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BookSmugglers 9.2023

Community Free Day for The Book Smugglers

March 26, 2024

10:00 AM - 5:00 PM

Jewish Museum Milwaukee is thrilled to host this community day for anyone living in Milwaukee County to visit The Book Smugglers: Partisans, Poets and the Race to Save Jewish Treasures from the Nazis - The True Story of the Paper Brigade... Read More

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They Wanted Us to Find Them: Discovering the Book Smugglers of the Vilna Ghetto

March 28, 2024

7:00 PM - 8:15 PM

Join the National Jewish Book Award-winning author of The Book Smugglers: Partisans, Poets, and the Race to Save Jewish Treasures from the Nazis, Dr. David Fishman, as he shares insights about the research that founded the exhibit of the same... Read More

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Book ‘SNugglers’ Story Time

March 29, 2024

10:30 AM - 11:30 AM

Bring the whole family to Jewish Museum Milwaukee to enjoy a meaningful story time connected to our current special exhibit, The Book Smugglers. Our Book 'SNuggler' sessions feature a picture book that has been banned in various places around the... Read More

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Authoritarian Destruction and Resistance: Preserving Cultural Literature during War

April 10, 2024

7:00 PM - 8:15 PM

Literature is often the first cultural element to be marked for destruction by authoritarian regimes. But what makes the written word such a threat to these destructive forces? And how have different communities used the preservation of the written word... Read More

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Banned Book Club – They Call Us Enemy

May 14, 2024

7:00 PM - 8:00 PM

Presented by the Harry & Rose Samson Family Jewish Community Center's Tapestry Arts & Ideas in partnership with Jewish Museum Milwaukee. Why are so many states and school districts banning books? We’ll dive into reading and discussing books that are... Read More

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Klezmer Concert: Eastern European Jewish Music

May 16, 2024

7:00 PM - 8:30 PM

The famous Jewish neuroscientist Oliver Sacks suggested that “music evokes emotion, and emotion can bring it’s memory.” It comes as little surprise then that music was a powerful mode of resilience and resistance for Jewish people during the Holocaust. Its... Read More

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