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Out on a Ledge
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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.
This talk is part of the 22nd Annual Contra Costa Jewish Book & Arts Festival. For information about the festival, go to www.ccjcc.org or www.jfed.org or call 925-938-7800 or 510-318-6453.
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Schedule
| Session | Time | Days | Location | Instructors |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 09 | 7:30 PM–9:00 PM | Tue | Temple Sinai | Fred Rosenbaum |
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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.