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Jewish Heritage Center
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Strangers and Sojourners: The Jews of Colonial Boston
As the Jewish Heritage Center continues to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the groundbreaking book, The Jews of Boston, and looks ahead to the 250th anniversary of the American Revolution, we are hosting the book's co-editor, historian Ellen Smith, for a webinar about Boston's earliest Jewish history.
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The Body Politic: Boston Jews, Disability, and US Immigration Policy
Join the JHC and our Historian in Residence, Dr. Hannah Zaves-Greene, as she explores the experiences of Boston’s turn-of-the-century immigrants through materials and stories from collections in the Wyner Family Jewish Heritage Center archives. Learn how the U.S. government’s harsh public charge laws targeted immigrants with disabilities, and discover how Jewish advocates, attorneys, and social workers fought these discriminatory policies.
Jewish Heritage Center
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The Genevieve Geller Wyner Annual Lecture: Catholic and Jewish Communities’ Reactions to Antisemitic Violence in Wartime Boston
At the height of World War II, groups of young Irish Catholics rampaged through Boston's Jewish neighborhoods. Boston's Catholic Church said little, and the Jewish community responded with its own form of denial and willful ignorance, hoping to make the conflict go away. As part of her research into the American Catholic Church's role during the Holocaust, Leff examines the fears, forebodings, and rocky relationship of these two important groups in Boston's history.