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Center for Judaic, Holocaust, and Human Rights Studies
Florida Gulf Coast University
10501 FGCU Blvd.
Fort Myers, FL 33965
Myra Mendible
Office : 239-590-7182
mendible@fgcu.edu
Past Events
Some of the activities we have organized or participated in since our inception in 2006:
“Let’s Talk”: Dialogue between leaders of our local Christian, Jewish, and Muslim congregations, November 30, 2011 led by Rabbi James Rudin
Kristallnacht Remembered, November 8, 2011
Children and Poverty Photo Exhibit, September 15, 2011-May 2012 with Dominican Republic Civic Engagement Project, Photographer Chip Hoffman
First Annual Symposium: Current Research on the Holocaust: Student Perspectives, April 2011
FGCU’s 4th Annual Interfaith Clergy Seminar, led by Rabbi James Rudin (author of Christians & Jews, Faith to Faith: Tragic History, Promising Present, Fragile Future), March 2011
Film-showing and discussion led by director: "Anatomy of Hate," March 2011
“The Nazi Lie: Propagation of Evil”; Documentary on Nazi propaganda with discussion led by film-maker Bill Davis, November 2010
Lecture and discussion with Dr. Michael Berenbaum, former Director of the United States Holocaust Research Institute at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum and the author and editor of twenty books, scores of scholarly articles, and hundreds of journalistic pieces, November 2010
Talk and reading with Lev Raphael, author and son of Holocaust survivors: "Writing & Reconciliation," March 2010
Play: “Miracle at St. Ottilien,” March 2010
Play: "In Memory's Kitchen," featuring Lori Shula, March 2010
Third annual "Visiting Scholar Lecture": Dr. Harry Reicher: "No One Ever Died Illegally in Auschwitz: The Nazis’ Obsession with Legalizing the Holocaust,” February 2010
Third annual "Interfaith Clergy Seminar and Lecture," led by Dr. Amy-Jill Levine, Naples, February 2010
Robert Edsel, author of renowned book on the "Monuments Men: Allied Heroes, Nazi Thieves, and the Greatest Treasure Hunt in History," February 2010
Lecture by Dr. Wendy Chase, Edison State, on "Modernism, Fascism, and 'Degenerate Art,'" January 2010
Speakers from the Coalition of Immokalee Workers, (CIW), October 2009
High school teacher-training workshops with the Holocaust Museum of Southwest Florida, Summers of 2006-2009
Lecture by Dr. Christopher Browning, world-renowned Holocaust expert, February 2009
Second Annual Interfaith Clergy Seminar, led by John Dominic Crossan, January 2009
Display of Holocaust-era boxcar (on loan from the Holocaust Museum of Southwest Florida) during the first week of November 2008, accompanied by a series of film-showings, lectures, and other events
Lecture by James Waller, genocide expert and author of Becoming Evil: How Ordinary People Commit Genocide and Mass Killing, November 2008
Film-showing: "Swimming in Auschwitz: Survival Stories of Six Women,” with discussion led by director Jon Kean, April 2008
Guest lecturer: Deborah Lipstadt, author of Denying the Holocaust: The Growing Assault on Truth and Memory and History on Trial: My Day in Court With a Holocaust Denier, February 2008
First Annual Interfaith Clergy Seminar, led by Dr. Michael J. Cook, Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion, author of Modern Jews Engage the New Testament: Enhancing Jewish Well-Being in a Christian Environment, among many other publications, January 2008
Adult Education lecture series on Islam, Christianity, and Judaism at the Temple Shalom, Naples, October-November 2007
Holocaust Remembrance Concert, April 2007
Visiting scholar from the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, Washington: Jonathan Judaken, lecture: “Leon Poliakov: The History of Antisemitism from Jesus to Hitler,” March 2007
“Philip Roth’s Everyman: In Memory of Howard Greenstein,” a lecture by Elaine Newton, York University, March 2007
Guest lecturer on the Darfur crisis: James Waller, February 2007
“Art of Hatred” exhibit, on loan from the Jewish Museum of Florida, displayed in the FGCU Art Gallery, Fall 2006
Fall 2006 lecture series at FGCU:
Dr. Geoffrey Giles, University of Florida, “Postmark Hatred: Antisemitic Images in Prewar Popular Culture”
Dr. Glenn Whitehouse, FGCU, “My Brother’s Killer? Christianity and Antisemitism”
Dr. John Cox, FGCU, “European Antisemitism and the Roots of Nazi Ideology”
These events have all been made possible through the generosity of several local individuals and organizations, including but not limited to Howard and Lenore Greenstein, Morris Herstein, Ann Jacobson, Sheila and Jerry Laboda, Merrill Kuller, and Saul Stern, as well as the Jewish Federation of Collier County and the Jewish Federation of Lee and Charlotte Counties.
