WHAT IS ANTI-SEMITISM? THE CHALLENGES FOR TODAY AND TOMORROW TOPIC OF ZOOM WORKSHOP PRESENTATION ON NOVEMBER 2
Virtual Presentation by Dr. Michael Berenbaum
Internationally Esteemed Scholar, Professor, Writer, and Filmmaker
Reservations Required
Anti-Semitism continues to be a major problem society—in the United States and worldwide—which presents challenges academically, socially, and culturally. What is anti-Semitism and its root causes? What accounts for its spread? How has the complex nature of ant-Semitism changed over the years? For teachers, how should it be taught, in order to inform and enlighten the next generation? For students, how should these lessons be learned to build a more tolerant, stable, inclusive society? How can the rest of us learn these lessons and move toward eradicating this problem? These questions grow more important as we approach the 83rd anniversary of the tragedy of Kristallnacht (“The Night of Broken Glass”) in Nazi Germany and, in our own time, the third anniversary of the mass shooting at the Temple of Life Synagogue in Pittsburgh.
These issues and others will be discussed in a Zoom presentation, free and open to teachers, students, and the public, on Tuesday, November 2, from 12:30 p.m. to 1:30 p.m., entitled “What is Anti-Semitism? The Challenges for Today and Tomorrow.”
This presentation, followed by a question-and-answer session, is presented by South Jersey Holocaust Coalition and by New Jersey Commission on Holocaust Education, with additional funding from One Jewish Community—Jewish Federation of Cumberland, Gloucester & Salem Counties.
The presenter will be Dr. Michael Berenbaum, an internationally esteemed writer, lecturer, teacher, and ordained Rabbi) consulting in the conceptual development of museums and the development of historical films, which have won numerous Emmy and Academy Awards.
He is the Director of the Sigi Ziering Institute: Exploring the Ethical and Religious Implications of the Holocaust and a Professor of Jewish Studies at the American Jewish University.
The author and editor of 20 books, Dr. Berenbaum was also the Executive Editor of the Second Edition of the Encyclopaedia Judaica.
He was Project Director overseeing the creation of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum and the first Director of its Research Institute and later served as President and CEO of the Survivors of the Shoah Visual History Foundation. The Foundation took the testimony of 52,000 Holocaust survivors in 32 languages and 57 countries
Dr. Berenbaum is also the author and editor scores of scholarly articles, and hundreds of journalistic pieces. He won the Simon Rockower Memorial Award of the American Jewish Press Association three times in three different categories during a two-year period.
He is also the Executive Editor of the New Encyclopaedia Judaica. The 22-volume, 16 million-word second edition transformed and improved the now classic 1972 work. It was awarded the Dartmouth Medal by the American Library Association for the outstanding reference work of 2006.
The chairperson of Holocaust Coalition is Harry Furman, a former Social Studies teacher who pioneered the first New Jersey high school semester course on the Holocaust and genocide, The Conscience of Man.
Educators, students, and the public are invited to take part. Vineland Public Schools will provide Professional Development (PD) hours.
Registration (password protected) is required. Please register by visiting the Coalition website—www.holocaustcoalition.com.
Donations to Jewish Federation to help support the work of Holocaust Coalition may be sent to 1015 E. Park Ave., Vineland, NJ 08360.
For more information on this and all South Jersey Holocaust Coalition events and activities, please call (302) 265-3870 or visit the Coalition’s website at www.holocaustcoalition.com. Please see their Facebook page at “South Jersey Holocaust Coalition” for interesting articles and information about the Holocaust and related subjects. You may also email holocaustcoalition@gmail.com.
South Jersey Holocaust Coalition
Richard F. Flaim, Founding Chair, Emeritus
Harry Furman, Esq., Chair
Lois Genovese, Co-Chair
E-mail: holocaustcoaltion@gmail.com
Website: www.holocaustcoalition.com
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