Current courses by topic: Modern History
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How We Got Here: Reflecting On The Past 150 Years
X500-MG Instructors: Rosenbaum Starting: 02/12/2012 Location: The Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life
This event on the history of the Jews of the Bay Area, is dedicated to the memory of Seymour Fromer, the Judah L. Magnes Museum's visionary co-founder. TRIBUTE Honoring Seymour Fromer (1922-2009), co-founder of the ...
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Israel’s Summer of Discontent: Social Protests, Nostalgia, and the Future(s) of Zionism
H400-SJ Instructors: Kaplan Starting: 02/21/2012 Location: JCCSF
Join us for the inaugural lecture of the Rhoda Goldman Chair of Israel Studies at San Francisco State University, Professor Eran Kaplan. This event takes place at the JCCSF in Fisher Hall. There will be ...
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The Arab Spring One Year Later
H350-CBE Instructors: Grist Starting: 03/06/2012 Location: Congregation Beth El
In January 2011, the self-immolation death of a Tunisian fruit-stand owner lit the flames of revolt throughout the Arab world. In a region where absolute rule from the top has been the norm for millennia, ...
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The Arab Spring One Year Later
H350-SJ Instructors: Grist Starting: 03/12/2012 Location: JCCSF
In January 2011, the self-immolation death of a Tunisian fruit-stand owner lit the flames of revolt throughout the Arab world. In a region where absolute rule from the top has been the norm for millennia, ...
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The Arab Spring One Year Later
H350-BA Instructors: Grist Starting: 03/15/2012 Location: Congregation Beth Am
In January 2011, the self-immolation death of a Tunisian fruit-stand owner lit the flames of revolt throughout the Arab world. In a region where absolute rule from the top has been the norm for millennia, ...
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The Art of Prophetic Justice: Bernard Zakheim in Depression-Era San Francisco
A450-OFJ Instructors: Rosenbaum Starting: 02/16/2012 Location: Oshman Family JCC
Bernard Zakheim (1896-1985), who was born and raised in Warsaw under Czarist Russia and lived in his old age on a commune near Sebastopol, California, was one of the most seminal Jewish artists of the ...
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The Art of Prophetic Justice: Bernard Zakheim in Depression-Era San Francisco
A450-PJ Instructors: Rosenbaum Starting: 05/15/2012 Location: Peninsula JCC
Bernard Zakheim (1896-1985), who was born and raised in Warsaw under Czarist Russia and lived in his old age on a commune near Sebastopol, California, was one of the most seminal Jewish artists of the ...
The Manovill Conversations: Advocacy Journalism
H500-SJ Instructors: Kristof Starting: 05/07/2012 Location: JCCSF
Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times columnist Nicholas D. Kristof is a boots-on-the ground reporter who calls attention to the most gripping stories imaginable, breathing life into sobering statistics from hotspots that include Congo, Darfur and ...
The Worst-Kept Secret: Israel’s Bargain with the Bomb
H250-JCL Instructors: Cohen Starting: 02/21/2012 Location: BJE Jewish Community Library
In his new book, The Worst-Kept Secret, Dr. Avner Cohen offers a bold and original study of this politically explosive subject. Along with a fair appraisal of the bargain's strategic merits, Cohen critiques its undemocratic ...
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Where We Are Heading: Voices From Our Community Imagining What's Next
X500-OFJ Instructors: Starting: 02/26/2012 Location: Oshman Family JCC
This program will be valuable to everyone who is interested and invested in the Bay Area's Jewish future. Fifteen short presentations will provide a glimpse of the future of our diverse and changing Bay Area ...