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Stop the Hate Awards Ceremony
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Student Finalists Named in Maltz Museum’s Stop the Hate® Contest: Winners to Be Announced at Ceremony on April 14, 2026
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A Closer Look: Yiddish Cultural Creativity in the Nazi Ghettos
with Julian Levinson, PhD, Professor at University of Michigan
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A Closer Look: The Science of Bias
with Kirsten Ellenbogen, PhD, CEO of the Great Lakes Science Center
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Tuesday Treasures
Katya Oicherman is a curator, researcher, artist and educator focusing on Jewish material culture, as well as historical and contemporary textiles. She holds a practice-based PhD from Goldsmiths, University of London (UK) with a thesis on 19th century German Jewish Torah binders. Oicherman is the Director of Mishkan Or Museum of Jewish Cultures in Beachwood, OH. Before joining Mishkan Or, she was a resident artist-curator at the Minnesota Museum of American Art and the chair of the Textile Design Department at Shenkar College of Engineering, Design and Art (Israel). She is the recipient of research grants and fellowships from the Memorial Foundation for Jewish Culture (New York), the Pasold Fund in textile history (UK), the Minnesota Historical Society, the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation (New York) and Winterthur Museum (DE) among others.
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Maltz Films: Animal Crackers (1930) with Post Film Discussion
Starring the Marx Brothers, Lillian Roth and Louis Sorin.
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Maltz Films: The Strange Love of Martha Ivers (1946) with Post Film Discussion
Starring Barbara Stanwyck, Van Heflin, Lizabeth Scott, and his feature film debut, perhaps the most legendary Jewish film star of them all, Kirk Douglas.
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Smithsonian Community Engagement Project on Implicit Bias Coming to The Maltz Museum
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Playing Dirty
A staged reading of a play by Beachwood playwright, Faye Sholiton. Directed by Sheri Gross.
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Singer of Shanghai
The Singer of Shanghai is a moving production performed by theatre students from Slippery Rock University that tells the true story of a family seeking refuge in China during World War II. This performance chronicles the Abraham family’s journey from the Holocaust to the "Shanghai Ghetto" and their eventual life in the Cleveland community.
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