2022 Janice Rothschild Blumberg Lecture

April 6, 2022 Atlanta Free
JRB Feiler 2022

                Savannah photographer and author Andrew Feiler to give

                 third Janice Rothschild Blumberg Lecture on April 6

The Breman Museum, in partnership with the Southern Jewish Historical Society and the Temple, will present noted photographer and author Andrew Feiler in the third Janice Rothschild Blumberg Lecture. Available both live and via Zoom, the illustrated talk will take place at 7 PM Wednesday, April 6.

The author of the books A Better Life for Their Children: Julius Rosenwald, Booker T. Washington, and the 4,978 Schools that Changed America and Without Regard to Sex, Race, or Color, both published by the University of Georgia Press, Savannah native Feiler long has been active in civic life. He has helped create more than a dozen community initiatives, serves on multiple not-for-profit boards and is an active advisor to numerous elected officials and political candidates.

Feiler’s art is an extension of the civic values of the fifth-generation Georgian. His photographs have been featured in the Wall Street Journal, Smithsonian, Architect, Preservation, Eye on Photography and The Forward as well as on CBS This Morning and NPR.

His work has been displayed in galleries and museums including solo exhibitions at venues including the Charlotte Museum of History (through June 18), National Civil Rights Museum at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, National Center for Civil and Human Rights in Atlanta and International Civil Rights Center & Museum in Greensboro, N.C. His work is in a numerous public and private collections including that of Atlanta University Center and Emory University. More of his work can be seen at andrewfeiler.com.

Lecture benefactor Janice Rothschild Blumberg is herself a woman of letters. Now well into her ninth decade, she continues her indefatigable involvement in Atlanta Jewish life, arts and culture, as she anticipates the March 28 publication of her memoir, What’s Next? Southern Dreams, Jewish Deeds and the Challenge of Looking Back While Moving Forward (Bartleby Press).  

“I share Janice’s dedication to the preservation of Jewish history and culture in Atlanta and throughout the South, and I am honored to be presenting this year’s lecture,” Feiler said.

Said Janice Rothschild Blumberg: “The Jewish history of the South has been an important part of my life, as Jew raised not far from Atlanta and as a participant in many significant events linked to our lives throughout the region. This lecture series supports all of the work by so many to preserve and promote southern Jewish history.”

Alfred Uhry, winner of the Pulitzer Prize, Oscar and Tony for Driving Miss Daisy, delivered the first Janice Rothschild Blumberg Lecture in 2020. The 2021 lecture featured Dr. Laura Liebman, a professor and award-winning author for several books examining Jewish history.

Janice Rothschild Blumberg continues to live a storied life. As a child, she attended Sunday school at The Temple. After working in the Panama Canal Zone for the Army Corps of Engineers and elsewhere during World War II, she returned to Atlanta in 1946 and married the Temple’s new rabbi, Jacob Rothschild.

Over the next 27 years, Rabbi and Mrs. Rothschild made a formidable team, standing as leaders during numerous landmark cultural and societal developments, including the Temple bombing by anti-Semites in 1958, that resonate today. She also partnered with Rabbi Rothschild in orchestrating a 1965 dinner honoring Martin Luther King Jr. for his Nobel Peace Prize win, amid tensions in the still largely segregated community. Mrs. Rothschild and Coretta Scott King became lifelong friends.

Janice Rothschild Blumberg’s story is featured in The Breman’s 25th anniversary exhibition History With Chutzpah: Remarkable Stories of the Southern Jewish Adventure, 1733-Present. She also is a recipient of the Southern Jewish Historical Society’s Samuel Proctor Award for Outstanding Career Scholarship in Southern Jewish History and is a former president of the Marietta-based organization.

 

To RSVP for the Janice Rothschild Blumberg Lecture featuring Andrew Feiler on April 6 at the Temple or on Zoom, please go to https://www.eventbrite.com/e/janice-rothschild-blumberg-lecture-photographer-and-author-andrew-feiler-tickets-293218593707

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Fact Sheet
When
Wednesday, April 6, 2022, 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
* Registration closes on April 6th at 5:00 pm
Where
The Temple
1589 Peachtree St NE
Atlanta, GA 30309
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Price
Free

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