| Program Sun Mar 13, 2011: Finding Our Jewish Relatives in South America | <– Date –> <– Thread –> |
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| Date: Sun, 20 Feb 2011 20:42:06 -0800 (PST) | |
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This is the notice of our next program. For more details, visit our website at www.jgsgb.org. Splitting & Reconnecting—
Marc Cutler weaves a tale that began in 1956, when his grandfather’s
two Yiddish-speaking sisters from Argentina visited Boston. He was
never to meet them again; but forty years later, an old letter
written in English to his mother by young Mirta—the grand-daughter
of one of the sisters—started him on a search to find and reconnect
with this lost part of his family. Cutler recounts his successful
efforts to find Mirta and the discovery of a vibrant Jewish family
in Argentina descended from the two sisters, and he relates how the
immigration history of the family intertwined with historical events
in Poland, the US, and Argentina.Finding Our Jewish Relatives in South America Marc Cutler Sunday, March 13, 2011 1:30 PM in Reisman Hall Temple Emanuel, Newton, MA Cutler explores the history of Jewish immigration to Latin America and of Jewish life in Argentina through the experiences of this family. They lived through the Peronista years, when Nazi war criminals were actively recruited to come to Argentina; the brutal fascist military dictatorship of the 1970s when 30,000 people (including 3000 Jews, one of whom was his cousin) were “disappeared”; the bombings of AMIA and the Israeli embassy in the 1990s; and the economic collapse of 2000. Marc Cutler is a Senior Vice President of Cambridge Systematics, Inc. (CS), a leading national transportation planning firm. He has managed or played key roles in many high profile transportation planning studies across the country—including the Central Artery/Tunnel project in Boston—and speaks widely on transportation topics. He has a B.A. in Political Science and an M.A. in Urban Planning from Tufts University and an M.A. in Education from Harvard University. Admission is free for members, $5 for
non-members.
Refreshments will be served. Sunday, April 24 (Temple Emanuel) Sunday, May 15 (Temple Emanuel) A flyer in Adobe PDF format is available from our website at flyer.jgsgb.org. We encourage
you to print it out and post copies in places where you think it
would attract attendees, such as synagogues, community centers,
supermarkets, etc.
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