Date
& Time* |
Program** |
Subject/Title |
2023 |
October 22, 2023
2:00 PM ++
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74-min film. In the
aftermath
of the Holocaust, secret meetings began to negotiate the
incomprehensible - compensation for survivors of the largest mass
genocide in history,. Survivors were in urgent need, but how
could reparations be determined for the unprecedented destruction and
suffering of a people? Reckonings explores this riveting story.
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"Reckonings"
(documentary) |
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November 19, 2023
2:00PM++
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Eden
Siskind, speaker: How HIAS, the world's oldest refugee organization,
has transformed from a resettlement agency helping Jewish refugees to
an international humanitarian organization, assisting displaced persons
of all faiths using Jewish values. In conversation with Memphian
Eden Siskind, Assistant Program Director, Latin America and the
Caribbean. |
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2024 |
Jan
14, 2024
1:00PM++
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Join
author and Lawyer Marlene Trestman as she discusses the remarkable
history of the Jewish Orphans Home of New Orleans. Founded
in 1855 in the aftermath of a yellow fever epidemic, the Home was
the first purpose-built Jewish orphanage in the nation. By the time the
Jewish Orphans Home closed in 1946, it had sheltered more than
sixteen hundred parentless children and two dozen widows from New
Orleans and other areas of Louisiana and the mid-South. |
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Most
Fortunate Unfortunates: The Jewish Orphans' Home of New Orleans and its
Tennessee Ties
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|
Mar 10, 2024
2:00PM++
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South Carolina authors Rachel Gordon Barnet and Lyssa Kligman
Harvey will share stories that illuminate the richness of the
southern Jewish table.
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Kugels & Collards: Stories of food,
families and tradition in Jewish South
Carolina
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Apr 14, 2024
2:00PM++ |
Technion
Israel Institute of Technology is a major source of innovation and
brainpower that drives the Israeli economy and is a key to Israel's
reputation as the world's "Start-Up Nation." Technion's people, ideas,
and inventions make immeasurable contributions to the world in the
areas of medicine, energy, computer science, water conservation, and
nanotechnology. Guest speaker, Irv Elenbert, Technion’s Regional Senior
Director of Development, will tell us about Technion and some of these amazing developments.
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Technion Israel Institute of Technolgy "From Visionary Education to a World of Impact"
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*
Programs
will
take place in the JHS Zoom room at 2 PM unless
specified otherwise. |
**
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on Program links (when available) for more information. |
***
On the date/time of the program, click on "via
Zoom!" for instructions on how to join the JHS Zoom room. |
+ For
more information about these programs, email the Memphis Jewish
Historical Society at mjhspresident@gmail.com.
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++ JHS meeting to be
held at the MJCC.
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