| Thursday,
November
1,
2001 |
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3 PM
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Registration Desk
open at the Sheraton
Norfolk Waterside. Hospitality Suite opens
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Buy a Book from Amazon and bring it to the conference
for our speakers to sign! Your purchase directly funds the
SJHS scholarship fund!
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6:00
pm
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SJHS Officers and Board members: Board
Meeting/Dinner
Non-Board members: Dinner on your own.
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Friday,
November 2, 2001
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10:00
am - 12:00
pm
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Tour
of the Moses Myers House, Norfolk
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Of interest to historians:
Jews
and the American Slave Trade by Saul Friedman
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12:30 pm - 3:00 pm
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Box
lunch at Temple Sinai, Newport News
Welcome
by the Peninsula Jewish Historical Society and Temple Sinai Congregation
“Women
of the Bible: the Stained Glass Windows of
Temple
Sinai,” Marsha Mauer
Tour of the
Biblical Garden
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Of interest to historians:
Going
South: Jewish Women in the Civil Rights Movement
by Debra L. Schultz
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6:00 pm
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Dinner and Sabbath
service at Ohef Sholom Temple, Norfolk
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| Saturday,
November 3, 2001 |
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8:00 am
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Sabbath services
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Buy a Book
from Amazon and bring it to the conference for our speakers to sign!
Your purchase directly funds the SJHS scholarship fund!<
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9:15 am - 10:30 am
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“The Life of David Mendes
Cohen,” Robert D. Marcus and Major James Quillan USMC (Ret.)
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America
Firsthand : Readings from Settlement to Reconstruction
Robert D Marcus, 9:15am
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10:45 am - 12:00 pm
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Tribute
to Local Jewish Elected Officials
Alan A.
Diamonstein, Virginia House of Delegates
Joe
Frank, Mayor of Newport News
Meyera
Oberdorf, Mayor of Virginia Beach
Memorial to the late Norman Sisisky, U. S. Congressman
from Virginia’s 4th Congressional District
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America
and I : Short Stories by American Jewish Women Writers
by Dr. Joyce Antler, 12pm
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12:00 pm
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Luncheon and Jerome Gumenick
Lecture, “Passing the ‘Torch of Idealism’: Gertrude Weil as Southern
Jewish Citizen-Activist,” Dr. Joyce Antler, Brandeis University
Department of American Studies; Saul Viener, Presenter
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Talking
Back : Images of Jewish Women in American Popular Culture
by Dr. Joyce Antler, 12pm
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2:15 pm
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Local
History
“The Voyage of S. S.
Quanza and J. L Morewitz,” David
Morewitz; Stephen J.
Morewitz, Ph.D; and Malvina
P Livestock to post-World
War II Europe,” Hilda G.
Levinson “Jacob Abrahams:
Did He Really Sell African
Americans into Slavery?”
Irwin Berent
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Fight
Against Fear : Southern Jews and Black Civil Rights by Clive Webb,
3:30pm
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3:30 pm
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“Meet
the Authors”
Clive Webb, Fight against
Fear: Southern Jews and
Black Civil Rights
Wendy Low Besmann, A Separate
Circle: Jewish Life in
Knoxville, Tennessee
Leonard Rogoff, Homelands:
Southern-Jewish Identity in Durham and Chapel Hill, North Carolina
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A
Separate Circle : Jewish Life in Knoxville, Tennessee by Wendy Low
Besmann, 3:30pm
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6:30 pm
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Dinner
aboard ship
“The Levy Family and Monticello: A Drama in Five Acts and a
Coda,” keynote address by Professor Melvin I. Urofsky
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Homelands
: Southern-Jewish Identity in Durham and Chapel Hill, North Carolina
by Leonard Rogoff, 3:30pm
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| Sunday,
November 4, 2001 |
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8:30 am
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Annual business meeting
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Buy a Book from Amazon and
bring it to the conference for our speakers to sign! Your purchase
directly funds the SJHS scholarship fund!
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9:40 am
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Grant
Award for student essays, Mark I. Greenberg
"Climbing the Crystal Stair: Annie T. Wise’s Success
as an Immigrant in Atlanta’s Public School System,” Arlene Rotter
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10:45 am
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“My Friendship with President
Jimmy Carter,” Robert Lipshutz
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12:00 pm
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Luncheon
“Rabbi Bertram Wallace Korn Revisited American Jewry and the Civil
War,” Robert N. Rosen; Herb Heltzer, Presenter
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The
Jewish Confederates by
Robert N. Rosen, 12pm Sunday
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1:45 pm
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Adjournment
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