Events List
Below is list of upcoming events for your site.
List of Events
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Friday, April 21, 2023
(all day)
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Calendar:
General
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Location:
N/A
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Description:
The Texas Holocaust, Genocide, and Antisemitism Advisory Commission office
will be closed.
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Sunday, April 23, 2023
at 12:30pm -
2:30pm
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Calendar:
Commemorations
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Location:
St. Kevork Armenian Church
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Description:
Join St. Kevork Armenian Church for a virtual lecture featuring Harut Sassounian to commemorate the 108th Anniversary of the Armenian Genocide.
Sassounian's lecture is entitled Critical Challenges Facing Armenia and Artsakh. There will be a luncheon at 12:30PM followed by the virtual lecture at 1:30PM.
This event will take place in person at Hekimian Hall at St. Kevork Armenian Church (3211 Synott Road Houston, TX 77082).
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Sunday, April 23, 2023
at 1:00pm -
2:00pm
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Calendar:
Commemorations
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Location:
Zoom
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Description:
Join Florida International University (FIU) at the Jewish Museum of Florida-FIU on Sunday, April 23 at 1PM CT for an afternoon of music, poetry, art, and commentary presented
by the NewVoicesProject, focusing on the moral lessons of the Holocaust through the arts.
Enjoy Klezmer selections performed by local sensation Steffen Zeichner and played on a violin saved from the Holocaust, Bram’s violin, and hear the remarkable story of the instrument’s rediscovery.
Following the performance, Florida contributors to the new book New Voices: Contemporary Writers Confronting the Holocaust will read
from their work; with special guest speaker Dr. Mehnaz Afridi, Director
of the Holocaust, Genocide, Interfaith Center in New York participating
in a discussion on "Moral Lessons of Remembering the Holocaust: A
Muslim Response".
The event will be live via Zoom. Click here to access.
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Sunday, April 23, 2023
at 2:00pm -
3:00pm
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Calendar:
Commemorations
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Location:
Georgetown Public Library
402 W. 8th St. Georgetown, TX
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Description:
In recognition of Yom HaShoah, Holocaust Remembrance Day, visit the Georgetown Public Library to hear Jack Fingerhut from Congregation Havurah Shalom of Sun City share the story of his father, Arnold Fingerhut.
Arnold was hidden by Catholic neighbors in their barn in Poland for four years while World War II raged across Europe. After liberation, he immigrated to Germany where he began to build a new life. But his story was just beginning, as Arnold would soon take the first steps toward the promise of the American dream.
Attendees will see and hear clips from Arnold Fingerhut’s testimony which was recorded by Steven Spielberg’s ‘USC Shoah Foundation’ project.
This event is free and open to the public
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Sunday, April 23, 2023
at 2:00pm -
5:00pm
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Calendar:
Commemorations
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Location:
Kingwood Middle School
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Description:
March of Life: Kingwood
From: Kingwood Middle SchoolTo: Holocaust Garden of Hope
Kingwood Middle School (2407 Pine Terrace Dr, Kingwood, TX 77339)
1:00PM Registration and Music
2:00PM Holocaust Testimonies
3:00PM Buses to the Garden
Holocaust Garden of Hope Sneak Preview (1660 W. Lake Houston Pkwy, Kingwood, TX 77345)
3:30PM Proclamations & Blessing
4:00PM Garden Tour and short walk
5:00PM Buses back to parking at Kingwood Middle School
Register here.
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Monday, April 24, 2023
at 6:00pm -
7:00pm
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Calendar:
Commemorations
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Location:
Zoom
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Description:
Join the Center for Holocaust, Human Rights & Genocide Education for their annual Armenian Genocide Remembrance commemoration.
This commemoration will feature guest speaker Dr. Christina Maranci, Mashtots Professor of Armenian Studies at Harvard University.
Learn more and register here.
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Tuesday, April 25, 2023
at 3:00pm -
4:00pm
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Calendar:
Workshops
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Location:
Zoom
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Description:
Stumbling across
her father’s artwork when she was seven, Anna Salton Eisen joins Echoes
& Reflections to tell the story of her father, George Salton, and
his story of survival from a small town in Poland through ten
concentration camps in Poland, Germany, and France. An author of two
Holocaust memoirs and a producer of a Holocaust film, she will share the
story of his immigration to the United States, his service in the US
Army, and her journey to learn about her father’s story as well as her
own, including her role in founding Congregation Beth Israel in
Colleyville, Texas.
This webinar connects to Lesson Plan Units 5, 6, and 10 on the Echoes & Reflections website.
Register here.
Echoes & Reflections'
webinars are designed to increase participants’ knowledge of Holocaust
history, explore and access classroom-ready content, and support
instructional practice to promote student learning and understanding of
this complex history and its lasting effect on the world.
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Tuesday, April 25, 2023
at 3:30pm -
4:30pm
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Calendar:
Speaking Engagements
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Location:
Zoom
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Description:
Weidergutmachung - Making Right AgainA discussion on national and individual perceptions of personal compensation programs of the Federal Republic of Germany
In December 1951, the Federal Chancellor of Germany spoke of unthinkable crimes committed in the name of the German People. The German Nation was morally responsible for the rehabilitation of the Survivors and safeguarding of the memory of what had happened. This talk shall focus on the two main subjects of these endeavors: the Federal German State and the Holocaust survivors. Dr. iur. Avraham Weber will discuss policy towards the needs of survivors, towards the State of Israel, and toward the future. He will also look into the effects of these individual programs for the benefit of Holocaust Survivors upon the survivors themselves and their perception of the so-called assumption of responsibility on behalf of the Federal German Government.
PD hours and co-curricular credits will be provided.
Register here.
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Wednesday, April 26, 2023
at 9:00am -
10:30am
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Calendar:
Commemorations
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Location:
Zoom
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Description:
In honor of Holocaust and Genocide Awareness Month, join the Holocaust Resource Center of Kean University and grandchildren of survivors (3G) to hear their family members’ stories of wartime survival and rebuilding after the Holocaust.
This program is designed for students grades 5-8. Please register here by Wednesday, April 13, 2023.
For more information, contact: Sarah Coykendall at coykends@kean.edu.
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Wednesday, April 26, 2023
at 9:00am -
10:00am
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Calendar:
Speaking Engagements
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Location:
Virtual
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Description:
On the 26th of April 2023 at 9AM, Seeing Antisemitism through Law is pleased to host Prof. Bruno Chaouat (Professor of French and Jewish Studies, University of Minnesota), who will talk about “Literary and Philosophical Revisionism”.The talk will be commented on by Prof. Alejandro Baer (Professor of Sociology, University of Minnesota and María Zambrano Fellow, UNED, Madrid). An open discussion will follow the talk. This will be an online event, accessible via Zoom.
To register and join, please e-mail here.
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Wednesday, April 26, 2023
at 11:00am -
12:00pm
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Calendar:
Speaking Engagements
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Location:
Virtual
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Description:
In 2017, two teams of artists from Australia and South Africa
reimagined a cabaret created in 1943 by Jewish prisoners in the wartime
ghetto at Terezín (Theresienstadt) in Czechoslovakia. Using video from
both performances, Dr. Lisa Peschel, Associate Professor in Theatre at
the University of York, will show how the artists used the archival
traces of the original script to bring Terezín’s past into our present
while engaging with deeply felt contemporary concerns.
Click here to register.
This event is part of the 2022-23 Harriet & Kenneth
Kupferberg Holocaust Center (KHC) and National Endowment for the
Humanities (NEH) Colloquium, “Trauma, Remembrance and Compassion.” The
event is organized by the KHC and is co-sponsored by the Ray Wolpow
Institute for the Study of the Holocaust, Genocide, and Crimes Against
Humanity at Western Washington University; the Sam & Frances Fried
Holocaust and Genocide Academy at the University of Nebraska at Omaha;
the Nancy & David Wolf Holocaust and Humanity Center; and the Center
for the Study of Genocide and Human Rights at Rutgers University.
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Wednesday, April 26, 2023
at 11:00am -
12:00pm
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Calendar:
Commemorations
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Location:
Zoom
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Description:
In honor of Yom Ha’azmaut, Israel’s
Independence Day, and this year’s 75th anniversary of the establishment
of the modern state of Israel in 1948, this talk by Georgetown
University professor Ori Z Soltes addresses the question of what defines
Israeli art and when it began to take shape. Is it made only by
Israelis—then how did Elkan’s Menorah become the consummate symbol of
Israel when he never lived in the state? Did “Israeli” art begin with or
before the birth of the state? How does this relate to the opening of
the Bezalel School of Art in 1906–and closing by 1929, only to re-open
years later? How does it relate to the question of defining Jewish art?
Benno Elkan’s stunning work, overrun with symbolic images and
words–drawing in diverse ways from a long history of symbolic
language–could hardly be a more significant centerpiece to this array of
questions, or more appropriate to the celebration of Israel
Independence Day and the intriguing ideas that this day generates.
Register here.
Ori Z Soltes, PhD, teaches
at Georgetown University across a range of disciplines, from art
history and theology to philosophy and political history. He is the
former Director of the B’nai B’rith Klutznick National Jewish Museum,
and has curated more than 90 exhibitions across the country and
overseas. He has authored or edited 25 books and several hundred
articles and essays. Recent volumes include Our Sacred Signs: How
Jewish, Christian and Muslim Art Draw from the Same Source; The Ashen
Rainbow: Essays on the Arts and the Holocaust; and Tradition and Transformation: Three Millennia of Jewish Art & Architecture; and Growing Up Jewish in India: Synagogues, Ceremonies, and Customs from the Bene Israel to the art of Siona Benjamin.
The Fritz Ascher Society is a not-for-profit 501(c)3 organization. Your donation is fully tax deductible. Your support makes their work possible. Thank you.
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Wednesday, April 26, 2023
at 3:00pm -
4:00pm
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Calendar:
Commemorations
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Location:
Zoom
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Description:
In this presentation, Elyse Semerdjian will outline the earliest Armenian pilgrimages to the killing fields of Dayr al-Zur in the Syrian Desert. It is there that Armenians interacted with the remains of Armenians murdered during the Armenian Genocide (1915-1918) in acts of remembrance. Semerdjian will discuss the origins of the now-destroyed Armenian Genocide Memorial in Dayr al-Zur and the ritual and collection habits of pilgrims that enact what she calls bone memory. Using archival documents alongside recorded testimony of survivors preserved in the Shoah Foundation archives, she will present the genesis of these memory practices that largely halted during the Syrian War.
Register here.
Elyse Semerdjian is Professor of Islamic World/Middle
Eastern History and Chair of the History Department at Whitman College.
She teaches a broad range of courses at Whitman on the subject of
gender, sexuality, social history, culture, and politics of the Middle
East. A specialist in the history of the Ottoman Empire and Syria, she
authored " Off the Straight Path": Illicit Sex, Law, and Community in
Ottoman Aleppo (Syracuse University Press, 2008), Remnants: Embodied
Archives of the Armenian Genocide (forthcoming with Stanford University
Press, 2023), and has published several articles on gender, law,
violence, and Armenians in the Ottoman Empire. She was awarded a
fellowship at Cornell University Society for the Humanities in 2016-2017
to support research for her forthcoming book Remnants. She recently
received a German Research Grant with the “Religion and Urbanity”
Research Group at University of Erfurt, Germany to write an inclusive
pre- and post-war urban history of Aleppo's Muslim and non-Muslim
inhabitants.
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Wednesday, April 26, 2023
at 6:30pm -
8:00pm
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Calendar:
Films
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Location:
Holocaust Museum Houston
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Description:
In the aftermath of the Holocaust, German and Jewish leaders met in secret to negotiate the unthinkable – compensation for the survivors of the largest mass genocide in history. Survivors were in urgent need of help, but how could reparations be determined for the unprecedented destruction and suffering of a people? This is the first documentary feature to chronicle the harrowing process of negotiating German reparations for the Jewish people, which resulted in the groundbreaking Luxembourg Agreements of 1952.
Register here.
All Holocaust Museum Houston programs and education initiatives are dependent upon philanthropic support. Please consider making a gift today to ensure the Museum can continue offering quality educational experiences.
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Thursday, April 27, 2023
at 10:00am -
2:00pm
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Calendar:
Workshops
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Location:
Zoom
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Description:
Featuring Professor Richard Landes, Associate Professor Emeritus of
History, Boston University; this course will be an exploration of the
four historical chapters of his recent book, in which you discuss each of
the four incidents using the conceptual tools provided in the later
chapters. The course will examine the intersection of a range of themes
that shed light not only on the “new antisemitism” of the 21st
century, but its direct connection to the war on democracy and human
rights that has so disoriented and divided Western polities… and
continues to do so. It is an introduction to the shaping of the
upside-down world that the current generation was born into.
For parents of, and children entering the world of Western academia.
Session 1: The Oslo Jihad and the al Durah blood libelThe “al-Aqsa Intifada” was the first attack on a democracy by the
forces of Global Jihad, it also constitutes the first case in the
history of the modern news media of a pack “fake news” in which the
conflict was presented almost universally as a fight between “freedom
fighters” resisting Western colonialism, and fueled by a combination of
falsehoods both by commission (al-Durah) and omission (any mention of
Palestinian genocidal preaching) which laid the groundwork for Y2KMind: When Jihadis attack a democracy, blame the democracy.
These themes found a systematic consolidation at Durban (2001) where an
alliance between progressive “human rights” activists joined forces
with proponents of Global Jihad.
Was held April 20 2023 at 10AM CST
Session 2: 9-11 and Y2KMind9-11 was the second attack on a democracy. Although many voices
opposed it, a range of “progressive” analysts, applied Y2KMind outside
of Israel. We analyze President Bush’s speech at the Islamic Center of
DC, Baudrillard’s oped in Le Monde, 9-11 conspiracy theories,
and the news medias acceptance of the principle “one man’s terrorist is
another’s freedom fighter.” The combination of attitudes that appear in
these separate cases has shaped the discourse of 21st century progressive discourse and produced a systemic disorientation that continues to dominate the democratic public sphere.
Will be held April 27 2023 at 10AM CST
Session 3: The Jenin Massacre and Own-Goal JournalismOperation Defensive Shield (April-May 2002) was the first campaign of
urban warfare against suicide-terror Jihadis who took cover behind
civilians. It was again, almost universally reported by Western news
media who were not eyewitnesses as an Israeli massacre of innocent
civilians, based entirely on claims made by Palestinians. Demonstrations
throughout the West took the side of Jihadis, in some cases wearing
mock suicide vests to show solidarity with those whose fellow Jihadis
would soon attack their countries. It also led to a wave of antisemitic
attacks in the West and the beginnings of the progressive boycott of
Israel. It also produced the sudden appearance of “as-a-Jew” Jews who,
without any previous public identification as Jewish, now felt called
upon to denounce Israel to the nations.
Will be held May 4 2023 at 10AM CST
Session 4: The Danish Cartoon Scandal and the Extension of Shariah to Dar al HarbThe controversy around the Danish newspaper, Jylands Post, publishing
12 cartoons of Muhammad (only eight of which dared to depict the
prophet), constitutes the first major cognitive war campaign against the
West in which Caliphators tried to extend the laws of Shariah to
infidels not living under Muslim Rule (i.e. those in Dar al Islam). They
did this through fake news (3 forged and deeply blasphemous cartoons),
by which staged a moral emergency, and deployed the Muslim Street in the
West. The Western reaction, while framed in a language of respect and
consideration, established the basic principles of pre-emptive
dhimmitude, or the adoption of submissive behavior as a way of
postponing Jihadi attack.
Will be held May 11 2023 at 10AM CST
This course costs $100. Register here.
Classes will be held virtually on Zoom. Recordings will be made
available to registered participants who are not able to attend live
sessions. Limited student scholarships are available, to apply contact daphne.klajman@isgap.org.
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