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November 2023
Kristallnacht Commemoration
Middle school students from the Jewish Foundation School of Staten Island will join Wagner College students of all faiths in discussions of the importance of the “Night of Broken Glass,” November 9, 1938.
Women and Resilience: Lessons from a Survivor of Genocide
This event will feature speaker Consolee Nishimwe, global human rights activist and author of Tested to the Limit: A Genocide Survivor’s Story of Pain, Resilience and Hope. As a teenager, Nishimwe and her family suffered the genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda in 1994.
Egon J Salmon Commemoration of Kristallnacht and The St Louis
District 31 High School students will tour two Museum of Jewish Heritage exhibits with the Salmon family, "What Hate Can Do" and "Courage to Act: Rescue in Denmark". This event will also honor Egon J Salmon (1924-2022).
Location: The Museum of Jewish Heritage, 36 Battery Place, NY, NY
LOVE AND LIGHT: The Altered Book Project Against Antisemitism
Led by artist Caryn Davis, this mixed-media program guides participants to incorporate recycled and new materials to represent the Jewish history, the diversity of Jewish communities, and the fight against antisemitism.
In partnership with the Wagner College Holocaust Center, participants will transform their books into personal treasures.
January 2024
Holocaust Center 10th Year Anniversary
Grand Launch of Holocaust Education and Action Gallery and Archives
Join us in celebrating the launch of our Gallery and our 10th Anniversary with song, interfaith dialogue, upstander award and refreshments. Rabbi Michael Howald, Imam Tahir Kukaj and Monsignor William Belford will discuss the value of Holocaust education to confront urgent challenges in our times.
Admission: $18 suggested donation to support the Wagner College Holocaust Center
Tours available on request.
Symposium on Antisemitism: Hate and Love
Sessions will cover topics from immigration controversies to Antisemitism and Islamophobia on Staten Island and in the greater NYC area.
Location: College of Staten Island, Center for the Arts, 2800 Victory Blvd, Staten Island, NY 10314
For additional questions email cci@csi.cuny.edu.
February 2024
Jewish Refugee Scholars at HBCUs
Dr. Lillie Johnson Edwards, former founding Director of Pan-African Studies and as Director of American Studies at Drew University presents a talk based on the late Gabrielle Simon Edgcomb’s book, From Swastika to Jim Crow (1993), and the documentary film of the same title, directed by Lori Cheatle and Martin Toub (2000).
Her presentation will tell the story of the Jewish refugee scholars who fled Nazi Germany and found positions at historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs) in the American South. The story connects racial segregation, violence, and anti-Semitism in the U.S. and Europe to African American agency, ambition, and leadership at HBCUs.
Dr. Edwards served as the founding Director of Pan-African Studies and as Director of American Studies at Drew University in Madison, NJ before retiring in 2016. While at Drew, she received awards for university faculty service and for excellent and distinguished teaching in the College of Liberal Arts and the Caspersen School of Graduate Studies. Prior to working at Drew, she taught at DePaul University (Chicago, IL), UNC-Chapel Hill (Chapel Hill, NC), and Earlham College (Richmond, IN).As a public intellectual committed to bringing African American studies to adult audiences, Dr. Edwards lectures and consults with corporations, libraries and archives, historical societies and museums, faith-based communities, and school districts.
March 2024
The 18th annual Black History Youth Summit, “Know Your History”
The 18th annual Black History Youth Summit, "Know Your History" in conjunction with the Wagner College Holocaust Center.
The event is organized by Bobby Digi and Canvas.
All students are welcome
Josephine Baker: Icon and Image
Dr. Bennetta Jules-Rosette, Distinguished Professor of Sociology and the Director of the African and African-American Studies Research Center at UC, San Diego speaks on Josephine Baker, an entertainer, a French spy and the only woman to speak at the March on Washington.
Jeannine Otis, singer, composer and arts educator, will perform and offer reflections on how Josephine Baker has inspired her.
Banned Music Works
Itay Goren, concert pianist and author, will perform and discuss works by Pavel Haas, Erich Korngold, Luigi Dallapiccola, Darius Milhaud and Paul Hindemith that were banned during the Holocaust.