The 2013 class of the Holocaust Study Institute will focus on the historical and theological roots of anti-Semitism and the Holocaust.
The program combines a semester-long class and a 14-day trip to the World Holocaust Center at Yad Vashem in Jerusalem.
The class takes place on Tuesday evenings, 6:30 p.m., at the Sacred Heart School of Theology, 7335 S. Highway 100, Franklin, beginning Jan. 15, and running to April 30. The tentative trip dates are July 29-Aug. 11.
The teachers will be local scholars from Alverno College, Marquette University, the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, and the Sacred Heart School.
The program will also feature a keynote session on “Catholics, Nazis, Jews: The Complexity of History,” on Sunday, Feb. 10, 2 p.m., at the Sacred Heart School, featuring Fr. Kevin Spicer, C.S.C., Ph.D., professor of history at Stonehill College.
Registration fee for the class is $145. The approximate cost of the trip is $4,500, with a deposit of $500 to hold a spot. Persons interested in the trip are not required to take the course. Partial scholarships for the class and the trip are available for educators, students, and clergy.
For more information, visit holocaustcentermilwaukee.org or LuxCenter.shst.edu; or contact Bonnie Shafrin at 414-963-2719 or bonnies@milwaukeejewish.org.
The Holocaust Study Institute is sponsored by the Nathan & Esther Pelz Holocaust Education Resource Center of the Coalition for Jewish Learning, and the Lux Center for Catholic-Jewish Studies at the Sacred Heart School of Theology; and has been supported by a grant from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany’s Rabbi Israel Miller Fund for Shoah Research, Documentation, and Education.
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