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Education
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Lecture Series
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"How Being an Immigrant Shaped my Life"
Lecturer - Sonia Pressman Fuentes
Exhibition - Living in America: The Jewish Experience
Ms. Fuentes is
a public speaker, writer, lawyer, and
co-founder of NOW (National Organization for Women).
She is also the author of her memoirs entitled
Eat First--You Don't Know
What They'll Give You: The Adventures of an Immigrant
Family and Their Feminist Daughter.
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"Growing Up in Czernowitz"
Lecturer - Dr. Julius Scherzer
Exhibition - World Jewish Communities: Czernowitz
Dr. Julius
Scherzer was born and lived in Czernowitz, located in the
province of Bukovina. He grew up under fascism and communism
before, during and after World War II. Dr. Scherzer is the
author of the book
While the Gods Were Silent: Growing up Under Fascists and
Communists.
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"Lilke Majzner: Recipient of
the 2008 IAYC Lifetime Yiddish Service Award"
Speaker - Lilke Majzner (z"l)
Conference - International Association of Yiddish Clubs 2008
Language - Yiddish (English transcript included)
Lilke Majzner, who sadly passed away some nine months after this
conference, was a Holocaust survivor from the ghetto of Lodz,
Poland.
While living in Los Angeles,
California, she gave of herself quite willingly to works that were
involved with the preservation of the Yiddish language. She served as the Director
of the Los Angeles Yiddish Culture Club and was a member of the Board of
the California Institute for Yiddish Culture and Language and
Yiddishkayt LA.
On the webpage dedicated to Lilke, you can either watch the video (if
you have the right media player, listen only to an audio version, or
read the English transcription of her speech.) |
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"The Yiddish and German
Poets from Czernowitz"
coming in 2010
Lecturer - Professor Meinhard Mayer
Exhibition - World Jewish Communities: Czernowitz
Professor Meinhard Mayer is
a Professor Emeritus of Physics and Mathematics at
University of California, Irvine. Having spent many years of
his youth in Czernowitz, he has become especially enamored
with the many Yiddish and German poets most associated with
Czernowitz...
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