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URL:https://www.amyisrael.org/events/1549/
SUMMARY:Facilitated by Howard Schickler
DESCRIPTION:The next presentation in the Random Walk Through Jewish History
  and Culture series will be the Center for Jewish History's "Rescue the Su
 rviving Souls: The Great Jewish Refugee Crisis of the Seventeenth Century"
 . It is described below.\n\nThe program will occur on Wed. June 1 starting
  at 6:30 p.m.. To join click below.\n\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/898742532
 36?pwd=VDFvSGZZMWJCZzZmSzlDL24yelpaZz0\n\nHoward Schickler will be sharing
  some short articles on the history of Jews in Poland\, the organization o
 f their communities and the Polish Lithuanian Commonwealth to those who wi
 sh to receive them.\n\nIf you would like those materials click here.\n\nIf
  you have wondered about the community structures that allowed the Jewish 
 people to recover after pogroms and massacres\, this program is for you. W
 ere there communal structures that supported refugees and the reconstructi
 on of shattered lives and communities?\n\nThis talk is about how Jewish co
 mmunities\, both Ashkenazi and Sephardic\, responded to the terrible after
 math of the dissolution of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth in 1648 and 
 the pogroms\, expulsions and enslavement that followed.\n\nThe author's pr
 esentation is about 45 minutes long\, followed by 45 minutes of questions 
 and answers from the live audience.\n\nRescue the Surviving Souls: The Gre
 at Jewish Refugee Crisis of the Seventeenth Century\n\nJoin Adam Teller (B
 rown University)\, in conversation with Jonathan Karp (SUNY Binghamton)\, 
 about the untold story of the 17th-century Jewish refugee crisis which spr
 ead from war-torn Poland-Lithuania through the Middle East\, North Africa\
 , and Western Europe— its social-cultural\, economic\, and cultural cons
 equences\, and the ways Jewish society responded to it. Whether by raising
  money to ransom those Jews put up for sale on the slave markets or adopti
 ng new social and religious forms to help relieve the suffering of those w
 ho had undergone traumatic experiences\, 17th-century Jewish society exert
 ed itself mightily to help the refugees and presents us with new ways to t
 hink about refugee issues.
CATEGORIES:Adult Ed and Programs,Featured
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