BCLA | Loyola Marymount is marking the 80th anniversary of Kristallnacht, the Night of Broken Glass, with a program that reflects on the past and the present. In one night in 1938, Nazi-orchestrated violence killed 92 Jews, arrested more than 25,000 others and destroyed 200 synagogues and thousands of Jewish homes and businesses.
“Kristallnacht is recognized as the start of the Holocaust,” said Holli Levitsky, director of Jewish Studies. “It is remembered as a way to honor the dead and teach younger generations about the injustice that occurred.”
This year is also the 70th anniversary of the founding of Israel. LMU’s Bellarmine College of Liberal Arts and Jewish Studies Program invite the community to remember the past and reflect on the present with a candle lighting ceremony and lecture by Yossi Klein Halevi. Halevi is a renowned American-born Israeli journalist and author of “Letters to My Palestinian Neighbor and Like Dreamers: The Story of the Israeli Paratroopers Who Reunited Jerusalem and Divided a Nation.”
Tuesday, Oct. 30, 2018 | 7 p.m.
Roski Dining Room, University Hall
Loyola Marymount University
This event is free but space is limited, so an RSVP is requested.
This event is generously sponsored by the Martin Gang Institute, the Academic Engagement Network, Academy for Jewish Religion, the Academy of Catholic Thought and Imagination, Jewish Life at Loyola Marymount University, Peace and Justice Studies, and University Synagogue.
