During Emory’s 27th Tenenbaum Lecture on Wednesday March 6, Laura Limonic will explore “Latinx Jews in Their Adopted Homeland: Constructing New Realities and Claiming New Identities.”
Hava Tirosh-Samuelson of Arizona State University will speak on “Judaism and Climate Change: Environmental Ethics and Social Activism” during the 2022 Tenenbaum Lecture on March 21. Attend in person or watch online.
Guest scholar David E. Fishman of the Jewish Theological Seminary will deliver Emory’s annual Tenenbaum Lecture on Monday, Feb. 22. His presentation will explore “The Book Smugglers of the Vilna Ghetto: A Story of Spiritual Resistance.”
The lecture, sponsored by the Tam Institute for Jewish Studies, will take place at 7:30 p.m. via Zoom. This event is free and open to the public. Registration is required.
In Vilna, the city Jews called “The Jerusalem of Lithuania,” a group of ghetto inmates risked their lives to rescue thousands of rare books, documents and works of art from the Nazis. In an operation that lasted 18 months, they smuggled the materials past guards and buried them in bunkers.