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The Powell Family StoryThey hid in an attic to escape the violent systematic and repeated anti-Jewish rioting. They would not all make it out alive. It was a time when innocent men, women and children were being murdered, raped and their property damaged or stolen. You might be thinking that this story is from the Holocaust, but in actuality, it took place during the pogroms that were taking place in Russia, during the early 1900’s. When the Russian militia started going into the towns and

The Powell Family StoryThey hid in an attic to escape the violent systematic and repeated anti-Jewish rioting. They would not all make it out alive. It was a time when innocent men, women and children were being murdered, raped and their property damaged or stolen. You might be thinking that this story is from the Holocaust, but in actuality, it took place during the pogroms that were taking place in Russia, during the early 1900’s. When the Russian militia started going into the towns and

The Powell Family StoryThey hid in an attic to escape the violent systematic and repeated anti-Jewish rioting. They would not all make it out alive. It was a time when innocent men, women and children were being murdered, raped and their property damaged or stolen. You might be thinking that this story is from the Holocaust, but in actuality, it took place during the pogroms that were taking place in Russia, during the early 1900’s. When the Russian militia started going into the towns and

Dear JED Campus Community, Recent events in Ukraine have created a great amount of concern and uncertainty around the world and on the campuses we work with, especially for faculty, staff and students who have direct ties to and/or family members in the region.  We are writing to express our condemnation of the violence in Ukraine and our solidarity with those who are suffering as a result.  This is an uncertain situation and we do not know how events will unfold over the coming weeks and

Relationship by family or marriage constitutes neither an advantage nor a deterrent to appointment by the university, provided that the individual meets the appropriate standards for the position to be filled and provided that the individual will not be in the chain of supervision of a spouse, family member, or person with whom the individual is dating. Employment will be denied under the following circumstances: Where one family member would have the authority or practical power to supervise

exile returned, and today the Jewish communities in Norway are thriving. Moss family at Norwegian Constitution Day, 17 May 1925 Additionally, we will honor the memory of the hundreds of Norwegian Jews who perished after deportation by displaying their names on the walls of the Stuen Room at the Center. The exhibit, “Wergeland’s Legacy: Jewish Life and Culture in Norway,” is courtesy of the Jødisk Museum in Oslo.  The Museum produced the original texts and images for this exhibit which has traveled

wish to give the University a piece of African art (Accession no. 2007.02.001) in memory of the Lehmanns who had been friends and fellow collectors, and who he knew had given a number of pieces to PLU. As to how he became a collector, Dr. Cobb explains that an appreciation of tribal art was in his family beginning with his grandfather, and as an undergraduate at Williams College he had taken courses in art history. When he moved to the Northwest in 1965, his desire was to collect Northwest Coast