Eastern European shtetl. 2Life reported, "Visitors can get a sense of the world so beautifully documented by Roman Vishniac, an experience that is only possible in Second Life."
The shtetl is only one of several sims on SL designed to give a second life to the murdered Jews of Europe--an idea both provocative and disturbing to those invested in Holocaust memory. In this lecture, Rachel Baum will build upon recent scholarship of Second Life in Anthropology, Film Studies, and Philosophy to argue that SL has radically changed the categories of home, memory and even human in ways that are of vital significance to study Shoah.
Co-sponsorsCoalition for Jewish Learning, Nathan and Esther Pelz Holocaust Education Resource Center & Wisconsin Society for Jewish Learning.
For more information call Erik at 414-229-6121 or email at ebarp@uwm.edu |
Friday, February 24, 2012 |
Teaching the Holocaust 8:15 am-4:00 pm
UW-Madison Pyle Center 702 Langdon Street Madison, WI Registration is $25 - Lunch is provided Due by noon on February 20, 2012
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March 2012 Events |
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| Thursday, March 1, 2012 | From Ignorance and Fear to Knowledge and Understanding: Jews, Judaism and the Holocaust (FIF) 9:30- 12:00 (Noon)
This 3 Part Program includes:
Judaism and the Synagogue Super Heroes or Ordinary People Personal Testimony of a Holocaust Suvivor
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| Monday, March 5, 2012 | Lecture Presentation Roots and Restlessness in American Culture Reading/discussion: My Germany: A Jewish Writer Returns to the World His Parents Escaped Lev Raphael 7:00pm
Congregation Sinai 8223 N. Port Washington Rd Fox Point, WI 53217
The work of popular, versatile author Lev Raphael will help us to reach out to new audiences while piquing the curiosity of traditional ones. A son of Holocaust survivors, Raphael was certain that Germany was one place he would never visit. Those feelings shaped his Jewish and gay identity, his life, and his career. Then the barriers of a lifetime began to come down. After his mother's death, Raphael's research led him to a distant relative living in the very city where she had been a slave laborer. What would he learn if he actually traveled to the place where his mother found freedom and met his father? Not long after the epochal trip, a German publisher bought several of his books for translation. Raphael was launched on book tours of Germany, discovering not so much a new Germany, but a self: someone unafraid to face the past and transcend it.
Co-sponsorsCoalition for Jewish Learning, Nathan and Esther Pelz Holocaust Education Resource Center & Wisconsin Society for Jewish Learning.
For more information call Erik at 414-229-6121 or email at ebarp@uwm.edu
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| Thursday, March 15, 2012 | From Ignorance and Fear to Knowledge and Understanding: Jews, Judaism and the Holocaust (FIF) 9:30- 12:00 (Noon)
This 3 Part Program includes:
Judaism and the Synagogue Super Heroes or Ordinary People Personal Testimony of a Holocaust Suvivor
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| Thursday, March 22, 2012 | From Ignorance and Fear to Knowledge and Understanding: Jews, Judaism and the Holocaust (FIF) 9:30- 12:00 (Noon)
This 3 Part Program includes:
Judaism and the Synagogue Super Heroes or Ordinary People Personal Testimony of a Holocaust Suvivor
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April 2012 Events |
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| Monday, April 16, 2012 | The Book Thief 12:00 (Noon)
Reading Room Harry & Rose Samson JCC Milwaukee 6255 N. Santa Monica Blvd. Whitefish Bay WI 53217
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| Tuesday, April 17, 2012 | From Ignorance and Fear to Knowledge and Understanding: Jews, Judaism and the Holocaust (FIF)
9:30- 12:00 (Noon)
This 3 Part Program includes:
Judaism and the Synagogue Super Heroes or Ordinary People Personal Testimony of a Holocaust Suvivor
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| Thursday, April 19, 2012 | Yom Hashoah 12:00 (Noon)
Alverno College 3400 S. 43rd St. Milwaukee, WI 53234
Featuring the testimony of Holocaust Survivor Raye David
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| Sunday, April 22, 2012 | Yom Hashoah Speaker TBD
Harry & Rose Samson Family JCC Community Hall 6255 N. Santa Monica Blvd. Milwaukee, WI 53217
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