Pulitzer Prize Nominee and Noted Lecturer Among Presenters Discussing Growing Up Jewish in Foreign Countries

A Pulitzer Prize nominee and a noted lecturer are among the presenters who will discussing growing up Jewish in foreign countries this month.

The series "Where in the World? Growing Up Jewish in Faraway Lands" is hosted by Hadassah Chicago-North Shore Chapter. The 5-session summer camp will highlight the experiences of Jewish culture in various countries.

All sessions take place every Wednesday in July at 10:00 a.m. at Lakeside Congregation, 1221 County Line Road in Highland Park.

• The camp kicks off July 2 with a talk by Northwestern Professor Yohanan Petrovsky-Shtern, an author who has been nominated for a Pulitzer Prize. Shtern will present “Becoming Jewish and the Collapse of the USSR and Did the Shtetl Have Its Golden Age?” 

• July 9: THE MOSLEM WORLD
  Angel Schreim, Egypt; Jacqueline Saper, Iran
  
  
• July 16: ISRAEL & SOUTH AFRICA
  Tova Rothschild, Ruth Ravid, Elana Balaban, Israel
  Naomi Pollak, South Africa
  
  
• July 23: THE SPANISH-SPEAKING WORLD
  Miriam Levinson, Cuba
  Genie Birch Friedman, Mexico
  
  
• July 30: MUSIC FROM AROUND THE JEWISH WORLD: LECTURE & PERFORMANCE
  Lori Lippitz and the Maxwell Street Junior Klezmer Band
  

Please click here for a registration form to attend the sessions or call 847-205-1900 to sign up.

Hadassah Chicago-North Shore Chapter serves more than 11,000 area women who are committed to innovative and life-changing medical care and research, women's empowerment, education, advocacy, philanthropy and building Jewish identity.