The series of programs on “Art & Conflict: Ashkenaz and Beyond” — presented by the Sam & Helen Stahl Center for Jewish Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee — will include two events in November.
In January 1942, three Jewish photographers in the then-Soviet Union became the first liberators to photograph the Holocaust. David Shneer, historian and director of the Program in Jewish Studies at the University of Colorado Boulder, will deliver a presentation about these photographers and their work titled “Through Soviet Jewish Eyes: Photography, War and the Holocaust.”
It will take place on Sunday, Nov. 10, 5 p.m., at the Golda Meir Library Fourth Floor Conference Center.
The second program will feature author, drama critic and Columbia University teacher Alisa Solomon in a reading and discussion of her book “Wonder of Wonders: A Cultural History of ‘Fiddler on the Roof.’”
The book describes how Yiddish author Shalom Aleichem’s series of short stories about Tevye the Dairyman became a musical that travelled the world and became a huge hit and cultural icon even in places like Japan that have no Jews.
This presentation will take place Thursday, Nov. 21, 7 p.m., at the Boswell Book Company, 2559 N. Downer Ave.
Admission to both is free. For more information, visit the Stahl Center website, www.uwm.edu/cjs.
Co-sponsors of the series include the Coalition for Jewish Learning, the Harry & Rose Samson Family Jewish Community Center, Hillel Milwaukee, Jewish Museum Milwaukee and the Milwaukee Jewish Federation.
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