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Our January meeting will be held on
SUNDAY,
January 12, 2020
starting at 1:30 PM
at Park Synagogue East
Men's Club Board Room
27500 Shaker Blvd
Pepper Pike
Peter Haas
Abba Hillel Silver Professor Emeritus of Jewish Studies
Case Western Reserve University
Speaking on
Amsterdam, a Photographer and an Amazing Discovery
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Professor Haas will share the fascinating story of Annemie
Wolff-Koller, a German Jew who fled with her husband Helmuth
to Amsterdam when the Nazis came to power in 1933. There
they reinvented themselves as photographers. With the Nazi
invasion of the Netherlands, both tried committing suicide
but Annemie survived. After the war she returned to industrial
photography but after a dispute with the city in 1971, she
threatened to destroy all her work. A photo historian rediscovered
her in 2006 and came across registers and hundreds of posed
portraits of German Jewish families taken in 1943-44 on
the eve of deportations. Among the photos are members of
Peter’s family. An historian, An Huitzing began researching
the over 400 people that were photographed and published
in 2011 the stories of all those she could identify. It
is an amazing insight into the German Jewish refugee in
Amsterdam.
Dr. Haas is the Abba Hillel Silver Professor Emeritus of Jewish Studies
at Case Western Reserve University. He was appointed Chair of the Department
of Religious Studies at Case Western Reserve in 2003 and was a visiting
professor at the Spertus Institute Of Jewish Studies In Chicago. He stepped
down as Chair of the Department of Religious Studies in 2015 and fully retired
in the summer of 2016.
He is doing volunteer work, serving with the pastoral care team at South
Point Hospital, as a CASA (Court Appointed Special Advocate) for the Juvenile
Court and as a docent at the Maltz Museum of Jewish Heritage.
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Future Meeting Schedule
for details, click here
| Sunday, January 12, 2020 - 1:30 pm
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Park Synagogue
East |
| Sunday, February 9, 2020 - 1:30 pm
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Park Synagogue
East |
| Wednesday, March 4, 2020 - 7:30 pm |
Menorah Park |
| Wednesday, April 1, 2020 - 7:30 pm |
Menorah Park |
| Wednesday, May 6, 2020 - 7:30 pm |
Menorah Park |
| Wednesday, June 3, 2020 - 7:30 pm |
Menorah Park |
| Wednesday, July 8, 2020 - 7:30 pm |
Menorah Park |
| Wednesday, August 5, 2020 - 7:30
pm |
Menorah Park |
| Wednesday, September 9, 2020 - 7:30
pm |
Menorah Park |
| Wednesday, October 7 or 14, 2020 - 7:30
pm |
Menorah Park |
| Wednesday, November 4, 2020 - 7:30 pm |
Menorah Park |
| Sunday, December 4, 2020 - 1:30 pm
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Park Synagogue
East |
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The Annual Dues for our Society are due and payable in January
for the calendar year. However, if you pay your 2020 dues by December
31, 2019, you will be entered into a drawing for a number of prizes
to be held at our January, 2020 meeting. To be eligible for the
drawing, send your dues payment directly to our Treasurer, or pay
your dues online, so that your payment arrives by Monday, December
31, 2019.
To join the society, please see the instructions
here.
To renew online, using PayPal, select your membership level in
the box below, click on the button, and follow
the instructions from PayPal. You do not need an account with PayPal,
and can pay by using a credit card or by a withdrawal from a bank
account.
To pay by check, send your payment to:
Noreen Goldstein, Treasurer
Jewish Genealogy Society of Cleveland
27100 Cedar Road
Beachwood, OH 44122
An annual single membership is $25; an annual
family membership is $35;
and an annual single or family sustaining membership is $60.
If your information has changed, please submit a copy of our
membership form with your payment. You can find a membership form
on our website at
http://jgscleveland.org/images/pdfs/Membershipform.pdf
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