Celebrate the National Day on Writing with the Montgomery College community! Participants will share reflections on how writing helped them to navigate their experiences of a most uncommon year.
Series of Lectures held at Montgomery College. Lecturers are special guests, such as book authors.
Series of Lectures held at Montgomery College. Lecturers are special guests, such as book authors.
Storytelling performance by Israeli performer Noa Baum
With religious intolerance on the rise across the country, it is incumbent upon historians to document and record those experiences. And all too often, non-Christian religions like Islam are given short shrift in American history, though locally both Jim Johnston’s From Slave Ship to Harvard and Stephen Stec’s new article “Riley v. Worthington” in the Montgomery County Story highlight the overlooked presence of Muslims in our early history. In keeping with the adage that “today is tomorrow’s history,” Jim Johnston leads a panel of individuals from Pakistan, the United States, Palestine, and Algeria in a conversation to discuss what it is like to be Muslim in Montgomery County today. To engage in further dialogue about the panel visit: https://muslimexperiencesinmoco. blogspot.com/.
This talk explores the emergence of Jewish community in Montgomery County, with a focus on the built environment. Jewish developers played a major role in the county’s mid-century building boom and their work served to foster Jewish community life. The presentation features developers who created residential and commercial developments and provided religious centers and recreation facilities which supported and attracted Jewish residents. Representative projects include Indian Spring Golf and Country Club, Montgomery Jewish Community Center, Kemp Mill Estates. Early synagogues dating from the 1950s-1970s were designed by leading modernist architects. This talk draws upon the author’s study of mid-century modern architecture in Montgomery County, published in the award-winning book, Montgomery Modern, and also builds on the work of the Jewish Historical Society of Greater Washington’s exhibit and book Jewish Washington: Scrapbook of an American Community.
This annual commemoration includes a testimony by Holocaust survivor Dr. Alfred Munzer, a candle-lighting ceremony, poetry readings and music. To View the Content, Copy and Paste the Link Below into Your Browser: https://youtu.be/T6S6rVVeODk?si=w7gLr5ff6oytzsus
Doron Ezickson of the Anti-Defamation League joins the Frank Islam Athenaeum Symposia series to discuss the roubling rise of anti-semitism in the world today, and how we can take action. This series is co-produced by the Bella Mischkinsky Annual Memorial Lecture Series.
“A Final Love Letter: the Frank Grunwald Collection”. Is a story from the Holocaust, a letter was found written by a woman who was killed in a concentration camp shortly after writing it. The letter was to her husband and ultimately her son Frank.
People share their stories about famous events
An orphaned child Holocaust survivor born in Amsterdam-Holland, Robert F. Teitel narrates the history of his extended family in relation to major developments of the 20th Century: “massive” demographic migrations, World War I, the rise of Nazism, World War II, the Holocaust, and post-war dislocations.
This conversation between Leslie Greene Bowman and Gayle Jessup White uncovers the ways in which their work at Monticello has brought the complicated and connected histories of the Jefferson and Hemings families forward into national and global dialogue, propelling restoration and advancing inclusive dialogue that offers a full and comprehensive view of our complicated past.
Dr. Ira Berlin discusses slavery in America
Professor Joanne Bagshaw participated in the Montgomery College Smithsonian Faculty Fellowship program in 2017. She and her psychology students explored new approaches and pedagogies, explored social justice themes and assignments and traveled to Smithsonian museums to enrich their learning.