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  • Barbara Frey, Director of Human Rights Program, to discuss torture through the lens of Judaism

    Sunday, May 20
    Beth-El Synagogue
    5224 West 26th Street
    St. Louis Park
    Services begin at 9:00 a.m.
    Breakfast and Presentation
    "Honoring the Image of God: Reviewing Torture Jewishly"

    Rabbi Rachel Kahn-Troster, Director of Rabbis for Human Rights North America will anchor a panel addressing the spiritual concerns with regard to torture. Barbara Frey, Director of the Human Rights Program in the College of Liberal Arts at the University of Minnesota and Dr. Steven Miles, Professor and Maas Family Endowed Chair in Bioethics, University of Minnesota Medical School will join her on the panel.

    The discussion is part of Beth-El's annual Arthur and Irene Stillman Torah Scholar in Residence Weekend, Friday, May 18-20.

    For more information please contact Beth-El Synagogue at 952-920-3512.

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  • Workshop: Trauma and Text: Approaches to Teaching the Literature of Atrocity

    July 23-July 27, 2012
    9:00 a.m.-4:00 p.m.
    Room 614 Social Sciences
    University of Minnesota
    30 CEUs
    2 graduate credits available for additional fee (contact outreach@umn.edu if interested)
    Registration deadline: July 9, 2012

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  • New publication: The Golem Redux: From Prague to Post- Holocaust Fiction by Elizabeth R. Baer

    On Wednesday, November 9, 2011, Dr. Elizabeth Baer, Professor of English and Holocaust and Genocide Studies at Gustavus Adolphus College, previewed her new book, The Golem Redux. Baer spoke about how contemporary Jewish-American writers have created golem stories as a re-imagining of text-centered Jewish traditions by appropriating, adapting, revising and riffing on older golem legends. Such appropriation, deploying the imagination to seek a better understanding of human nature, is crucial in light of the Holocaust experience under the Nazis. The presentation included golems from novels, comic books, graphic narratives, and "The X-Files."

    Dr. Baer's new book, The Golem Redux: From Prague to Post-Holocaust Fiction is now available from Wayne State University Press. You can watch the lecture on the Center's YouTube channel, CHGSumn.

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  • Nazi Persecution of Homosexuals 1933-1945 Exhibition

    April 2-May 11, 2012
    2nd/3rd Floor Gallery, Elmer L. Andersen Library

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  • The Art of Zhen Shan Ren International Art Exhibition

    Coffman Memorial Union
    Great Hall
    May 2-4, 2012
    Free and Open to the public

    Ancient Traditions Increasingly important in Turbulent Modern Times

    The Art of Zhen, Shan, Ren, opens an intimate window into ancient and contemporary China. The works reveal the traditional Chinese culture based around mind and body cultivation (self-improvement) and living in harmony with nature. With moral improvement, a resilient inner beauty arises. The re-emergence of this tradition in China has come through in the recent popularity of Falun Gong over the past 2 decades.

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  • See Free Men at the Minneapolis St. Paul 2012 International Film Festival

    St. Anthony Main Theatre

    Free Men
    Forced by the Nazi's, a Algerian immigrant (Tahar Rahim) spies on the leaders of a Paris Mosque under suspicion of secretly hiding Jews and working with the Resistance, leading him to an awakening from illiterate worker to passionate freedom fighter. Based on actual events in Paris under the Occupation.

    May 5
    To view the trailer click here.

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  • Armenian Genocide Commemoration

    97th Anniversary Commemoration of the Armenian Genocide
    Tuesday, April 24
    7:00 p.m.
    St. Sahag Armenian Church
    203 N. Howell St., St. Paul

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  • CHGS sponsors two films at Minneapolis Jewish Film Festival

    Remembrance (Die verlorene Zeit)
    Sunday, March 18 at 7 pm
    Sunday, March 25 at 4 pm
    Dolly & Edward Fiterman Theatre at the Sabes JCC

    As Seen Through These Eyes
    Special Guest: Director, Hilary Helstein. Screening dedicated to Stephen Feinstein.
    Sunday, March 25 at 12 pm
    Dolly & Edward Fiterman Theatre at the Sabes JCC

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  • Berlin Summer Academy: The Holocaust and Present-day Jewish Life in Germany

    July 15-22, 2012
    A summer study program in Berlin, Germany, for U.S. public secondary school teachers in cooperation with the Education Division of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Washington, D.C.

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  • 2012 Holocaust & Jewish Resistance Teachers' Program

    A summer study program in Washington, DC, Poland, Germany and Israel
    for secondary school teachers.

    The Summer Seminar Program on Holocaust and Jewish Resistance was initiated by Vladka Meed in 1984. This year's program is scheduled for July 1-20, 2012. This seminar is for secondary school teachers who implement Holocaust studies in their classrooms. Our group visits historic sites and hears from survivors and prominent scholars.

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  • Yad Vashem International School for Holocaust Studies Eighth International Conference on Holocaust Education

    Telling the Story Teaching the Core: Holocaust Education for the 21st Century
    June 18-21, 2012

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  • The Leo Baeck Summer University in Jewish Studies Berlin, Humboldt University

    The Leo Baeck Summer University in Jewish Studies, based at the Humboldt University in Berlin, Germany, is open to international applications for the 2012 summer session (July 5 to August 17). The application deadline is January 15, 2012.

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  • Commemorating Controversy: The U.S.-Dakota War of 1862

    Speaker Series
    January 4,5,10,17,24,26, 2012
    4:00-5:30pm
    Linnaeus Arboretum, Gustavus Adolphus College campus.
    All lectures are free and open to the public.

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  • Applications Being Taken for Auschwitz Jewish Center Fellow: A Bridge To History

    The Auschwitz Jewish Center Fellows Program is a three week study trip
    for students who are matriculated in graduate programs or are completing
    undergraduate degrees in 2012 in Holocaust studies and related fields.

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  • Jungle Theater Presents I Am My Own Wife

    I Am My Own Wife
    By Doug Wright
    Directed by Joel Sass
    Starring Bradley Greenwald
    Now through December 18, 2011
    The Jungle Theater

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  • Holocaust Survivor, Doctor Robert Fisch's "Metamorphosis to Freedom" Exhibition Now on Display

    Now through December 5
    Normandale Community College
    9700 France Ave S
    Bloomington, MN

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  • Premiere theatrical production looks at life between friends in Nazi occupied Poland

    Our Class
    By Tadeusz Slobodzianek
    October 29 - November 20, 2011
    Minnesota Jewish Theater Company

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  • Ghost Stories: Five Writers Read Works on Historical Trauma

    Tuesday, Nov 8, 2011
    7:00 p.m.
    Homewood Studios, 2400 Plymouth Ave N, Minneapolis 55411

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  • Harbin's Death Factory & Germ Warfare in the Asian Pacific

    5:30 PM - 7:30 PM
    Sunday Nov 6, 2011
    Weyerhaeuser Hall
    Macalester College

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  • Meet Eric Irivuzumugabe, author and Rwandan genocide survivor

    Friday, October 28, 4:00 p.m.
    University of Minnesota Bookstore in Coffman Memorial Union.

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  • CHGS Photo Exhibit: Maxine Rude Displaced Europe 1945-1946 on display at the Holocaust Memorial and Resource Education Center of Florida

    November 1- January 12, 2012

    The Holocaust Memorial and Resource Education Center of Florida are displaying the work of photographer Maxine Rude. Rude was a photographer for the United States Army and then for the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration (UNRRA). The organization was formed to help the approximately 21 million people displaced throughout war-torn Europe.

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  • Laughing with Traumas: Humor about the Holocaust in Contemporary German and Israeli Popular Culture

    A Talk by Ofer Ashkenazi, Ph.D.
    Wednesday, October 19
    11:45-1p.m.
    Room 1210 Heller Hall

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  • Art Exhibition "A Hole In Time" unites a local artist and Holocaust survivor to tell the story of pre-war Jewish Poland

    August 31 - October 16
    Special Artist Reception
    Tuesday, October 4, 7:00 pm.
    St. Paul JCC

    Susan Weinberg, an internationally exhibited artist, combines her passion for genealogy and cultural history in this two-part exhibit "A Hole in Time," developed through a partnership with local Holocaust survivor and educator Dora Zaidenweber and "The Silence Speaks Loudly" inspired by time spent in Vilnius,Lithuania.

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  • Art Exhibition: The Old Wooden Synagogues of Lithuania

    Friday, September 23 - Friday, December 30, 2011
    Architecture & Landscape Architecture Library
    210 Rapson Hall
    Artist Joyce Ellen Weinstein

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  • New MA program in Holocaust Studies

    The University of Haifa is pleased to announce the opening of the MA program in Holocaust Studies that will be taught in English, for 2012-2013 academic year.

    This is the only graduate program in Holocaust Studies that is taught in Israel and is unique in its multidisciplinary curriculum and approach. It is dedicated to the creation and nurturing of a new generation of Holocaust researchers. Its aim is to provide them with a well rounded curriculum from a wide variety of disciplines and subjects (history, social psychology, anthropology, genocide and international law, literature and more), diverse methodologies and essential languages.

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  • Lucien Philipe Moretti Lithographs on display at St. Paul Church

    Gloria Dei Lutheran Church in St. Paul is displaying THE ART OF LUCIEN MORETTI: OCCUPATION OF PARIS in September as part of "Blessed are the Peace-Makers" month.

    This series relates to the occupation of France by the Germans in World War II. Some scenes are lyrical, while others focus on the chaos of war and the victimization of the Jews.

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  • Internships now available at the Galicia Jewish Museum

    The Galicia Jewish Museum in Krakow, Poland is looking for interns.

    For more information please read the attached file.

    Galicia Jewish Museum internship programme.pdf

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  • Submit a Community Event

    In an effort to better publicize community events on our website and on our listserv, we have created a Community Events form. If you are a non-campus organization planning an event or program related to our mission, please submit this form for review.

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  • Watch free online world premiere of Raindrops Over Rwanda

    Monday, July 18, 2011
    SnagFilms

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  • Saul Kagan Claims Conference Fellowship in Advanced Shoah Studies

    The Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany (Claims Conference) is offering a limited number of fellowships for Ph.D. candidates pursuing studies of the Holocaust.

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  • Ghost Stories: Five Writers Read Works on Historical Trauma

    Thursday, July 14, 2011, 6 PM
    Amherst H. Wilder Center
    451 Lexington Pkwy N, St. Paul

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