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Nisan/Iyar 5778 • April 2018
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Birthright: A view from Jerusalem
Yom HaShoah Holocaust Remembrance Day Community Observance
Silver Duo
Piano & Cello Phillip and Noreen Silver with Deirdre McArdle, Flute
Candle lighting service Sunday, April 15, 2018 4 p.m. Congregation B’nai Israel 6525 Sylvania Ave. Sylvania, Ohio 43560
Yom HaShoah, Holocaust Remembrance Day, commemorates the lives of the six milllion Jewish people and other targeted groups who were systematically murdered by the Nazisand their collaborators between 1933 to 1945. Soon after Hitler came into power in Germany, as part of an all-out cultural purge, certain art was labeled “degenerate” and banned by the Nazis. Jewish artists and musicians were fired and works by many composers including Felix Mendelssohn, Franz Schreker, Kurt Weill and Gustav Mahler, as well as jazz, were defamed; recordings of Jewish musicians and composers forbidden. Those artists of Jewish heritage not forced into exile in other countries were summarily rounded up and sent to concentration camps. Phillip Silver’s research into the composers of this era began with artists who died in the Holocaust, such as Viktor Ullmann, Gideon Klein and Alma Rose, the niece of Gustav Mahler. He found himself drawn to the extraordinary testament to the human spirit that would allow such artists to continue to compose despite the madness all around them. Through the efforts of the Silvers, as well as other scholars and international musicians, modern audiences are rediscovering these composers whose works today are recognized as some of the finest of the 20th century. Silver was determined that their voices would continue to be heard through their music.
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PJ Playdates Passover
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Soirée wrap-up
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Jewish Federation & Foundation Ruth Fajerman
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Holocaust Resource Center of Jewish Federation of Greater Toledo
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Yom Ha’Atzmaut Celebration See page 4
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