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| | 1 6:00pm presented by LBI and the Goethe-Institut New York Tuesday, May 01, 2012 at 6:00pm"Ghosts in Princeton", a Play by Daniel Kehlmann
Daniel Kehlmann introduced this special reading of his first play, “Ghosts in Princeton” in English translation. The play is about the Viennese mathematician Kurt Gödel (1906-1978), who by age 24 revolutionized the logic of mathematics. After the Nazis took over Austria in 1938, Gödel and his wife Adele emigrated to Princeton where he joined his good friend Albert Einstein at the Institute...
presented by LBI and the Goethe-Institut New York | 2 6:30pm presented by CJH Wednesday, May 02, 2012 at 6:30pmJews in Early Modern Europe: A Day-to-Day Perspective
Jewish expulsion from Spain and other parts of Western Europe in the late 1400s ironically initiated a “golden age” for Jewish economic life. Jewish merchants living under Ottoman Muslim rule sparked the creation of international networks of maritime and overland commerce, leading to the restoration of Jews to lands from which they had long been excluded, and eventually to the acquisition...
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presented by CJH 6:30pm presented by AJHS and Friends of Ethiopian Jews Wednesday, May 02, 2012 at 6:30pmFrom Dream to Reality: What is Life Really Like for Ethiopian Jews in 2012?
Award-winning Ethiopian-Israeli visionary and social entrepreneur Asher Elias presents an informed look at the challenges and opportunities currently facing the Ethiopian Israeli community today. Beginning with an overview of the "Dream" while in Ethiopia through the enchanting historical archives at the AJHS - and then fast-forwarding to the situation today, Asher Elias will take you from the...
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6 09:00am presented by YIVO Sunday, May 06, 2012 at 09:00amJews and the Left (Day 1)
Since the 19th century, Jews have played prominent roles in a variety of leftist political movements. At the same time, associations between Jews and communism have been a frequent leitmotif of anti-Semitic thinking. While the political Left often spoke out against anti-Semitism and promised Jews tolerance and an end to distinctions between Jews and non-Jews, specific, prominent, leftists...
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presented by YIVO | 7 09:00am presented by YIVO Monday, May 07, 2012 at 09:00amJews and the Left (Day 2)
Since the 19th century, Jews have played prominent roles in a variety of leftist political movements. At the same time, associations between Jews and communism have been a frequent leitmotif of anti-Semitic thinking. While the political Left often spoke out against anti-Semitism and promised Jews tolerance and an end to distinctions between Jews and non-Jews, specific, prominent, leftists...
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presented by YIVO | 8 | 9 6:00pm presented by LBI Wednesday, May 09, 2012 at 6:00pmAutobiography and Biography: Herzl, Freud, and Stefan Zweig
How reliable are autobiographical works and biographical studies for historical work? Professor Mark Gelber (Ben-Gurion University) will discuss Stefan Zweig’s brilliant but problematic depictions of Herzl (and Zionism) and Freud (psychoanalysis, anti-Semitism, and Jewish survival) in his late autobiographical work written predominantly during the period of his American exile, The World of...
presented by LBI | 10 7:00pm presented by YIVO Thursday, May 10, 2012 at 7:00pmSidney Krum Young Artists Concert Series: Spring Concert 2012
This performance of rarely heard masterworks from the Sidney Krum Jewish Music and Yiddish Theater Memorial Collections at YIVO is performed by gifted young artists from premier conservatories. The Spring Concert presented the great masterpiece of Jewish music, “Shlomo”, a Hebrew rhapsody for cello by Ernest Bloch. The program also included works for piano, cantorial music, and folk songs.
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13 | 14 3:00pm presented by YIVO Monday, May 14, 2012 at 3:00pmCreation of a Survivor Voice: Radio and Early Holocaust Narratives
Rachel Deblinger, University of California, Los Angeles. This paper, largely based on radio broadcasts accessed through the YIVO Sound Collection, will examine eyewitness accounts of Nazi persecution as they aired on radio programs in early postwar America. The paper seeks to explain how the voiced representations of Holocaust narratives constructed an identity of Holocaust survivors in postwar...
presented by YIVO 4:00pm presented by CJH Monday, May 14, 2012 at 4:00pmGenealogist Stephen P. Morse to Discuss 1940 Census
Internationally renowned genealogist Stephen P. Morse will present a two-part talk on genealogy at the Center for Jewish History on May 14 from 4 p.m. - 6 p.m. The program launches the Center's new Ackman & Ziff Family Genealogy Institute’s public programming series.
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presented by CJH 7:00pm presented by CJH, Center for Traditional Music and Dance’s An-sky Institute for Jewish Culture, Brooklyn Arts Council’s Half the Sky Festival: Brooklyn Women in Traditional Performance Monday, May 14, 2012 at 7:00pmBay mayn mames shtibele: The Women’s Art of Yiddish Folksong
An exploration of the Yiddish folksong tradition as preserved through the remarkable artistry of women singers in Eastern Europe and the United States. Itzik Gottesman of the Yiddish Forverts newspaper will lead a panel including renowned folksinger/researcher Michael Alpert, NEA National Heritage Fellow Beyle Schaechter-Gottesman and CTMD Artistic Director Ethel Raim as they present and...
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presented by CJH, Center for Traditional Music and Dance’s An-sky Institute for Jewish Culture, Brooklyn Arts Council’s Half the Sky Festival: Brooklyn Women in Traditional Performance | 15 | 16 | 17 6:00pm presented by YUM Thursday, May 17, 2012 at 6:00pmTrail of the Magic Bullet: Judaism and Bioethics
Is there just one Jewish approach to bioethics? A distinguished panel of leading Jewish clergy, scholars, and medical practitioners bring different perspectives and approaches to this question.
Exhibition Viewing 6pm
Program 6:30 pm
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20 2:00pm presented by JGS and AZFGI Sunday, May 20, 2012 at 2:00pmJewish Chocolate Radar (Choco-Dar) Through the Generations
Speaker: Rabbi Deborah R. Prinz
The next time you pick up a piece of chocolate, consider that you are partaking in an aspect of Jewish history. There are some surprising Jewish connections with chocolate, including Jews in the early chocolate trade and early Jewish chocolate makers. Rabbi Prinz's forthcoming book, Jews on the Chocolate Trail, uniquely melds...
presented by JGS and AZFGI | 21 | 22 6:30pm presented by CJH and LBI Tuesday, May 22, 2012 at 6:30pmWalther Rathenau: The Life of Weimar’s Fallen Statesman
Shulamit Volkov will discuss her new book, Walther Rathenau: The Life of Weimar’s Fallen Statesman (Yale University Press, 2012). This deeply informed biography tells of a man who—both thoroughly German and unabashedly Jewish—rose to leadership in the German War-Ministry Department during the First World War, and later to the exalted position of foreign minister in the early days...
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presented by CJH and LBI 7:00pm presented by YIVO Tuesday, May 22, 2012 at 7:00pmThe Dybbuk (Poland, 1937)
Boundaries separating the natural from the supernatural dissolve as ill-fated pledges, unfulfilled passions, and untimely deaths ensnare two families in a tragic labyrinth of spiritual possession. The Dybbuk is based on the celebrated play of the same name by S. An-sky written during the turbulent years of 1912-1917 and inspired by An-sky’s ethnographic research of Jews living in the...
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27 | 28 | 29 | 30 7:30pm presented by CJH and LBI Wednesday, May 30, 2012 at 7:30pmPiano Fest
Vassa Shevel and Inessa Zaretsky of the Phoenix Chamber Ensemble and a guest pianist, Ellen Braslavsky, will perform music for one and two pianos by J.S.Bach, Robert Schumann, Franz Schubert, Witold Lutoslavsky, Sergei Rachmaninoff, Astor Piazzola and Inessa Zaretsky.
This program is made possible through the generous support of Mr. & Mrs. Leonard Blavatnik.
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