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Fourth Annual Local Jewish History Film Festival (LJHFF)
Day 1: Tuesday October 21 from 5 to 6 p.m. Day 2: Tuesday, October 28 from 5 to 6 p.m.…August 13, 2025Antisemitism: From Babi Yar to Our Backyards
84 th Anniversary of the largest massacre of Jews by bullets in a singe day. Revisit history of Babi Yar…August 13, 2025Local Jewish History Film Festival Fall 2024
October 30, Wednesday, 1:00 pm – 3:00 pm, at Nina Iser Jewish Cultural Center Third Local Jewish History Film Festival…September 11, 2024Florida Jewish History Month 2023
Celebrate Florida Jewish History Month with JHSSWF The Jewish Historical Society of SWFL and South Regional Library invite you to…January 9, 2023Rabbi Abraham Shusterman Story
Rabbi, Abraham Shusterman (as remembered by Irv Berzon) In 1975-76 Temple Shalom was built and the first Collier County Rabbi, Abraham…June 20, 2018Carole Greene Story
May 31, 2018David Willens Story
Willens, a native Floridian, served as Executive Director of JFCC for 15 years, retiring in 2015.April 24, 2018Florence Hertzman Story
May 2016 JHS interviewed Florence Hertzman in her waterfront home in Old Naples. Florence and her husband Harold began coming…March 16, 2018Stuart Kaye Story
Stuart Kaye moved to Naples, FL as a young college graduate at a time when most young people fled Collier…February 7, 2018Richard Segalman Story
Richard Segalman jokes that in addition to being the first Jewish painter of Naples, he may be the first gay…January 24, 2018Irv Berzon Story
in NYC, Irv Berzon lived in a number of other places including Bogota, Columbia; Caracas, Venezuela; Seattle, Washington, before settling…October 18, 2017Helen Weinfeld Story
Helen and Joseph Weinfeld first visited Naples in 1954, when it was a “you blink, you miss” kind of town.…August 31, 2017