The Jewish Historical Society of Greater Washington has won the Leadership in History Award of Merit from the American Association of State and Local History Associations (AASLH) for its exhibition Jewish Washington: Scrapbook of an American Community. The 2006 award was presented last month, during the AASLH annual meeting.

The award-winning exhibit chronicles the people, places, and events that shaped the history of the Washington area's Jewish community from 1795 to the present.

A companion book will be published early in 2007 and an online exhibition will be available .

The exhibition is curated by Wendy Turman and Laura Cohen Apelbaum, of the JHSGW, and Laura Schiavo, now of the National Building Museum.

Exhibit in Coumbia

The Columbia Art Center Galleries, sponsored by Columbia Jewish Congregation and Columbia Art Center, will host To Life: Celebrating Jewish Life Cycle Events Juried Exhibition Oct.19-Nov. 19.

A free reception will take place Nov. 4 at 8 p.m., at which jury awards will be presented to artists.

For gallery hours or directions, call 410-730-0075.

Shoah film at LOC

Cutting the Cord, a film about Yiddish singer Myriam Fuks, who discovers the truth about the life her mother lived during the Holocaust, will be screened at the Pickford Theater in the Madison Building of the Library of Congress on Oct. 18 at noon.

The movie, which is in French, German, Yiddish and Hebrew, with English subtitles, is free and open to the public. For information, call 202-707-9897.

Lecture at DCJCC

American University professor Pamela Nadell will lecture on "Community, Diversity and America's Jews" at the Washington DC Jewish Community Center on Oct. 19, at 7:30 p.m. The talk, part of the 10th anniversary celebration of the DCJCC's return to 16th and Q streets, is free.