Special Lectures and Events
Sponsored by
THE HAROLD SCHNITZER FAMILY PROGRAM IN JUDAIC STUDIES
at the University of Oregon
2012 EVENTS
2012 Singer Family Lecture
Sunday, March 25
7:30 PM
Temple Beth Israel
Ann Kirschner, Ph.D.
Ann Kirschner is the author of Sala’s Gift: My Mother’s Holocaust Story. She will be discussing her book as well as the Letters to Sala exhibit which will be on display at Temple Beth Israel during the WJSA conference and the Singer Family Lecture.
Website: http://salasgift.com/content/index.asp
Temple Beth Israel – 1175 East 29th Avenue, Eugene
This event is free and open to the public.
Sponsored by the Singer Family Lecture fund and the Harold Schnitzer Family Program in Judaic Studies.
Western Jewish Studies Association Conference
Sunday and Monday, March 25 & 26
McKenzie Hall
The Harold Schnitzer Family Program in Judaic Studies is hosting the WJSA conference at the University of Oregon this year. Registration is open to the community; pre-registration to open soon. Panelists include faculty and graduate students from the West coast, East coast, and Israel. Panels include art and architecture in Judaism, Eastern and Western European Jewish communities, ancient Judaism, Holocaust and more. Please email jdst@uoregon.edu with any questions. You can also visit the WJSA website for more information at http://www.wjsa.net/
McKenzie Hall, 1101 Kincaid St.
Letters to Sala Exhibit
March 2nd-March 29th
Temple Beth Israel
Sala’s story is, above all, a story of life and one young woman’s way of seeing beyond years of horror. From her letters, we learn about friendship and love, Jewish life in occupied Poland, Nazi labor camps, the intensely human need to rebuild life after the catastrophe of war, and the ability of words to give and sustain life.
The letters will be displayed at Temple Beth Israel from March 2nd-March 29th.
Website: http://legacy.www.nypl.org/research/chss/sala/introduction.html
Temple Beth Israel – 1175 East 29th Avenue, Eugene
Sponsored by the Harold Schnitzer Family Program in Judaic Studies
Holocaust Testimony
Eva and Les Aigner
Tuesday, February 28
5:00 PM
Gerlinger Alumni Lounge
The Aigners are survivors of the Shoah. They will be coming to Eugene to share their experiences and deliver their testimony about their survival.
Gerlinger Hall, 1468 University St.
2011 EVENTS
After the “Arab Spring” and Protests in Israel: Toward a New Reality in the Middle East
Wednesday, November 30
3:00 PM – 5:00 PM
Gerlinger Lounge
University of Oregon
Guest speakers Eliyahu McLean, Director of the Jerusalem Peacemakers, a network of religious leaders and grassroots peace builders in Jerusalem and the Holy Land, and Sheikh Ghassan Manasra, Director of the Islamic Cultural Center in Nazareth, a center promoting tolerance and interfaith dialogue. They are both leading Jewish and Muslim peacemakers from Israel and Palestine
Sponsored by the Center for Intercultural Dialogue, the Harold Schnitzer Family Program in Judaic Studies, the Conflict and Dispute Resolution Program, and the Oregon Humanities Center.
Screening and Discussion: Everything is a Present
Sunday, November 13
6:30 PM
Temple Beth Israel
1175 East 29th Ave.
Please join us for a documentary film screening and discussion about the extraordinary life and work of distinguished pianist and Holocaust survivor Alice Herz Sommer. Imprisoned in Theresienstadt concentration camp, Herz played more than 100 concerts, and she credits music for saving her life during this horrific experience. In the film, shot when Sommer was 98, the pianist and composer converses with Christopher Nuphen about her life, her work, and her eternal optimism. Throughout, Sommer also plays Schubert, Smetana, and Beethoven in a style which the world has long forgotten. Now aged 107, she is the oldest survivor of the Holocaust and the second oldest person in London. She continues to practice piano every day.
The film will be followed by a discussion facilitated by Professor Deborah Green, Associate Professor and Director of the Harold Schnitzer Family Program in Judaic Studies at the University of Oregon.
This Counterpoint presentation is a partnership of the Eugene Symphony Association, Temple Beth Israel, and the Harold Schnitzer Family Program in Judaic Studies at the University of Oregon.
Veretski Pass
Sunday, October 23
8:00 PM
Beall Concert Hall
Veretski Pass combines the power and energy of Old World music with a modern sensibility, creating a sound that is both deeply respectful of its roots and, at the same time, makes you want to dance in the aisles. The trio performs a collage of dance suites from Moldavia and Bessarabia; Jewish melodies from Poland, Romania, and Ukraine; Hutzul wedding music from Carpathian Ruthenia; and Rebetic aires from Asia Minor, seamlessly integrated with original compositions.
Tickets: $12 General Admission, $8 Students & Seniors. Available in advance from the UO Ticket Office (541-346-4363; tickets.uoregon.edu), or at the door.
See: http://www.veretskipass.com
“World Music Series”: Veretski Pass - Klezmer Music from Eastern Europe
Co-sponsors: University of Oregon School of Music, Oregon Humanities Center's Endowment for Public Outreach in the Arts, Sciences, and Humanities, and the Harold Schnitzer Family Program in Judaic Studies.
Book signing and reception presented by the Harold Schnitzer Family Program in Judaic Studies
Deborah Green, Program Director
The Aroma of Righteousness: Scent and Seduction in Rabbinic Life and Literature
Knight Library Browsing Room, University of Oregon
7:00 PM
Free and Open to the Public. Refreshments will be provided.
The Harold Schnitzer Family Program in Judaic Studies and Temple Beth Israel present
Yom Hashoah Observance
Sunday, May 1
Temple Beth Israel
6:30 pm Yom Hashoah Commemoration Service
7:00 pm Survival and Sustenance: The Stories of Two Children
One, two buckle my shoe...
...In the months between the Kristallnacht pogrom (November
...Three, four shut the door...
...Far away from Great Britain, another child, Shlomo Libeskind, would live in «open hiding.» Assuming false identities at the start of the war, young Shlomo and his family lived behind the door of their true selves. In danger day and night, Shlomo and his family survived the war by moving from place to place in Poland. He too would become a professor in the mathematics department at the University of Oregon where he continues as an active member of the faculty.
Deborah Green, Associate Professor and Director of the Harold Schnitzer Family Program in Judaic Studies, will facilitate as Marion and Shlomo share their stories of survival.
*Quoted from the Kindertransport Association website; for more information see www.kindertransport.org.
DIVA (Downtown Initiative for the Visual Arts) And The Harold Schnitzer Family Program in Judaic Studies present
Dr. Ann Weiss on «The Last Album: Eyes from the Ashes of Auschwitz-Birkenau»
Join us for a lecture and reception with curator, Dr. Ann Weiss.
Wednesday, May 4th
4:00PM
Browsing Room in the Knight Library
University of Oregon
DIVA (The Downtown Initiative for the Visual Arts) and The Harold Schnitzer Family Program in Judaic Studies* are pleased to host «The Last Album: Eyes from the Ashes of Auschwitz-Birkenau,» a unique exhibit of more than 120 cherished personal photographs found carefully packed in the belongings of imprisoned Jewish families.
*For a complete list of sponsors, see http://www.diva.proscenia.net/lastalbum/index.htm
The exhibit will be at DIVA from May
DIVA, 280 West Broadway, Eugene, Oregon.
For information call:
Web:
Prof. John J. Collins
«Changing Perspectives on the Dead Sea Scrolls»
Tuesday, May 24
7:30 pm
100 Willamette Hall
John Collins is the Holmes Professor of Old Testament Criticism and Interpretation at Yale Divinity School, and previously taught at the University of Chicago and the University of Notre Dame. He is one of the world’s leading scholars on the Dead Sea Scrolls, Apocalypticism, and Hellenistic Judaism. Among his many scholarly books are Beyond the Qumran Community; The Scepter and the Star: The Messiahs of the Dead Sea Scrolls and Other Ancient Literature; The Apocalyptic Imagination; and a major commentary on the book of Daniel. He has also edited numerous scholarly volumes including the three-volume Encyclopedia of Apocalypticism and the Oxford Handbook of the Dead Sea Scrolls.
The lecture is free and open to the public, and is co-sponsored by the Religious Studies Department at the University of Oregon and the Harold Schnitzer Family Program in Judaic Studies. For disability accommodations, or for more information, please call
2011 Singer Family Lecture
«Anne’s Diary, Mauricio’s Dance: A Conversation with Choreographer Mauricio Wainrot»
March 30, 2011
7:30PM
282 Lillis Hall
955 E. 13th Ave.
University of Oregon
Please join us for an intimate evening with Mauricio Wainrot, internationally acclaimed choreographer and Director of Ballet Contemporáneo del Teatro San Martin of Buenos Aires, whose award-winning ballet, The Diary of Anne Frank, explores the intolerance, absolutism, and violence of one of the worst fascist regimes in history. In a conversation with Barbara Altmann, Director of the Oregon Humanities Center, Wainrot will discuss his motivation and methods for the ballet as well as his personal connection to the Holocaust and his own experience with fascism as an Argentinean and as a Jew.
Performances: The Diary of Anne Frank, Eugene Ballet Company, April
eugeneballet.org
The lecture is free and open to the public, and is co-sponsored by the Oregon Humanities Center’s Endowment for Public Outreach in the Arts, Sciences, and Humanities. For disability accommodations, or for more information, please call
«Jews of the Pacific Coast: Reinventing Community on America’s Edge,» a lecture by Bill Toll
Temple Beth Israel in Eugene
Sunday, March 6, 2011 at 3:00PM
Bill Toll will be summarizing the main points of his book, with illustrations, and emphasizing how the themes worked out in the Pacific Northwest. (The key action was in San Francisco and Los Angeles, but the Pacific Northwest «reflected» the major themes.
A Community Celebration Honoring Rabbi Maurice Harris
Sunday, February 20,
Come dine on delightful desserts, listen to live music with the Yiddish and Ladino music ensemble, Chiribim, and take part in the award ceremony honoring Rabbi Maurice’s commitment to social justice for the lesbian gay bisexual transgender queer (LGBTQ) community.
The TBI Queer Chavurah invites everyone — young and old, gay and straight, friends and family — to come celebrate, honor and support Rabbi Maurice, a leader in our community who has exemplified and embodied what it means to be an ally and who has helped strengthen our community by promoting and supporting the visibility of all. We wish to joyously affirm his efforts during his role as Rabbi at Temple Beth Israel and present him with an award in recognition of his work. Please mark your calendars and join us for this wonderful community-wide celebration.
Sponsored by the TBI Queer Chavurah. The Queer Chavurah is a group of queer Jews who came together to raise queer visibility in the Jewish community. Questions? Write enidleft@comcast.net.