Feb

20 2022

Olympic Lessons Learned - Beijing 1936 and China 2022

10:30AM - 12:30PM  

Virtual Event | Temple Israel 600 New Scotland Avenue
Albany, NY 12208

http://www.tialbany.org

Dr. Rafael Medoff will reflect on the current Olympics in China through a retrospective lens of the 1936 Olympic Games held in Nazi Germany.

Will international response be different?

The zoom presentation will also include Richard Neugass, son of one of the athletes who boycotted the 1936 Berlin Olympics.

register at: https://www.tialbany.org/event/olympic-lessons-learned.html

Dr. Medoff is founding director of The David S. Wyman Institute for Holocaust Studies, and the author of more than 20 books about Jewish history and the Holocaust. His latest is America and the Holocaust: A Documentary History, forthcoming from the Jewish Publication Society / University of Nebraska Press.

Sponsor: Temple Israel