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SUMMARY:Opening of Chayela Rosenthal: Wunderkind of the Vilna Ghetto Theatre
DESCRIPTION:Opening of Chayela Rosenthal: Wunderkind of the Vilna Ghetto Theatre accompanied by a film screening of The Paper Brigade. Members only walkabout at 5pm\, Opening and film screening at 6 for 6:30pm. \nPlease join us for the opening of Chayela Rosenthal: Wunderkind of the Vilna Ghetto Theatre\, which focuses on Chayela Rosenthal\, a remarkable talented performer who was one of the few survivors of the Vilna Ghetto. Known as the “Wunderkind of the Vilna Ghetto\,” Chayela survived the labour and concentration camps and a death march to the Baltic Sea. After liberation\, she joined the State Yiddish Theatre and gained recognition\, eventually performing in major European capitals and settling in Cape Town. \nThe opening will be accompanied by a film screening of The Paper Brigade\, an award-winning Belgian documentary which tells the moving story of the resistance group “The Paper Brigade”\, a group of Jewish writers\, scholars\, and librarians who desperately tried to rescue Jewish cultural treasures in Vilnius during the Nazi occupation. \nRSVP for the walkabout or become a member at dowi@jhbholocaust.co.za \nRSVP for the opening to pretoria@diplobel.fed.be
URL:https://jhbholocaust.co.za/event/opening-of-chayela-rosenthal-wunderkind-of-the-vilna-ghetto-theatre/
LOCATION:Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Centre\, 1 Duncombe Rd\, Johannesburg\, Gauteng\, 2193\, South Africa
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SUMMARY:Jewish Studies and the Holocaust
DESCRIPTION:The Holocaust as an Interdisciplinary Tapestry\, 6th programme: Jewish Studies and the Holocaust \n“The Holocaust as an Interdisciplinary Tapestry” is an 8 part series that will engage with scholars and experts who grapple with themes related to Holocaust studies. The series will explore the multifaceted discipline of Holocaust Studies through different lenses. Our experts will challenge us to understand the causes\, impacts\, and legacies of the Holocaust. \nThe sixth lecture in this series focuses on Jewish Studies and the Holocaust. Presenting will be Prof Shirli Gilbert\, the director of the Sir Martin Gilbert Learning Centre\, a professor of Modern Jewish History at University College London\, and the co-editor of Jewish Historical Studies. She holds a D. Phil in Modern History from the University of Oxford and was a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Society of Fellows at the University of Michigan. Her research focuses on the Holocaust and its legacies\, modern Jewish identity\, and Jews in South Africa. \nJoining Prof Gilbert is Prof Adam Mendelsohn\, director of the Kaplan Centre for Jewish Studies and Research at the University of Cape Town\, and Associate Professor of History at the University of Cape Town. The Centre\, the only of its kind in Africa\, conducts research focused on Jews in southern Africa\, past and present. \nThe final presenter is Prof Yael Siman\, associate professor\, academic coordinator of the graduate program in social and political sciences at the Iberoamerican University in Mexico City. She has a Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of Chicago. She is a member of the Mexican National Council of Science and an affiliated researcher of the Centre for Advanced Genocide Research. She has investigated the displacement and migration trajectories of Holocaust survivors who immigrated to Mexico. \nThis programme is in partnership with Classrooms Without Borders\, Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Centre\, the Ghetto Fighters’ House\, Generations of the Shoah\, and Liberation75. \nRegister here: https://cwbpgh.org/event/the-holocaust-as-an-interdisciplinary-tapestry-7/
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