Events in December 2023–February 2024
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- Annual Hannukah Party
Annual Hannukah Party
Annual Hannukah Party
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December 12, 2023Join us at our annual Hanukkah Party for latkes, jelly doughnuts, gelt and song! Explore the museum and we'll eat, play games and sing. We'll also look at the ways Jews in the American military have continued the tradition of the Maccabees.
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- Webinar: Jewish War Brides and The Holocaust
Webinar: Jewish War Brides and The Holocaust
Webinar: Jewish War Brides and The Holocaust
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February 8, 2024Historian Robin Judd joins us to discuss her new book: Between Two Worlds: Jewish War Brides After the Holocaust. Facing the harrowing task of rebuilding a life in the wake of the Holocaust, many Jewish survivors, community and religious leaders, and Allied soldiers viewed marriage between Jewish women and military personnel as a way to move forward after unspeakable loss. Proponents believed that these unions were more than just a ticket out of war-torn Europe: they would help the Jewish people repopulate after the attempted annihilation of European Jewry.