Michigan and the Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Detroit to sponsor
noted historian on Jewish subjects.
Sir Martin Gilbert will speak "In Search of Jewish History on Five
Continents: One Historian's Journey," at Congregation Shaarey Zedek in
Southfield on
required. Phone 248-432-5600. Guests should arrive by 12:45 pm.
Sir Martin Gilbert is the author of 75 books, including The Holocaust:
The History of Jews During the Second World War; Auschwitz and the
Allies; The Boys: Triumph Over Adversity; Holocaust Journey; The
The Ends of the Earth: The Jews in the 20
history at Magdalen College and later St. Antony's College at Oxford
universities in the U.S., Israel, and in Britain. He has written extensively
on the Holocaust, the birth of Israel, the plight of Russian Jewry, and
Jewish life on several continents.
cleaning the attic, his wife discovered an old scrap book with names
and photographs of children. They were children whom the 29-
1939, had helped save. Between March and August 1939, Winton
and others brought out 669 children to Great Britain and Sweden.
Nicholas Winton," a documentary film by Matej Minac. Charles
and Rita Gelman of Michigan saw the film in the Czech Republic
and the Charles and Rita Gelman Educational Foundation helped
Madison College and possibly (interim) in Jewish Thought in Religious
Study Abroad in Israel, and continuing faculty publications. We will
continue to host visiting scholars from the U.S. and abroad, we'll
inaugurate our new Stanley and Selma Hollander Endowed Fund
for Jewish Arts and Music, and we will commence and ask our
and Philosophical Thought.
Reporters have been calling with questions about the legacy of World
War II and the Holocaust sixty years later. They have also inquired
of the Gaza withdrawal, and the likelihood of normalcy for Jews and
Jewish life continues at the center of momentous world events and
serves as a special prism for thinking about and assessing world conditions.
Institute for Israel Studies--two weeks of graduate school camp in
Waltham followed by a remarkable nine-day tour in Israel. In Israel,
in the foreign ministry, at the new Yad Vashem, and at the Israel
town astride Gaza; and in Rahat, a Bedouin town in the Negev. We
capacity; we heard worries about demographic realities and the battle
of narratives in the global media. We spoke with orange protestors and
We met with up-and-coming Israeli writer Etgar Keret.
What was especially important about the seminar was less the brushes
with contemporaneous goings-on and personalities, however, than
Director Ilan Troen's
steady insistence that we
understand Israel as a
living, growing, changing
society and culture, not
merely as a reflection of
contemporary policy
issues or caricature of the
Middle East conflict. This
w a s t h e s e m i n a r ' s
purpose: to promote
s t u d y o f I s r a e l i n
American universities and