Events

Speaking Engagements

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Starts May 3, 2026 at 2:00pm
Ends May 3, 2026 at 3:00pm

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Join HMMSA as Ophir Ram shares his grandparents' story of survival during the Holocaust.
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Speaking Engagements

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Starts May 3, 2026 at 4:00pm
Ends May 3, 2026 at 5:00pm

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On June 7, 1907, a ship packed with Russian Jews set sail for a promised land: not Jerusalem or New York, as many on board had dreamed, but Texas. This was the beginning of the Galveston Plan, a forgotten episode of US history during which ten thousand Jews fled the persecution and brutality of the Russian Empire for the Gulf Coast. Journalist and historian Rachel Cockerell writes of this in her new book, Melting Point: Family, Memory, and the Search for a Promised Land.
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Speaking Engagements

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Starts May 4, 2026 at 6:00pm
Ends May 4, 2026 at 7:00pm

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Todd Diamond’s new book Pass the Trauma, Please is a comedy-drama Holocaust memoir where scandalous secrets about a father’s survival as an orphan and a soldier who fought for Israeli independence come to light over an unforgettable Sunday night Chinese dinner.
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Speaking Engagements

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Starts May 6, 2026 at 11:00am
Ends May 6, 2026 at 12:00pm

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In this talk, Rutgers University professor emeritus Matthew Baigell discusses early Jewish immigrant artists and cartoonists. As millions of Jews immigrated to the United States from Eastern Europe starting in the 1870s, they brought with them not only their religious heritage but also a definitive idea of the place and value of art and aesthetics in society.
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Speaking Engagements

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Starts May 6, 2026 at 6:00pm
Ends May 6, 2026 at 7:00pm

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From Berlin to the Bronx, from Holocaust survivor to American success story, Georgette Bennett’s new book Half-Jew, Full Life traces the extraordinary life of Gary “Pips” Phillips who defied the odds at every turn. With an Aryan mother and Jewish father, Pips could have escaped much of the Holocaust’s horrors.
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Speaking Engagements

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Starts May 6, 2026 at 7:00pm
Ends May 6, 2026 at 8:00pm

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Hear from Michael Emmett, M.D., as he examines the disturbing role physicians played in the Holocaust, and the complex legacy that followed.
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Speaking Engagements

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Starts May 6, 2026 at 7:00pm
Ends May 6, 2026 at 8:00pm

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Join author Edmund A. Kruzynski for an evening conversation about endurance, humanity, and the strength to survive the unimaginable.
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Speaking Engagements

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Starts May 7, 2026 at 5:00pm
Ends May 7, 2026 at 6:00pm

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Join the Weitzman National Museum for a landmark virtual series as theycommemorate 250 years of the Jewish experience in America, exploring the profound ways Jewish identity and the American story have shaped one another. Through a series of monthly conversations over the course of this year with the nation's leading historians, we will journey from the arrival of the first colonial settlers to the vibrant, diverse communities of the modern era.
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Speaking Engagements

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Starts May 7, 2026 at 6:00pm
Ends May 7, 2026 at 7:00pm

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Written by a Holocaust survivor whose family collected art, Plunder and Survival tells the stories of principal figures, events, and artworks that contribute to the intricate story of the ruthless Nazi attack on modern art and the art world's subsequent repositioning in America.
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Speaking Engagements

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Starts May 12, 2026 at 1:00pm
Ends May 12, 2026 at 2:00pm

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The Pickled City takes a glorious deep dive into the history of the iconic brined cucumber by tracing the pickle’s journey from ancient Mesopotamia to Eastern Europe to Manhattan’s Lower East Side, unearthing a hidden world of family stories and economic contributions that helped shape New York’s cultural, culinary, and literal foundations.
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Starts May 13, 2026 at 1:00pm
Ends May 13, 2026 at 2:00pm

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In the world of Jewish burial, symbolism is the language of the unspoken. While we often look at graves for names and dates, the true “biography” is written in the iconography and the nuances of the text. From the poignant symbols of a life cut short to the surprisingly witty or unconventional epitaphs that reflect a family’s unique dynamics, we will explore the emotional landscape of the cemetery. Join JewishGen’s Chief Genealogist Caitlin Hollander Waas as she provides the tools to decode complex grave art while challenging you to look deeper into the personalities, relationships, and very human stories etched into the stone.
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Speaking Engagements

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Starts May 13, 2026 at 2:00pm
Ends May 13, 2026 at 3:00pm

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Holocaust memory has long served as a central moral framework in modern culture, shaping how evil is recognized and judged. Yet in recent decades, that memory has been absorbed into broader narratives of power and privilege, altering its function. October 7 brings this shift into view. The largest massacre of Jews since the Holocaust did not produce the moral clarity that Holocaust remembrance once seemed to guarantee but was instead interpreted through frameworks in which Jewish vulnerability is difficult to register.
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Speaking Engagements

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Starts May 13, 2026 at 6:00pm
Ends May 13, 2026 at 7:00pm

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Join the Museum of Jewish Heritage and author Michael Kimmel for a virtual book talk on Kimmel’s recent book Playmakers. In 1902, Morris and Rose Michtom invented the Teddy Bear―bound by clothing scraps, stuffed with sawdust, and given button eyes with a sad, longing expression―in the back room of their Brooklyn candy store. Together they launched the Ideal Toy Corporation, joining a set of other poor, first-generation Jewish toymakers: the Hassenfeld brothers of Hasbro, Ruth Moskowicz and Elliot Handler of Mattel, and Joshua Lionel Cowan of Lionel Trains.
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Speaking Engagements

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Starts May 14, 2026 at 8:00pm
Ends May 14, 2026 at 9:00pm

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In this three-session online class, Professor Sarah Abrevaya Stein will explore the Holocaust in the Sephardi heartland of southeastern Europe.
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Speaking Engagements

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Starts May 17, 2026 at 5:00pm
Ends May 17, 2026 at 6:30pm

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Holocaust survivor testimony online followed by Q&A
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Speaking Engagements

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Starts May 19, 2026 at 1:00pm
Ends May 19, 2026 at 2:00pm

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A continuation of our series, this lecture explores the community that Holocaust survivors built in Argentina.
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Starts May 19, 2026 at 6:30pm
Ends May 19, 2026 at 8:00pm

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Join Holocaust Museum Houston for an evening with Dr. Mark Celinscak as part of the Warren Fellowship for Future Educators.
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Speaking Engagements

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Starts May 26, 2026 at 6:30pm
Ends May 26, 2026 at 8:00pm

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In recognition of Jewish American Heritage Month, join the Dallas Jewish Historical Society for an evening of personal storytelling that will honor Jewish American heritage, memory, and the traditions families carried to Dallas across generations.
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Starts May 28, 2026 at 6:45pm
Ends May 28, 2026 at 8:00pm

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HOW DID ANTISEMITISM BECOME PART OF THE AMERICAN STORY? Join award-winning historian Pamela Nadell for an engaging conversation on her latest book Antisemitism, an American Tradition.
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Starts May 31, 2026 at 5:00pm
Ends May 31, 2026 at 6:30pm

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As an eight-year-old girl, Eva survived Ravensbruck and Bergen Belsen. She credits her survival at such a young age to the compassion of the other inmates who looked after and supported her.
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