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Out on a Ledge

This course is no longer offered.

Out on a Ledge is the compelling memoir of Eva Libitzky, co-authored by award-winning historian Fred Rosenbaum. It tells the rarely examined story of a Hasidic girl in the Holocaust, a dutiful daughter who survived the Lodz ghetto, Auschwitz, a slave labor camp, and Theresienstadt. At the limit of human endurance, she lost her faith, but not her instincts, intelligence, or courage. Fred Rosenbaum researched this book not only through a hundred hours of interviews, but also as a fellow at the US Holocaust Memorial Museum, where he unearthed shocking documents about Eva’s Holocaust journey, data obtained from an German archive, which had lain fallow for sixty-five years.

Eva Libitzky, of Pompano Beach, Florida, will be in conversation with Fred Rosenbaum.

For more information on Out on a Ledge, click here.

Schedule

# Sessions
1
Date & time

Thursday, October 14
7:00 - 8:30 pm

Location
Tuition
Free
Session Time Days Location Instructors
Oct 14 7:00 PM–8:30 PM Thu JCCSF Fred Rosenbaum

Location

JCCSF

3200 California Street

San Francisco, CA 94118

415-292-1200

Instructors

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.