2010-2011 Course Schedule
All sessions will be held from 6:30 – 9:00 PM in the Wolk Family Center at Temple B’rith Kodesh
| Date | Topic | Presenter | |
| 1. | 10/20/10 | Course Introduction | Morris Wortman, M. D. Deb Brenner Rabbi Laurence Kotok Anthony Sciolino |
| A Jewish Family Feud Leads to Christian Anti-Judaism (28–150 CE) | Rev. Dr. Theodore J. Weeden, Sr. | ||
| 2. | 10/27/10 | Christianity’s Original Sin: anti-Judaism (150 CE – 1789) | Prof. Susan Nowak |
| 3. | 11/3/10 | anti-Judaism Spawns anti-Semitism (1789-1914) | Deacon Anthony Sciolino |
| 4. | 11/10/10 | A Hundred Years of Preparation: Creating the Climate and Soil for the Holocaust (1830-1930) | Steven Hess |
| The Nazification of Germany(1933-1938) | Steven Hess | ||
| 5. | 11/17/10 | The Nazification of the Judicial System | Hon. Karen Morris |
| Losing a Homeland: Escaping Nazi Germany | Warren Heilbronner | ||
| 6. | 12/08/10 | The Jews in Germany | Prof. Michael Dobkowski |
| Weimar to Kristallnacht: The End of the Beginning….The Beginning of the End | Prof. Michael Dobkowski | ||
| 7. | 12/15/10 | September 1, 1939 – January 20, 1942: A Survivor’s Tale in Poland | Prof. Charles Clarke Helen Levinson |
| 8. | 01/05/11 | The Final Solution | Steven Hess |
| 9. | 01/19/11 | Lost Childhood | Henry Silberstern |
| “Hess Family” testimony | Steven Hess | ||
| 10. | 01/26/11 | The European Jewish Response to the Holocaust | Prof. Michael Dobkowski |
| The American Jewish Response to the Holocaust | Prof. Michael Dobkowski | ||
| 11. | 02/02/11 | Roman Catholics and the Holocaust (1938-1945) Part I | |
| Pope Pius XII | Deacon Anthony Sciolino | ||
| The Holocaust in Germany | Deacon Anthony Sciolino | ||
| 12. | 02/09/11 | Roman Catholics and the Holocaust (1938-1945) Part II | |
| The Holocaust Outside Germany | Prof. Charles Clarke | ||
| The Protestant Response to the Holocaust | Rev. Dr. Theodore J. Weeden, Sr. | ||
| 13. | 02/16/11 | Concentration Camps | Steven Hess |
| Women and the Holocaust | Prof Susan Nowak | ||
| 14. | 2/23/11 | The War CrimeTrials | Hon. Karen Morris |
| Aftermath | Prof. Michael Dobkowski | ||
| 15. | 03/02//11 | Resistance and Rescue | Bonnie Abrams |
| Contemporary anti-Semitism | Steven Hess | ||
| 16. | 03/23/11 | The 2000-Year Road in Review | Ron Sham, MD |
| Memory, Responsibility and Hope | Michael Dobkowski | ||
| Christian Repentance (Teshuvah) | Deacon Anthony Sciolino | ||
| What have we learned ? why do we do this? It isn’t finished…. | Rabbi Laurence Kotok TBA |