October 11 @ 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Join us for a tour revealing objects relating to Black History and Black Jewish History in the collection.
Led by Learning Officer Shereen Hunte, you will get the opportunity to see previously unseen objects from the museum’s stores.
From the role of ‘blackness’ in Holy Texts to the ancient community of Ethiopian Jews, we will be exploring the many ways in which race is portrayed through religion.
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Documenting a Journey
The Central British Fund for German Jewry (now World Jewish Relief) was instrumental in the organisation of the Kindertransport. Elsa Shamash, one of the Kinder featured in the exhibition, will discuss some of these documents and her own personal version of events.
Alan Bern and Svetlana Kundish present: Music from a Vanished World
Soprano Svetlana Kundish and pianist/accordionist Alan Bern perform and discuss songs on the horizon of memory, from family members, survivors of WWII and rare, rediscovered recordings. In association with the Jewish Music Institute.
