20230215 | AHAverim | The King & The Torah: Expanding on King Kalākaua's Intercultural Relationships

Описание: AHAverim Webinar Series

"The King and the Torah: Expanding on King Kalākaua's Intercultural Relationships" with Dr. Kealani Cook, Michael Schuster, Larry Seth Steinberg, and moderated by Dr. Maya Soetoro

The Story

Join us as we learn about the history of King Kalākaua's Torah Scroll, his efforts to forge global intercultural relationships, and his friendship with Elias Abraham Rosenberg, an eastern European Jewish immigrant who became known as his soothsayer. We welcome Dr. Kealani Cook of University of Hawai‘i at West O’ahu, Larry Seth Steinberg of the Levinson Hawaii-Jewish Archives and Michael Schuster, who created and performed The King's Dream, a performance based on the historical interactions between King Kalākaua and Elias Abraham Rosenberg. Co-sponsored by Temple Emanu-El Honolulu.

About AHAverim

AHAverim is a research project funded by the Jews of Color Initiative. AHAverim looks at ʻāina-based relationships between the Kānaka Maoli and Lukaio (Jewish) communities. We hold kūkākūkā (dialogue) sessions and an aha hoʻohoaloha (gathering or "retreat") on building Haverim (חברים) or solidarity and friendship between the communities. We call this project, AHAverim, a blend of Aha with Haverim, which signifies friendship and connection in Hebrew.

About Dr. Kealani Cook

Dr. Kealani Cook is Kanaka Maoli originally from Waimea on Hawaiʻi Island. He is an Associate Professor of History in the Humanities Department at the University of Hawai‘i at West O’ahu. Dr. Cook believes that history should be a study of power structures and how power is negotiated and fought over. At the University of Hawai’i he teaches classes on Hawaiian and Pacific History. His research interests focus on ties between the peoples of OCeania.

About Michael Schuster

Michael Schuster has been a puppeteer and storyteller for the past 45 years. He trained in traditional puppetry in Indonesia, India, and Burma He holds a doctorate in Asian Theatre from the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa. He is a founding member of the Train theater in Jerusalem which was founded in 1981 and has performed in North America, Asia, and Europe. He was the curator of the East-West Center Gallery from 2004-2019.

About Larry Seth Steinberg

Larry Seth Steinberg serves as Archivist for the Levinson Hawaii-Jewish Archives and is a TE-E Board Member. Beyond direct responsibility for Conservation of TE-E's religious and historical resources, he researches and writes on its role in Hawaiian history. Larry graduated from the University of Connecticut with a degree in Cultural-Historical Geography & resided in Nevada and the Great Basin for almost forty years. As a Historical Archaeologist, he worked for the Nevada State Museum- Archaeological Survey and Nevada DOT & taught in the University of Nevada system. He was affiliated with Temple Sinai (URJ) in Reno, directing its religious school.and earned Shoah teaching certification at the Holocaust Museum in Washington, DC. At Sierra Nevada University, he became a fully certified instructor for public grades K-12; Larry designed and taught Ethnographic/Historic coursework on Paiute, Shoshoni, and Washo culture(s). Larry has always been an active participant of any community where he resided. His son, Caleb Steinberg-Kennison, still lives on the Walker River Paiute Reservation, where Caleb is an enrolled Agai Di'Cutta Tribal member. Larry was a Firefighter-EMT in the Central Lyon Fire District, Ambulance Chief of Dayton, Nevada and Fire Chief of the Silver City VFD.

About Dr. Maya Soetoro

Dr. Maya Soetoro is the Graduate Chair at the Matsunaga Institute for Peace at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa. She was previously the Director of the Matsunaga Institute where, in addition to leading outreach and development initiatives, she also taught Leadership for Social Change, History of Peace Movements, Peace Education, and Conflict Management for Educators. Maya also serves as a consultant to the Obama Foundation, working closely with their international team to develop programming in the Pacific-Asia region.

Co-Sponsor: Temple Emanu-El Honolulu, and Matsunaga Institute for Peace

To learn more about the Matsunaga Institute for Peace, visit us at https://peaceinstitute.manoa.hawaii.edu/.