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Past Events
Some of the activities we have organized or participated in since our inception in 2006:
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.
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