Events in February–April 2019

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January 28, 2019
January 29, 2019
January 30, 2019
January 31, 2019

February

February 1, 2019
February 2, 2019
February 3, 2019
February 4, 2019
February 5, 2019(1 event)

Category: General 7:00 pm: From Generation to Generation: An Introduction to Jewish Genealogy (Jewish Study Center)

7:00 pm: From Generation to Generation: An Introduction to Jewish Genealogy (Jewish Study Center)


February 5, 2019

Instructors: Sheila Wexler and Mary-Jane Roth

Rapid advances in technology have brought about a golden age of genealogical research. If you’ve been wanting to join in, here’s your chance! In this four-class course, seasoned genealogists will introduce you to tracing your Jewish family history, providing participants with crucial resources and key tools. Students will learn how to enrich their personal stories through out-of-class assignments and then share their work in class.

You must have basic computer skills and internet access to complete the assignments. A helpful optional resource book, "Getting Started in Jewish Genealogy," will be available for sale ($12 for JGSGW members, $15 for non-members). Class size is limited to 20 students, so register soon!

Sheila Wexler is the president and Mary-Jane Roth is the vice president for programs of the Jewish Genealogical Society of Greater Washington.

Four sessions: JSC, Museum, JWV members $80, others $95 (W-10)

From Generation to Generation: An Introduction to Jewish Genealogy (Jewish Study Center)

February 6, 2019
February 7, 2019
February 8, 2019
February 9, 2019
February 10, 2019
February 11, 2019
February 12, 2019(1 event)

Category: General 7:00 pm: From Generation to Generation: An Introduction to Jewish Genealogy (Jewish Study Center)

7:00 pm: From Generation to Generation: An Introduction to Jewish Genealogy (Jewish Study Center)


February 12, 2019

Instructors: Sheila Wexler and Mary-Jane Roth

Rapid advances in technology have brought about a golden age of genealogical research. If you’ve been wanting to join in, here’s your chance! In this four-class course, seasoned genealogists will introduce you to tracing your Jewish family history, providing participants with crucial resources and key tools. Students will learn how to enrich their personal stories through out-of-class assignments and then share their work in class.

You must have basic computer skills and internet access to complete the assignments. A helpful optional resource book, "Getting Started in Jewish Genealogy," will be available for sale ($12 for JGSGW members, $15 for non-members). Class size is limited to 20 students, so register soon!

Sheila Wexler is the president and Mary-Jane Roth is the vice president for programs of the Jewish Genealogical Society of Greater Washington.

Four sessions: JSC, Museum, JWV members $80, others $95 (W-10)

From Generation to Generation: An Introduction to Jewish Genealogy (Jewish Study Center)

February 13, 2019
February 14, 2019
February 15, 2019
February 16, 2019
February 17, 2019
February 18, 2019
February 19, 2019(1 event)

Category: General 7:00 pm: From Generation to Generation: An Introduction to Jewish Genealogy (Jewish Study Center)

7:00 pm: From Generation to Generation: An Introduction to Jewish Genealogy (Jewish Study Center)


February 19, 2019

Instructors: Sheila Wexler and Mary-Jane Roth

Rapid advances in technology have brought about a golden age of genealogical research. If you’ve been wanting to join in, here’s your chance! In this four-class course, seasoned genealogists will introduce you to tracing your Jewish family history, providing participants with crucial resources and key tools. Students will learn how to enrich their personal stories through out-of-class assignments and then share their work in class.

You must have basic computer skills and internet access to complete the assignments. A helpful optional resource book, "Getting Started in Jewish Genealogy," will be available for sale ($12 for JGSGW members, $15 for non-members). Class size is limited to 20 students, so register soon!

Sheila Wexler is the president and Mary-Jane Roth is the vice president for programs of the Jewish Genealogical Society of Greater Washington.

Four sessions: JSC, Museum, JWV members $80, others $95 (W-10)

From Generation to Generation: An Introduction to Jewish Genealogy (Jewish Study Center)

February 20, 2019
February 21, 2019
February 22, 2019
February 23, 2019
February 24, 2019
February 25, 2019
February 26, 2019(1 event)

Category: General 7:00 pm: From Generation to Generation: An Introduction to Jewish Genealogy (Jewish Study Center)

7:00 pm: From Generation to Generation: An Introduction to Jewish Genealogy (Jewish Study Center)


February 26, 2019

Instructors: Sheila Wexler and Mary-Jane Roth

Rapid advances in technology have brought about a golden age of genealogical research. If you’ve been wanting to join in, here’s your chance! In this four-class course, seasoned genealogists will introduce you to tracing your Jewish family history, providing participants with crucial resources and key tools. Students will learn how to enrich their personal stories through out-of-class assignments and then share their work in class.

You must have basic computer skills and internet access to complete the assignments. A helpful optional resource book, "Getting Started in Jewish Genealogy," will be available for sale ($12 for JGSGW members, $15 for non-members). Class size is limited to 20 students, so register soon!

Sheila Wexler is the president and Mary-Jane Roth is the vice president for programs of the Jewish Genealogical Society of Greater Washington.

Four sessions: JSC, Museum, JWV members $80, others $95 (W-10)

From Generation to Generation: An Introduction to Jewish Genealogy (Jewish Study Center)

February 27, 2019
February 28, 2019

March

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March 23, 2019
March 24, 2019(1 event)

Category: General 1:00 pm: Making Judaism Safe for America in WWI - Jessica Cooperman

1:00 pm: Making Judaism Safe for America in WWI - Jessica Cooperman


March 24, 2019

Jessica Cooperman joins us to discuss her new book Making Judaism Safe for America: World War I and the Origins of Religious Pluralism. Program is co-sponsored by the JWB Jewish Chaplains Council with introduction from Rabbi Irving Elson, Director.

In 1956, the sociologist Will Herberg described the United States as a “triple-melting pot,” a country in which “three religious communities - Protestant, Catholic, Jewish – are America.” This description of an American society in which Judaism and Catholicism stood as equal partners to Protestantism begs explanation, as Protestantism had long been the dominant religious force in the U.S. How did Americans come to embrace Protestantism, Catholicism, and Judaism as “the three facets of American religion?”Historians have often turned to the experiences of World War II in order to explain this transformation. However, World War I’s impact on changing conceptions of American religion is too often overlooked.

This book argues that World War I programs designed to protect the moral welfare of American servicemen brought new ideas about religious pluralism into structures of the military. Jessica Cooperman shines a light on how Jewish organizations were able to convince both military and civilian leaders that Jewish organizations, alongside Christian ones, played a necessary role in the moral and spiritual welfare of America’s fighting forces. This alone was significant, because acceptance within the military was useful in modeling acceptance in the larger society.

The leaders of the newly formed Jewish Welfare Board, which became the military’s exclusive Jewish partner in the effort to maintain moral welfare among soldiers, used the opportunities created by war to negotiate a new place for Judaism in American society. Using the previously unexplored archival collections of the JWB, as well as soldiers’ letters, memoirs and War Department correspondence, Jessica Cooperman shows that the Board was able to exert strong control over expressions of Judaism within the military. By introducing young soldiers to what it saw as appropriately Americanized forms of Judaism and Jewish identity, the JWB hoped to prepare a generation of American Jewish men to assume positions of Jewish leadership while fitting comfortably into American society.

Jessica Cooperman is Assistant Professor in the Department of Religion Studies and Director of Jewish Studies at Muhlenberg College.

Making Judaism Safe for America in WWI - Jessica Cooperman

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March 29, 2019
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April

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