Love with No Tomorrow Tales of Romance During the Holocaust Book Launch with Mindell Pierce, (Author), Rabbi Micah Becker-Klein, and Dr. Michael Berenbaum

Love with No Tomorrow: Tales of Romance During the Holocaust: Book Launch with Mindell Pierce, (Author), Rabbi Micah Becker-Klein, and Dr. Michael Berenbaum
Wednesday, December 1, 2021
4:00pm-5:30pm ET

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Love at first sight. During the Holocaust. Bonds as strong as steel, forged in the flames of hate.
These are extraordinary stories of love affairs during the most dangerous, degrading, and deadly conditions of genocidal persecution. The extreme lengths to which two people will go to express their love, and the superhuman strength that is derived from such love, is the stuff of miracles and endless inspiration. This little-known aspect of the Holocaust, seen through the eyes of those in love, is a unique contribution to our understanding of the best and the worst qualities of human nature. This book must be read by anyone who wants to know more about life and love enduring the most horrendous conditions one could imagine.

Mindelle Pierce

Mindelle Pierce has dedicated over fifteen years of her career to studying and teaching the history of the Holocaust. As a child of Holocaust survivors herself, she has a personal connection and insight into this history. Mindelle continues to contribute her knowledge and research to many renowned organizations, including the U.S Holocaust Memorial Museum in New York; the Museum of Jewish Heritage; and Manhattan College. She lives in Margate City, New Jersey.

Rabbi Micah Becker-Klein

Rabbi Micah Becker-Klein (RRC 2000) serves as rabbi to the Community Hvaurah of Delaware. Micah is the owner of Roasting Rabbi Coffee (roastingrabbi.com) A coffee roasting company that inspires holy elevation in each batch to be shared on special days and in everyday life. In every coffee varietal we “release the holy spark in each bean!” We believe great coffee and great people go together and value people-to-people partnerships as a means to building a world of justice. Therefore, a percentage of profits is donated to grassroots peace efforts.

Micah attended the List College Joint program with Columbia University and the Jewish Theological Seminary for undergraduate studies and graduate rabbinical training at the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College. He served as assistant editor for the “Kol Heneshamah: Yamim Nora’im” High Holy Day prayerbook published by the Reconstructionist Press. He has served on the faculty at the University of Delaware, Keene State College, and Keene State Holocaust Education Center, and served as director of Jewish Life and Education at the Springfield Jewish Community Center in Springfield, MA. In the area of Jewish food, Micah is a mashgi’ach, and specialist in “micro-shechitah” and has served as a lecturer to the Delaware Culinary Arts program. Micah has served on the Camp JRF board and served on the faculty for many years. He is married to Rachel and is the father of Sophie and Reuben.

Dr. Michael Berenbaum

Dr. Michael Berenbaum is a writer, lecturer, and teacher consulting in the conceptual development of museums and historical films. He is director of the Sigi Ziering Institute: Exploring the Ethical and Religious Implications of the Holocaust at the American Jewish University, where he is also a Professor of Jewish Studies.

He was the Executive Editor of the Second Edition of the Encyclopedia Judaica that reworked, transformed, improved, broadened and deepened, the now classic 1972 work and consists of 22 volumes, sixteen million words with 25,000 individual contributions to Jewish knowledge. For three years, he was President and Chief Executive Officer of the Survivors of the Shoah Visual History Foundation. He was the Director of the United States Holocaust Research Institute at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum and the Hymen Goldman Adjunct Professor of Theology at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C. From 1988–93 he served as Project Director of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, overseeing its creation. He also served as Deputy Director of the President’s Commission on the Holocaust, where he authored its Report to the President.

Berenbaum is the author and editor of twenty books, scores of scholarly articles, and hundreds of journalistic pieces. His most recent books include: Not Your Father’s Antisemitism, A Promise to Remember: The Holocaust in the Words and Voices of Its Survivors and After the Passion Has Passed: American Religious Consequences, a collection of essays on Jews, Judaism and Christianity, Religious Tolerance and Pluralism occasioned by the controversy that swirled around Mel Gibson’s film, The Passion. He was the conceptual developer on the Illinois Holocaust Museum and Educational Center and played a similar function as conceptual developer and chief curator of the Belzec Memorial at the site of the Death Camp. He is currently at work on the Memorial Museum to Macedonian Jewry in Skopje, the Dallas Holocaust and Human Rights Museum, and the Holocaust and Humanity Center in Cincinnati, Ohio.

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