skip navigation

Florida Gulf Coast University

Website Directory  

Center for Judaic, Holocaust, and Human Rights Studies

Center for Judaic, Holocaust, and Human Rights Studies

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

Cantor in al-Andalus

 

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.