Exciting Wednesday Lecture series

Starts Wednesday 15 February 1 pm

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Lecture by Professor David Shneer, University of Colorado Through Soviet Jewish Eyes: Photography, War and the Holocaust 
(in conjunction with the Yiddish Book Center, MA, USA)

A discussion on the biographies, stories and images of three Jewish photographers working for the Soviet press who became the first liberators to photograph the Holocaust. Free admission. Booking essential. Phone 9360 7999 or email reception@sjm.com.au

Tuesday 21 February at 6.30pm

Some of our Previous Events 

Auschwitz Commemoration — under the auspices of the Australian Association of Jewish Holocaust Survivors and Descendants in conjunction with the Sydney Jewish Museum 

Sunday 29 January at 11.00am

Book Launch: Nana by Miriam Anseline. The story of Ruth Widder, Holocaust Survivor. All welcome. 

15 January  2.30pm 

Anthony Levin, poet and third generation descendant, will speak about his most recent volume of poetry and Holocaust memory.

Wednesday 4 January at 6.00pm 

The Devil’s Rope – Thoughts on a Cultural History of Barbed Wire
A talk and discussion with Dr Alan Krell

Sunday 27 November at 2pm

Dr Alan Krell has lectured extensively in Art History, overseas and in Sydney, where he is Associate Professor at the College of Fine Arts (COFA), University of New South Wales. He is the author of a number of books including Manet and the Painters of Contemporary Life and The Devil’s Rope: A Cultural History of Barbed Wire. His new book, to be published later this year, focuses on the contradictory nature of fire in actuality and in the social imagination.

Music and the Holocaust: a Symposium

1:00PM    Dr Albrecht Dümling: Welcome Enrichment or Annoying Competition? How German-speaking Refugee Musicians were Received by Australia

2:00 pm    Dr Joseph Toltz: The Accidental Pioneer: Musical Testimony from David Boder’s 1946 Expedition into the Displaced Persons camps of Europe  

 Thursday 24 November

William Cooper Event with Kevin Russell (SJM, AIJAC, JBoD, JNF combined event)

Sunday 20 November at 5.30pm

Annual General Meeting Sydney Jewish Museum

Sunday 20 November at 4.00pm

Talk and discussion with Thea Weiss Inspiration in Art

Sunday 13 November at 11.00am

NAJEX Remembrance Day Commemoration

Sunday 13 November at 9.00am

Antisemitism in English Literature
A talk and discussion with Dr Hilton Immerman OAM

Sunday 30 October at 2pm

 
Hilton Immerman is the CEO of The Shalom Institute and Head of Shalom College at the University of NSW. He has 7 university degrees from 4 continents, including 2 Masters and a Ph.D. His doctorate is in the area of leadership theory, research and development and he has lectured in a Masters program at the University of New South Wales for 10 years. In the 2004 Queen’s Birthday Honours List, Hilton was awarded an OAM (Medal of the Order of Australia) for services to Adult Education and Leadership Development.

Joint function with JBoD for B’nai B’rith Community Day

Sunday 23 October at 2.00pm

OlahME - Young Adult Event 

Sukkot: Building a New World: Biodiversity & Conservation

Monday 17th October at 6.30pm

Sobibor Commemoration

Monday 17th October at 10.00am

Opening of the Thea Weiss Exhibition Fire & Ice - Survival of the Spirit  

Sunday 16th October at 2.00pm

OlahME - Young Adult Event

Rosh Hashana: Awaken, Acknowledge, Act!

Monday 26th September at 6.30pm

The Mystery of Angels –
Exploring the Nature of Angels in Judaism and Other Traditions
A talk and discussion with Orna Triguboff

Sunday 25 September at 2pm

Orna Triguboff has a Ph.D. from Sydney University, where she researched the Kabbalah of 16th century Galilee. Orna has received rabbinic ordination from the Jewish Renewal Movement and is a yoga teacher. She is the spiritual director of the Neshama Life Organisation, which conducts courses in Kabbalah, meditation and self-improvement.

Sanctum of Remembrance Reading of the Names

 Sunday  11 September at 10.30am

Opening of Resistance Exhibition Amidah - Standing Up

Sunday 11 September at 12pm

Blessed is the Match – the Life and Death of Hannah Senesh
Documentary film screening

Sunday 28 August at 2pm

The story of Hannah Senesh, an Hungarian poet who was captured by the Nazis while trying to rescue Jews in WWII. Filmed on location in the Czech Republic, Hungary and Israel. With unprecedented access to the Senesh family archive and through interviews, eyewitness accounts and the prolific writings of Hannah and Catherine Senesh, Blessed Is the Match recreates Hannah’s childhood, her perilous mission, her life and her death. Winner of more than 10 Film Festival Awards.

2012 Tour to Lithuania, Germany, Poland and Israel - Information Night

Wednesday 17 August at  7.00pm   

Rededication of the Children’s Memorial & Janusz Korczak Commemoration

Sunday 14 August at 3pm

Out of Sight: The Civic Legacy of the Convict Era
A talk and discussion with Babette Smith

Sunday 31 July at 2pm

Babette Smith is a freelance historian & writer. Her latest book, Australia’s Birthstain, published in 2008, traces the country’s shame about its convict foundations and the distorted history that resulted. This follows her earlier work, A Cargo of Women: Susannah Watson & the Convicts of the Princess Royal. Now living in Blackheath, Babette combines writing with her practice as a mediator of disputes in family law, workplace, health and business matters.

Charms, Cures, Magic and Mysticism - A Wizard Class in Jewish Studies
A talk and discussion with Rabbi Jeremy Lawrence

Sunday 26 June at 2pm

Rabbi Jeremy Lawrence is Senior Rabbi and Chief Minister of the Great Synagogue, Sydney. He serves as registrar on the Sydney Beth Din and is a religious advisor to the Executive Council of Australian Jewry (ECAJ) and the New South Wales Jewish Board of Deputies (NSWJBD). Rabbi Lawrence is a founder member and director of the Jewish Arbitration and Mediation Service (JAMS).

OlahME - become a global Jewish citizen
a young adult education series

Monday 23rd May, 6.30-8pm

Yom Hashoah: Reading of the names

Sunday May 1, 1-3pm

Anzac Day Commemoration

Sunday 17 April, 9.30-11am.

Lecture: Paul Brunton

Wednesday 13th April, 6.30pm.  

OlahME - become a global Jewish citizen
a young adult education series

Monday 11 April, 6.30-8pm

Movie: Liberation, Life and Lamingtons

Sunday 3  April, 2pm

Lecture: David Cesarani.

Professor Cesarani's research interests fall broadly within the field of modern Jewish history and culture, with an emphsis on ethnicity and 'race', immigration and citizenship, modern German history and genocide.

Sunday 27th March, 4.00pm. 
 

Primo Levi: His Life and Legacy. By Bob Carr in association with the Italian Cultural Institute 

Monday 28th February, 6.00pm.