Sunday, November 8, 2015
11:15 AM – Seaside Jewish Community Building
Veterans, parents, and all interested members and friends are invited to a special program of the SJC Religious School on Sunday, November 8, at 11:15, at SJC. We especially invite our members who are Veterans as our honored guests. If the Veterans wish, they may wear their military hats and/or uniforms to the program.
As part of the program, our Gimmel Class students will educate us to the often-unheralded heroic contribution of Jews to the defense our country.
Great stories of Jewish war heroes of all America’s wars will be shared.
This is an interactive program of song and presentations that attendants will long remember. If you have any questions please call Larry Koch at 302-335-8344.
Hasia Diner (Paul and Sylvia Steinberg Professor of American Jewish History and Director, Goldstein-Goren Center for American Jewish History, New York University)
Those planning to attend should r.s.v.p. to Carol Lockman,clockman@Hagley.org or call 302-658-2400, ext. 243.
In the talk “Peddlers and the Great Jewish Migration to the New World,” Hasia Diner will tell the story of millions of discontented young Jewish men who sought opportunity abroad by working as peddlers, leaving parents, wives, and sweethearts behind. Wherever they went, they learned unfamiliar languages and customs, endured loneliness, battled the elements, and proffered goods from the metropolis to people of the hinterlands. In many places these traveling men brought change—to themselves and the families who later followed, to the women whose homes and communities they entered, and ultimately to the geography of Jewish history. Dr. Diner will highlight real individuals and their experiences, and how these peddlers shaped the Jewish Diaspora and individual communities around the world.
Hasia Diner is Paul and Sylvia Steinberg Professor of American Jewish History and director, Goldstein-Goren Center for American Jewish History, New York University.
An Ocean View housewife ordered 50 chicks in 1923 and received 500. DuPont Highway was completed in 1924. Demand for Kosher meat in New York City was high. Delmarva’s chicken industry was born.
Producer / director Michael Oates, 302 Stories, Inc., will introduce and be available for questions at the upcoming four screenings of his documentary, “Cluck, Pluck, and Luck: The Improbable Early History of Delmarva’s Chicken Industry.” The 70-minute show is FREE to the public.
Photo credit: Delaware Public Archives
IN DELAWARE
New Castle County: Tuesday, July 21, 2015, at 7 p.m. at the Hagley Museum and Library in the auditorium of Hagley’s Soda House, 298 Buck Road, Wilmington, DE. Reservations recommended. Contact Carol Lockman, clockman@hagley.org or 302-658-2400.
Sussex County: Wednesday, August 12, 2015, at 7 p.m. at Mariner’s Bethel United Methodist Church, 81 Central Avenue, Ocean View, DE. Hosted by Ocean View Historical Society.
Kent County: Saturday, August 15, 2015, at 1:30 p.m. at Milford’s Riverfront Theatre, 2 South Walnut Street, Milford, DE. Theatre located across from Milford’s Farmers Market.
IN MARYLAND
Thursday, August 13, 2015, at 7 p.m. in the Wicomico Room, Guerrieri University Center, Salisbury University, Salisbury, MD.
The film, “Cluck, Pluck, and Luck,” takes viewers from a time when the Delmarva Peninsula south of Dover was isolated and most residents relied on subsistence farming to a time when chickens accounted for a multi-billion dollar industry.
According to producer Michael Oates, what differentiates the broiler industry from other American industries is that “its growth and success were not driven by captains of industry, but by the hard work and shared values of anonymous subsistence farmers, African Americans, and immigrant Jewish businessmen.” Throughout the film, viewers learn about chicken smuggling and World War II blockades, the formation of the Eastern Shore Poultry Grower’s Exchange, new chicken house architecture after Hurricane Hazel, and the rise of Perdue.
The film is funded by the Delaware Humanities Forum, Delmarva Poultry Industry, Inc. and the generosity of its members, and Berkana, Center for Media and Education, Inc.
302 Stories, Inc. is an independent digital media storyteller for the people, communities, and organizations of Delaware and the Delmarva Peninsula.
Since 1999, Berkana, Center for Media and Education, Inc., a 501(c) (3) non-profit, has proudly supported media and educational projects in Delaware that profile and examine environmental and social issues important to Delawareans and the larger regional population.
