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In The Ottawa Community
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Community Events and Announcements
Music From Around the World. Wednesday, October 24, 1 - 2:15 pm, SJCC, 21 Nadolny Sachs Pvt. Join pianist Katherine Addleman and violinist Anna Baksheeva on a journey of song and dance from around the world. Haunting songs of Spain and Romania (Bartok and de Falla), and lively Russian, Slavic, French and English dances (Tchaikovsky, Dvorjak, Poldini, Elgar) are on the itinerary, along with a few gypsy selections. Contact Roslyn Wollock at rwollock@jccottawa.com.
* The Shabbat Project Women's Challah Bake, Thursday, Oct. 25
7 - 9 pm. Celebrate with thousands around the world! Join the Jewish Federation of Ottawa for a Women's Challah Bake (open to girls 12+). Chairs: Orly Aaron and Linda Melamed. Tickets are $18 and can be purchased at canada.jewishfederation.org
Kehillat Beth Israel Congregation, 1400 Coldrey Ave. Information: Lindsay Gottheil at 613-798-4696 x355 or lgottheil@jewishottawa.com
Canadian Holocaust Literature Conference, Saturday, October 27, 7:30pm-9pm, and Sunday, October 28, 9 am - 7 pm, Library and Archives Canada 395 Wellington St. Organizers: Rebecca Margolis (University of Ottawa), Seymour Mayne (University of Ottawa), Ruth Panofsky (Ryerson University). Free event, open to the public but advance registration is required. Full details at https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/canadian-holocaust-literature-charting-the-field-tickets-48185452987
* Double Threat - Book Talk with Ellin Bessner, Sunday, Nov. 4, 10:30 am - 12 pm at the SJCC, 21 Nadolny Sachs Pvt. Ellin - the granddaughter of one of Ottawa's founding Jewish families, the Lieff's - brings her book and research to the Soloway JCC for a community talk about Canada's Jewish Community, and how Ottawa responded to WWII with personnel, political support, and financial support. Her book includes the stories of well-known local families, among them, the Maser (9 children in uniform), Zelikovitz and Saslove families. Contact Roslyn Wollock at rwollock@jccottawa.com
* Holocaust Education Month “Pop-Up Museum,” November 4, 2018 at 12:30 PM to 4:00 PM, Temple Israel, 1301 Prince of Wales Dr. In honour of Holocaust Education Month, the “Pop up Museum” will display Holocaust artefacts brought in by community members with explanations provided by Dr. Robert Ehrenreich of USHMM. To learn more about this event and about how you can participate, visit the Holocaust Education Month Pop-Up Museum 2018 web page: https://carleton.ca/hempopup/. Free and open to the public.
* “Let the Artefacts Speak: Returning Humanity to Holocaust Victims” -
Lecture by Dr. Robert Ehrenreich of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. November 5, 2018 at 7:30 p.m., Temple Israel. Six million Jews were murdered during the Holocaust. The number is staggering. It is the equivalent of almost seven Ottawas. How can we represent the magnitude of this crime without reducing the victims to mere numbers? How can we show, as Holocaust survivor Abel Herzberg said so well, that “There were not six million Jews murdered; there was one murder, six million times”? How do we convey that these were real people with real lives and families. In this presentation, I will discuss how personal items can turn the huge numbers of victims back into individuals and return their humanity, based on three case-studies: personal items discovered near shooting pits in Ukraine; damaged photographs from Poland; and a piece of mica from the Theresienstadt Glimmerwerke (mica works).
* The Centre for Holocaust Education and Scholarship (https://carleton.ca/ches/) will mark the 80th anniversary of Kristallnacht, and the launch the 2018 Holocaust Education Month on November 7th at 7:00 p.m. at Kehillat Beth Israel, 1400 Coldrey Avenue, with a keynote address delivered by Dr Michael Berenbaum, a leading Holocaust expert and one of the founders of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. And a Special Premiere Performance by Niv Ashkenazy: In tribute to the six million whose voices were silenced forever. Mr Ashkenazy, a virtuoso and classically trained student of Itzhak Perlman, will perform on a “VIOLIN OF HOPE” that was salvaged from the ashes of the Holocaust and lovingly restored by Amnon Weinstein in Israel.
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