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Shared Sorrow, Shared Survival: International Romani Day at the Center for Jewish History

16thstreet: By J.D. Arden, M.L.I.S., Reference Services Librarian, Genealogy Specialist, Center for Jewish History  Image: Street Scene [Bucharest] Collection of  Leo Baeck Institute http://access.cjh.org/867447 Wednesday, April 8th is International Romani Day,celebrating and raising awareness of the Romani people, an ethnic minority with roots in Northern India who, like the Jewish people, experienced an expulsion from their homeland hundreds of years ago, and began a…

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The People and the Book – The World We Make with Words

The People and the Book – The World We Make with Words April 5th, 2016 6:00 PM Lecture Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks, a global religious leader, philosopher and bestselling author, will explore how words and texts have powerfully shaped 4,000 years of Jewish history and how Jews have gone about interpreting, treasuring, and adding to texts through times of political challenges and cultural changes….

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Burning Words: A History Play by Peter Wortsman

Burning Words: A History Play by Peter Wortsman will be presented at the Center for Jewish History on April 3rd: In one of the first debates of the print era, Johannes Reuchlin, a humanist Christian jurist, clashed with Christian convert from Judaism Johannes Pfefferkorn, who was a willing tool of the Dominican Order in their quest to burn Jewish books. Magda Teter (Fordham University)…

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