Rebecca Erbelding is the author of Rescue Board: The Untold Story of America's Efforts to Save the Jews of Europe, which won the JDC-Herbert Katzki National Jewish Book Award in 2018. She holds a PhD in American history from George Mason University. She worked as an archivist and curator at the US Holocaust Memorial Museum from 2003-2015, and […]
Jewish people who lived in late-19th century Central Eastern Europe experienced oppression on one hand and emancipation on the other hand, depending on the specific time and place. This was the case for Moravian Jews. Those individuals and families that were exceptionally successful in their own business or in the arts participated in the everyday […]
Two girls who fought with the partisans in Croatia; a teenager who survived the Holocaust because she was sentenced to ten years’ hard labor in the Gulag—for joining a youth group; a girl who survived, unlike her parents, because they courageously sent her to England on the Kindertransport. The experiences of women in the Holocaust […]
In celebration of Latinx Heritage Month, join us for a special reading by poet, writer, educator, and activist Lupe Mendez. Originally from Galveston, Texas, Lupe Mendez is the author of WHY I AM LIKE TEQUILA (Willow Books, 2019), winner of the 2019 John A. Robertson Award for Best First Book of Poetry from the Texas […]
Join us for an author talk, followed by a book signing, with Gwen Strauss, author of The Nine. Gwen Strauss is an award-winning children’s book author and poet, whose titles include Trail of Stones, The Night Shimmy, Ruth and the Green Book, and The Hiding Game. Her poetry, short stories and essays have appeared in […]
In celebration of Latinx Heritage Month, join us for a special reading by poet, educator, and performer José Olivarez. José Olivarez is the son of Mexican immigrants. His debut book of poems, Citizen Illegal, was a finalist for the PEN/Jean Stein Award and a winner of the 2018 Chicago Review of Books Poetry Prize. It […]
In 1979, Helen Epstein published Children of the Holocaust, one of the first books to examine the intergenerational transmission of trauma from Holocaust survivors to their children. In the four decades since its publication, Epstein has published 11 additional books (including Franci’s War, a memoir of her mother’s life, in 2020) and has served as a leading […]
In honor of the 20th anniversary of 9/11 and determined to continue highlighting the diversity of the Latinx and its stories, TEATRX presents a touring production of "Sonia Flew," a play by Melinda Lopez. When war intrudes on her family following 9/11, Sonia, a Cuban immigrant raising two children with her Jewish husband in Minneapolis, must […]
Due to electrical issues, tonight’s program is canceled. We apologize for the inconvenience. Jessica Carolina González, first prize winner of the juried exhibition Withstand: Latinx Art in Times of Conflict, will present on the influence war and displacement has in her artwork and other parallels. Jessica Carolina González is a multidisciplinary artist from Houston, TX. She […]
Adriana Corral’s sculptures and installations are framed by human rights abuses and historical narratives through memory and erasure. Corral’s work is rooted by her experiences from her birthplace of El Paso, Texas in which she examines the nuances of immigration, citizenship, economic trade, labor, public health, and policies from a local to national and international […]