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Nosh and Learning with Dr. Gary Zola
Following 9:30am Religious School Tefilah (worship), we will have our final session with Dr. Zola, Nosh and Learning at 10:00 am:
Remarkable Documents of the American Jewish Archives: Why We Preserve Primary Source Materials and How it Relates to Us
The Jacob Rader Marcus Center of the American Jewish Archives is the world’s largest catalogued collection of documentary evidence on the history of North American Jewry. It is an archives composed of more than 20 million individual records. Dr. Zola, Executive Director of The Marcus Center and Associate Professor of the American Jewish Experience at HUC-JIR will show us a few of the AJA’s most fascinating and historically significant documents. He’ll help us to understand what’s worth saving, and how what might seem unimportant now can be incredibly meaningful and powerful for generations to come who seek to understand our family, our community and our Temple better.
Scholar-in-Residence Weekend December 9-11, 2016 In Partnership with the Jewish Federation of Greater El Paso featuring Dr. Gary P. Zola.
Executive Director of The Jacob Rader Marcus Center of the American Jewish Archives (AJA) and the Edward M. Ackerman Family Distinguished Professor of the American Jewish Experience & Reform Jewish History at Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion (HUC-JIR) in Cincinnati.
date & time
12/11/16 10:00am — 12:00pm
location
Temple Mount Sinai
price
No charge - rsvp requested
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12/11/16 10:00am — 12:00pm
location
Temple Mount Sinai
price
No charge - rsvp requested
Following 9:30am Religious School Tefilah (worship), we will have our final session with Dr. Zola, Nosh and Learning at 10:00 am:
Remarkable Documents of the American Jewish Archives: Why We Preserve Primary Source Materials and How it Relates to Us
The Jacob Rader Marcus Center of the American Jewish Archives is the world’s largest catalogued collection of documentary evidence on the history of North American Jewry. It is an archives composed of more than 20 million individual records. Dr. Zola, Executive Director of The Marcus Center and Associate Professor of the American Jewish Experience at HUC-JIR will show us a few of the AJA’s most fascinating and historically significant documents. He’ll help us to understand what’s worth saving, and how what might seem unimportant now can be incredibly meaningful and powerful for generations to come who seek to understand our family, our community and our Temple better.
Scholar-in-Residence Weekend December 9-11, 2016 In Partnership with the Jewish Federation of Greater El Paso featuring Dr. Gary P. Zola.
Executive Director of The Jacob Rader Marcus Center of the American Jewish Archives (AJA) and the Edward M. Ackerman Family Distinguished Professor of the American Jewish Experience & Reform Jewish History at Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion (HUC-JIR) in Cincinnati.
