Beatrice Fox Auerbach was a remarkable person. The grandchild of German-Jewish immigrants, she became president of her family’s department store, G. Fox & Company, in 1938. Over the next 25 years, Auerbach expanded and modernized Hartford’s famous department store into […]
Beatrice Fox Auerbach: Life & Legacy 7:00 PM on 5.15.23 Learn More »
Join Broadway historian George Dansker at 2:00 PM on April 16th at the Mandell JCC for a career retrospective on Broadway composer and Hartford native, Harold Rome (1908-1993). Rome wrote a number of hit shows and his 1962 musical, “I
Rediscovering Broadway Composer Harold Rome 4.16.23 Learn More »
SUNDAY, MARCH 19, 2023, 2 PM Join us at the New Haven Museum for a look at the lives of several remarkable Jewish women—Anni Albers, Ellen Ash Peters, Florence Wald—in this Women’s History Month talk by Elizabeth Rose, executive director
Trailblazing Jewish Women from New Haven 3.19.23 Learn More »
Live screening and discussion on Tuesday, March 21, 2023 at 5:00 PM. Available for streaming March 27-April 3. Join the Jewish Historical Society and the Hartford Jewish Film Festival to see this rediscovered documentary which explores the life of Hartford’s
Movie: Hartford Jews 1900-1925 3.21.23 Learn More »
Join us for a virtual exhibition tour with the New York Historical Society! Through a presentation from their current exhibition, “I’ll Have What She’s Having: The Jewish Deli,” learn how Jewish immigrants imported and adapted traditions to create a uniquely
Virtual Exhibition Tour: The Jewish Deli 3.2.23 Learn More »
Join us for an illustrated Zoom talk with Frank Himmelstein, whose family has been farming in Lebanon for 110 years. Established in 1913, the Himmelstein Homestead Farm is one of the oldest, if not the oldest, Jewish family farm in the
Generations of Jewish Farming 2.5.23 Learn More »
Opening Reception at the Mandell JCC on Sunday, January 8, 2023, from 1:00 – 2:30 PM. Exhibition runs from January 2 – February 10, 2023. As a single mother and Holocaust survivor, Sidonia Perlstein spent most of her life in
Sidonia’s Thread – From the Holocaust to High Fashion 1.8.23 Learn More »
November 17 at 7:30 PM Mandell Jewish Community Center Beginning in the 1870s, members of Hartford’s Jewish community became players in the city’s white-hot real estate market. Jewish real estate brokers, architects, builders and their clients all contributed to the
Building Jewish Hartford: Architects, Clients & Builders 11.17.22 Learn More »
October 23, 2022 10:00 AM – 12:00 A Brunch Program at the Faith Adventist Church, 500 Woodland St, Hartford. Co-sponsored by Beth El Men’s Club and the Emanuel Brotherhood $12 fee; register by October 17 Join us for a kosher
The Roots of Beth El Temple and Emanuel Synagogue 10.23.22 Learn More »
Recorded September 13, 2022 at 7:30 PM at the Mandell JCC Watch the video of our lively panel discussion on how LGBTQ Jews in the Hartford area made a place for themselves over the past several decades, and the
Proud and Jewish: LGBTQ Jews in Greater Hartford 9.13.22 Learn More »
