Tuesday, April 16, 2 pm
Center for Jewish History and Israel Film Center present:
Through His Eyes (Miba’ad L’eynayim)
Israel Film Center Festival Event A fascinating documentary history of Israeli cinema through the eyes of a still photographer, Yoni Hamenahem, who for the past 40 years has photographed the sets of many of Israel’s classic films. Since beginning his career in 1973 on the set of The House on Chelouche Street, Yoni has photographed 150 television and film productions and become one of the leading still photographers of the Israeli film industry. (Documentary / 2012 / 95 min. Yael Klopmann, dir.)
Admission: $7 general; $5 CJH members, seniors, students
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CJH is a Partner in the Israel Film Center Festival 2013.
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Tuesday, April 16, 6:30 pm
Center for Jewish History and American Jewish Historical Society present:
Lady at the O.K. Corral
Book Discussion For nearly 50 years, she was the common-law wife of Wyatt Earp, the charismatic hero of the O.K. Corral. Yet Josephine Sara Marcus Earp has nearly been erased from Western lore. Join us as Ann Kirschner, author of the new biography Lady at the O.K. Corral, and historian David Koffman bring Josephine out of the shadows of history to tell the colorful tale of the spirited, ambitious, adventurous Jewish girl with the New York accent, and the most famous lawman of the Old West.
Admission: $10 general; $5 CJH, AJHS members, seniors, students
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Wednesday, April 17, 7 pm
Center for Jewish History, Leo Baeck Institute and Taschen Books present:
The Hanover Esther Scroll, 1746 – a Masterpiece of Jewish Scribal Art Rediscovered
Panel Discussion For a long time, this gorgeous scroll, written in German and lavishly illustrated, languished unseen in the archives of the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Bibliothek in Hanover. Recently rediscovered by scholars and published in elaborate facsimile by Taschen Books, the megillah yielded some surprising information. Join us for a fascinating discussion of its journey of discovery, its history, illumination and return to prominence. With Emile Schrijver, curator of the Biblioteca Rosenthaliana in Amsterdam, Elisheva Carlebach, Salo Wittmayer Baron Professor of Jewish History, Culture and Society, Columbia University, Vivian Mann, Director of the Master’s Program in Jewish Art and Visual Culture, Jewish Theological Seminary and Sharon Mintz, Curator, Library, Jewish Theological Seminary and Judaica specialist at Sotheby’s.
Admission: Free; reservations required at SmartTix
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Thursday, April 25, 7:30 pm
Center for Jewish History, Leo Baeck Institute, Phoenix Chamber Ensemble,
and Stravinsky Institute Foundation present:
Music in Motion: Dances through the Ages from Minuets to Tangos
Phoenix Chamber Ensemble performing:
Frederic Chopin: Waltz, Mazurka, Polonaise
Astor Piazzolla: “Four Seasons of Buenos Aires” for piano trio
J.S.Bach: French Suite No.5 in G Major
Bella Bartok-Zoltan Szekely: Romanian Folk Dances for violin and piano
Paul Schoenfield: Cafe Music
Edward Arron, cello
Jesse Mills, violin
Vassa Shevel, piano
Inessa Zaretsky, piano
This program is made possible through the generous support of Mr. & Mrs. Leonard Blavatnik.
Admission: $15 general; $10 CJH/LBI members, seniors, students
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Tuesday, April 30, 6 pm
Center for Jewish History, Leo Baeck Institute, Austrian Cultural Forum New York, Balassi (Hungarian) Institute, Goethe-Institute NY, and the Polish Cultural Institute present:
Jewish Filmmakers in Interwar Central Europe
Discussion & Film As in the U.S., filmmakers from Jewish backgrounds were central in creating popular culture in 1920s-30s Germany, Poland and Hungary. Join us for a lively discussion about “Jewishness” and its meaning in popular culture in Central Europe between the wars and the screening of a rarely seen Hungarian romantic comedy, A Borrowed Castle (1937, dir. Ladislao Vajda), newly subtitled in English for the first time. With authors, critics and scholars J. Hoberman, Ofer Ashkenazi, and Anna Manchin. Noah Isenberg, moderator.
Admission: $15 general; $10 members of sponsoring institutions, seniors, students
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SAVE THE DATE
Wednesday, May 1, 7 pm
An Evening with Guernica: Bravery and Gender in “Confessional Writing”
PEN World Voices Festival Event
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YIVO Institute for Jewish Research presents:
The Taste of Ashes
Book Talk Oskar has just killed himself. After waiting a quarter century, he returned to Prague only to find it was no longer his home. With his memorial service, Yale historian and prize-winning author Marci Shore leads us gently into the post-totalitarian world. The Taste of Ashes extends from Berlin to Moscow, moving from Vienna in Europe’s west through Prague, Bratislava, Warsaw and Bucharest to Vilnius and Kiev in the post-communist east. Professor Shore builds her history around people she came to know over the course of the two decades since communism’s fall: her colleagues and friends, Jews and non-Jews, the once-communists and once-dissidents, the accusers and the accused, the interrogators and the interrogated, Zionists and Stalinists and their children and grandchildren. As the author reads pages in the lives of others, she reveals the intertwining of the personal and the political, of love and cruelty, of intimacy and betrayal. The result is a lyrical, touching, and sometimes heartbreaking portrayal of how history moves and what history means.
Admission: Free; reservations required at www.yivo.org/reservations or 212-294-6127
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Sunday, April 21, 3 pm
YIVO Institute for Jewish Research presents:
Floating Worlds and Future Cities: The Genius of Lazar Khidekel, Suprematism, and the Russian Avant-Garde
Symposium, Exhibition Opening & Reception “Floating Worlds and Future Cities” will present the first comprehensive exhibition in the United States of the work of the great Russian-Jewish artist, architect, designer and theoretician, Lazar Khidekel. This program will explore Khidekel’s biography and work, the Jewish contribution to the Russian avant-garde, and the glory of Vitebsk, the Paris of the East, as it was known during this period. 3pm Symposium, 5pm Exhibition Opening & Reception.
Admission: Free; reservations required at www.yivo.org/reservations
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Monday, April 22, 7:30 pm
American Jewish Historical Society with Yeshiva University Museum present:
The Momenta Quartet
Concert The Momenta Quartet, Bernice Diener Ensemble‐in‐Residence at Stern College for Women, Yeshiva University will perform a program of new and 20th-century music. Featuring guest pianist Molly Morkoski; music by Stefan Wolpe, Aaron Copland and Darius Milhaud; and new compositions by David Glaser and Timothy Beyer .
Admission: $15 general, $10 CJH, AJHS. YUM members, seniors, students
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Tuesday, April 23, 7 pm
YIVO Institute for Jewish Research presents:
Babel in Yiddish/Yiddish in Babel
Lecture Prof. Efraim Sicher will show how Isaak Babel, the great Soviet Jewish short-story writer, not only knew Yiddish, but was thoroughly immersed in Yiddish langauge and culture. A close friend of Shlomo Mikhoels, Babel worked in the Yiddish cinema and translated Sholom Aleichem into Russian. His own Russian prose reveals a hidden Yiddish subtext, and his Civil War epic Red Cavalry shares with the Yiddish modernists Dovid Bergelson, Peretz Markish, and Yisroel Rabon a disturbing perspective of pogroms and revolution.
Admission: Free; RSVP required at www.yivo.org/reservations or 212-294-6127
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Monday, April 29, 7 pm
American Jewish Historical Society and Yeshiva University Museum present:
Kaddish for Lincoln
Discussion In this discussion of Jewish attitudes toward Lincoln–and Lincoln’s evolving attitude toward Jews–Lincoln scholar Harold Holzer explores the 16th president’s relations with Jews during the Civil War, and assesses whether the Great Emancipator deserved the name many contemporaries gave to him in the 19th century: American Moses.
Admission: $15 general; $10 AJHS, CJH, YUM members, seniors, students
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Tuesday, April 30, 3 pm
YIVO Institute for Jewish Research presents:
‘If We Will It’: A History of the Yiddish Encyclopedia
Podbrodz Lecture In 1930, a group of Eastern European Jewish scholars, writers, and activists living in Berlin, Germany began planning the first-ever comprehensive Yiddish language encyclopedia to celebrate the seventieth birthday of the historian Simon Dubnow. Unlike previous encyclopedias for Yiddish readers, Di algemeyne entsiklopedye was not to be strictly an encyclopedia of Jewish topics, but was to present knowledge of the larger world. Planned as a five year project, Di algemeyne entsiklopedye ultimately lasted three dozen years, was forced to relocate twice (first to Paris and then to New York), and to change its focus repeatedly on account of World War II, the Nazi Holocaust, and the rise of new Jewish centers in the United States and Israel.
Barry Trachtenberg is Associate Professor in the Department of History and Director of the Judaic Studies Program at the University at Albany, SUNY.
Admission: Free; reservations required at pglasser@yivo.cjh.org or 212-294-6139