SJV announces upcoming guests

Our popular Southern Jewish Voices program showcases stories about Jewish life in Birmingham and around the South. The program, made possible in part by a grant from the Birmingham Jewish Federation, is presented through a series of interviews conducted in front of a live audience and includes a complimentary lunch. Videos of all sessions are archived online.

Season four will continue into the new year on January 21 with a conversation with Holocaust survivor Jack Schniper, who was born during World War II in a work camp in Ukraine before coming to Birmingham. RSVP here.

Other upcoming programs (use linked dates to RSVP):

  • February 18Orly Henkin, director of Judaics and assistant head of school at N.E. Miles Jewish Day School
  • March 18Jonathan Wiesen, professor of history at the University of Alabama at Birmingham specializing in modern Europe, Nazi Germany, and the Holocaust
  • April 15Sally and Richard FriedmanSally was longtime director of the Birmingham Jewish Foundation while Richard served as director of the Birmingham Jewish Federation and the Levite JCC
  • May 20Michael Saag is associate dean for global health at the University of Alabama at Birmingham and founder of the 1917 Clinic, a comprehensive AIDS treatment and research center at UAB

Watch our most recent SJV program that features three generations of the Pizitz family reflecting on their Birmingham roots: