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URL:https://www.templemicah.org/events/lunch-and-learn-4-2024-11-13/
SUMMARY:Lunch and Learn: Varian Fry and the Rescue of Jews in Vichy\, Franc
 e with Ori Soltes
DESCRIPTION:&nbsp\;\nRegister\n\nThis image-rich talk will tell the story o
 f Varian Fry\, a Christian journalist whose time in Berlin after the Nazis
  assumed power transformed him into an anti-Nazi crusader who ended up dev
 eloping a network in the south of France through which he rescued between 
 2\,000 and 4\,000 potential victims of the Nazis. With support from indivi
 duals like Eleanor Roosevelt\, Fry managed to get artists and writers\, mu
 sicians and intellectuals to safety. The list of those--many although not 
 all of them Jewish-- who arguably owed their lives to him\, included lumin
 aries like Hannah Arendt\, Marc Chagall\, Andre Breton\, Claude Levi-Strau
 ss\, Jacques Lipschitz\, Bohuslav Martinu\, and a host of others. Fry's st
 ory\, like that of Oskar Schindler\, is above all that of an undistinguish
 ed everyday individual whom circumstances--and his own courage and profoun
 d moral sense--transform into a light-filled hero in one of the darkest pe
 riods in human history.\nAbout the Speaker\nOri Z. Soltes teaches theology
 \, art history\, philosophy and political history at Georgetown University
 . He is former Director of the B’nai B’rith Klutznick National Jewish 
 Museum. As co-founding Director of the Holocaust Art Restitution Project h
 e has spent 25 years focused on the issue of Nazi-plundered art. Soltes ha
 s curated over 90 exhibitions\, domestically and internationally\, and has
  authored or edited some 30 books and scores of articles and exhibition ca
 talogue essays. Recent art-related volumes include Our Sacred Signs: How J
 ewish\, Christian and Muslim Art Draw from the Same Source\; The Ashen Rai
 nbow: Essays on the Arts and the Holocaust\; Tradition and Transformation:
  Three Millennia of Jewish art and Architecture\; God and the Goalposts: A
  Brief History of Sports\, Religion\, Politics\, War\, and Art\; Growing U
 p Jewish in India: Synagogues\, Customs\, and Celebrations: From the Bene 
 Israel to the Art of Siona Benjamin\; and Between Pasts and Future: A Conc
 eptual History of Israeli Art.\n\nRegister before 5 pm. the Sunday before 
 for in-person lunch ($10) or by the next evening for the Zoom link.\n\nFor
  more information\, please email Lunch and Learn.
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LOCATION:Temple Micah\, 2829 Wisconsin Ave NW\, Washington\, DC\, 20007\, U
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