Jewish History

Generations Speaker Presentation by Clare Drobot

Tuesday, June 18 @ 6:00 PM EDT
Welker Room, James Laughlin Music Hall
5798 Woodland Rd
Pittsburgh, PA 15232 United States

Join us as we welcome Clare Drobot for her first public talk with the Holocaust Center! Clare will share the story of her grandmother, a survivor from Poland, and how her experiences shaped her family.

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Whistleblowers Who Exposed the Holocaust

Monday, April 15 @ 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM EDT
Zoom

Join the Holocaust Center of Pittsburgh for a VIRTUAL lunch & learn with Historian Dr. Rafael Medoff and whistleblower attorney Mark Zaid as they discuss the new nonfiction graphic novel Whistleblowers: Four Who Fought to Expose the Holocaust (written by Medoff; drawn by Dean Motter; foreword by Zaid). A Zoom link will be provided closer to the […]

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Passages to Safety: Untold Stories of Jewish Refugees in Latin America

Tuesday, March 12 @ 6:00 PM EDT
Welker Room, James Laughlin Music Hall
5798 Woodland Rd
Pittsburgh, PA 15232 United States

While Latin America only permitted about 84,000 Jewish refugees during the Holocaust, pockets of hope emerged. Tens of thousands of Spanish and Jewish refugees escaped Nazi-occupied Europe with the help of diplomats like Gilberto Bosques Saldívar of México. Jews were also offered crucial passage away from Nazi persecution by governments in Bolivia, the Dominican Republic, […]

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Soul to Soul Concert

Saturday, February 17 @ 7:30 PM EST
Elsie H. Hillman Auditorium At Kaufmann Center
1825 Centre Avenue
Pittsburgh, 15219 United States

From klezmer to jazz to spirituals to show tunes – a rousing concert to celebrate what unites Jewish and Black Americans.

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Samuel Rosenberg, Painter: A Vision of the Hill 1930

Wednesday, November 9, 2022 @ 7:00 PM - 8:30 PM EST
Rodef Shalom Congregation
4905 Fifth Avenue
Pittsburgh, PA 15213 United States

Barbara Long Jones, Curator Emerita at The Westmoreland Museum of American Art, and Laurence Glascoe, Ph.D., Associate Professor of History at the University of Pittsburgh, will discuss artist Samuel Rosenberg.  The talk begins at 7:00 P.M. and is open to the public. Rosenberg, a revered painter and teacher, spent his career in Pittsburgh. Andy Warhol, […]

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Kaufmann’s: From Peddlers to Prosperity

Thursday, November 3, 2022 @ 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM EDT
Rodef Shalom Congregation
4905 Fifth Avenue
Pittsburgh, PA 15213 United States

Join Rodef Shalom Congregation’s Archivist Martha L. Berg in a conversation with Marylynne Pitz and Laura Malt Schneiderman of the Pittsburgh Post Gazette about their new book on the family behind the famed Kaufmann’s department store.

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