Programs & Tours: Programs

LUNCH & LEARN
Wendy Turman’s 10th Anniversary Celebration

Tuesday, July 27, 2010, Noon - 1:00 p.m.

Join us to celebrate Wendy Turman’s ten years as Society Curator/Archivist. Kosher deli lunch provided.

Special presentation: Wendy's 10 favorite archival acquisitions in the past 10 years

Location: Small Jewish Museum
701 Third Street, NW, Washington, D.C.
Directions

Free and open to the public.  Space is limited.
Reservations required online or to (202) 789-0900.

We would appreciate your contribution of $10, $25, $50 or $100 to underwrite archival conservation projects, in honor of Wendy's 10th anniversary.

Call (202) 789-0900 or click here to donate. (Put "Wendy's anniversary" in the Designation box)

LIVING HISTORY PERFORMANCE
Anna Shulman: Queen of H Street

Sunday, September 12, 2010, 3:00 - 4:30 p.m.

Location: Atlas Performing Arts Center, 1333 H Street, NE, Washington, D.C.
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This one-woman show tells the entertaining and true life story of Anna Shulman, a Russian-Jewish immigrant and H Street, NE, shopkeeper during the Great Depression. Don’t miss this one-time public performance—one block from the location of Shulman’s dry goods store—funded by the D.C. Commission on the Arts and Humanities.

Free and open to the public. Space is limited.
Advance registration required to (202) 789-0900 or rsvp@jhsgw.org.

50th ANNIVERSARY SALON
Patrick and Me

Tuesday, September 14, 2010, Noon - 1:00 p.m.

Location: Lillian & Albert Small Jewish Museum
701 Third Street, NW, Washington, D.C.
Directions

Historian Anthony Cohen recounts the gripping tale of his ancestor Patrick Sneed’s flight from slavery in 1849.  Cohen details his research uncovering his Jewish-Indian-Irish-African slave ancestry as he reconstructed Sneed’s route from Georgia to Canada.

Anthony Cohen is Founder and President of The Menare Foundation, Inc., a national non-profit working to preserve the legacy of the Underground Railroad.

Suggested donation: $5

Open to the public. Space is limited.
Advance registration required to (202) 789-0900 or rsvp@jhsgw.org.

WALKING TOUR
Downtown Jewish Washington

Sunday,October 3, 2010, 1:00 - 2:30 p.m.

Learn what it was like to live and worship as a Jew from 1850-1950 in the historic Seventh Street neighborhood, now known as Chinatown. Includes visiting the sites of four former synagogues.

Start location: Lillian & Albert Small Jewish Museum
701 Third Street, NW (at G Street), Washington, D.C.
Metro: Judiciary Square (National Building Museum/F St. Exit)

End location: Sixth & I Historic Synagogue
600 I Street, NW, Washington, D.C.
Metro: Gallery Place/Chinatown

Fee: $15 members; $20 non-members

Open to the public. Space is limited.
Advance registration required to (202) 789-0900 or rsvp@jhsgw.org.

EXCLUSIVE EVENT
Guardian-Benefactor Luncheon

A luncheon to honor Guardian-Benefactor Members/Donors at the $1000 level and above
Sunday, October 17, 2010, 11:30 a.m.

Stephen J. Whitfield, Professor of American Studies at Brandeis University and author of In Search of American Jewish Culture, will discuss icons like George Gershwin and Billy Crystal, home-grown favorites like Al Jolson and Goldie Hawn, and other Jewish entertainers.

Location: Omni Shoreham Hotel, 2500 Calvert Street, NW, Washington, DC
Directions

For more information or to upgrade your membership, email info@jhsgw.org

WALKING TOUR
Old Town Alexandria

Sunday, October 24, 2010, 1:00 - 2:30 p.m.

Learn Old Town Alexandria's long and storied Jewish history, from the 1850s to today. Includes the sites of two former synagogues and several Jewish businesses along King Street-including some that show traces of past Jewish owners.

Start location: The Lyceum
201 South Washington Street, Alexandria, VA
Directions - Street and garage parking available

End location: Agudas Achim Congregation's former home
508 Wolfe Street, Alexandria, VA

Fee: $15 members; $20 non-members

RSVP to rsvp@jhsgw.org or (202) 789-0900.

50th ANNIVERSARY ANNUAL MEETING

Sunday, November 14, 2010, 3:00 - 4:30 p.m.

Award-winning journalist Marvin Kalb will discuss the many changes he has witnessed in the Washington scene over the past five decades. Gala dessert reception to follow.

Location: Adas Israel Congregation, 2850 Quebec Street, NW
Washington, D.C. Directions

Suggested donation: $18

Open to the public. Advance registration required to (202) 789-0900 or rsvp@jhsgw.org.

50th ANNIVERSARY SALON
Felix Cohen: Father of Federal Indian Law

Wednesday, December 1, 2010, 1:00 - 2:00 p.m.

Location:The Interior Museum, Department of the Interior
1849 C Street, NW, Washington, D.C. Directions

Felix Solomon Cohen’s experiences as a Jewish American deeply influenced his career and legal philosophy, helping shape his reworking of federal Indian law in the 1930s. Come learn about this influential legal scholar in the beautiful New Deal-era auditorium at the Department of the Interior, where Cohen worked in the Solicitor’s office.

Dalia Tsuk Mitchell is a Professor of Law and History at The George Washington University, and author of a biography of Felix Cohen. 

Free and open to the public. Space is limited.
Advance registration required to (202) 789-0900 or rsvp@jhsgw.org.

Past Programs (PDFs)

May 2009 - Fall/Winter 2008 - Summer 2008 - May 2008 - Spring 2008 - Fall/Winter 2007 - Spring 2007 - Fall/Winter 2006 - Spring 2006 - Winter 2005-06