Jewish Historical Society of the Upper Midwest

JHSUM is again offering our architectural tour of the North Side neighborhood in partnership with the Minneapolis Heritage Preservation Commission and the Minneapolis Department of Planning and Economic Development. Our tour leader is Bob Roscoe, principle of Design for Preservation and former head of the Minnesota He...ritage Preservation Commission. Bob currently leads restoration efforts of the Virginia, Minnesota, B’Nai Abraham Synagogue .

The walk covers a number of historic buildings, including the former Mikro Kodesh, Tifereth B’nai Jacob and Shaari Zedek synagogues, as well as the former Jewish Sheltering Home and Emanuel Cohen Center.

Meet in front of Mikro Kodesh at 1000 Oliver North on Sunday, July 26th at 3 PM. Tour runs until 4:30. Free to all and no reservations required.
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This World War II documentary depicts a group of US soldiers, many of them formerly refugees from Nazi occupied Europe who were trained to interrogate prisoners of war and to extract as much military information as possible from these prisoners, in order to hasten the Allied victory. The film won an award of Best Docum...entary in 2002.
Walter Schwarz, a St. Paul resident will narrate the movie and answer questions. Schwarz was one of the Ritchie Boys, but he does not appear in the movie.
This event will be jointly sponsored by the Jewish Historical Society of the Upper Midwest and by Post 354 Jewish War Veterans. It's free and open to the public. Please RSVP to 651 298-5493. Refreshments will be served.

For more information on this film visit http://www.ritchieboys.com/EN/home.html
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Brought Back by Popular Demand!

Acclaimed documentary film Refusenik brings one of Jewry's most successful freedom movements to life!

On Tuesday, March 31 at 7 P.M. join friends at the Sabes JCC for a screening of Refusenik, which chronicles the amazing thirty-year struggle to liberate Soviet Jews from the former USSR.... Director Laura Bialis has included rare and never before seen black and white footage of the early days of the Soviet Jewish struggle. Telling the story are celebrity dissidents Anatoly (Natan) Scharansky, Vladimir Slepak, Yosef Begun, Yosef Mendelevitch, Ida Nudel, Sylva Zalmanson, Alexander Kholmiansky and Yuli Edelstein. We also hear from American Jewish activists, primarily young students, who successfully built a revolutionary global grass-roots movement for freedom.

Come 7 P.M. for film; Tickets are $6

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From the back alleys of the old North Side to the rooftop courts and “cage” gyms at downtown settlement houses, sports won the early allegiance of American Jewish Youth – often to the chagrin of rabbis and traditional Jewish families. In celebration of the Minneapolis JCC’s 50th year, Jeffrey Gurock, American Jewish H...istorian and academic advisor to the film documentary “First Basket” will address how the JCC movement has attempted to navigate the conflicts between athleticism and faith.

Dr. Gurock is the Libby M. Klaperman Professor of Jewish History at Yeshiva University. He is the author or editor of fourteen books. His works include, A MODERN HERETIC AND A TRADITIONAL COMMUNITY:MORDECAI M. KAPLAN, ORTHODOXY AND AMERICAN. Gurock served from 1982-2002 as associate editor of AMERICAN JEWISH HISTORY. He is also a former chair of the Academic Council of the American Jewish Historical Society. Gurock's latest book, JUDAISM'S ENCOUNTER WITH AMERICAN SPORTS was published in 2005 by Indiana University Press.

All talks are open to the public and will take place at the Sabes Jewish Community Center, 4330 South Cedar Lake Road, Minneapolis.

Tickets
Please call our Sabes JCC box office at 952-381-3499 or visit our website www.sabesjcc.org. $3 for JCC and JHSUM members; $5 for non-members.

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Acclaimed documentary film Refusenik brings one of Jewry's most successful freedom movements to life!

On Thursday, March 12th at noon join friends at the Sabes JCC for a screening of Refusenik, which chronicles the amazing thirty -year struggle to liberate Soviet Jews from the former USSR. Director Laura Bialis has inc...luded rare and never before seen black and white footage of the early days of the Soviet Jewish struggle. Telling the story are celebrity dissidents Anatoly (Natan) Scharansky, Vladimir Slepak, Yosef Begun, Yosef Mendelevitch, Ida Nudel, Sylva Zalmanson, Alexander Kholmiansky and Yuli Edelstein. We also hear from American Jewish activists, primarily young students, who successfully built a revolutionary global grass-roots movement for freedom.

Come at noon for Russian-style appetizers; film to follow. Tickets are $6

This screening is part of the Minneapolis Jewish Film Festival and is co-sponsored by the St. Paul Jewish Community Center and the Jewish Historical Society of the Upper Midwest. For more information you can contact Beth Friend at 651-255-4735 or bfriend@stpauljcc.org. Tickets are $6

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Join the Bubkes Jewish Community Players for a newish Jewish musical celebrating the centennial of Bubkes, North Dakota. You'll discover the roots of the early Jewish settlers of the upper midwest in a town full of mavens of political and social causes, inventors, and entrepreneurs, and delight in the creativity of ind...ividuals who adapted into American life without losing their Jewish identity. This rollicking tribute to early Jewish settlers paints a unique portrait of a people's journey from the shtetl to the prairie. You won’t want to miss this joyful hit that celebrates everything endearing about the Jewish culture.

Jewish Sodbusters: The True Story
Join us on February 22, 2009 for a post-show discussion following the 2 pm performance lead by Linda Schloff. Linda is the former Director of Collections, Exhibits and Publications of the Jewish Historical Society of the Upper Midwest, In 1996 she published a book titled And Prairie Dogs Weren't Kosher: Jewish Women in the Upper Midwest, which was based on extensive research she conducted pertaining to Jewish settlements in North and South Dakota. The book was a companion piece to a major exhibit on the same topic shown at the Minnesota Historical Society.

For more information and tickets visit http://www.mnjewishtheatre.org/shows.html

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