Current courses by topic: The Arts

A500-PJ Instructors: Strimling Starting: 11/14/2010 Location: Jazz Heritage Center

The lecture will provide an overview of the exhibition of Bernard Baruch Zakheim, a Jewish immigrant from Poland who came to San Francisco in 1920 and whose painting was of a social realism inclination. He ...

H150-OFJ Instructors: Heller Starting: 11/04/2010 Location: Oshman Family JCC

What was it like to be a young Jew in Poland between the first and second world wars? Using the interviews and images compiled by Centropa's Library of Rescued Memories, as well as autobiographies written ...

H400-OFJ Instructors: Zipperstein Starting: 11/19/2010 Location: Oshman Family JCC

Steven Zipperstein, Koshland Professor in Jewish Culture and History at Stanford, has published widely on the history of Russian Jewry and has taught at universities in Russia, England, France and elsewhere. His lecture will explore ...

H200-JCL Instructors: Rosenbaum Starting: 11/18/2010 Location: BJE Jewish Community Library

San Francisco's largest and most vibrant Jewish neighborhood was dense with synagogues, schools, mutual aid societies, kosher butchers and restaurants, cultural centers, and much more from the earthquake to the mid-1960s and especially during the ...

A300-CJM Instructors: Rosenbaum Starting: 10/21/2010 Location: Contemporary Jewish Museum

The CJM presents a panel discussion on public art, social responsibility and ethnic identity, in celebration of the 75th anniversary of the WPA (Works Progress Administration). Panelists include: Fred Rosenbaum, founding director of Lehrhaus Judaica ...

A500-JHC Instructors: Rosenbaum Starting: 10/20/2010 Location: Jazz Heritage Center

In the 1930s, Bernard Baruch Zakheim (1896-1985) was one of the leading artists in the Bay Area and one of the foremost Jewish artists in the country. He was also one of the most controversial. ...

A500-SI Instructors: Strimling Starting: 10/05/2010 Location: Congregation Sherith Israel

The lecture will provide an overview of the exhibition of Bernard Baruch Zakheim, a Jewish immigrant from Poland who came to San Francisco in 1920 and whose painting was of a social realism inclination. He ...

A500-PJ Instructors: Strimling Starting: 11/14/2010 Location: Jazz Heritage Center

The lecture will provide an overview of the exhibition of Bernard Baruch Zakheim, a Jewish immigrant from Poland who came to San Francisco in 1920 and whose painting was of a social realism inclination. He ...

A300-CJM Instructors: Rosenbaum Starting: 10/21/2010 Location: Contemporary Jewish Museum

The CJM presents a panel discussion on public art, social responsibility and ethnic identity, in celebration of the 75th anniversary of the WPA (Works Progress Administration). Panelists include: Fred Rosenbaum, founding director of Lehrhaus Judaica ...

A500-JHC Instructors: Rosenbaum Starting: 10/20/2010 Location: Jazz Heritage Center

In the 1930s, Bernard Baruch Zakheim (1896-1985) was one of the leading artists in the Bay Area and one of the foremost Jewish artists in the country. He was also one of the most controversial. ...