Professor Emanuel Thorne discusses his fathers memoir, "It Will Yet Be Heard: A Polish Rabbi's Witness of the Shoah and Survival."

Rabbi Leon Thorne was born in Eastern Galicia and was ordained as a rabbi at age nineteen. He received his Ph.D. from University of Wuerzberg and became a chaplain in the Polish army in 1944.

His extraordinary history/memoir, written in part while in hiding in a small underground bunker below a Polish peasants pigsty, recounts his harrowing experience during the Holocaust. Emanuel Thorne, Rabbi Thorne's son, will discuss his father's life and legacy.

Emanuel Thorne, Ph.D., Yale University, teaches economics at Brooklyn College. He has published articles in the Yale Journal on Regulation, the Wall Street Journal and the New York Times.

Join us at 4:30 PM for a Book Signing and refreshments, followed by the lecture at 5:00 PM.

Please RSVP: jwst-contact@umd.edu

http://jewishstudies.umd.edu/events/it-will-yet-be-heard

This Shabbat falls nearest to Yom HaShoah, Holocaust Remembrance Day. We are honored to have our Rabbi’s Table led by Prof. Emanuel Thorne who just published his father’s memoir, It Will Yet Be Heard. Join us for the poignant, sometimes-harrowing experiences of Rabbi Leon Thorne, who composed his memoir under extraordinary conditions, confined to a small underground bunker below a Polish peasant’s pigsty. His story is remarkable “for its moral clarity and complexity.” Services at 9:30 a.m.; Rabbi’s Table starts around 10:45; kiddush follows at noon.

http://www.shirathanefesh.org/ki-tisa-golden-calf-orig-sin-2/

Daniel Walkowtiz The Remembered and Forgotten Jewish World lecture at Union College in Schenectady, NY.

Details TDB. https://chathambookstore.com/

“Differing Perceptions of Reality: 1939-2019”: A Talk on American Politics, Culture and Activism

Everybody welcome

Margaret Jacks Hall is on the Main Quad of Stanford’s Campus. It is at the end of Palm Drive, the main entrance into Stanford’s Campus. MJH faces the Oval, a large grassy area at the end of Palm Drive. Its entrance is the first door to the right of the main entrance of the quad.

https://www.hbrucefranklin.com/event/talk-at-stanford-may-8/

4th Floor Terrace Room, Margaret Jacks Hall, Stanford University

The Centre for Feminist Research Presents:

Book launch for

Beyond Repair?: Mayan Women's Protagonism in the Aftermath of Genocidal Harm

By Dr. Alison Crosby (York University) and Dr. M. Brinton Lykes (Boston College)

Discussant: Dr. Carlota McAllister (York University)
Chair: Dr. Viviana Patroni (York University)

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Date: Friday, May 10, 2019
Time: 1.15-2.45pm
Location: 305 Founders College, York University
Accessibility: Open to all. Accessible space. Founders College is wheelchair-accessible. Gender-neutral bathroom on 1st floor. Single-stall, accessible bathroom on 3rd floor. Wayfinding signs will be posted. RSVP to juliapyr@yorku.ca.

Copies of the book available for purchase!

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In Beyond repair? Alison Crosby and M. Brinton Lykes explore a group of Mayan women’s collective struggle for justice in the aftermath of harm suffered during the height of Guatemala’s genocidal violence in the early 1980s, a harm these protagonists contend is irreparable yet must be redressed. Drawing on eight years of feminist participatory action research (PAR), the book examines how Mayan women’s protagonism has been shaped through dialogic interactions with intermediaries, including Mayan, ladina, mestiza and transnational activists, feminists, lawyers, psychologists, interpreters, and the authors as researchers.

Crosby and Lykes trace how intermediaries accompanied Mayan protagonists in the performance of a “community of women” outside of their local geographic communities, as a space from which to enact actions for redress and engage in knowledge co-construction. In analyzing protagonists’ engagement with a Tribunal of Conscience, a paradigmatic legal case of sexual violence as a crime against humanity and a state-sponsored National Reparations Program—actions framed as “transitional justice”—as well as the authors’ PAR process, the book addresses a central tension between indigenous struggles to redress social suffering rooted in structural colonial violence and dispossession, and the tendency of Western rights-based regimes to individuate acts of harm and generate racialized gendered spectacles of pain and suffering, accentuated in cases of sexual harm. Crosby and Lykes consider the challenges and possibilities of decolonial feminist research praxis within such terrain.

Co-sponsors: CERLAC, School of Gender, Sexuality and Women’s Studies, the Graduate Program in Gender, Feminist and Women's Studies, the Institute for Feminist Legal Studies at Osgoode Hall Law School and Founders College.

Organized in conjunction with the 2019 Canadian Association of Latin American and the Caribbean Studies (CALACS) annual conference.

Dahlia Schweitzer discusses Going Viral in conversation with Thomas Allbaugh, author of Apocalypse TV. Q&A and signing to follow the talk.

Book Launch Event: Cat Men of Gotham by Peggy Gavan
Contact: Help Desk at 986-1047, ext. 3 or warref@rcls.org

Local author and blog celebrity Peggy Gavan launches her new book of stories about cats and their place in the history of New York City. The 19th century was a tough time to be a stray cat in New York, but some lucky strays were adopted by men of all walks of life and became feline celebrities. The author's blog, The Hatching Cat, has been featured in Newsweek Magazine and in The New York Times. Copies of The Cat Men of Gotham: Tales of Feline Friendships in Old New York will be available for purchase and signing.

Location:
AWPL Community Room
Age Group: Adult, Teen, Tween
Click HERE
to register!

Dr. Koch will deliver her keynote address at the NJ Healthcare Conference for Transgender Care from 7:45-9 am. A book signing will take place at 11:45 am after her closing remarks.

The event takes place at the RWJ Courtyard, marked "K" on this map: http://cinj.org/sites/cinj/files/documents/RWJUHCampusMap.pdf

Some Kind of Mirror: Creating Marilyn Monroe by Amanda Konkle

Although she remains one of the all-time most recognizable Hollywood icons, Marilyn Monroe has seldom been ranked among the greatest actors of her generation. Critics have typically viewed her film roles as mere extensions of her sexpot star persona. Yet this ignores both the subtle variations between these roles and the acting skill that went into the creation of Monroe’s public persona.
 
Some Kind of Mirror offers the first extended scholarly analysis of Marilyn Monroe’s film performances, examining how they united the contradictory discourses about women’s roles in 1950s America. Amanda Konkle suggests that Monroe’s star persona resonated with audiences precisely because it engaged with the era’s critical debates regarding femininity, sexuality, marriage, and political activism. Furthermore, she explores how Monroe drew from the techniques of Method acting and finely calibrated her performances to better mirror her audience’s anxieties and desires.
 
Drawing both from Monroe’s filmography and from 1950s fan magazines, newspaper reports, and archived film studio reports, Some Kind of Mirror considers how her star persona was coauthored by the actress, the Hollywood publicity machine, and the fans who adored her. It is about why 1950s America made Monroe a star, but it is also about how Marilyn defined an era.  

Event date: 
Saturday, May 18, 2019 - 1:00pm to 3:00pm
Event address: 
326 Bull Street
Savannah, GA 31410

https://www.eshaverbooks.com/event/signing-amanda-konkle

Join us for a book release celebration for Slavery’s Descendants: Shared Legacies of Race and Reconciliation, featuring local authors Karen Ross, Bill Sizemore, & Anne Westrick.

http://www.chopsueybooks.com/events/slaverysdescendants

As part of Door's Open Toronto this year - with its sub-theme of Indigenous connections - the Narayever is hosting the Toronto launch event for The Jews' Indian: Colonialism, Pluralism, and Belonging by David S. Koffman. Koffman will be interviewed by Rabbi Ed Elkin, and Leora Schaefer, the Executive Director of Facing History and Ourselves Canada.

https://www.toronto.ca/explore-enjoy/festivals-events/doors-open-toronto/doors-open-buildings/?view=tabList&ty=Faith%20&%20Worship%20Centre&key=F23F9C5151FED1BE852583A20011FDC9