JANUARY 2021
From “Griner” to “Yenkee”: Letters to the Bintel Brief over Three Generations
Professor Emeritus David Weinberg
SUNDAY, JANUARY 24
2:00 PM
The story of the integration of Polish and Russian Jewish immigrants into American life is often described as an unmitigated success. In reality, the transition from the Old World to the New often was quite difficult and required numerous sacrifices.
By looking at selected letters in English from the Bintel Brief, the famous advice column published for over fifty years in the Jewish Daily Forward, we can trace the challenges and opportunities faced by East European Jewish immigrants and their descendants over three generations – from the arrival at Ellis Island to the early 1960s and 1970s.
Register for the event here.
By looking at selected letters in English from the Bintel Brief, the famous advice column published for over fifty years in the Jewish Daily Forward, we can trace the challenges and opportunities faced by East European Jewish immigrants and their descendants over three generations – from the arrival at Ellis Island to the early 1960s and 1970s.
Register for the event here.
FEBRUARY 2021
Paris / Auschwitz: Remembering the Children /
A la Mémoire des Enfants Déportés
Eleanor Winters
SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 21
2:00 PM
Join SAI as we welcome Eleanor Winters to discuss her newest book: a collection of calligraphic paintings commemorating more than 6000 Jewish children who were deported from Paris and murdered in the Nazi concentration camps during the Holocaust.
The series consists of more than 200 paintings, done with ink, gouache, oil and acrylic paints and oil pastels, with calligraphic texts based on plaques installed throughout Paris, asking us not to forget these young victims. Forty of the paintings are included in this book, as well as essays by the author, by Barry Morentz, and French writer Roselyne Kraft.
The series consists of more than 200 paintings, done with ink, gouache, oil and acrylic paints and oil pastels, with calligraphic texts based on plaques installed throughout Paris, asking us not to forget these young victims. Forty of the paintings are included in this book, as well as essays by the author, by Barry Morentz, and French writer Roselyne Kraft.
SAI Purim Simkhe 2021
SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 28
2:00PM
SAI welcomes Purim with a virtual party for all ages. Grab your mask and join the fun.
More information coming soon!
More information coming soon!
