| A DECADE OF CULTURE, SCHOLARSHIP AND IDEAS |
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| YIVO Institute for Jewish Research presents:
Slovak Jewish Heritage Talk Lecture In 2007, Dr. Maros Borský launched the Slovak Jewish Heritage Route. A network linking 24 prominent Jewish heritage sites around Slovakia, it includes synagogue buildings, branches of the Museum of Jewish Culture, and three historic Jewish cemeteries. Dr. Borský will discuss his current work.
Admission: Free, RSVP to www.yivo.org/reservations or 917-606-8290 |
| Wednesday, November 3, 9am - 2pm |
| Centro Primo Levi, CDEC, Milan, NYU Skirball Department for Hebrew and Judaic Studies, and Casa Italiana Zerilli Marimò present:
Racial Policies in Fascist Italy:
New Documents and Perspectives
Symposium Chair: David Engel (New York University), Speakers: Michele Sarfatti (CDEC, Milan), Annalisa Capristo (Center for American Studies, Rome), Guri Schwarz (University of Pisa) and Ilaria Pavan (University of Pisa). Respondents: Marion Kaplan (New York University), Elissa Bemporad (Queens College, CUNY), Lidia Santarelli (New York University). This program will exemplify the revised scholarly work on Fascist anti-Semitism and the Holocaust in Italy produced during the past 20 years.
In English-language Holocaust literature, Italians have generally been praised for ranking second only to Norway in the percentage of Jews saved from deportation and extermination. However, recent scholarship in Italy offers a far more nuanced view of the facts. A full appraisal of the history of Fascism before and during the war is crucial to understand the contradictions of the Italian case. New documents on the persecution of the Jews in Italy will be discussed by a panel of experts.
Admission: Free, register at rsvp@primolevicenter.org |
| Thursday, November 4, 6:30pm |
| Center for Jewish History, Centro Primo Levi, PEN World Voices Festival in collaboration with the Consulate General of Slovenia present:
Boris Pahor's Necropolis: A Slovenian Story of Culture, Conflict, and Persecution on the Northeastern Border of Italy
 Panel Discussion In 1941 Boris Pahor, who later became one of the most prominent Slovene authors, was drafted into Mussolini's army. He returned to his home city of Trieste, a city occupied by the Nazis, after the armistice in 1943. He joined the Yugoslav resistance forces and was arrested in 1944 and sent to Dachau, Struthof, Harzungen and Bergen-Belsen. His memoir of his camp experiences, Necropolis, recently published in a new English edition by Dalkey Archive Press, will be the centerpiece of this event.
Panelists will explore Trieste's cultural diversity then and now, and how one of Europe's most multicultural cities became an epicenter of racist violence a full decade before the Nazi seizure of power in 1933.
Panelists:
Joze Pirjevec, University of Primorska, Slovenia
Uri Cohen, Columbia University
Annie Cohen-Solal, NYU
Michael Biggins, University of Washington Libraries; Boris Pahor's translator
Admission: $15 general, $10 CJH, CPL, PEN American Center members, affiliates of the Consulate General of Slovenia
Related Programming:
This program is part of Purely Italian: Racial Policies and the Persecution of Minorities in Fascist Italy, a series of programs and an exhibition offering a new reading of the Fascist mindset and policies on race and minorities. For the full schedule of programs, please visit www.primolevicenter.org.
The Museum of Jewish Heritage: A Living Memorial to the Holocaust presents Beyond the Racial Laws: Fascist Anti-semitism Revisited on Wednesday, November 3 at 6:30pm. www.mjhnyc.org
Boris Pahor, Trieste and its rich literary heritage will be prominently featured in the 2011 PEN World Voices Festival. www.pen.org |
| Sunday, November 7, 9am - 3pm |
| Gomez Mill House presents:
Jewish Merchants in the New World, 1800-1900
 Conference Keynote: Author Gene Dattel. Panel includes presentations on specific areas of merchant activity and development in the 19th century, including finance, retail and industry. Includes lunch, round table discussions, plenary discussion and conclusion.
Admission: $75 general, $65 seniors, students, CJH and partner members, register at www.gomez.org |
| YIVO Institute for Jewish Research and Podbrodz Society present:
Empire of Charity: American Jews and the Rebuilding of Polish Lithuania, 1919-1939 Podbrodz Memorial Lecture Rebecca Kobrin (Columbia University). Between 1919 and 1939, Jewish émigrés in the United States sent millions of dollars to rebuild their former homes throughout Polish Lithuania. This talk focuses on the role Jewish émigrés and their philanthropy played in reshaping political, social, and economic life in Brisk and Vilna, the two centers of Lithuanian Jewry.
Admission: Free, RSVP to www.yivo.org/reservations or 917-606-8290
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| Center for Jewish History and Center for Traditional Music and Dance present:
Josh Waletzky: Boiberik and Beyond -- Yiddish Songs for the 21st Century
 Conversation/Performance One of the leading contemporary composers of Yiddish song, Josh Waletzky grew up in a family that was deeply embedded in the secular Yiddish world of Camp Boiberik and the Sholem Aleichem folkshuln. In this performance and conversation with fellow Boiberikaner Itzik Gottesman, Associate Editor of the Yiddish Forward, we will trace Waletzky's influences and development as a songwriter and composer-from his days at Boiberik to his pioneering work in the early days of the klezmer revival of the 1970s and 80s, to his critically-acclaimed 2001 album Crossing the Shadows (Ariber di shotns), to his latest compositions. Waletzky is also an Academy Award-nominated filmmaker, whose vast catalogue includes the seminal documentaries about Jewish life in Europe, Image Before My Eyes and Partisans of Vilna (which was followed by a Grammy-nominated soundtrack), and he served as a consultant on the script and music for Barbra Streisand's film Yentl.
A reception will follow the program.
This presentation is part of the An-sky Institute for Jewish Culture Series.
Admission: $15 general, $10 CJH, CTMD members |
| Yeshiva University Museum and YIVO Institute for Jewish Research present:
16mm Postcards: Home Movies of American Jewish Visitors to 1930s Poland
6pm | Exhibition Viewing
7pm | Introduction and Discussion with Samuel D. Kassow, Charles H. Northam Professor of History, Trinity College
 Exhibition Opening/Discussion This exhibit brings to life the landscape of people in Poland through the amateur movies of American Jewish immigrants who traveled "back home" to visit their families, friends and former communities in the 1920s and 1930s. Intended to be viewed by family and fellow landsmen--friends from the Old Country--these films offer a rare, intimate and--quite literally--moving picture of Jewish families, towns and society in pre-World War II Poland.
Admission: Free, RSVP to 212-294-8330 begin_of_the_skype_highlighting 212-294-8330 end_of_the_skype_highlighting x. 8816 |
| YIVO Institute for Jewish Research presents:
Masha Benya Memorial Memorial Event with Music Masha Benya was an accomplished singer both of classical music and of Yiddish folksongs, who died in 2007. Three years after her death, friends will remember her with their recollections of Masha, with musical performances by Re'ut Ben-Ze'ev and Rafael Frieder, and with her recordings.
Admission: Free, RSVP to www.yivo.org/reservations or 917-606-8290 |
| Sunday, November 14, 5:30pm |
| American Sephardi Federation presents:
A Moroccan Jewish Odyssey  Film/Discussion Join director Eugene Rostow for a screening of his fascinating film about the once-thriving Jewish community of Morocco. In 90 minutes, the documentary approaches the situation of the migrant or the immigrant or the refugee, who goes from a place he always called home to another home, whether the spiritual one of Israel or the ones primarily for earning a living, in France or Canada. The situation of the Moroccan Jews has its uniqueness, but it also has aspects that attest to the universality of the hopes and disappointments of those who have uprooted themselves.
The filmmakers have found footage from the past that communicates the flavor of the cloistered Jewish life in Moroccan towns and of the way that Jewish farmers lived in peace with their Arab neighbors. One sees Jewish traders dealing with Berbers and catches glimpses of Jewish Moroccan folkways. But one also learns of the anti-Semitism, a constant minor chord that occasionally became terrifyingly dominant in relationships often marked by cordiality and trust. This evening is part of a year-long series of programs on Jews of Morocco made possible through the generous support of the Edmond J. Safra Philanthropic Foundation.
Admission: $10 General Admission/$5 for ASF members at the door. RSVP requested at 212-294-8350 x.0 |
| Centro Primo Levi and Italian Academy at Columbia University present:
Anna del Monte and the Origins of Jewish Emancipation  Lecture Kenneth Stow (University of Haifa). A century before the infamous "Mortara case," a young Roman Jew, Anna del Monte, the daughter of a well-to-do family of the Ghetto, is kidnapped from her family home and imprisoned in the Casa dei Catecumeni. The aim of the action is to convert her to Catholicism. A well-educated and articulate woman, Anna left a diary in which she recollects the days in which men and women of the Church tried all ways to "steal her soul." Her courage and ability to rebut the arguments of her kidnappers won her back to her family and community. The rare testimony she left opens a window not only on the complex history of Jewish-Christian relations, but also on the clash between modern civil conscience and ruling authority at the dawn of the Emancipation Era.
Admission: $10 general, $5 students, seniors |
| Tuesday, November 16, 6:30pm |
| Leo Baeck Institute presents:
Emancipation: How Liberating Jews from the Ghetto Led to Revolution and Renaissance by Michael Goldfarb  Lecture/Book Signing Michael Goldfarb was the London-based voice of National Public Radio for almost 20 years when he became interested in the struggle of immigrants and minorities to succeed in a new country. This contemporary history reflects the journey of European Jews as they became increasingly integrated into European society. When Jews left the ghetto, Jewish history changed and Western culture was transformed. Until the French Revolution, Jews were largely isolated, disenfranchised and powerless. Afterwards, their liberation enabled them to make extraordinary contributions to modernity in the areas of science, music, philosophy and culture. From Warsaw to Damascus, Paris and Berlin, Jews were obtaining more and more rights and made their mark as doctors, lawyers, educators and businessmen. Yet Theodore Herzl continued to pursue the Zionist dream of a Jewish state.
Mr. Goldfarb presents the history of emancipation with the excitement of a reporter breaking news and the insights of a scholar whose informed observations animate this fascinating story.
Books will be available for purchase and signing.
Admission: $10 general, $5 LBI members at the door; RSVP to 212-744-6400 |
| Wednesday, November 17, 3pm |
| Center for Jewish History presents:
Journeying to the Jews: Literary Ethnography along the Eastern Front, 1914-1918 Graduate Seminar Samuel Spinner, Lillian Goldman Fellow at CJH, 2009, PhD candidate at Columbia University. Dr. Jeffrey Shandler, Professor of Jewish Studies, Rutgers University, responding. Dr. Nancy Sinkoff, Associate Professor of History, Rutgers University, conducting.
Intended for an academic audience; space is limited.
Admission: Free, RSVP to hsurowitz@cjh.org or 212-294-8222 |
| Thursday, November 18, 7pm |
| YIVO Institute for Jewish Research presents:
The Sidney Krum Young Artists Concert Series at YIVO:
The Fall Concert Concert A program of rarely heard masterworks from the Sidney Krum Jewish Music and Yiddish Theater Memorial Collections at YIVO performed by young artists from premier American music schools. The fall concert will focus on unique Yiddish folk and art songs. For more information, please visit www.yivo.org.
Admission: $10 general, $8 YIVO members, seniors and students |
| Monday, November 22, 6:30pm |
| Leo Baeck Institute in cooperation with Manhattan School of Music presents:
Adventures in Listening: Kurt Masur, A Film by Amit Breuer Film and Discussion Kurt Masur, one of the world's great maestros, challenges the next generation of young musicians and conductors by stretching their limits, their perspectives and abilities. The film highlights some of Maestro Masur's master classes around the world, interweaving teaching with life experiences to develop a comprehensive portrait of one of the most respected conductors of our time. Maestro Masur will join us for this premier showing in New York.
Admission: $10 general, $5 members at the door; RSVP to 212-744-6400 |
 Free public tours, exclusive of the YU Museum galleries, are held Tuesdays and Thursdays at 11:30 am. Tours last approximately 1 1/2 hours and include the exhibitions of the American Jewish Historical Society, the American Sephardi Federation, the Leo Baeck Institute and the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research, as well as the Reading Room, Center Genealogy Institute and other public spaces. Tours of CJH or both CJH and YUM for groups of 10 or more can be scheduled by calling 917-606-8226. Tours of YUM only can be scheduled by calling 212-294-8330 x. 8805.
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