Lawrence Family JCC
Executive Drive & Genesee Ave., La Jolla, CA
All meetings start at 1:00 p.m. on second Sunday of the month
unless otherwise announced.
February 14,2010
1:00 p.m.
Come join us for an entertaining thought provoking film with commentary and discussion by Dr. Lawrence Baron.
“Uncle Moses” (1932)
The film depicts the old-world values as it clashes over the new-world dreams, and it is played out by seeing the traditional Jewish family undergo tremendous changes in their lifestyle as they must adapt to the ways of their new country. The patriarchal Uncle Moses is the antihero rich clothing manufacturer, who left the old country where there was widespread poverty and persecution of the Jews, to come to America, the promised land, and start his business in the crowded Jewish ghetto on the Lower East Side of NYC.
Dr. Lawrence Baron,PhD has held the Abraham Nasatir Chair in Modern Jewish History at San Diego State University since 1988. He currently serves as the advisor to the Graduate Program in History at San Diego State University and directed the university's Jewish Studies program from l988 until 2006. Specializing in modern German and Jewish history, he authored Projecting the Holocaust into the Present: The Changing Focus of Contemporary Holocaust Cinema (2005) and acted as the historian for Sam and Pearl Oliner's The Altruistic Personality: Rescuers of Jews in Nazi Europe (1988). He has spoken about his research at Yad Vashem, the US Holocaust Memorial Museum, the Polish Academy of Sciences, and the Imperial War Museum in London. He is the founder and current president of the Western Jewish Studies Association and a member of the Advisory Board of the Association for Jewish Studies. His latest work is The Wandering View: Modern Jewish History in World Cinema which will be published by Brandeis University Press.
members :free
guests: $3
March ,2010 meeting changed to:
Monday, March 8, 2010
7:30 p.m.
Steve Luxenberg
Annie’s Ghosts: A Journey
Into a Family Secret
Annie’s Ghosts tells of a family secret Luxenberg
learned only after his mother’s death. Using his skills
as an investigative reporter he pieced together the
story of Annie, an aunt whose very existence had been
hidden from Luxenberg and his siblings.Steve Luxenberg has worked for more than thirty years as areporter and newspaper editor, the last twenty‐two yearswith the Washington Post, overseeing reporting that haswon numerous awards, including two Pulitzer Prizes forexplanatory journalism.
Co‐sponsored by the San Diego Jewish Genealogical Society and the Samuel & Rebecca Astor Judaica Library.
Lawrence Family Jewish Community Center
4126 Executive Drive (corner of Genesee Avenue), La Jolla
Free event.
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Refreshments will be served. Book signing follows.
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