Preserving the Past & Enhancing the Future

Programs

  


                  
Date & Time* Program** Subject/Title
2023

                         

October 22, 2023
2:00 PM
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74-min film. In the aftermath of the Holocaust, secret meetings began to negotiate the incomprehensible - compensation for survivors of the largest mass genocide in history,.  Survivors were in urgent need, but how could reparations be determined for the unprecedented destruction and suffering of a people?  Reckonings explores this riveting story.




 "Reckonings" (documentary)

November 19, 2023
2:00PM++

   
Eden Siskind, speaker: How HIAS, the world's oldest refugee organization, has transformed from a resettlement agency helping Jewish refugees to an international humanitarian organization, assisting displaced persons of all faiths using Jewish values.  In conversation with Memphian Eden Siskind, Assistant Program Director, Latin America and the Caribbean.




HIAS: Then and Now
                                          

2024



Jan 14, 2024
1:00PM++
   
Join author and Lawyer Marlene Trestman as she discusses the remarkable history of the Jewish Orphans Home of New Orleans.  Founded in 1855 in the aftermath of a yellow fever epidemic, the Home  was the first purpose-built Jewish orphanage in the nation. By the time the Jewish Orphans Home closed in 1946,  it had sheltered more than sixteen hundred parentless children and two dozen widows from New Orleans and other areas of Louisiana and the mid-South.



Most Fortunate Unfortunates: The Jewish Orphans' Home of New Orleans and its Tennessee Ties

Mar 10, 2024
2:00PM++
       South Carolina authors Rachel Gordon Barnet and Lyssa Kligman
      Harvey will share stories that illuminate the richness of the
     southern Jewish table.


         Kugels & Collards: Stories of food,
         families and tradition in Jewish South
         Carolina
   

  *    Programs will take place in the JHS Zoom room at 2 PM unless specified otherwise. 
 **   Click on Program links (when available) for more information.
 *** On the date/time of the program,  click on "via Zoom!" for instructions on how to join the JHS Zoom room.
  +   For more information about these programs, email the Memphis Jewish Historical Society at mjhspresident@gmail.com.
 ++ JHS meeting to be held at the MJCC.