“Defiance” (2009)
Directed by Edward Zwick
Starring Daniel Craig, Liev Schreiber

In anticipation of Yom HaShoah, Menorah presents the true story of the Bielsky Brothers, and honors the partisans who took refuge in the forests where they fought the Nazis and provided shelter for Jews. Based on the book by Nechma Tec, “Defiance” pays tribute to Jewish resistance, so often neglected in Holocaust films. The stirring film asks if it is possible to keep faith alive in a time when the world seems devoid of humanity and survival becomes a way of life.

Thursday, April 8 Noon $8 for film and lunch

Also showing: Thursday, April 8 7 pm $8 for film and discussion

The Trashing of Margaret Mead
With With Professor Paul Shankman
In 1928 Margaret Mead published Coming of Age in Samoa, a fascinating study of the lives of adolescent girls that transformed the anthropologist into an academic celebrity. In 1983 anthropologist Derek Freeman published a scathing critique of Mead’s Samoan research, arguing that Mead had been “hoaxed” by Samoans whose innocent lies she took at face value. In The
Trashing of Margaret Mead, Paul Shankman explores the many dimensions of the Mead-Freeman controversy as it developed publicly and as it played out privately, including the personal relationships, professional rivalries, and larger-than-life personalities that drove it.

Paul Shankman, professor of anthropology at the University of Colorado at Boulder and co-founder
of the Program in Jewish Studies, has conducted fieldwork in Samoa periodically since 1966. He has written a number of articles on the Mead-Freeman controversy.

05/13/2010 -05/13/2010
12:00 PM
$8.00 Lunch and Talk