Rhode Island Jewish Historical Association
The oldest local ethnic historical society in Rhode Island.

RIJHA News & Events

 

Join us for this fascinating program on Sunday, April 7 at 10:00 a.m. Register here

This 1998 Academy Award-winning feature documentary film shares the remarkable stories of five people ­– a grandmother, a teacher, a businessman, an artist and a U.S. congressman – as they return from the United States to their hometowns and to the ghettos and concentration camps that once imprisoned them.

The screening will be followed by a Q&A with Michael Cahana, the son of one of the survivors in the movie and a former associate rabbi at Temple Beth-El, in Providence.

Light refreshments will be served.

 

Join us on Sunday, May 19 at 11 a.m. at the Dwares JCC. 

Register here

National Park Ranger Andrew Schnetzer will deliver a free lecture on the Hahn Memorial in the Roger Williams National Memorial. Judge Jerome Hahn, the second Jewish lawyer in Rhode Island, generously gifted the well to Providence in 1931. 

Light refreshments will be served.