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“Wartime North Africa” Book Launch

9/1/2022, 6:00 pm

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$10

Jewish Bookshelf: The Six Day War to the Yom Kippur War

9/1/2022, 12:00 pm

Mandel Center for the Humanities, Waltham

(Photo: ILAN BRUNER/Government Press Office)

Free

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“Saving Freud” Book Launch

8/23/2022, 7:00 pm

Ferdinand Schmutzer/Wikimedia Commons)

$10

Embodied Holocaust Education Teen Workshop Series

Up Next: 8/15/2022, 10:00 am

Urbanity Dance, Boston

(Photo: roshinio/iStock)

Free

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The Foot Soldiers of White Supremacy

8/11/2022, 9:30 am

(Photo: Anthony Crider/Flickr)

Free

The Forgotten Exodus: Leaving Iraq

8/2/2022, 12:00 pm

(Photo: Rafael Surani/Babylonian Jewry Museum Collection, Or Yehuda)

Free

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Panel Discussion: Antisemitism Today

7/26/2022, 1:30 pm

Metal Star of David (Magen David) Jewish symbol at welded metal fence, close up

Free

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“Tears Over Russia: A Search for Family and the Legacy of Ukraine’s Pogroms” Book Talk

7/25/2022, 4:00 pm

Lisa Brahin

Free

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“Complicit” Film Screening and Talk

7/25/2022, 2:00 pm

“Complicit” (Promotional still)

Free

“Carol of the Bells” (Promotional still)

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“Carol of the Bells” Film Screening

7/20/2022, 7:00 pm

West Newton Cinema, West Newton

$13

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Remembering the Holocaust: Voices of Survivors

Up Next: 7/18/2022, 10:00 am

closeup of a ragged jewish badge and a yellowish piece of paper with the word yizkor, remember in hebrew and the name of a prayer in memory of deceased beloveds, on a gray rustic wooden surface

$10

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REFERRAL

9/16/2019 Top Pick

How I Found My Bubby in ‘The Auschwitz Album’

Seventy-five years ago this summer, an SS photographer at Auschwitz-Birkenau created one of the Holocaust’s most important but poorly understood primary sources.

By The Times of Israel

A letter in Yiddish from Russian Jewish mother Feiga Shamis to two of her children (Courtesy photo)

9/11/2019 Top Pick

Little-Known Period of Anti-Jewish Massacres Subject of Documentary

By Rich TenorioFor JewishBoston

Michael Gruenbaum (Courtesy photo: Dennis Darling)

9/4/2019 Top Pick

Holocaust Survivor’s Memoir Reaches New Audiences Abroad

Michael Gruenbaum’s Holocaust memoir has struck a chord with publishers abroad.

By JewishBoston

Russian punk star Viktor Tsoi (Teo Yoo), left, is depicted in a still from the new Russian film “Leto” (Courtesy Gunpowder & Sky)

8/26/2019 Top Pick

Film Festival Hit Rocks Harvard Square With Story of Russian Punk Star

By Rich TenorioFor JewishBoston

Julie Orringer (Photo: Brigitte Lacombe)

8/26/2019 Top Pick

Julie Orringer’s New Novel Takes Flight

By Judy Bolton-FasmanFor JewishBoston

(Photo: Nikada/iStock)

8/19/2019 Top Pick

Emma Lazarus’ Statue of Liberty Poem a Beacon for All Immigrants

By Judy Bolton-FasmanFor JewishBoston

REFERRAL: The Boston Globe

8/19/2019 Top Pick

Boston’s Blue Hill Avenue Will Soon Get a Facelift

By 1930, some 77,000 Jewish people lived in the area.

By The Boston Globe

Harriet and Ralph Kaplan Estates resident Stasi Dunau celebrates her 100th birthday (Courtesy photo)

8/13/2019 Top Pick

Anastasia Dunau Celebrates Her 100th Birthday

A woman ahead of her time, Kaplan Estates resident Anastasia Thannhauser Dunau turns 100!

By Chelsea Jewish Lifecare

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