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Limmud OZ + NZ Online 2020

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Kirsten Warner

Author
Auckland, NZ

https://kirstenwarnerauthor.wordpress.com/fiction/

Author of the award-winning Second Generation novel "The Sound of Breaking Glass", Kirsten has been a member of the Auckland Second Generation Group for over 20 years. Her novel won best first book at the Ockham New Zealand Book Awards in 2019 and the Hubert Church Prize For Fiction. It stays in the point of view of a child of a survivor of the Holocaust and dissects the psychology of transmission of trauma. It is also a pacy good read, set in the world of the start of reality television in the 1990s, and will be of interest in the times of the Me Too movement.

8:00pm AEST

Off the map: a Jewish basketball coach’s journey from the Holy Land to the Land of the Long White Cloud ROOM 8Dan Shamir • David Bigio

9:00pm AEST

Melekh Ravitsh: the eccentric outback quest of an urbane Yiddish poet from Poland ROOM 5Anna Epstein • Danielle Charak • Arnold Zable

6:30pm AEST

“All in the Family: New Zealand Roots & Israeli- Palestinian stories of Connection - A Conversation with Dina Kraft” ROOM 11Dina Kraft • Tanya Thomson

12:00pm AEST

Treblinka - different perspectives: survivor, historian, the Jewish religion ROOM 9Henry Erlich Being Green and Jewish ROOM 3Dan Coleman • Miriam Solomon • Maddy Blay • David Zyngier

7:30pm AEST

Jewish visual artists from Chagall to Agam to Rothko ROOM 12David Benkof

8:00pm AEST

Krakow. New York. Melbourne: new cultural organisations ruffling feathers and reconnecting communities ROOM 10Lior Albeck-Ripka • Michael Rubenfeld • Magda Rubenfeld Koralewska • Molly Tolsky Who can guess the moment? Jewish poets from Sri Lanka, India and Congo ROOM 8Issac Habib • Andrew Harris Lessons from loss. Is there an ethical teaching moment in Holocaust experience? ROOM 4Avril Alba

9:00pm AEST

Jewish filmmakers: Jewish films ROOM 1Shaun Miller • Danny Ben-Moshe • Eve Ash • Esther Takac Love in the time of corona ROOM 3Amanda Gordon

10:00am AEST

Krakow to Krypton: Jews and the Marvel of comics ROOM 13Daniel Rosenbaum

11:00am AEST

Writing the Holocaust for children: why the truth still matters ROOM 4Jackie French Bubka: from the shtetl to the world stage ROOM 10Sarah Chowen Respectable and convicted? The story of middle-class Jewish convicts ROOM 6Sue Silberberg

12:00pm AEST

March of the Living: unlocking my identity treasure chest ROOM 7Gary Samowitz • Julia Sussman • Ben De Winter • Dean Levitan Polish Jewish women on the eve of the Holocaust ROOM 11Daniel Heller The Sound of Breaking Glass ROOM 13Kirsten Warner • Diana Wichtel Social inclusion: what does it look like in these times? ROOM 3Ilan Abrahams • Ruth Barson • Gersh Lazarow • Gideon Reisner

6:30pm AEST

The secret code found in a Jewish woman’s prayer book ROOM 11Aliza Lavie What I learnt about Israelis and Palestinians from working at an interfaith youth movement in East Jerusalem ROOM 5Ittay Flescher

7:30pm AEST

Oy, how we laughed ROOM 6Rachel Creeger “Complicated Times”: How to talk (and think) about Israel through a pandemic, three elections, a prime minister on trial, and other quandaries ROOM 4Allison Kaplan Sommer • Noah Efron

8:30pm AEST

Poland's lucky Jew - Now at 8.30pm ROOM 8Michael Rubenfeld What we mean when we talk about annexation ROOM 3Dahlia Scheindlin Putting our money where our mouth is: super Jewish superannuation ROOM 15Elinor Hasenfratz • Shamir Caplan • Lillian Kline Is Happiness Possible?: Coveting, Capitalism and the Search for a Good Life ROOM 9Elliott Malamet