The Holocaust, Genocide and Interfaith Center has held several workshops on the holocaust in the past for educators and the community. Please find some of the titles and subject areas below:
Workshop 1:
Manhattan College Holocaust Resource Center
You are cordially invited to attend the opening reception of
Remembrance: A Daughter’s Reflection
The Paintings and Prints of Marilyn Honigman
By Marilyn Honigman
Alumni Room, O’Malley Library
Manhattan College
November 16, 2009
4:30 – 7:00 p.m.
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Workshop 2:
Holocaust Resource Center
“…I think this world would be unlivable without art. Thank you for inspiring me.”
Steven Soderbergh
TEACHING THE HOLOCAUST THROUGH ART
A workshop for high school teachers exploring personal stories and artistic activities
to inspire student involvement in Holocaust studies.
By Marilyn Honigman
Thursday, October 16, 2008
4 pm – 7 pm
3:45 – 4:15 Registration
4:15 – 4:30 Welcome
4:30 – 5:15 Session I
Sharing Their Stories
Martin Spett and Marilyn Honigman
by Martin Spett
5:15 – 6:00 Session II
Group 1: Ekphrastic Poetry as a Response to Art
Angela O’Donnell with Martin Spett
Group 2: Individual and Group Projects in Response to Art
Marilyn Honigman and Timothy Murray
6:00 – 6:45 Session III
Rotation of the Session II Workshops
6:45
Light Supper and Conversation
Presenters:
Marilyn Honigman Artist, Art Department Chair, Fordham Preparatory School, daughter of Holocaust survivors
Tim Murray Artist, Adjunct Instructor, Nassau Community College
Angela O’Donnell Poet, Research and Faculty Development Coordinator, Fordham University
Martin Spett Artist, Holocaust survivor
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Workshop 3:
Manhattan College Holocaust Resource Center
Learning to Listen - Listening To Learn
ORAL HISTORY AS METHOD
A Workshop for Administrators and Teachers
Sponsored by the Manhattan College Holocaust Resource Center
Wednesday, October 6, 2010
4:00 pm – 6:00 pm
Rodriguez Room, 301 Miguel Hall
Manhattan College
Bronx, New York 10471
Welcome:
Barbara Reynolds
Assistant Director, Manhattan College Holocaust Resource Center
Presenters:
Martha Frazer
Assistant Director, Manhattan College Holocaust Resource Center
Interviewer, Survivors of the Shoah Visual History Foundation
Lily M. Margules
Holocaust Survivor and Author, Memories, Memories…
Paul Homer
Director, Service Program and Faculty Member, Fordham Preparatory School
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Workshop 4:
Manhattan College
Holocaust, Genocide and Interfaith Education Center
Remembering, Page by Page
Teaching the Holocaust through Picture Books
A Workshop for Administrators, Teachers and Librarians
Wednesday, October 26, 2011
4:00 pm – 6:00 pm
Registration and refreshments beginning at 3:30 pm
Introduction of our new Director, Dr. Mehnaz Afridi
Welcome
Barbara Reynolds, Assistant Director
Presentations
Dr. Heidi Laudien
Assistant Professor of English, Manhattan College
Student Lesson Plans
Daniel Crawford Rachel Swartz
Marcina Glinias Ereni Thrapsimis
Rebecca Kroll Vanessa Verde
Conversation with Participants
The Following artwork is by Marilyn Honigman
Free parking available in the Manhattan College parking garage on Manhattan College Parkway.
Please RSVP by October 21 to maryellen.lamonica@manhattan.edu. Space is limited!
For further information, please contact Barbara Reynolds at 718-325-5887 or reynolds00@verizon.net.
Dr. Samuel Kassow, Trinity University
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Featured speaker: Ron Kronish & Respondents: Rabbi Bob Kaplan and Sheikh Moosa Drammeh Ron Kronish, Founding Director of the Interreligious Coordinating Council in Israel (ICCI), Ron Kronish is now an independent scholar, educator, speaker, and writer. “Profiles in Peace,” his new book on Israeli and Palestinian Peacemakers. Rabbi Dr. Ron Kronish is an independent scholar, writer, blogger, lecturer, teacher and mentor. For the past several years, he has been a Library Fellow at the Van Leer Jerusalem Institute. From 1991-2015, he served as the Founder and Director of the Interreligious Coordinating Council in Israel (ICCI), which was Israel’s premier interreligious institution during those years. He was educated at Brandeis University (BA), Hebrew Union College - Jewish Institute of Religion, and the Harvard Graduate School of Education. He is the editor of Coexistence and Reconciliation in Israel: Voices for Interreligious Dialogue (Paulist Press, 2015) and the author of The Other Peace Process: Interreligious Dialogue, A View from Jerusalem, (Hamilton Books 2017). He currently teaches courses about Interreligious Dialogue and Peacebuilding at the Schechter Institutes for Jewish Studies in Jerusalem, in the Department for Adult Education and for the Drew University Theological School (via zoom) in Madison, NJ.
Adi Rabinowitz Bedein, Activist & Holocaust Education. Adi is a young activist who lives in Israel and is a tour guide at Yad Vashem, she will lecture on: “Jewish Resistance During the Holocaust- True Heroism.” Jewish Resistance During the Holocaust During the Holocaust the Jewish people were facing 3 options: Passivity, collaboration and Resistance. In my lecture about Resistance during the Holocaust I discuss the meaning of the Jewish resistance- a story about Strength and true Heroism which can teach us so much that is relevant for our everyday life.