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Between the Bridge and the Barricade: Jewish Translation in Early Modern Europe, with Iris Idelson-SheinVirtual
Click here to register for this free virtual event. Between the Bridge and the Barricade explores how translations of non-Jewish texts into Jewish languages impacted Jewish culture, literature, and history from the sixteenth century into modern times. Offering a comprehensive view of early modern Jewish translation, Iris Idelson-Shein charts major paths of textual migration from […] ...
Stolpersteine: A Sacred Homage to my Ancestors and a Gift of Repair, with Ben WoodVirtual
Click here to register for this free virtual event, co-presented by the JFCS Holocaust Center. Visual artist Ben Wood will discuss his family’s Stolpersteine journey, which took place in March 2024, during which they visited Berlin and nearby towns Seelow and Strausberg to lay Stolpersteine for his grandparents’ families who were victims of the Holocaust. […] ...
Theodore Seixas Solomons: The Jewish San Franciscan Who Inspired North America’s Most Famous FootpathIn-Person
Click here to register for this free in-person program co-presented by New Lehrhaus. The Library is located at 1835 Ellis Street in San Francisco, with free garage parking at 1227 Pierce Street between Ellis and Eddy. The John Muir Trail runs 212 miles along the crest of California’s High Sierra, from Yosemite to Mt. Whitney. […] ...
Yiddish San Francisco, with Howard FreedmanVirtual
Click here to register for this free virtual program made possible by the support of the Workers Circle / Arbeter Ring of Northern California and co-presented by Klezcalifornia and New Lehrhaus. The history of San Francisco Jewry tends to be told in terms dominated by the experience of Jews from German-speaking lands who settled in […] ...
Book Launch: And They Arose Early to Do Sexual Violence, with Ethan Daniel DavidsonIn-Person
To register for this free in-person program, click here. The Library is located at 1835 Ellis Street in San Francisco, with free garage parking at 1227 Pierce Street between Ellis and Eddy. Refreshments will be provided, and copies of the book will be available free of charge. “Ethan Davidson’s And They Arose Early to Do Sexual […] ...
The Leo Frank Case, with Steve OneyVirtual
Click here to register for this free virtual program. In 1913, 13-year-old Mary Phagan was found brutally murdered in the basement of the Atlanta pencil factory where she worked. The factory manager, a college-educated Jew named Leo Frank, was arrested, tried, and convicted in a trial that seized national headlines. When the governor commuted his […] ...
The Triumph of Life: A Narrative Theology of Judaism, with Rabbi Irving Greenberg (VIRTUAL)Virtual
Click here to register for this free virtual program. “A culmination of a lifetime of theological reflection from the visionary thinker Rabbi Irving Greenberg, The Triumph of Life offers us a stunning portrait of the Jewish tradition as a grand drama in which God and the Jewish people dream together of a perfect world and […] ...
The Bipolar Therapist, with Marcia Naomi BergerVirtual
Click here to register for this free virtual program. When a sudden onset of manic episodes lands her in a psychiatric ward, what is an established, respected psychotherapist to do? With an otherwise firm sense of self and an openness to new insights, Marcia Naomi Berger confronts the stumbling blocks of shame and stigma. A […] ...
A Nation of Refugees: Russia’s Jews in World War I, with Polly ZavadivkerVirtual
Click here to register for this free virtual program co-presented by New Lehrhaus. When the Great War began, the Russian Empire was home to more than five million Jews, the most densely settled Jewish population anywhere in the world. Thirty years later, only remnants of this civilization remained. The years of war from 1914 to […] ...
Kugels & Collards: Stories of Food, Family, and Tradition in Jewish South Carolina, with Rachel Gordin Barnett and Lyssa Kligman Harvey (VIRTUAL)Virtual
Click here to register for this free virtual program. Where people go, so goes their food. In Kugels & Collards: Stories of Food, Family, and Tradition in Jewish South Carolina (University of South Carolina Press, 2024), Rachel Gordin Barnett and Lyssa Kligman Harvey celebrate the unique and diverse food history of Jewish South Carolina. They gather […] ...
Forbidden: A 3,000-Year History of Jews and the Pig, with Jordan Rosenblum (VIRTUAL)Virtual
Click here to register for this free virtual program. Jews do not eat pig. This (not always true) observation has been made by both Jews and non-Jews for more than three thousand years and is rooted in biblical law. Though the Torah prohibits eating pig meat, it is not singled out more than other food […] ...
The Book of Izzy: A Novel, with Ben GonshorIn-Person
To register for this free in-person program with author Ben Gonshor and moderator Anna Fishman Gonshor, click here. The Library is located at 1835 Ellis Street in San Francisco, with free garage parking at 1227 Pierce Street between Ellis and Eddy. Izzy is a writer who has found himself in a series of downward spirals; […] ...
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