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January 2022 Webinars HUJI USA North America UPCOMING EVENTS
Bicentennial Bling:
Jewelry and Fashion in "A Portrait of Jewish Cincinnati"
Thursday, January 20 at 4:00 pm ET
Join us for a webinar with Cynthia Amnéus, Chief Curator and Curator of Fashion Arts and Textiles at the Cincinnati Art Museum. This event will take place online only.
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https://huc.edu/bicentennial-bling-jewelry-and-fashion-in-portrait-jewish-cincinnati
American Israelites: Cincinnati and the
Shaping of Jewish Community in the United States
Thursday, January 20 at 6:00 pm ET
The Mercantile Library, 414 Walnut St., Cincinnati
Professor Karla Goldman, Director of the Jewish Communal Leadership Program at the University of Michigan, will discuss her upcoming book, “American Israelites: Cincinnati and the Shaping of Jewish Community in the United States.” Tracing Cincinnati’s rise and fall as a leading center of American Jewish life, Professor Goldman will show that the communal choices of Cincinnati’s Jews resulted in a particular kind of American identity – one that affirmed both difference and belonging.
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https://mercantilelibrary.com/calendar/american-israelites-cincinnati-and-the-shaping-of-jewish-community-in-the-united-states/
Presented in partnership with the Jewish Federation of Cincinnati, Jewish Cincinnati Bicentennial,
and the Center for the City at the University of Cincinnati.
Cincinnati Synagogues: Claiming Space in the Expanding City
Friday, January 21 at 11:30 am ET
Cincinnati’s Jewish community has occupied three significant geographic spaces over its two-hundred year history in the Queen City. Historians Anne Delano Steinert, Professor Karla Goldman, and Alayna Gould will offer short talks on the synagogue architecture of each period and how it served the changing needs and circumstances of Jewish Cincinnati. This event will take place online only.
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https://pr.huc.edu/email/2022/01/skirball/panel-2.pdf
Presented in partnership with the Center for the City at the University of Cincinnati, the Jewish Federation of Cincinnati, and the University of Cincinnati's School of Architecture and Department of History
Avondale History Lecture Series: Jewish Avondale
Saturday, January 22 at 12:00 pm ET
Avondale Branch Library, 3566 Reading Road, Cincinnati
Professor Karla Goldman will explore the distinct era from the 1920s through the 1950s when the streets of Avondale were home to a very American way of being Jewish and a very Jewish way of being American. The former synagogue buildings that still populate Reading Road and Forest Avenue today offer glimpses of the vibrant Jewish social, religious, and communal fabric that filled this neighborhood at this time.
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https://pr.huc.edu/email/2022/01/skirball/avondale.pdf
Presented in partnership with the Center for the City at the University of Cincinnati, the Jewish Federation of Cincinnati’s Bicentennial Committee, The Mercantile Library, the University of Cincinnati’s School of Architecture, and the Avondale Branch of the Cincinnati and Hamilton County Public Library.
