Max and Tessie Zelikovitz Centre for Jewish Studies
Paterson Hall 2A49 Carleton University, 1125 Colonel By Drive K1S 5B6 Ottawa, ON, Canada

"The MacOdrum Library on the Carleton campus is expanding its collection of Holocaust education resources after receiving a monetary donation from the Israeli embassy." Check out the article in the Charlatan! https://charlatan.ca//carletons-macodrum-library-receives/

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Thank you all who joined us for the talk by the Mme Annamie Paul, leader of the Green Party of Canada this past week. The Zelikovitz Centre for Jewish Studies co-sponsored this event as an opportunity to explore the intersections of anti-Semitism, racism and sexism in the political context. Mme. Paul’s personal biography is illustrative of these intersecting experiences, but she is also a thoughtful and scholarly speaker who engaged these issues in historical and contempora...ry perspectives. As moderator of the event, and as a professor of Jewish Studies, I was struck by the questions that were raised by the audience. I found her answers as substantive as her talk. The questions engaged the complex intersectionality of anti-semitism, racism and sexism. The audience honed in on the links they heard between her personal biography and her political analysis. There were important questions from academic and Jewish community participants about anti-Semitism in Canadian politics, also speaking to concerns about rising anti-Semitism in Canada and around the world. I was particularly struck by the political courage of Mme Paul in asserting the ways in which the term Zionist has been used against her as a pejorative and the slippage between using that term hatefully and other historic anti-Semitic tropes. Her insight that the various ways she is targeted as a Jew, as a woman, and as a Black person each often provide cover for each of these hatreds, testifies to the reality that these experiences are systematic, structural and perniciously intertwined.

The Zelikovitz Centre alongside Israel in Canada, Hillel Ottawa, and Vered Jewish Canadian Studies Program invite you to join us on Wednesday, January 27th, 2021 at 7pm for a virtual International Holocaust Remembrance Day Event: Lost Memory, Forgotten Lessons? Holocaust Education & the challenge of Antisemitism today: A Panel & Discussion of the film Glass Negatives. To register visit : https://carleton-ca.zoom.us//reg/WN_I6ISI_cZTpaYmACI04tM3Q A link to the event and film will be sent upon registration.

Save the Date: The Zelikovitz Centre for Jewish Studies invites you to our International Holocaust Remembrance Day Event on January 27th at 7PM: Lost Memory, Forgotten Lessons? Holocaust Education & the challenge of Antisemitism today.

In honour of Holocaust Education Month, view an exceptional Holocaust documentary film. Available to stream online from Carleton’s Library to students and anyone with Library privileges. Originally produced in 1955. Ten years after the liberation of the Nazi concentration camps, filmmaker Alain Resnais documented the abandoned grounds of Auschwitz. One of the first cinematic reflections on the horrors of the Holocaust, Night and fog (Nuit et brouillard) contrasts the stil...lness of the abandoned camps' quiet, empty buildings with haunting wartime footage. With Night and fog, Resnais investigates the cyclical nature of man's violence toward man and presents the unsettling suggestion that such horrors could come again. In French with English subtitles. https://ocul-crl.primo.exlibrisgroup.com//alma991022789820

EVENT ANNOUNCEMENT: Join us for a virtual lecture with Adara Goldberg, social historian and Director of the Holocaust Resource Centre at Kean University. Goldberg will discuss her most recent publication "Making Present the Past: Canada's St Louis Apology and Canadian Jewry's Pursuit of Refugee Justice." To attend email [email protected] to receive the Zoom link and passcode.

In honour of Holocaust Education Month, view a film about the Holocaust available streaming online from the Carleton Library to current students, faculty, staff, and alumni with Carleton Library privileges. Ida. 2013. From acclaimed director Pawel Pawlikowski (Last Resort, My Summer of Love) comes Ida, a moving and intimate drama about a young novitiate nun in 1960s Poland who, on the verge of taking her vows, makes a shocking discovery about her past. 18-year old Anna (st...unning newcomer Agata Trzebuchowska), a sheltered orphan raised in a convent, is preparing to become a nun when the Mother Superior insists she first visit her sole living relative. Naive, innocent Anna soon finds herself in the presence of her aunt Wanda (Agata Kulesza), a worldly and cynical Communist Party insider, who shocks her with the declaration that her real name is Ida and her Jewish parents were murdered during the Nazi occupation. This revelation triggers a heart-wrenching journey into the countryside, to the family house and into the secrets of the repressed past, evoking the haunting legacy of the Holocaust and the realities of postwar Communism. In this beautifully directed film, Pawlikowski returns to his native Poland for the first time in his career to confront some of the more contentious issues in the history of his birthplace. Powerfully written and eloquently shot, Ida a masterly evocation of a time, a dilemma, and a defining historical moment; Ida is also personal, intimate, and human. The weight of history is everywhere, but the scale falls within the scope of a young woman learning about the secrets of her own past. This intersection of the personal with momentous historic events makes for what is surely one of the most powerful and affecting films of the year. https://ocul-crl.primo.exlibrisgroup.com//alma991022789820 See more

Wishing you a meaningful and restful Shabbat from all of us at the Zelikovitz Centre. Tag someone to wish them a Shabbat Shalom!

Join us for the launch of our very first Virtual Pop-Up Museum! The artifacts exhibited were donated by Ottawa Holocaust survivors or their descendants. The launch will include a discussion on the importance of artifacts to research of the Holocaust. Panelists will include Sara Shor, Manager of the Artifacts Collection, Yad Vashem Museum will speak on The importance of objects to the study and research of the Holocaust using examples from the Yad Vashem collection. Dr. Rob...ert Ehrenreich, Director, National Academic Programs, USHMM will speak on Viewing the Holocaust through sets of objects using examples from the USHMM. Webinar registration required by November 13th to: https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_Zf5ak1g5S9i66frjyXf2Lg Sponsored by the Zelikovitz Center for Jewish Studies, The Centre for Holocaust Education and Scholarship in cooperation with the Azrieli Foundation.