Courses by instructor: Fred Rosenbaum
Fred Rosenbaum
Fred Rosenbaum, founding director of Lehrhaus Judaica, has written four books on Bay Area Jewish history and three books on the Holocaust. He has taught numerous courses on the history of contemporary Israel at Lehrhaus and the University of San Francisco. He has been awarded the S.Y. Agnon Gold Medal for Intellectual Excellence by the Scopus Society of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, the Covenant Award for Exceptional Jewish Educators, as well as the Anne and Robert Cowan Writers’ Award for making an exceptional impact on the Bay Area by writing on Jewish themes.
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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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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 ...
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The Fabulous Fillmore, 1907-1955
H250-CJM Instructors: Rosenbaum Starting: 02/23/2012 Location: Contemporary Jewish Museum
A center of Orthodox religious life, but also of Zionism, socialism, and the Yiddish theater, the Fillmore was the hub of Yiddish-speaking Jewish culture in Northern California for almost half a century. But it was ...