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URL:https://fjmc.org/events-2/untermenschen/
SUMMARY:Untermenschen: A History of Targeting Others for Inequality\, Hatre
 d and Suffering
DESCRIPTION:Scroll down for Registration Form\n\n"Untermenschen:\nA History
  of Targeting Others for Inequality\, Hatred and Suffering"\nwith authors 
 Dr. Arthur Flug and Lou Gromet\nHundreds march in a torchlight parade cond
 emning Jews! Non-citizens are denounced as vermin! Sick and disabled ridic
 uled! 1930’s? 2010’s?\n\nTragically\, both periods have seen these eve
 nts. The Charlottsville Torchlight march of neo Nazi’s is scarily famili
 ar to similar scenes in America and Europe in the 1930s. The Nazis and the
 ir allies identified certain populations as Untermenschen\, or less than h
 uman\, and marked them for enslavement and/or elimination.\n\nIn this webi
 nar\, sponsored by the FJMC Committee to Combat Antisemitism\, authors Art
 hur Flug and Lou Crumet\, highlight the history of antisemitism and mistre
 atment of other targeted groups over centuries in Europe and in the United
  States. The PBS special\, the “US and the Holocaust\,” and the US Hol
 ocaust Memorial Museum’s exhibit\, also brought greater awareness of the
  dichotomy of these events. The tragedy of Oct 7 is accelerating this resu
 rgence of hate. During the coming Days of Awe and in close proximity to th
 e one year anniversary of Oct 7\, this webinar will discuss the impact of 
 fading memories of those years in fact such hatred never really went away.
 \n\nArthur Flug\, a Holocaust educator\, and Louis Grumet\, a public polic
 y wonk\, have joined together to produce a work that reminds us that targe
 ting “others” for inequality can grow into discrimination and acts of 
 hatred\, which can grow into final solutions which harm and indeed kill mi
 llions of victims. Using the testimonies of Holocaust survivors who were t
 argeted as teenagers and anti-racial and religious governmental practices 
 of 17th through 20th centuries\, the authors present a clear picture of wh
 at may be happening again in America and Europe\, and its potential outcom
 e. It is a reminder that for evil to happen\, good folks have only to be s
 ilent.\n\nDr. Arthur Flug has served as the Executive Director of the Harr
 iet and Kenneth Kupferberg Holocaust Center at Queensborough Community Col
 lege and as Director of Instructional Management Systems for the New York 
 City Board of Education. His career includes a record of public service as
  District Administrator for U.S. Congressman Gary Ackerman and as Chief of
  Staff for the Chair of the New York City Finance Committee\, David Weprin
 .\n\nHe received his doctorate from Teachers College at Columbia Universit
 y and is the author of the Laidlaw Brother Social Studies Reading Series. 
 Along with Rabbi Isidoro Aizenberg\, he co-authored a series of 14 catalog
 ues highlighting exhibits at the Kupferberg Center. For several years\, he
  spoke at a number of schools\, synagogues and community organizations on 
 issues relating to the Holocaust and hate crimes.\n\nDr. Flug has served a
 s president of the Conservative Synagogue of Jamaica Estates and Chairman 
 of the Board of the Hillcrest Jewish Center. During the summer of 1999\, h
 e served in the IDF’s Volunteers for Israel .Program.\n\nLou Grumet is t
 he author of two books – The Curious Case of Kiryas Joel concerning a ch
 urch state case for which he was the plaintiff in 1994\, and This Land is 
 My Land concerning a Mohawk armed takeover of state property in New York i
 n which he was the state negotiator that ended the dispute. He was the Exe
 cutive Director of the New York States School Boards Association for fourt
 een years as well as the New York State Society of Certified Public Accoun
 tants for twelve years. He also served as the Assistant Commissioner of th
 e New York State Education Department for the education of disabled studen
 ts and was the special assistant to New Yor Secretary of State Mario Cuomo
 . He was Chief of Research for the New York State Office of Local Governme
 nt\, as well as serving as the Assistant Director of Research for the New 
 York State Commission on the Powers of Local Government. Grumet has a JD f
 rom NYU Law School\, a Masters of Public Administration from the Universit
 y of Pittsburgh and a bachelors in Public Affairs from the George Washingt
 on University.\n\n\nREGISTRATION\n[ninja_form id=36]\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
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CATEGORIES:Combating Antisemitism
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