JGSGB-Announce Mailing List: REMINDER: Pgm This Sunday: Jews of Poland and Russia (Polonsky)

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This is a reminder of our program this Sunday. For more details, visit our website at www.jgsgb.org. Please note that this program is being held at Gann Academy (click on the link below for directions).

The Jews of Poland and Russia
Myth and Reality

Antony Polonsky

Sunday, September 11, 2011
1:30 PM
Gann Academy, Waltham

On the eve of the Second World War, Poland contained the largest Jewish community in Europe. Its Jewish
population—close to three-and-a-half million—was second in size only to that of the United States. The third
largest Jewish community in the world, with nearly three million Jews, was in the Soviet Union.

The majority of American Jews come from these lands, but what they know of their ancestors‘ lives—
frequently based on myths, misunderstandings, and stereotypes—diminishes the Jewish civilization that
emerged there and fails to grasp the extent of what was lost in the passage across the Atlantic. Prof. Polonsky
will recreate this lost world in a way that transcends both sentimentalism and the belief that the East European
Jewish experience consisted only of persecution and martyrdom.

Antony Polonsky is Albert Abramson Professor of Holocaust Studies, an appointment held jointly at the
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum and Brandeis University. He is the author of the newly published
three-volume opus, The Jews in Poland and Russia: A History, a socio-political, economic, and religious history
of the Jewish communities of eastern Europe from 1350 to the present. Also editor of Polin: Studies in Polish
Jewry, Prof. Polonsky has written many scholarly books, taught at universities around the world, and received
many awards and honors, including the Knight’s Cross of the Order of Merit of the Republic of Poland.

Admission is free for members, $5 for non-members.
Refreshments will be served.

Upcoming Programs

    Sunday, October 16, 1:30 PM (Temple Emanuel)
        Tom Weiss: Vienna’s Jewish Community: History, Destruction & Genealogical Reconstruction

    Sunday, November 13 (Temple Emanuel)
        11:30 AM -- Gesher Galicia meeting
        02:00 PM -- Pamela Weisberger: Chutes & Ladders: Innovative Approaches to Genealogy

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