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SUMMARY:Herzl Remembered — "If you will it\, it is no dream!"
DESCRIPTION:11 AM LOS ANGELES • 2 PM NEW YORK\nTheodor Herzl was a lawyer\, journalist\, playwright\, and political activist. He witnessed the rise in antisemitism in the late 19th century and was inspired to build a safe haven for the Jewish community. The new documentary Theodor Herzl: The Man Behind Israel explores Herzl’s legacy\, the formation of the State of Israel and past and ongoing political conflicts. \n \nxxxxx \nVIEW THE TRAILER\n \nxxxxx \nTHE SCHEDULE\n⇒ April 24-27 watch the film Theodor Herzl: The Man Behind Israel on your home device. A link will be provided to all who register.\n⇒ Sunday\, April 26 at 2:00 p.m. US Eastern Time\, tune into the program with our distinguished speakers. A link will be provided to all who register. \nxxxxx \nMEET THE SPEAKERS\n \nSir Bernard Zissman\, right\, has enjoyed a busy political and business career\, serving as a senior member of the Birmingham\, UK City Council and becoming Lord Mayor of the City. He has written two books\, Knight Out with Chamberlain and Herzl’s Journey. It is the latter book that inspired the making of the documentary film Theodor Herzl: The Man Behind Israel\, which premiered at BAFTA London and has played to sold-out audiences. He has served in many different roles including Jewish community leadership\, was in the British army for two years and holds two Honorary University degrees. He was knighted by HM Queen Elizabeth II. \n \nDavid Matlow\, left\, practices law at Goodmans LLP in Toronto. He owns the world’s largest collection of Theodor Herzl memorabilia and his Herzl Project is designed to inform people about Herzl’s work to inspire them to work to complete Herzl’s dream. He is featured in the film Theodor Herzl: The Man Behind Israel. He is also the subject of the film My Herzl\, which was shown by the Sousa Mendes Foundation in 2021. In his weekly “Treasure Trove” column in the Canadian Jewish News\, he showcases one item from his collection and contextualizes it to the events of the day. His website is: www.herzlcollection.com \n \nDr. Shulamit Reinharz is the Jacob Potofsky Professor Emerita of Sociology at Brandeis University. While at Brandeis\, she created a graduate program in Women’s Studies as well as the Hadassah-Brandeis Institute for the study of the intersection between Jews and gender. She was born in Amsterdam and grew up in the United States with intermittent stays in Israel. She is the author or editor of sixteen books\, including the recent 100 Jewish Brides: Stories from Around the World and Hiding in Holland: A Resistance Memoir. She is a frequent speaker or moderator for the Sousa Mendes Foundation’s programs. \nxxxxx \nRegistration is by donation of any amount ($18 suggested\, tax-deductible).
URL:https://sousamendesfoundation.org/event/theodor-herzl/
CATEGORIES:Discussion,Film Screening
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260517
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260518
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SUMMARY:The Rescue of Sigmund Freud
DESCRIPTION:11 AM LOS ANGELES • 2 PM NEW YORK\nThe film Outsider. Freud. follows Sigmund Freud\, the founder of psychoanalysis\, from his earliest experiences with antisemitism\, through his meteoric career\, and ending with his escape after the Anschluss from Vienna to London\, where he spent the final months of his life. \n \nxxxxx \nVIEW THE TRAILER\n \nxxxxx \nTHE SCHEDULE\n⇒ May 15-18 watch the film Outsider. Freud. on your home device. A link will be provided to all who register.\n⇒ May 17 at 2:00 p.m. US Eastern Time\, tune into the program with our distinguished speakers. A link will be provided to all who register. \nxxxxx \nMEET THE SPEAKERS\nYair Qedar\, left\, is an Israeli filmmaker\, social activist\, and former journalist. His project “The Hebrews” chronicles the lives of Jewish and Israeli figures of the modern Hebrew and Jewish literary and intellectual canon. His 19 feature-length documentaries have all premiered at film festivals and have won over 35 prizes. He is also a leading LGBTQ activist\, who created several queer films and the first Israeli LGBTQ newspaper. Since the early nineties\, he has been involved in journalistic writing and editing. He has written for Schocken\, Haaretz\, and Davar and served as editor and deputy editor of the travel magazine Masa Acher. He won the Allied Prize for World Jewish Press and the European Union Award for Journalistic Reporting. \n \nAndrew Nagorski\, right\, is an award-winning journalist and author who spent more than three decades as a foreign correspondent and editor for Newsweek. He served as the magazine’s bureau chief in Hong Kong\, Rome\, Bonn\, Berlin\, Warsaw\, and Moscow. In 1982\, he gained international notoriety when the Soviet government\, angry about his enterprising reporting\, expelled him from the country. He is the author of eight books\, including Saving Freud: The Rescuers Who Brought Him to Freedom; Hitlerland: American Eyewitnesses to the Nazi Rise to Power; and The Nazi Hunters. He is also chairman of the board of the Polish-American Freedom Foundation\, and a member of the board of the Israel Council on Foreign Relations. \n \nDaniela Finzi is a literary and cultural scholar and a curator. She has been the Research Director and board member of the Sigmund Freud Foundation since 2016\, and has curated numerous exhibitions on Freud and psychoanalytical issues at the Sigmund Freud Museum in Vienna. Her research focuses on the history of psychoanalysis\, exile studies and gender studies. Her most recent publications include the anthologies IT HURTS! Violence against Women in Art and Psychoanalysis (De Gruyter\, 2025) and Freud and the Émigré. Austrian Émigrés\, Exiles and the Legacy of Psychoanalysis in Britain\, 1930s-1970s (Palgrave Macmillan\, 2020\, ed. with Elane Shapira) \nxxxxx \nRegistration is by donation of any amount ($18 suggested\, tax-deductible). \nxxxxx
URL:https://sousamendesfoundation.org/event/the-rescue-of-sigmund-freud/
CATEGORIES:Discussion,Film Screening
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260531
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260601
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SUMMARY:"I Seek a Kind Person" — Advertising and the Kindertransport Rescue Operation
DESCRIPTION:11 AM LOS ANGELES • 2 PM NEW YORK\nJulian Borger‘s family memoir I Seek a Kind Person — highlighted by The New York Times as one of the 100 must-read books of the year — is a gripping story of how the author’s Austrian Jewish father and other children were rescued through the placement of advertisements in British newspapers. \n \nxxxxx \nTHE SCHEDULE\n⇒ Sunday\, May 31 at 2:00 p.m. US Eastern Time\, tune into the program with our distinguished speakers. A link will be provided to all who register. \nxxxxx \nMEET THE SPEAKERS\n \nJulian Borger is The Guardian‘s senior international correspondent based in London. He served as The Guardian‘s Middle East correspondent in Jerusalem and in Washington as bureau chief and then global affairs editor.  He was part of the Guardian team that won the 2014 Pulitzer Prize for their coverage of the Snowden files. He also won the 2016 One World Media press award for Syria’s Truth Smugglers\, about the war crimes of the Assad regime. He has written two books: The Butcher’s Trail (2016) about the manhunt for Balkan war crimes\, and I Seek A Kind Person (2024) about Jewish children saved from the Nazis with the help of newspaper ads. \nEric Schlosser is an investigative journalist and best-selling author who will be in dialogue with Julian Borger. He is the author of Fast Food Nation\, Reefer Madness\, and\, most recently\, Command and Control\, which was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. He has written for Rolling Stone\, The Atlantic\, and The New Yorker\, among others\, and has received a number of journalism honors\, including a National Magazine Award. Schlosser previously worked as a playwright for an independent film company. Two of his plays\, Americans (2003) and We the People (2007)\, have been produced in renowned London theaters. \nMelissa Hacker\, moderator\, is the Executive Director of the Kindertransport Association. She is a filmmaker whose documentary My Knees Were Jumping; Remembering the Kindertransports was short-listed for an Academy Award nomination and shown worldwide. A sought-after speaker\, she has consulted on the exhibits Rescuing Children on the Brink of War at the Center for Jewish History in New York and the Illinois Holocaust Museum and Without a Home: Kindertransports from Vienna at the Vienna Jewish Museum. She is the editor of two Academy Award nominated documentary films and serves on the Executive Committee and Governing Board of the World Federation of Jewish Holocaust Survivors and Descendants. \nxxxxx \nRegistration will close on Thursday\, May 28 at 10 PM ET. Instructions and links will be emailed to all registrants on Friday\, May 29 and again on the day of the program. \n \nxxxxx \nThis program is co-sponsored by the Kindertransport Association.
URL:https://sousamendesfoundation.org/event/i-seek-a-kind-person/
CATEGORIES:Book Talk,Discussion,Lecture
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DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260615
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SUMMARY:Partisan Women Heroes
DESCRIPTION:1 PM LOS ANGELES • 4 PM NEW YORK\nSee the award-winning film Four Winters\, about partisan heroes of World War II\, and then tune into the discussion\, which will focus on the stories of partisan women heroes such as Faye Schulman\, Chaya Palevsky and others. \n \nxxxxx \nVIEW THE TRAILER\n \nxxxxx \nTHE SCHEDULE\n⇒ June 12-15 watch the film Four Winters on your home device. A link will be provided to all who register.\n⇒ Sunday\, June 14 at 4:00 p.m. US Eastern Time\, tune into the program with our distinguished speakers. A link will be provided to all who register. \nxxxxx \nMEET THE SPEAKERS\n \nJulia Mintz is an award-winning filmmaker whose work focuses on narratives of bravery and resistance against unimaginable odds. She has been on the producing teams for films which have been shortlisted for the Academy Awards\, have premiered at Cannes\, Sundance and TriBeCa\, and won Emmy\, Peabody and festival awards. Her films can be seen on HBO\, PBS\, American Masters\, Netflix\, Amazon\, and are shown on college campuses across the country. She has taught seminars and workshops worldwide\, and has held an adjunct faculty position at LIU in NYC. \n \nDr. Jud Newborn was the Founding Historian of New York’s Museum of Jewish Heritage and is co-author of the acclaimed Sophie Scholl and the White Rose. He was awarded his PhD with Distinction by the University of Chicago following three years of adventurous fieldwork as a Fulbright and Woodrow Wilson National Fellow\, including hunting down former SS officers and working undercover during communist martial law in Poland. He was honored with the Anne Frank Center’s “Spirit of Anne Frank Award” and is the two-time Emmy Award-winning Producer of Special Programs for Long Island’s Cinema Arts Centre. \nxxxxx \nRegistration is by donation of any amount ($18 suggested\, tax-deductible).
URL:https://sousamendesfoundation.org/event/partisan-women-heroes/
CATEGORIES:Discussion,Film Screening
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