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Beth Ames Swartz – Artists and Art Professionals Symposium

Cutler-Plotkin Jewish Heritage Center 122 E Culver St., Phoenix, AZ, United States

Full schedule of programs The Arizona Jewish Historical Society (AZJHS) presents Tikkun Olam (Repairing the World), an exhibition of acclaimed artist, Beth Ames Swartz. Tikkun Olam (Repairing the World) features works from several seminal series that span over 50 years, many from the artists own collection and selected by guest curator, Robert Pela. Each series […]

Free

Beth Ames Swartz – Book Discussion

Cutler-Plotkin Jewish Heritage Center 122 E Culver St., Phoenix, AZ, United States

Full schedule of programs The Arizona Jewish Historical Society (AZJHS) presents Tikkun Olam (Repairing the World), an exhibition of acclaimed artist, Beth Ames Swartz. Tikkun Olam (Repairing the World) features works from several seminal series that span over 50 years, many from the artists own collection and selected by guest curator, Robert Pela. Each series […]

Free

Beth Ames Swartz – Humanities Seminar w/Dr. Neal Lester

Cutler-Plotkin Jewish Heritage Center 122 E Culver St., Phoenix, AZ, United States

Full schedule of programs The Arizona Jewish Historical Society (AZJHS) presents Tikkun Olam (Repairing the World), an exhibition of acclaimed artist, Beth Ames Swartz. Tikkun Olam (Repairing the World) features works from several seminal series that span over 50 years, many from the artists own collection and selected by guest curator, Robert Pela. Each series […]

Free

Beth Ames Swartz – Exhibition Opening and Program

Cutler-Plotkin Jewish Heritage Center 122 E Culver St., Phoenix, AZ, United States

Full schedule of programs The Arizona Jewish Historical Society (AZJHS) presents Tikkun Olam (Repairing the World), an exhibition of acclaimed artist, Beth Ames Swartz. Tikkun Olam (Repairing the World) features works from several seminal series that span over 50 years, many from the artists own collection and selected by guest curator, Robert Pela. Each series […]

Free

Deli Man – Film Screening & Discussion

Cutler-Plotkin Jewish Heritage Center 122 E Culver St., Phoenix, AZ, United States

For some, delicatessen food is close to a religious experience: A tender, crumbling cut of corned beef steeped in its juices, a full-bodied garlic dill pickle, spicy brown mustard with grain. Recipes and culinary garnishes from Hungary, Poland, Russia, Romania that flowed into late 19th and early 20th century America soon became part of an American […]

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In Their Own Hands: The Story of the Jewish Brigade in World War II

Cutler-Plotkin Jewish Heritage Center 122 E Culver St., Phoenix, AZ, United States

During the final months of World War II, His Majesty's Jewish Brigade - the only all-Jewish fighting unit in the war - goes into combat against the hated Nazis...and comes away victorious. However, it is after the war, though, that the real story of the Brigade begins. Amidst the chaos of post-war Europe, and under […]

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Journey to Justice – Film Screening & Discussion

Cutler-Plotkin Jewish Heritage Center 122 E Culver St., Phoenix, AZ, United States

Journey to Justice tells the story of Howard Triest, a German Jew who fled Nazi Germany in 1939, when he was 16 years old, and returned as a victorious American soldier in 1945.  He then served as an interpreter at the Nuremberg Tribunal, enabling him to come face-to-face with imprisoned Nazi officials who were co-responsible […]

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Raise the Roof – Film Screening & Discussion

Cutler-Plotkin Jewish Heritage Center 122 E Culver St., Phoenix, AZ, United States

Artists Rick and Linda Brown are not Jewish and not Polish, and yet they set out to rebuild Gwozdziec, one of the magnificent 18th Century wooden synagogues of Poland, the last of which were destroyed by the Nazis in World War II.  Their vision inspires hundreds of people to join them.  Using their hands, old tools, and techniques, […]

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Birobidzhan! Birobidzhan! Film Screening

Cutler-Plotkin Jewish Heritage Center 122 E Culver St., Phoenix, AZ, United States

In Russia's Far East, along the border with China, sits Birobidzhan, the Jewish Autonomous Region, originally created by Stalin in the 1920's as a Jewish homeland. It is a bizarre and fascinating place, where school-children of all backgrounds still learn the Yiddish language and citizens converse in a tongue that is mostly alien to the rest […]

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Mamadrama: The Jewish Mother in Cinema

Cutler-Plotkin Jewish Heritage Center 122 E Culver St., Phoenix, AZ, United States

This program is made possible by a grant from Arizona Humanities. People of all faiths are welcome to join this documentary screening and discussion at the Arizona Jewish Historical Society in Phoenix. "The Jewish mothers that I know and love are sexy, smart, and strong, but I have never seen this mother in Hollywood movies, […]

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