Temple Beth Or’s Annual Artisan Fair with brisket lunch Sunday, December 3, 9a to 2p Artisan crafts and specialty items. Brisket lunch only $9 a plate. Takeout brisket only $18 a pound. Chopped liver only $5 a half-pound. No entrance fee for shoppers. Open to the public!
DAYTON Samuel Heider to address Wright State Kristallnacht event Holocaust survivor Samuel Heider will be the speaker for Wright State University’s Annual Kristallnacht Commemoration at 7:30 p.m. on Tuesday, Nov. 7 in Room E163 of the Student Union. Born in Poland, Heider was the only member of his family not killed in the Holocaust. Among the concentration camps he survived were Dachau and Auschwitz. For more information, call Dr. Mark Verman at 775-2461. Samuel Heider
Robert Kahn to relate his recollections of Kristallnacht Robert Kahn, who experienced the horrors of Kristallnacht firsthand — and who would later work on Operation Paper Clip for U.S. intelligence after World War II — will discuss his autobiography, The Hard Road of Dreams: Remembering Not To Forget, at 7 p.m. on Wednesday, Nov. 8 at Stivers School for the Arts, 1313 E. Fifth Robert Kahn St., Dayton. His talk is part of the JCC Cultural Arts & Book Fest Series. Following Kahn’s presentation, the Stivers Orchestra will perform an original composition inspired his story. The program is free and open to the community. For more information, call 610-1555.
Exhibit at MU on Jews who fought WWII with Soviet armed forces
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In conjunction with Hillel at Miami University and Miami University’s Havighurst Center for Russian and Post-Soviet Studies, an exhibit from New York’s Blavatnik Archive is on display at Miami University’s King Library on the Oxford campus through Nov. 17. It depicts stories of Russian Jews who fought in the Soviet armed forces during World War II. Alex Blavatnik, a 1986 graduate of Miami University, is executive director of the Blavatnik Archive. The Havighurst Center, library, and Hillel will host two events in conjunction with the exhibit. The symposium War, Revolution and Jewish Life in Russia will be held at 3 p.m. on Friday, Nov. 3 at the King Library, followed by a Russian-themed Shabbat service and dinner at 6 p.m. at the Hillel Building, 11 E. Walnut St. R.S.V.P. to admin@muhillel.org. llya Yablokov, teaching fellow in Russian studies at the University of Leeds, will present the lecture Conspiracy Theories and Revolution in Post-Soviet Russia at 4 p.m. on Tuesday, Nov. 7 at the King Library. “Our goal is not to celebrate the centenary of 1917 but to use this anniversary as a means to think about how it shaped our contemporary world,” said Dr. Stephen Norris, interim director of the Havighurst Center.
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THE DAYTON JEWISH OBSERVER • NOVEMBER 2017