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THE JEWISH HISTORICAL SOCIETY |
P. O. Box 16918 JHSLFC Home Stamford Historical Society
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For further information, call 203-359-2196, or e-mail jhslibrary@gmail.com
Inclement weather on Program Day? Call 203-321-1373 ext. 150 Listen to message.
Talks open to members and non-members at no charge.
| October 21, 2009 |  Songs for the Butcher's Daughter, A Novelby Peter Manseau Presenter: Marylin Schwartz How the last Yiddish poet in America is saved by the butcher's daughter in this tale of romance, poetry, and language. |
| November 18, 2009
Harry Bennett Branch of the Ferguson Library Stamford at 11:00 AM |
 Why are Jews Liberals?by Norman Podhoretz Presenter: Rabbi Daniel Cohen A lively and original explanation of a persistent question in American politics by a leading conservative writer. |
| December 16, 2009 |  My Father's Paradise: A Son's Search for His Family's Pastby Ariel Savar Presenter: Julian Reitmann A son pays tribute to his linguist-scholar father in this memoir of a search for their roots. |
| January 20, 2010 |  The Holocaust by Bullets:
A Priest’s Journey to Uncover the Truth
Behind the Murder of 1.5 Million Jewsby Patrick Desbois Presenter: Ernest Fanwick A Catholic priest performs an act of ‘loving kindness’ as he relates the stories of Ukrainian Jews and the Holocaust. |
| February 17 |  Sacred Attunement: A Jewish Theology by Michael Fishbane Presenter: Dr. Eugene Borowitz How the classic books of Judaism speak to contemporary Jewish doubt. |
| March 17 |  A Thread of Grace by Mary Doria Russell
Presenter: Penny Wolff Italian resistance to the Nazis in World War II as Jews and Catholics struggled. |
| April 21
Harry Bennett Branch of the Ferguson Library Stamford at 11:00 AM |
 Jewish Pirates of the Caribbean: How a Generation of Swashbuckling Jews Carved Out an Empire in the New World in Their Quest for Treasure, Religious Freedom – and Revengeby Edward Kritzler Presenter: Frank Melzer Sixteenth century Spanish and Portuguese underground Jews take to the high seas in search of religious freedom, adventure and treasure. |
| May 26 |  I Married a Communistby Philip Roth Presenter: Sondra Melzer A downfall of a popular radio star during the 1950’s in America, when the nation was torn apart by the McCarthy hearings. |
| SPECIAL EVENT Monday, May 7 7:30 PM New Canaan Library To make reservations |
 JHS is co-sponsoring the special kick-off for New Canaan Library's Summer Reading Program about “Holocaust and World War II”
with
ELIZABETH BETTINA,
noted author of Refreshments Free to the community If you need a ride or are willing to drive, call Joan 203-329-1118 |
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