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Sacred Trash
From Jan ’11 Spotlight: “The Ben Ezra Geniza was the size of a glorified walk-in closet. Yet here was an entire civilization… a kind of holy junk heap… composed of hundreds of thousands of scraps of paper.” So say Peter … Continue reading
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Spertus OB/OC (2011)
From Dec ’11 Spotlight: The complex relationship between Poles and Jews is also the subject of A Day of Small Beginnings, chosen for the inaugural season of Spertus Institute’s new “One Book/One Community” project. (Spertus partnered with JUF News on … Continue reading
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Travel with Hodel
From Aug ’11 Spotlight: Hear Jan Lisa (Tzivi) Huttner speak on “Hodel: From Sofievka to Siberia” on Thursday, August 18th at 12:15 pm at the Northbrook Public Library or 6 pm at the Harold Washington Library Center (Chicago Loop). … Continue reading
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Presencia Sefardi
From July ’11 Spotlight: An SRO crowd, including consular representatives from Turkey and Israel, welcomed Sophie Bejarano de Goldberg to the National Museum of Mexican Art in Pilsen on May 25. Goldberg’s lecture, The Sephardic Jews of Yesterday, Today, and … Continue reading
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IIT’s Boder Archive
From Tzivi’s June ’11 Spotlight: During the final days of World War II, Psychology Professor David Boder of the Illinois Institute of Technology began petitioning the US State Department for permission to enter Displaced Persons camps in France and Germany to … Continue reading
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An Accidental Anarchist
From Tzivi’s June ’11 Spotlight: Beginning in 2006, when Illinois created a commemorative day named for Jane Addams, I’ve been continually surprised by all the forgotten links between Addams and Chicago’s Jewish community. Addams pops up again as a major … Continue reading
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Sharing Chagall
From Tzivi’s June ’11 Spotlight: On May 15, Vivian Jacobson (who currently lives in North Carolina) gave a series of talks related to her new book Sharing Chagall. I attended the morning session at Beth Hillel Congregation Bnai Emunah in … Continue reading
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NUREMBERG Doc
We recently mourned the loss of Budd Schulberg (who won an Oscar for his On The Waterfront screenplay & also wrote A Face in the Crowd as well as the famous TV adaptation of his novel What Makes Sammy Run?), but it … Continue reading
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Stephanie Coontz Visit
From April ’11 Spotlight: Professor Stephanie Coontz has scheduled a book signing event at KAM Isaiah Israel in Hyde Park at 4pm on Sunday, April 10. After watching her speak about her new book A Strange Stirring: The Feminine Mystique … Continue reading
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Julia Phillips Cohen
From Tzivi’s Feb ’11 Spotlight: Historian Julia Phillips Cohen of Vanderbilt University gave a fascinating lecture at the University of Chicago last month called “Sephardi Jews and Imperial Belonging in the Late Ottoman Empire.” Although Cohen comes from an Ashkenazi … Continue reading
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