NEWS & EVENTS
*** Please join us as we celebrate the launching of
JEWS IN NEW HAVEN VOLUME IX
on May 31, 2009!
CLICK HERE FOR DETAILS & FLYER.
Thank you to all who attended our recent program on Camp Laurelwood!
And thanks to Len Honeyman for taking these great photos.
*** NEW!!!! Jewish New Haven Slide Show on video
Montage of pictures of photos and objects from the archives of the Jewish Historical Society of Greater New Haven. Thanks to Werner Hirsch for putting this together!
*** The New Haven Independent Writes About Local Jewish History...
Photo credit: Cynthia Beth Rubin
Urban renewal extinguished a star in the Hill neighborhood. It has reappeared, for good, in a new home in Westville.
The star was born in the central window of the old “Rose Street Shul.”
That was a synagogue on a little street near what’s now Yale-New Haven
Hospital. The entire street, including the synagogue, perished in the
mid-20th century bulldozer-driven assault on New Haven known as “urban
renewal.”
The old
synagogue spawned two successors across town in Westville, where much
of the Jewish community was moving: the conservative egalitarian Beth
El Keser Israel (BEKI) on Harrison Street and the Orthodox Westville
Synagogue on West Prospect Street. Both congregations are still going
strong in the 21st century.
The
image of the star from Rose Street’s window inspired the design of a
colorful new work of stained-glass installed above the Harrison Street
entrance to BEKI. An official dedication of the window is planned for
this Sunday.... Read the whole thing
RECENT EVENTS & PROGRAMS
*** Join us for a program on
CAMP LAURELWOOD
at Taste of Honey @ the JCC - Jan. 31, 2009
Camp Laurelwood Memories:
1930's-1970's
Taste of
Honey, Jan 31, 2009, 8-9 PM, JCC
The moderator will be Dr. William Ortman, author of
the article on Camp Laurelwood that will appear in Vol IX of Jews in New Haven
(publication party at JCC May 31, 2009).
The panelists will be:
1. Marian Wexler, whose mother was one of the
founders of Camp Laurelwood. She will talk about the early history, and
her memories of being there in the 1940's.
2. Stu Katz, former camper, staff person,
current Board member
3. Ellen Iead, whose father Norman Feitelson
(in FL for the winter) was a director--she was a camper and is now on the
Board.
The audience will include Ruth Ann Ornstein,
current Laurelwood director, and Bd. Pres. Bruce Small. Our JHS archivist
Marvin Bargar is making posters of the early days of Camp
Laurelwood.
We will make a DVD of the event for the JHS
archives, and invite the audience to also share memories, as time
allows.
*** Jewish Book Month: Allen Ruff, author of "Save Me, Julie Kogon"
Sunday October 26, 2008
27 Tishrei 5769
CULTURAL/ARTS
Time: 10:00 AM - 12:00 AM
Author Talk/Book-signing
Allen
Ruff is a former bartender, currently a book seller, cab driver, story
teller and political activist. He holds a Ph.D. in US History from the
University of Wisconsin and has previously published several
book-length histories, and numerous journalistic pieces. This is his
first novel.
A talented raconteur, he inherited that skill from some of the real New Haven characters, now the inspiration for "Save Me, Julie Kogon."
The book portrays four generations of a Jewish family coping with life
in the Legion Ave/Oak Street neighborhood of New Haven. He currently
calls Madison, Wisconsin home.
Location: JCC Community Room
360 Amity Road
New Haven, CT
Contact: Marvin Bargar 392-6125 jhsgnh@yahoo.com
Sponsored By
Jewish Historical Society
Jewish Community Center
Photo credit: Michael Marcus
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***Octogenarians: Share Your Memories With Sam Faiman!
Sun., Aug. 24, 11 am
Ethnic Heritage Ctr.
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*** Stars to shine for breakfast at JCC Sunday June 29
The stars will shine at the annual breakfast meeting of the Jewish Historical Society of Greater New Haven, which is co-sponsored by the Jewish Community Center in Woodbridge. Edith (Edie) Goodmaster will bring those stars to the Sunday, June 29, event with her talk, “My Life With the Stars.” The event is scheduled for 10 a.m.
MISSED THIS EVENT?
Read the
TEXT OF EDIE'S TALK
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*** Our neighboring organization to the north, the Jewish Historical Society of Greater Hartford, is sponsoring an important exhibit May 4 – June 20, 2008
Scream the Truth at the World: Emanuel Ringelblum and the Hidden Archive of the Warsaw Ghetto
May 4 - June 20
On September 18, 1946, evidence of the destruction of Polish Jewry, ghetto life, and Nazi brutality was pulled from the rubble of the Warsaw Ghetto. The Ringelblum archive, as the materials came to be known, is the most important source for, and the most poignant testimony to, the destruction of Polish Jewry.
Scream the Truth at the World: Emanuel Ringelblum and the Hidden Archive of the Warsaw Ghetto, curated by the Museum of Jewish Heritage—A Living Memorial to the Holocaust and the Jewish Historical Institute, Warsaw, will be on loan to the Jewish Historical Society of Greater Hartford in West Hartford, Connecticut from May 4 through June 20. This is a stop on a national tour for the exhibit, which was originally on view at the Museum in New York from November 7, 2001 through February 18, 2002, and subsequently appeared internationally, including venues in San Francisco, California, Houston, Texas, and throughout Europe.
For more information, contact JHSGH.
Jewish Historical Society of Greater Hartford
333 Bloomfield Avenue
West Hartford, CT 06117
Phone: (860) 727-6171
Fax: (860) 232-5221
E-mail: ekafer@jewishhartford.org
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*** On January 26, 2008, JHSGNH organized a panel at the Jewish Federation of Greater New Haven's annual "Taste of Honey" adult education program.
"Remembering Our Roots: A Sentimental Journey Down Whalley Avenue." Featuring a panel of former Whalley Avenue business owners. Moderated by JHSGNH board member Len Honeyman.
Congratulations to everyone who helped to make this event happen!
*** Sunday April 13, 2008 -- JHSGNH Hall of Fame Dinner
Please join us as we honor Rita Gold, Albert Harary, and Dr. Gary Fleischman!