Please join Los ANGELES MUSEUM OF THE HOLOCAUST, HIAS, UCLA Leve
Center for JEWISH STUDIES, and 30 Years After for an engaging
conversation about the role several waves of JEWISH REFUGEES PLAYED IN
SHAPING CONTEMPORARY LOS ANGELES AND HOW TO TAKE ACTION FOR REFUGEES
AND ASYLUM SEEKERS OF ALL BACKGROUNDS TODAY.
Joe Goldman is the first-ever Los Angeles-based Community Engagement
Director for HIAS, the world’s oldest – and only Jewish –
resettlement agency. Joe works with activists, congregations, and
lawmakers across the region to sustain and protect refugees and asylum
seekers.
Sam Yebri is a partner at the law firm of Merino Yebri LLP. In 2007,
Sam co-founded 30 Years After, a grassroots civic organization that
has engaged thousands of Iranian-American Jews in American civic and
Jewish life. At the age of one, Sam and his family fled Iran as
refugees to the United States with assistance from HIAS.
Caroline Luce is the Associate Director of the Alan D. Leve Center for
Jewish Studies at UCLA and the Chief Digital Curator of the Mapping
Jewish Los Angeles Project. She received her Ph.D. in History from
UCLA in 2013 for her work on Jewish immigration, labor and
working-class culture in the American west and is currently working on
a book manuscript entitled Yiddish in the Land of Sunshine: Jewish
Radicalism, Labor and Culture in Los Angeles, 1900-1950.
The conversation will be moderated by Jordanna Gessler, Vice President
of Education and Exhibits at Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust.
Suggested donation: $10.
More information:
http://www.lamoth.org/news--events/events/jewishrefugees/
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