Annual Warsaw Ghetto Commemoration
"The Future of Shoah Memory"

Please join us this Sunday as we mark Yom Hashoah v'Hagevurah (Holocaust Remembrance Day) and pay tribute to our martyrs with a candle-lighting ceremony.

Featuring Dr. Samuel Edelman, speaking on "The Book of the Shoah: Yitzhak Katzenelson and the Future of Shoah Memory." And a program of Yiddish song with Cantor Arianne Brown of Sinai Temple.


The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising Commemoration is co-sponsored by the Los Angeles Yiddish Culture Club, Arbeter Ring (Workmen's Circle), Yiddishkayt, The Sholem Community, Ameinu, Jewish Labor Committee, California Institute for Yiddish Culture and Language, Adat Chaverim, Progressive Jewish Alliance, and Secular Jewish Humanists of LA.

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Dr. Edelman has been teaching and lecturing on the Shoah for 25 years. His major focus is on Cultural Resistance. He has produced five documentaries on the Shoah for public radio and is the winner of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting award for humanities documentaries. He has also written extensively and teaches on Anti-Semitism, the Holocaust and Genocide, Jewish rhetoric, Israeli Public Address, and the Arab-Israeli Conflict.

With her clear, crystalline voice, Arianne Brown is a well-loved leader of religious life at Sinai Temple. She is also a graduate of the Folkbiene Yiddish Theatre and an affecting presenter of Yiddish song, a treasure in our community.

Part of the Los Angeles Jewish Film Festival
Monday, April 27, 2009, at 7:30 pm
at Laemmle's Music Hall
9036 Wilshire Blvd, Beverly Hills, 90211 (map)

$12 Adults, $9 Seniors and Students
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A home of one's own: that's the American dream. But what happens when the dreamers are immigrants, factory workers, and Communists?

Mining a rich, forgotten chapter of New York socialism, At Home in Utopia is the tale of the country's first experiment in cooperative urban living. Founded by Russian Jewish immigrants in 1925, the United Workers Cooperative Colony - aka the Coops - was an oasis of progressive social values and radical ideals where Yiddish was taught after school and racial integration was not only preached but practiced. An epic tale of the struggle for equity and justice across two generations, the film tracks the rise and fall of one community from the 1920s into the 1950s.

After the screening join the filmmaker, children of the Coops and public housing gurus in exploring the experience - and present-day lessons - of the Coops.  With Michal Goldman, the filmmaker; Elissa Barrett, Executive Director of PJA; Hershl Hartman, child of the Coops, Education Director of the Sholem Community and Yiddishkayt's Vortsman; and Irv Goldstein, child of the Coops.  Moderated by Peter Dreier, Professor of Politics and Chair of the Urban & Environmental Policy Program at Occidental College.



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Presented by Yiddishkayt and the LA Jewish Film Festival, along with our friends at Arbeter Ring (Workmen's Circle), Progressive Jewish Alliance (PJA), and the Sholem Community.