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Bridging Today and Tomorrow.
We tell the story of the human experience through Jewish eyes.
January 2022 #3
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INTERNATIONAL HOLOCAUST REMEMBRANCE DAY
Thursday, January 27, 2022 @ 7pm on Zoom
Join us for an educational experience as we explore the framing of our past and present through viewing of highlights from the documentary, Final Account. Following the screening is a conversation with Holocaust survivors (and children of Holocaust survivors) on complicity, propaganda, and responsibility through the lens of the film.
Moderator: Mike Markovits
Panelists: Judith Altmann, Ilan Fogel, Marilyn Altmann
Co-sponsors: Jewish Historical Society of Fairfield County and United Jewish Federation of Stamford, New Canaan and Darien.
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JANUARY BOOK TALKS
Rebel Daughter by Lori Banov Kaufmann
Wednesday, January 19, 2022 @ 10am
Presented by Elissa Kaplan
This work of historical fiction tells the story of Esther Bat Hanan in Roman-ruled Judea during the first century C.E. The inspiration for this novel was a 2000-year-old tombstone found in southern Italy, written in Latin, which introduced Claudia Aster (Esther) and revealed an unlikely romance. Esther’s story involves family loyalty, bravery, famine, siege, and slavery at the time of the destruction of the Temple in Jerusalem. The reader discovers how the daughter of a Kohen (priest), serving in the Temple, survives a journey from Jerusalem to Italy, and from privilege and wealth to slavery and poverty. Esther’s story is mysterious and remarkable.
Please join JHSFC for the Zoom program. Send your name and email to [email protected] and a confirmation and link will be sent to you.
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A BISSEL YIDDISH WITH JUDY
Friday, February 4, 2022 at 1:30 pm (NOTE DIFFERENT TIME!!)
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FEBRUARY BOOK TALKS
Wednesday, February 16, 2022 @ 7pm
The Jewish World of Alexander Hamilton
by Andrew Porwancher
Presented by Jonathan Fass
The untold story of the founding father’s likely Jewish birth and upbringing—and its revolutionary consequences for understanding him and the nation he fought to create.
Please join JHSFC for the Zoom program. Send your name and email to [email protected] and a confirmation and link will be sent to you.
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Life in Eastern Europe in the 19th and 20th Century
with a focus on Galicia, Russia and Romania
Sunday, February 27, 2022 at 11 am
What were conditions of life in Galicia and Russia like that resulted in so many Jewish families settling in Romania in the earlier part of the 19th century: Romania was seen as the ideal country back then. However, conditions in the Romanian towns were not as ideal as they’d hoped, and this resulted in immigration to America.
Ms. Culiner has written two books which she recommends reading before her presentation.
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A Contrary Journey with Velvel Zbarzher Bard that focuses on daily life in the mid 1800s and
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Finding Home in the Footsteps of the Jewish Fusgeyers that tells tells of the anti-Semitism in Romania that convinced people to leave..
These books will give you an understanding of what life was like in Eastern Europe in the 19th century and any discussion can be more rewarding.
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OUR JEWISH ROOTS ... OUR HISTORY THROUGH THE AGES - Did you know...
1648
Jewish population of Poland reached 450,000 (i.e., 4% of the 1,1000,000 population of Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth is Jewish), Bohemia 40,000 and Moravia 25,000. Worldwide population of Jewry is estimated at 750,000.
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Jewish Historical Society of Fairfield County.
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We hope you have enjoyed our programs. If you want to hear a particular program again or weren't able to attend, you can find the recordings on our website at www.jhsfc-ct.org.
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