2010
July 2010
Friday 16 July 2010
Fri 16 Jul to Sun 25 Jul. 2736 Bancroft Way (ground floor), Berkeley, 94704. 510-845-6420. Lehrhaus Judaica: The Adult School for Jewish Studies - [email][events]
July 16-25, 2010 with an optional extension to Vienna (July 25 – July 28) Berlin – The new German capital and the most dynamic city in Europe Haunting new Holocaust Memorial in the shadow of the renovated Reichstag building World-class Jewish museum designed by Daniel Libeskind Checkpoint Charlie and the remnants of the famous wall Site of the Wannsee Conference on the Final Solution Brilliantly restored turn-of-the-century synagogues
Dresden – A cultural, political and economic center in the former East Germany
Magnificent Baroque palaces that survived the devastating Allied firebombing in 1945
Prague – The most beautiful city in East-Central Europe
The oldest synagogue on the continent
One of the greatest Jewish museums in the world
Legendary Jewish cemetery immortalized by Kafka
A view atop the stately royal castle, across the Vlatava River, of the mystical, golden medieval town
Vienna – One of Europe’s grandest cultural captials
The Holocaust Memorial
Stunning Habsburg palaces and gardens
One of the most elegant synagogues to survive the war
Tour Leaders: Lehrhaus Founding Director Fred Rosenbaum studied in Germany for a year as a Fulbright Fellow. Ariel Goldstein is the tour manager of the JCCSF.
For more information, please contact Ariel Goldstein at agoldstein@jccsf.org or 415-276-1506.