Dominican Haven:
Jewish Refugees and the Holocaust
Marion Kaplan

October 14
wednesday, 7:30 pm
leFrak Concert Hall

Marion Kaplan is Skirball Professor of Modern Jewish History at New York University since 2001. Prior to that she was a Professor of History at Queens College from 1985–2001. She is a prolific and distinguished author
of eight books, a number of which have won prestigious awards. The Making of the Jewish Middle Class: Women, Family and Identity in Imperial Germany won the Historical Association Conference Group in Central European History Book Prize for 1991/92, as well as the National Jewish Book Award. Between Dignity and Despair: Jewish Life in Nazi Germany won the 1996 prize in Contemporary History from the Wiener Library and the Institute of Contemporary History, London. It was also named a 1998 Notable Book by the New York Times and won the National Jewish Book Award. Her most recent book Dominican Haven: The Jewish Refugee Settlement in
Sosúa, 1940–1945, the definitive history of the colony of Germanspeaking Jews in the Dominican Republic, begins to answer many questions about this most peculiar case of refugee migration that changed the lives of those fleeing the horrors of Nazism and of those in the Dominican Republic who welcomed them.
The Jacob & Rose Gold and abraham& Esther Smith Memorial lecture, endowed by Simon Gold, Esq. and Dr. Roslyn Gold

A Commemoration
of Kristallnacht and
Recommitment to
Combating Anti-Semitism
and Hatred
A Memorial Program in
Honor of Dr. Benny Kraut
Michael Berenbaum
November 15
Sunday, 2:00–5:00 pm
leFrak Concert Hall

The celebrated scholar, Academy Award winner, and former Director of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Michael Berenbaum will be joined by theruplifting speakers in a discussion of how the Jewish community can most effectively act with our allies in the struggle against anti-Semitism and hatred. Dr. Berenbaum co-produced One Survivor remembers: The Gerda Weissmann Klein Story, winner of both an Academy Award and an Emmy, and was the historical for the History Channel’s “The Holocaust: The Untold Story,” winner of a CINE Golden Eagle Award and a Silver Medal at the U.S. International Film and Video Festival.
Dr. Berenbaum was Executive Editor of Encyclopedia Judaica (2nd ed., 2006) and is the uthor and editor of twelve books, including After Tragedy and Triumph, a study of the state of American Jewry in the early 1990s. He has been a professor at Yale University, Georgetown University, Wesleyan Üniversity, University of Maryland, Florida State University, and is currently teaching at the University of Judaism in Los Angeles.
Sponsored by Queens College Center for Jewish Studies with Queens Jewish Community Council, Kupferberg Holocaust Center at
Queensborough Community College,
and Central Queens YMHA and others.

Iran, Shi’ah Islam,
and the Jews
Daniel Tsadik
October 28
wednesday, 7:30 pm
leFrak Concert Hall
Daniel Tsadik is an Assistant Professor
at Yeshiva University (New York) and a
Visiting Assistant Professor at the Yale Initiative for the Interdisciplinary Study of Anti-Semitism.

A Fulbright scholar, Dr. sadik obtained his PhD in 2002 from the Yale University History Department specializingin the areas of Iranian and Middle Eastern history as well as in history
of the Jews under Islam. His research focuses on the modern history of Iran, Shi’ah Islam, and Iran’s religious minorities. Subsequent to his studies at Yale, Dr. Tsadik has been teaching at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem and elsewhere. He has received fellowships from universities, including Tel-Aviv University’s Dayan Center for the research of Islam and the Middle East, the Hebrew University’s Golda Meir Fellowship Trust and Warburg Fellowship of the Institute for Judaic Studies, issenschaftskolleg zu Berlin’s Institute for Advanced Study, and the University of Pennsylvania’s Institute for Advanced Judaic Studies.
Following the lecture and discussion, Professor Tsadik will sign copies of his book, Between Foreigners and Shi’is: Nineteenth-Century Iran and its Jewish Minority (Stanford:
Stanford University Press, 2007).

You will also partake of a sumptuous
Kosher Iranian buffet.

The Leon and Morris Levy Memorial
lecture, endowed by the Levy Family