THE JEWISH HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF LOWER FAIRFIELD COUNTY

UPCOMING EVENTS

Monthly General Membership/Speaker Program.

All regular Programs take place Sundays at 10:00 a.m.

9:30 a.m.: Coffee and …
The Community is invited
Note March 21 time!

Programs are open to members and non-members at no charge.
Please note different locations as shown with the individual program notifications.

For more information, call Patty Samuels 1-203-454-1166 or Eva Weller 203-329-0452
For Membership, call 203-321-1373 ext 150.

Inclement weather on Program Day? Call 203-321-1373 ext. 150 Listen to message

We are the only Jewish organization in Lower Fairfield County offering speakers to the Jewish community-at-large – many renowned in their fields – on Jewish themes 10 months out of the year. Regularly, 100 to 150 will attend these programs. Topics are extremely varied and all are with a Jewish theme. A list of prior presentations

Sunday, June 13 10:00 AM STATE CINEMA 990 Hope Street (Springdale) Stamford Directions Ample parking behind theater and on the streets. Do not park in lot behind stores on northside of Northill Street. Open House at the JHS Archives follows the program.

“A SHPIEL ABOUT SHTICK, STAND-UP & SLAP-STICK” The History of Jews in Comedy Guest Presenter: ALAN KATZ, Author and Funny Man Who better to take us on a virtual tour of Jewish comedy than veteran comedy writer Alan Katz, as he showcases Jewish comedians from the days of Vaudeville and radio to today’s movies and stand-up? Laugh along as Weston resident Katz shares sight gags, movie clips and shtick to highlight the humor of George Burns, Lenny Bruce, Jerry Seinfeld, Adam Sandler and more. Katz is a celebrated comedy writer for Emmy-nominated TV series The Rosie O’Donnell Show, the Grammy Awards and Tony Awards, game shows, and has written articles for The New York Times and New York Daily News. He has created hundreds of comic books, trading cards, web videos and is an award-winning author of children’s books. Join us for a fun-filled, informative and dynamic program.

A list of prior presentations:

• The Little Known History of the Jews of Albania, Past & Present (Ferit Hoxha)
• Sala's Gift (Ann Kirschner)
• Give My Nachas to Broadway or From Bimah to Broadway (Cantors Shirah and Dan Sklar)
• 16th Century Renaissance Woman who Defied Kings! (Andrée Aelion Brooks)
• Courage on the Line: My Grandfather's Story (John & Jeanne Franklin)
• Caribbean Jews’ Progress – An Alternative Version of Pilgrim’s Progress (Harry A. Ezratty)
• Freedom Begins with an Act of Defiance: The Inside Story (Zvi Bielksi)
• Eldridge Street Synagogue Coach Bus Trip
• A Taste of Yiddish (Harry Romanowitz)
• A Jew Grows in Greenwich (Mickey Sherman)
• 70 Years Later, The Holocaust Never Happened? (Aryeh Tuchman)
• The Jews of China: Lessons in Survival (Vera Schwarcz)
• Kabbalah 101: Is everything you thought about God Wrong?
• Jews and Aviation: How Jews Helped Launch Aviation (Emanuel Strunin)
• Working Locally, Connecting Globally: Learning about Three Jewish Communitites (Robert Zwang)
• Religious and Racial Prejudice in Sports in Fairfield County From the 1950s to the Mid-1980's (Herman Alswanger)
• The Joy of Storytelling (Laconia Therrio)
• Israel's Biotech Revolution: How Israel became a World Leader in Genetics and Reproductive Biology (Myriam Z. Wahrman, PhD)
• Overcoming Shattered Childhoods: Survivors' Personal Accounts (Panel Discussion)
• Ritual, Customs & Songs from the Baghdadi‑Indian Tradition (Rahel Musleah)
• A Filmic View of Bigotry in America (Lou Sabini)
• Rabbi Jennifer Jaech
• Jewish History: From the Loss of Homeland to the Quest for Israel: 586 BCE - 1896 (Eugene Schwartz)
• How Christian–Jewish Relations Have Changed (Rabbi Ehrenkranz)
• Finding Home: In the footsteps of the Jewish Fusgeyers (Jill Culiner)
• Entangled Histories and Lost Memories: Jewish Survivors in Occupied Germany 1945-1949 (Atina Grossmann)
• Fighting Your Way to the Top – Jewish Prize Fighting in the last Century (Jack Cavanaugh)
• The History of Modern Israel - A Musical Journey (Cantor Arik Wollheim)
• A Jewish Family's Experience in Communist Hungary 1948-1956 (Agnes Vertes)
• The Marranos: The Crypto-Jews of Spain and Portugal
• The Wartime Activities od Jaap Penraat (Dr. Marjilijn de Jager)
• American Jewry & The Civil War (Bud Livingston)
• Leonard Bernstein: Musical Genius With Jewish Roots (David Avram)
• Freud as Thinker, Doctor, Psychoanalyst and Jew (Ellie Shafer & Carol Cederbaum)
• An Incredible Story of Holocaust Survival (Betty Lauer)
• Jewish Music through the Ages in Story and Song (Rayhan Pasternak)
• Growing Up Under The Shadow of Iranian Revolution (Roya Hakakian)
• From Then Until Now – A History of Italian Jews (Andrea Fiano)
• Passion And Profundity In Jewish American Folk Art (Edythe Prens Siegel)
• The Secrets Of The Tunnels Of Ancient Jerusalem: What Lies Beneath The Western all And Why Everyone Needs To Know (Dr. Dan Bahat, Chief Archaeologist Of Jerusalem [Em.])
• From Christian Science to Jewish Science (Dr. Ellen Umansky, Director of the Carl and Dorothy Bennett Center for Judaic Studies at Fairfield University
• Exodus: Nat Nadler, a Haganah shipmate on the Exodus, told us about his experiences.
• “Beyond The Golden Door” / “From The Old Country To The New World” (Judith Goldsmith, Literary Performance Artist)
• A Fresh Approach To Understanding The Experience Of Jewish Immigrants (Samuel Freedman)
• Passover Foods from Around the World (Ronnie Fein)
• The Evolving Role of Women in Judaism: A Cantor's Story (Cantor Deborah Katchko Gray, Ridgefield, CT)
• A Potpourri of American Jewish History (Irwin Miller)
• A Jewish Roots Trip with YALE STROM
• Blood Libel: The Damascus Affair Of 1840 (Ronald Florence)
• Law and Order: Jewish Lawmakers and Lawbreakers (Dr. Kenneth Libo)
• Trip to Newport, RI to the Touro Synagogue and more (Irwin Miller)
• American Jewry's 350th Anniversary: Relations With Israel And World Jewry In The Past, Present And Future (Dr. Matthew Silver)
• Salonika, the Glory of Sephardic Greece (Theresa Sundt)
• The Bible's Role in Modern Israeli Literature and Culture (Dr. Nehama Aschkenasy)
• A Torah's Odyssey (Judy and Steve Underberg)
• Immigrant Dreams, Immigrant Realities (Dr. Harriett Davis-Kram)
• How Can The Israeli-Palestine Conflict Be Resolved? (Mitchell Kraus)
• Journey To The Golden Door (Jay Sommer)
• He Died Alone in Tijuana - The Wandering Jew (Raymond Dayan)
• A Field Trip to the Anne Frank Exhibit at Greenwich High School
• The Golden Age of Jews in America: Will it Remain Golden Into the 21st Century? (Rabbi Emily Korzenik)
• The Jewish Experience in Baseball (Marty Appel)
• Women, Men, and the Holocaust (Nechama Tec)
• Safe Among the Germans, Liberated Jews After World War Two (Ruth Gay)
• The Yiddish Rialto, origins of the Yiddish theater (David Liebeskind)
• Kabbalah Music, The Influence of Jewish Mysticism on Jewish Song (Laura Wetzler)
• The Greatest Robbery in History...How the Swiss Acquired Holocaust Victim Assets (Irwin Nack)
• Judaism in Memory & Spirit: 500 Years After the Spanish Inquisition (Gloria Golden)
• Displaced Persons: Growing Up American After the Holocaust (Joseph Berger)
• Jews, Hollywood, and the Jazz Singer (Ellen Umansky)
• Joining the Club: The New Things We've Learned about the History of Jews and Yale In the Past 20 Years
• A Summer World. The Attempt to Build a Jewish Eden in the Catskills, from the Days of the Ghetto to the Rise and Decline of the Borscht Belt (Stefan Kanfer)
  Go here for a list of his books
• The Jewish Brigade (Shlomo Jaacobi)
• America's First Synagogues (Mark Aaron)
• From Stalin to Gorbachev: Growing Up Jewish in the Soviet Union - What was it like? (Mikhail Tsinberg & Faina Tsinberg)
• From Wiesbaden to Wall Street (Richard Grossman)
• Jewish Partizan Warfare in Slovakia 1944-45 (Paul Strassmann)
• The Emergence of American Jewish Philosophy 1950-2000 (Rabbi Eugene Borowitz) Search Amazon.com for his books
• American Jewish Painters: Insights into their Work (Cissy Grossman, Ph.D.)
• A Yeshiva Bochur from the Lower East Side Becomes a Physician in the Coal Mines of West Virginia (Dr. Louis Scheinberg)
• The L'Oreal Scandal of 1991 in France (Joel Blatt, Professor, UConn)
• Remnants of Jewry in the Middle East (Richard Chesnoff-Senior Correspondent, US News & World Report)
• Professor Daniel Soyer - Author of A History of Jewish Landsmanshaften
• The Great German-Jewish Families of New York (Dr. Kenneth Libo)
• Dona Garcia Nasi's Underground Railroad: Undermining the Inquisition
• 1000 years of Jewish Polish History: A Strategy of Survival
• Reminiscences: American Jewry's Role in Establishing the State of Israel
• A History of the Significant Advance and Development of Jewish Life in the City of Stamford; or: In dis town ve used hed TCHREE kosher butchas!!!