American
Jewish Experience Lecture Series 2015
Highland
Park Conservative Temple/
Congregation Anshe Emeth
201 South 3rd Avenue, Highland Park
(click
for directions)
10:30 a.m. - 12:00 noon
*April 23:
Dr. Nathan Reiss
The Origins of Jewish Family Names
*June 2: Ronald
Becker
Building New Lives After the Shoah: New Jersey's Role
July
15: Dr. Nathan Reiss
The History of the Sephardic Jews of Central New Jersey
August 19: Dr. Joseph Cohn
E.Y. "Yip" Harburg: The Real Wizard of Oz
September 2: Stephen Eisdorfer
The Great Synagogue Pipe Organ Dispute
October 14: Linda Roskein
Max Pine, Leader of the United Hebrew Trades, Socialism,
and the Rise of the Jewish Middle Class
November 18: Dr. Marcia Midler
Molly Picon, the Sweetheart of Second Avenue
*Grant
funding has been provided by the Middlesex County Cultural and Heritage
Commission and the Middlesex County Board of Chosen Freeholders,
through a grant provided by the New Jersey Historical Commission, a
division of Dept. of State