The Center for Judaic Studies and Contemporary Jewish Life at UConn will be hosting a performance of Savyon Liebrecht's play, The Strawberry Girl, followed by a dialogue led by the play's director, Guy Ben-Aharon. The show will take place on Monday, October 22 at 6PM in the Konover Auditorium at the Dodd Research Center on the Storrs campus. The program is free and open to the public.

Founder of Israeli Stage and director of the play, Guy Ben-Aharon, brings Savyon Liebrecht's heart-wrenching story, The Strawberry Girl, to life on the stage. The one-woman show, presented in English, tells the haunting, WWII era story of a German woman and her son Ludwig who live in Poland, where her husband works at a “factory.” Their lives change after she meets a Jewish girl who grows strawberries, as big as a man’s fist. The play deals with the confrontation of blissful ignorance and a tragic personal intimacy.

The Strawberry Girl has toured to Boston College (sponsored by the Laura and Lorenz Reibling Foundation, German Consulate of Boston), Brandeis University (Center for German and European Studies, Hadassah Brandeis Institute), Goethe Zentrum Atlanta, Lesley University (Lesley Hillel, CJP), NewBridge on the Charles, Temple Emmanuel of Newton, Temple Isaiah of Lexington, Trinity College (Trinity Hillel), Wellesley College (German Studies Department, Jewish Studies Department, English Department, Theatre Department).

If you require an accommodation to participate, contact Pamela Weathers at pamela.weathers@uconn.edu.

Please join us on Wednesday, November 7, when Professor Tom W. Smith will present "Antisemitism in Contemporary America." A reception will follow. The evening is made possible by the Center for Judaic Studies Irving Seliger Memorial Endowment Fund and is co-sponsored by the Department of Literatures, Cultures, and Languages.

The lecture is held in remembrance of Kristallnacht, the Night of Broken Glass, when a pogrom committed by the Nazis against German Jews resulted in many fatalities and the destruction of Jewish homes, businesses, hospitals, synagogues, and schools.

Guest speaker, Senior Fellow Tom W. Smith, directs NORC's Center for the Study of Politics and Society.

For more information, visit: https://judaicstudies.uconn.edu/2018/08/30/kristallnacht2018/

If you require an accommodation to participate, please contact Pamela Weathers at pamela.weathers@uconn.edu or 860-486-2271.

The Yiddish Tish luncheon discussion group, led by Professor Arnold Dashefsky, will meet in the Dodd Research Center, room 162.

The Yiddish Tish luncheon discussion group is a small, intimate gathering of members from the community and campus who meet monthly to read and speak Yiddish.

These sessions are open to any and all faculty, staff, students, and community members.

All reading and speaking levels are welcome.

Please bring a bag lunch, and we will provide dessert and drinks!

The Yiddish Tish is a program of the Center for Judaic Studies and Contemporary Jewish Life at UConn.

http://judaicstudies.uconn.edu/upcoming-events/yiddish-tish-discussions/

If you require an accommodation to participate, please contact Pamela Weathers at pamela.weathers@uconn.edu or 860-486-2271.

Our UCHI Fellow will be presenting their research talk on “From Temple to Home to Community: The Survival and Transformation of Ancient Jewish Life in the Wake of Catastrophe” followed by a light reception.
For more information, please visit https://humanities.uconn.edu/2018-19fellows/.
If you require accommodation for this event, please contact uchi@uconn.edu at least one week prior to the event.