Events List
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Saturday, September 12, 2026
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General
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Rosh Hashanah, first of the High Holidays, is the Jewish New Year.
Begins sunset of Friday, September 11, 2026Ends nightfall of Sunday, September 13, 2026
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Monday, September 14, 2026
at 3:00pm -
4:00pm
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Workshops
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Virtual
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Between 1939 and 1945, the Nazis forcibly imprisoned Jews in more than 1,100 ghettos across occupied Europe. For the teenagers who lived within those walls, the experience meant the sudden, violent loss of school, family routines, friendships, and the very possibility of a future. Their stories, told through diary entries, photographs, visual history testimony, and poetry, tell a complex narrative of suffering and death but also of love and hope.
Led by classroom teacher and Echoes & Reflections facilitator Tyrone Shaw, participants will deepen their understanding of the ghettos and learn effective strategies to incorporate the perspectives of young people into this chapter of Holocaust history, invoking a more nuanced understanding of life in the ghettos and fostering empathy in their students.
Register HERE.
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Monday, September 14, 2026
at 6:00pm -
7:00pm
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Speaking Engagements
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Location:
Virtual
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Description:
Following the Civil War, prominent fire insurance companies in the United States issued instructions to their agents to deny Jews fire insurance policies because of their alleged proclivity to arson. In the years that followed, the stereotype of the Jewish arsonist spread throughout the United States, appearing in fire insurance manuals, cartoons, songs, and silent films.Jewish Firebugs presents the first detailed exploration of both the accusations and the realities of Jewish arson from the late 1800s to the early 1920s. Drawing on such diverse records as fire department reports, insurance records, newspapers, trial transcripts, and humor journals, Jeffrey Marx delves into the social forces that created and then sensationalized the caricature of the Jewish arsonist, investigating how and why Jews became the only racial/ethnic group to be targeted this way in the United States. The book critically assesses how these antisemitic representations were solidified in the American imagination–from the spread of jokes and cartoons, to vaudeville performances across the country.In addition, Marx also investigates the various factors that led to arson criminal activity in Jewish neighborhoods, the unique way that Jewish “arson gangs” were organized, and how the fire insurance companies actively supported their efforts. Jewish Firebugs illustrates the socioeconomic realities of Jewish immigrant life at the turn of the nineteenth century, and details what the Jewish arsonist trope reveals about the dynamics of antisemitism in the United States.
Jeffrey A. Marx is an Independent Scholar and the author of Smoothing the Jew: Abie the Agent and Ethnic Caricature in the Progressive Era.
Register HERE.
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Tuesday, September 15, 2026
at 6:00pm -
7:00pm
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Speaking Engagements
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Location:
Virtual
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Description:
Join the Museum of Jewish Heritage and the Emanuel Ringelblum Jewish Historical Institute in Warsaw for a deeper look at the new exhibition Will These Words Reach You? The Underground Archive of the Warsaw Ghetto, an examination of one of the most significant acts of Jewish resistance and historical preservation during the Holocaust: the creation of the Oyneg Shabes Archive. Led by historian and activist Dr. Emanuel Ringelblum, a clandestine group of Jewish scholars, educators, journalists, religious leaders, artists, and youth activists committed themselves to recording Jewish life as it unfolded under Nazi rule. Over three years, they gathered nearly 35,000 documents, including testimonies, diaries, letters, and underground newspapers.
Will These Words Reach You? commemorates the 80th anniversary of the archive's recovery. Join Zuzanna Schnepf-Kołacz, Deputy Director for Programs at the Emanuel Ringelblum Jewish Historical Institute; Sara Softness, the Museum's Director of Curatorial Affairs; and Tamar Rabinowitz, the Museum's Senior Curator, for a discussion about the process of curating the exhibition and the Oyneg Shabes Archive's continued importance.
Register HERE.
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Tuesday, September 15, 2026
at 7:00pm -
8:00pm
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Speaking Engagements
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Location:
Holocaust Memorial Museum of San Antonio
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Description:
Join author Ruth Stitt as she shares her latest novel, When the World was Broken.
Based on a true family story from the Holocaust, her third self-published book is based on letters between her American grandmother and her three Jewish cousins in Berlin. The correspondence continued from 1938 to 1942, chronicling the cousins' desperation to escape Nazi Germany and her grandmother's diligent, frustrating efforts to rescue them.
In a time of rising antisemitism, Ruth believes this book is a timely contribution to Holocaust literature and hopes it will open many conversations about standing against this type of evil and hatred in our time.
Holocaust Memorial Museum of San Antonio12500 Northwest Military HighwaySan Antonio, TX 78231
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Sunday, September 20, 2026
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Yom Kippur (the Day of Atonement) is the holiest day on the Jewish calendar.
Begins sunset of Sunday, September 20, 2026Ends nightfall of Monday, September 21, 2026
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Monday, September 21, 2026
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Yom Kippur (the Day of Atonement) is the holiest day on the Jewish calendar.
Begins sunset of Sunday, September 20, 2026Ends nightfall of Monday, September 21, 2026
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Tuesday, September 22, 2026
at 3:00pm -
4:00pm
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Workshops
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Location:
Virtual
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Description:
How do we turn our students into "active bystanders" who respond to the need to help others and prevent or intervene against hate? Dr. Ervin Staub, a survivor of the Holocaust in Hungary, Professor Emeritus of Psychology and Founding Director of the Psychology of Peace and Violence program at University of Massachusetts Amherst, will channel his experience and give practical suggestions regarding evil, goodness, and creating active responders.
Register HERE.
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Friday, September 25, 2026
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Begins sunset of Friday, September 25, 2026Ends nightfall of Friday, October 2, 2026
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Saturday, September 26, 2026
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Begins sunset of Friday, September 25, 2026Ends nightfall of Friday, October 2, 2026
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Wednesday, September 30, 2026
at 11:00am -
12:00pm
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Speaking Engagements
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Location:
Virtual
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Description:
In this talk, Samuel D. Gruber will present the architecture of the American Jewish community, which was transformed following World War II by émigré and refugee architects engaged to design synagogues and Jewish Community Centers.
Eric Mendelsohn’s synagogues for St. Louis, Cleveland and elsewhere are well known but the work of Fritz Nathan, Mendelsohn’s German-Jewish contemporary, is virtually forgotten. Nathan arrived in the United States in 1940 and designed synagogues, teamed with émigré artists, in the New York and New Haven metro areas. Both architects helped create the architectural language for Jewish institutional buildings that was adopted by American colleagues. We can now add the work of refugee architects David Moed of Antwerp (arrived 1939), and Norbert Troller from Brno who after surviving Terezin and Auschwitz came to America and designed scores of JCCs from the late 1940s through the early 1960s for small Jewish communities across America. Other Jewish refugees and survivors including German born but American educated Werner Seligman (1930-1998) and Benjamin Hirsch (1932-2018) also champion a modern aesthetic for synagogues and other buildings.Samuel D. Gruber has been a leader in the documentation, protection, and preservation of historic Jewish sites worldwide for thirty years. He presently directs Gruber Heritage Global, a cultural resource consulting firm and is president of the not-for-profit International Survey of Jewish Monuments. Dr. Gruber is an expert on Jewish art and architecture about which he writes and lectures frequently. He is author of American Synagogues: A Century of Architecture and Jewish Community (2003) and Synagogues (1999) and scores of published reports and articles. Since 2008, he has written the blog Samuel Gruber’s Jewish Art and Monuments.
Register HERE.
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