Shabbat Services - Dr. Edna Friedberg Speaker (HELD AT WESTMINSTER PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH)

Due to roof repairs Shabbat morning services will be held at Westminster Presbyterian Church, 2701 Cameron Mills Rd, Alexandria, VA 22302.

SCHOLAR-IN-RESIDENCE SHABBAT
MAY 12, 2018

JEWS SAVING JEWS: LESSER KNOWN STORIES OF HEROISM DURING THE HOLOCAUST

DR. EDNA FRIEDBERG
JTS FELLOW AND HISTORIAN AT 
THE UNITED STATES HOLOCAUST 
MEMORIAL MUSEUM
Post Kiddush Lecture and Discussion
Notebooks and Milk Cans: Spiritual Resistance 
in the Ghettos of Nazi Europe

     Dr. Edna Friedberg is a JTS Fellow and Historian at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. A graduate of the University of Illinois, she received her Ph.D. in Modern Jewish Studies from the Jewish Theological Seminary where she wrote her dissertation on the origins of American Jewish services for the elderly. Dr. Friedberg joined the staff of the Holocaust Museum in 1999 and has served as the historian for the Museum’s highly-visited online Holocaust Encyclopedia and as Director of its Wexner Learning Center. She also curated a special exhibit on the legacy of the Nuremberg trials and postwar justice. Dr. Friedberg regularly speaks to audiences across the country and her essays connecting Holocaust history with social, cultural, and political issues today have appeared in The Atlantic, Slate, Newsday, and The Forward. An alumna of Camp Ramah in Wisconsin, she serves on the Board of Trustees of the Milton Gottesman Jewish Day School of the Nation’s Capital and is a member of Adas Israel Congregation.