Jewish History

‘The Line,’ aka ‘El Primero,’ played with gusto but script is boring

  By Mimi Pollack SAN DIEGO — The Line  by Israel Horovitz is the longest-running play off-off Broadway, having made its debut in 1974. It has been seen in 25 countries and translated into 35 languages. One of those languages is Spanish and Teatro Punto y Coma recently presented it during the San Diego Repertory Theater’s 19th

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Jewish History, Mimi Pollack

Adventures in San Diego Jewish History, December 28, 1956, Part 2

Compiled by San Diego Jewish World staff Press Notes Southwestern Jewish Press, December 28, 1956, Page 3 Time Covers and Uncovers: Lanes and roads overgrown during years of disuse are once again open for men and women in pursuit of knowledge. Five years ago when the California Western University took over 117 acres of wooded

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Adventures in San Diego Jewish History, Dec. 28, 1956, Part 1

Compiled by San Diego Jewish World staff United Fund Campaign To Have Early Start Southwestern Jewish Press, December 28, 1956, Pages , 31 An early United Jewish Fund Campaign will be in the planning for the 1957 Drive, according to Victor Schulman, and Dr. Walter Ornstein, newly appointed campaign leaders. “The emergency for Jews in

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Adventures in San Diego Jewish History, Dec. 14, 1956, Part 4

  Compiled by San Diego Jewish World staff Local Leader is Honored Southwestern Jewish Press, December 14, 1956, Page 6 San Diego resident Edward A. Britbard, B’nai B’rith executive Board Member, received a “T-Man” pin from William H. Bratley, western regional director of United States Savings Bonds, for outstanding service in the sale of Bonds

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Garry Fabian’s updated Holocaust memoir, ‘A Look Back Over My Shoulder’ now on line

A LOOK BACK OVER  MY SHOULDER By Garry Fabian Editor’s Note: In 1936 Garry Fabian’s family fled Germany to Czechoslovakia, hoping to escape  Nazi persecution, but in vain. By 1942 Garry, aged eight, was interned in  Theresienstadt. He was to spend till May 1945 in that ‘model’ concentration  camp and was one of only about

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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, Jewish History, Jewish Religion

Adventures in San Diego Jewish History, Dec. 14, 1956, Part 3

Compiled by San Diego Jewish World staff Deceased Southwestern Jewish Press, December 14, 1956, Page 4 Samuel Tokman passed away on November 26 at a local hospital.  Services were held at Greenwood Mortuary and interment at Home of Peace Cemetery.  Rabbi Monroe Levens and Cantor Jos. Cysner conducted the services. Mr. Tokman was a member

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Let’s be the ‘village’ that supports Israel locally

By Rabbi Leonard Rosenthal SAN DIEGO — On Tuesday night I shared a fascinating lesson plan from Yad Vashem (Israel’s Holocaust Martyrs’ and Heroes’ Remembrance Authority) with my Community Jewish High students. The lesson juxtaposed two reports from a transport that carried Jews from Dusseldorf, Germany to Riga, Latvia that left on December 11, 1941.

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International, Jewish History, Middle East

Grossmont festival marks college’s golden anniversary

  By Donald H. Harrison EL CAJON, California — Whimsy was a theme of Grossmont College’s two-day festival celebrating its 50th anniversary.  An old-fashioned sock hop in the college’s gymnasium on Friday, April 13, looked back to the college’s  founding in 1962, and students, faculty, staff, alumni and friends gave the “old college try” on

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Donald H. Harrison, Jewish History

Stan Schwartz honored by local Congress of History

SAN DIEGO (Press Release)– Stanley Schwartz, president of the Jewish Historical Society since 1994, and long-time member of the Congress of History of San Diego and Imperial Counties, has received the coveted Award of Distinction from the Congress of History.   At the ceremony held in March at the at the Congress of History’s 47th Annual History Conference,

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