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Andrew Porwancher: The Jewish World of Alexander Hamilton (Virtual on Zoom)
First debunking a string of myths about Hamilton's origins, Prof. Andrew Porwancher arrives at a startling conclusion: Hamilton was, in all likelihood, born and raised Jewish. While he did not identify as a Jew in his American adulthood, Hamilton emerged as an important advocate for Jewry in the United States. This story offers a fresh insight into a young republic, torn between New World promises and Old World prejudices.
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Jehon Grist & Jim Mavrikios—Heritage and Memory: The Jews of Greece (Zoom Only)
In partnership with the Jewish Genealogical Society of Oregon
Have an ouzo l'chayim and learn about Jews in the Greek world!
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Remembering Marrakesh (In person only @ SF Jewish Film Festival)
In partnership with the SF Jewish Film Festival
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Short film: Deciding Vote (In person only @ SF Jewish Film Festival)
In partnership with SF Jewish Film Festival
Fifty years ago, a now forgotten New York Republican assemblyman cast a single tiebreaking vote that legalized abortion in New York and laid the groundwork for Roe v. Wade. Playing as part of Jews in Shorts: Documentaries.
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Rabbi Molly Karp—Buber and Heschel: Encountering the I-Thou and Articulating the Ineffable (Zoom only)
Martin Buber was born in Vienna in 1878, and was a utopian Zionist. He is best-known for his book I and Thou, which focuses on how people relate to the world. For Buber, our relationship with the Divine, and as much as possible with each other, should be I-Thou rather than I-It relationships.
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Ken Blady: Yiddish & Anarchism in America: A Shidduch (Marriage) Made in Heaven? (Zoom only)
During the late 19th century revolutionary ideas began to proliferate among the urban Yiddish-speaking working classes in Eastern Europe. In the United States, England and Argentina Jewish immigrants established militant labor unions and radical movements opposed to the authoritarian and statist (Marxist") left. Their ideology and agitation would have a profound impact on social, cultural and economic life, and their tactics and street theater would be emulated by students, rebels, Situationist and Yippies in the turbulent 1960s and 70s.
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Ilan Vitemberg Memorial Program (in-person only)
In Partnership with the Oshman Family JCC in Palo Alto, Congregation Beth Am, the Jewish Community Library, A Wider Bridge, and The East Bay International Film Festival
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Fred Rosenbaum & Prof. Yong Chen—From Animosity to Solidarity: Jews and Chinese in San Francisco from the Gold Rush to the Present (Zoom only)
In partnership with Congregation Beth Am and CCJCC's "Under One Tent"
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Ken Blady & Manny Yekutiel—A Remedy for the Evil Eye: History of the Jews of Afghanistan (in person only)
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Robert Alter—Amos Oz: Writer, Activist, Icon (In Person Only)
In partnership with the Jewish Community Library
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