CHAI: the Cooperative Hebrew Adult Institute

Date: Nov 07, 2016

Time: 8:30 p.m.

Sponsor: JTS Learning in Your Community

Six-Part Lecture Series With JTS Scholars

Chai: the Cooperative Hebrew Adult Institute is a a multi-synagogue adult education institute held at the Dix Hills Jewish Center in cooperation with the Hereld Institute for Jewish Studies of JTS.

Six Mondays: October 31, November 7, 14, 21, 28 and December 5
8:30 p.m.
Dix Hills Jewish Center

November 7 Lecture

“Book Smugglers: How A Group of Ghetto Inmates Rescued Jewish Treasures from the Nazis and Soviets,” with Dr. David Fishman, Professor of Jewish History

In Vilna, “the Jerusalem of Lithuania,” a group of Jewish writers and intellectuals risked their lives to rescue Jewish books, manuscripts, and art from the Nazis. While working as slave laborers for the Nazis’ main looting agency, they “stole” Jewish cultural treasures, smuggled them into the ghetto, and hid them in underground cellars and bunkers. The few members of this group who survived the war returned to their city after its liberation, and led an operation to retrieve the treasures. Learn about this inspiring story of Jewish “spiritual resistance,” and reflect on what it means for us today.

The JTS lecture will be preceded by a class with a local clergy member.

Cost

$36 per person for the six weeks of courses and lectures.

Registration

Please contact Gail Jospa at gjospa@optonline.net for additional information and to learn how to register.

Dix Hills Jewish Center
555 Vanderbilt Parkway
Dix Hills, NY 11746

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