Webinar: Residential Schools in North America & the Tsarist Empire

Using Education to Destroy: Residential Schools in North America & the Tsarist Empire

We’re very pleased to co-sponsor this upcoming webinar hosted by the Canadian Institute for Jewish Research.

7 November 1pm (NZ Time)

Here is the YouTube Live link for the event:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0T9NdLDIG98

 Using Education to Destroy: Residential Schools in North America & the Tsarist Empire - YouTube

Jews and North American aboriginals share many common experiences as victims of more powerful societies.  Whereas the evils associated with residential schools are well-known, the same cannot be said about Tsarist Russia's attempts to destroy Jewish lives and identity over its 300-year history.

How did Native Americans and Russian Jews deal with these deadly cultural and religious onslaughts? This webinar will look at these questions, as well as the social, political, and cultural conditions that allowed the establishment of such horrific institutions.

These are some of the questions that these two knowledgeable speakers will analyze in this in-depth exchange on a complex and painful subject.  The renowned writer and journalist Barbara Kay will moderate this discussion, a subject that is dear to her heart.