At the end of WWII, Jewish burial societies (landsmanshaften) often created memorials in cemeteries to honor the memories of their families and towns destroyed during the Holocaust. Join us for a conversation about the history of the landsmanshaften, as well as an exploration of how burial societies at the Mount Hebron Cemetery in New York…

Join KHC and HHREC for a conversation with acclaimed poet Ilya Kaminsky, whose poems bear witness to our times and create a space for empathy and compassion in resistance to oppression. Kaminsky is the author of Deaf Republic (Graywolf Press, 2019) and Dancing In Odessa (Tupelo Press, 2004), and co-editor and co-translator of many other…

Cosponsored by HHREC Event presented by HHREC in partnership with KHC. Register to watch online: https://tinyurl.com/3vc2rh95Register to attend in person: https://tinyurl.com/2ycu582b In a world where most saw binaries of “us” and “them,” Dr. Magnus Hirschfeld saw humanity as a seamless continuum of “we.” Applying this insight first to sexual orientation, then to gender, and finally…

Register to watch online: https://tinyurl.com/2pehnwr5Register to attend in person: https://tinyurl.com/mryj4a23 In 1933, with almost twenty years of service as professor at the Prussian Academy of Sciences and researcher at Humbolt University of Berlin, and under targeted threat from the Nazi regime, Albert Einstein fled Germany. With the aid of the Academic Assistance Council, he and…

Event Cosponsored by HHREC Register to watch online: https://tinyurl.com/52assas3 Register to attend in person: https://tinyurl.com/2np6uwnh Argentina–home to the largest Jewish community in Latin America–is a nation with multiple histories of violence and loss, including the 1976-1983 dictatorship and the 1994 bombing of the Argentine Jewish Mutual Aid Society, which still remains in a state of…

Event Cosponsored by HHREC Register to watch online: https://tinyurl.com/bdctyu6fRegister to attend in person: https://tinyurl.com/2k4d5jhs In 1945, a group of survivors in the Bergen-Belsen Displaced Persons Camp opened several schools for the growing number of orphaned and displaced children at the camp. To help their young charges heal, the teachers encouraged them to write and speak…

An expert panel of scholars from the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum will discuss the latest findings from the Vatican Archives during the period of Pope Pius XII (1939-1958).

Event Cosponsored by HHREC Register to watch online: https://tinyurl.com/y5fab4btRegister to attend in person: https://tinyurl.com/2pn52zu8 Despite the triumphalist tale that during the Nazi era the United States rescued Europe’s intellectual elite, including Albert Einstein and Enrico Fermi, Hannah Arendt and Herbert Marcuse, thousands of European scholars sought to immigrate to the United States and couldn’t. American…

KHC Event Cosponsored by HHREC Register to watch online: https://tinyurl.com/3jnj3c7b Register to attend in person: https://tinyurl.com/ycy4dsr3 Event presented by HHREC in partnership with KHC. The Weeksville Heritage Center is a historic site and cultural center in Central Brooklyn that uses education, arts, and a social justice lens to preserve, document, and inspire engagement with the…