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In this four-week session, we’ll read some of the most iconic and unforgettable Ukrainian-Jewish writers and poets including Isaac Babel, Der Nister, Lidiya Ginzburg, among others. Religious and secular, written in Russian or Yiddish, these works bring the old world roaring back with humor, wisdom, tragedy, dreams, eros, and above all, a rich Jewish history. Keeping Ukraine and its people in our hearts and minds will be both a balm and a tribute in this difficult time.
Readings will be distributed before class.
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Tuesdays, May 2–23 7–8:30 p.m. ET
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30 seats
The Association for Continuing Education is a volunteer organization dedicated to providing and supporting continuing education programs in cooperation with the Laura and Alvin Siegal Lifelong Learning Program at Case Western Reserve University.
Membership is open to those who love to learn. ACE independently provides the Grazella Shepherd Lecture Day, Discussion Day, Acclaimed Authors Luncheon and the Annual Book Sale, trips, a semi-annual newsletter and a summer luncheon series featuring local authors. More
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September 1, 2022 - August 31, 2023
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535 open seats left
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700 seats
This course analyzes significant events of the 1950s including the growth of the middle class, the move to suburbia, development of new industries, the emergence of television and creation of the national highway system. Racial events covered include the Montgomery bus boycott, Martin Luther King, Jr. and the Brown school decision and the anti-communist anxiety of the era reflected in the blacklist and McCarthyism. Internationally, we’ll review U.S. assumption of world leadership, the Cold War, the Korean War, nuclear policy, and covert CIA operations in other countries. The politics of the era include the Eisenhower-Stevenson and Kennedy- Nixon contests. Class discussion will compare the 1950s with life today and the impact of that decade on the world in which we live now.
Read: The Fifties, David Halberstam
This course is offered with the generous support of the Association for Continuing Education.
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Fridays, April 7–May 26 | 10:30 a.m.– noon ET
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27 seats
ChamberFest Cleveland has presented engaging and innovative chamber music programs for more than a decade featuring well-known musicians, along with young Rising Star artists, for a three-week celebration of spectacular artistry. This course will prepare you for a deeper inside look at the music and the festival. The course also includes tickets to two ChamberFest concerts including insightful pre-concert talks. As part of this program, you’ll be invited to mingle with the artists after each performance.
THE ART OF CREATING A CHAMBER MUSIC EXPERIENCE
Thursday, June 22 | 11am ET
Landmark Centre Building - Beachwood
MAKING CHAMBER MUSIC ACCESSIBLE
Friday, June 23 | 11am ET
Landmark Centre Building - Beachwood
CARNIVAL OF THE ANIMALS CONCERT
Saturday, June 24 | 7:30pm ET (Preconcert talk at 6:30pm)
Mixon Hall, Cleveland Institute of Music
VORTEX CONCERT
Sunday, June 25 | 3pm ET (Preconcert talk at 2pm)
Harkness Chapel, Case Western Reserve University
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Starts:
6/22/2023
11:00 AM
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4
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79 open seats left
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80 seats
This course will explore the different habitats available to migrating birds at the university farms. Students should be prepared to walk at a moderate pace over some hilly and possibly wet terrain. Binoculars are recommended. Meet in the Greenhouse parking lot. Listening devices available.
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Fridays, May 5–June 9 | 7–9 a.m. ET
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21 seats
The Chemistry prize was awarded to 3 scientists, Carolyn R. Bertozzi, Morten Meldal, and K. Barry Sharpless, for developing a way of “snapping molecules together.” They found an ingenious and environmentally cleaner way to build molecules that the Nobel panel said is “already benefiting humankind greatly.”
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Friday, June 2 | 11 a.m.–12:30 p.m. ET
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80 seats
Though most famous for Moby Dick, Herman Melville also wrote compelling sketches, short stories, and novels, including: the ten sketches that comprise The Encantadas, or The Enchanted Isles (1854), the novella Benito Cereno (1855), and the novel Typee: A Peep at Polynesian Life (1846). As with his magnum opus, Melville’s shorter fiction draws not only on his eighteen-month voyage to the South Seas on whaling and trading vessels but also on historical sources. The mysterious desolation of the Galapagos Islands, the commandeering of a Spanish slave ship off the southern tip of Chile by its enslaved cargo, and the exotic sexual mores and cannibalism on Nuku Hiva are some of the provocative topics in Melville’s ethnographic, historical, and imaginative shorter works. All aboard for Herman Melville’s reconsideration of Romantic notions of the noble savage and the divinity of the natural world!
Read: The Encantadas, or Enchanted Isles, Benito Cereno, and select passages from the novel Typee: A Peep at Polynesian Life (1846). All works are in the public domain and available at gutenberg.org. More
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Mondays, July 10 - August 14 10-11:30a.m. ET
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24 open seats left
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30 seats
Since 1803, the United States Supreme Court has heard thousands of cases. This course will spotlight one landmark case each week from one of the following topics: religious beliefs regarding conscientious objector status; abortion rights; immigration and racial discrimination; free speech; the mandate for universal health care; right to die issues; freedom of the press; the right to a fair trial; and technology and cell phone privacy rights. We will review precedent cases on topic, facts of the case at hand, and these landmark opinions that establish the laws of our country.
This course is offered with the generous support of the Association for Continuing Education.
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Tuesdays, April 4–May 23 | 10–11:30 a.m. ET
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25 seats
LOCATION: Thwing Center, Room #101
Not long ago all the planets we knew of were those orbiting our Sun. In January 1992, the first planets outside our solar system (exoplanets) were found when two planets were discovered orbiting a neutron star (the remnant of an exploded star) 2,300 light-years away. Three years later, Didier Queloz and Michel Mayor announced the first discovery of a planet orbiting the sun-like star 51 Pegasi just 48 light years away, for which they shared the 2019 Nobel Prize in Physics. Thus was born the science of exoplanets, with well over 5,000 confirmed exoplanets so far, and the number and variety grow daily. Joshua Pepper is an astronomer at Lehigh University working to discover and understand these exoplanets. He has built robotic telescopes to discover Jupiter-size planets orbiting close to their stars, and has also helped design NASA space missions to discover small rocky planets. He is currently on leave from Lehigh serving as a Program Scientist in the Astrophysics Division at NASA Headquarters. Friends of ISO and Emeritus faculty register at the member rate. PARKING:The closest parking garage is Lot 29 which you enter off East Blvd just next to Severance Hall. This is the same garage that our returning scholars will remember when we held the program in "The Tink" . Thwing is the historic building next door, originally the home of the Excelsior Club, and requires about a 50 foot walk outside from thestairs or elevator up from the garage. Signage will be in place. Parking is not included in the program fees. More
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Tuesday, May 30 | 6 p.m. ET
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80 seats
The 1920s was a unique period in American and world history. In this country, it was characterized by the end of the Progressive period with it significant social and political advances and a return to normalcy. It was an era of eugenics, restrictions on immigration, the Red Scare, prohibition, bootlegging and gangsterism but it was also the era of speakeasies, the Jazz Age, flappers and a roaring stock market. Here, and especially in Europe, there was an underlying sadness and disillusion brought on by the shocking and horrendous devastation of the Great War. In the midst of all this, two remarkable young writers emerged – F. Scott Fitzgerald and Ernest Hemingway. This course will address the history of the 1920s and analyze and discuss these authors and the books they wrote in the context of their times.
Read: The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald The Sun Also Rises, Ernest Hemingway This course is offered with the generous support of the Association for Continuing Education. More
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Fridays, June 2–23 | 10 a.m.–noon ET
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11 open seats left
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25 seats
Masada and Tzipori are two archeological sites in Israel that at first glance seem unrelated. The story of the massacre at Masada is well-known, but Tzipori’s story is less familiar to most people. Could it be that the lesser known site of Tzipori shapes Jewish identity far more than the famous site of Masada? And how are the two sites linked together? During two sessions, we will walk through both sites, exploring how the historical events that took place in each of these places shape the story of the Jewish collective and learning how each of the sites continues to impact the Jewish people to this day.
Israel at 75: Untold Stories is generously supported by the Friends of Jewish Lifelong Learning Endowment Fund, Jewish Federation of Cleveland. More
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Sundays, June 4–11 | 2–3:30 p.m. ET
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25 seats
Classical Hebrew teaches the Hebrew used in the Jewish prayer book and the Bible. More
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Thursdays, May 4- June 15 (no class May 25) | 6:30 - 8:30 p.m. ET
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Conversational Hebrew teaches students to communicate in Israel's language to be able to read Israeli newspapers, view Israeli television, and enjoy Hebrew literature, songs, drama and film.
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Mondays, May1- June 12 (no class May 29) | 1 - 3 p.m. ET
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20 seats
Conversational Hebrew teaches students to communicate in Israel's language to be able to read Israeli newspapers, view Israeli television, and enjoy Hebrew literature, songs, drama and film.
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Mondays, July 10 - August 14 | 1 - 3 p.m. ET
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20 seats
Conversational Hebrew teaches students to communicate in Israel's native language to be able to read Israeli newspapers, view Israeli television, and enjoy Hebrew literature, songs, drama and film.
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Tuesdays, May 2- June 6 | 10 a.m. - noon ET
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Conversational Hebrew teaches students to communicate in Israel's language to be able to read Israeli newspapers, view Israeli television, and enjoy Hebrew literature, songs, drama and film.
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Thursdays, May 4- June 15 (no class May 25) 10 a.m. - noon ET
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Conversational Hebrew teaches students to communicate in Israel's native language to be able to read Israeli newspapers, view Israeli television, and enjoy Hebrew literature, songs, drama and film.
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Tuesdays, July 11 - August 15 | 10 a.m. - noon ET
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Conversational Hebrew teaches students to communicate in Israel's language to be able to read Israeli newspapers, view Israeli television, and enjoy Hebrew literature, songs, drama and film.
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Thursdays, July 13 - August 24 (no class July 27) 10 a.m. - noon ET
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20 seats
Conversational Hebrew teaches students to communicate in Israel's language to be able to read Israeli newspapers, view Israeli television, and enjoy Hebrew literature, songs, drama and film.
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Thursdays, July 13 - August 24 (no class July 27) | 6:30 - 8:30 p.m. ET
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In this class, we will read and analyze short Hebrew stories by classical and contemporary authors. Students must be able to read original texts in Hebrew (without vowels), and participate in discussions conducted entirely in Hebrew.
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Tuesdays, May 2- June 6 | 10 a.m. - noon ET
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