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September - October 2006

American Jewish Historical SocietyAmerican Sephardi FederationLeo Baeck InstituteYeshiva University MuseumYIVO Institute for Jewish Research

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The Center for Jewish History has emerged from

a vision of a unique central resource for the

cultural and historical legacy of the Jewish people.

The Center embodies the partnership of five major

institutions of Jewish scholarship, history and art:

American Jewish Historical Society, American

Sephardi Federation, Leo Baeck Institute, Yeshiva

University Museum and YIVO Institute for Jewish

Research. The Center serves the worldwide

academic and general communities with

combined holdings of approximately 100 million

archival documents, a half million books and

thousands of photographs, artifacts, paintings and

textiles - the largest repository outside of Israel

documenting the Jewish experience. The Center’s

extensive program of exhibitions, cultural events

and intellectual gatherings will interest all who

wish to explore the richness of the Jewish past

and the promise of the Jewish future.

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COVER IMAGE[Right] H. Tarlo and M. Orlesko, performers of the Vilna Troupe, ca. 1918 - Courtesy of the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research Archives[Left] Biblical Species (detail) by Michele Oka Doner Photograph by Frederick Charles

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At-A-Glance

General Information

Founded in 1892, American Jewish Historical Society’s holdings include 20 million documents, 50,000 books and thousands of paintings and memorabilia that bear witness to the remarkable contributions of the American Jewish community to life in the Americas from the 16th Century to the present.

Founded in 1973, American Sephardi Federation joined with Sephardic House to promote and preserve the spiritual, historical and cultural traditions of all Sephardic communities to assure their place as an integral part of Jewish heritage. Its activities include a Sephardic Library and Archives, exhibitions, educational and cultural programs, publications, The Sephardi Report, The Sephardic Film Festival and a scholarship fund for Sephardic scholars.

Leo Baeck Institute is the single most important source for documenting the vibrant life of German-speaking Jewry spanning several hundred years. The Leo Baeck Institute’s library and archives offer rare collections of periodicals from the 19th and 20th Centuries, as well as private letters, public documents and thousands of memoirs dating back centuries.

Founded in 1973, Yeshiva University Museum is recognized as an international museum known for its innovative interdisciplinary exhibitions on Jewish life past and present, and its creative interpretations of Jewish history and culture for audiences of all ages. Its vast collections represent over 2,000 years of Jewish history from the Bronze Age to the present.

Founded in 1925 in Vilna, Lithuania, to collect the documents and records of hundreds of Jewish communities in Eastern Europe, YIVO remains the preeminent research institute and academic centre dedicated to Eastern European Jewish studies, Yiddish language and literature, and the American Jewish immigrant experience. Its collections include more than 22 million documents, 350,000 books and 200,000 photographs, many one of a kind.

American Jewish Historical Society Phone 212.294.6160 - Fax 212.294.6161

YIVO Institute for Jewish Research Phone 212.246.6080 - Fax 212.292.1892

Yeshiva University Museum Phone 212.294.8330 - Fax 212.294.8335

Leo Baeck Institute Phone 212.744.6400 - Fax 212.988.1305

American Sephardi Federation Phone 212.294.8350 - Fax 212.294.8348

www.ajhs.org

www.americansephardifederation.org

www.lbi.org

www.yumuseum.org

www.yivo.org

New Exhibitions

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$8 general / $6 - students, seniors and children 5-18Free for YUM members, children under 5 and YU students and staff with ID

Sunday, Tuesday, Wednesday & Thursday 11am - 5pm

Monday - Thursday 9:30am - 5pm / Friday 9:30am - 3pm / Sunday 11am - 5pmAJHS-ASF-LBI-YIVO Gallery Hours

YUM Gallery Hours

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OPENING SEPTEMBER 14, 2006KATHERINE AND CLIFFORD H. GOLDSMITH / LBI GALLERYA look at Erwin Piscator’s impact on American theater. Piscator developed the Epic Theater in Weimar Berlin together with playwright Bertold Brecht. Piscator’s productions used lecture, montage and multimedia, and pre-sented political and social issues beyond the emotional and aesthetic dimensions of a play. In 1939, he brought these methods to America as director of both the Dramatic Workshop at The New School and the Studio Theater in New York City.

LEO BAECK INSTITUTE

Erwin Piscator: Theatre in Exile in New York and Beyond

Erwin Piscator on his way to rehearsals at his first own theater at Nollendorfplatz in Berlin, September 1927 Photo montage: Sasha StoneCourtesy of Lahr von Leïtis Archive

OPENING OCTOBER 17, 2006DIANE AND MARK GOLDMAN / AJHS GALLERYCreated in response to demolition plans for the old neighbourhood, these remarkable photographs capture this small, crowded sliver of New York City in transition. During the early 1930s, the Lower East Side had devel-oped a reputation as both an incorrigable slum and an important site of American Jewish memory. As the City of New York planned to redevelop the neighborhood, JB Lightman set out to capture its historical signifi-cance on film. A Photographic Study of the Lower East Side: 1934 will feature both visions in new silver gelatin prints from Lightman’s original negatives alongside period maps and architects’ renderings of the neigh-borhood’s streets and buildings.

AMERICAN JEWISH HISTORICAL SOCIETY

A Photographic Study of the Lower East Side: 1934

Knish vendor ; Lower East side, New York, 1934; Graduate School for Jewish Social Work Records - Courtesy of American Jewish Historical Society

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OPENING OCTOBER 16, 2006CONSTANTINER GALLERYDuring the first month the exhibition will interpret the role of U.S. diplo-mats who worked tirelessly to save Jewish refugees trapped in Europe. The second and third months will be devoted to Italian diplomats sta-tioned in Greece, France, Hungary and pre-war Yugoslavia, and to the role of diplomats from various countries, who were based in Vichy and provided visas or other travel documents to Jews. Curater: Eric Saul - Morgantown, West VirginiaCo-Curator: Krysia Fisher - YIVO Institute for Jewish Research

YIVO INSTITUTE FOR JEWISH RESEARCH

Visas for Life: An Exhibit Honoring U.S., Italian and other Vichy-based Diplomats Who Rescued Jews During the Holocaust

Courtesy of YIVO Institute for Jewish Research Archives

OPENING OCTOBER 23, 2006SELMA L. BATKIN MEZZANINE EXHIBITION CASEThe philosopher Baruch Spinoza, long ignored by Jews, was rediscovered in mid-19th century by Yiddish-speaking Jewry, and became a symbol of Jewish secularism. Many Yiddish and Hebrew writers from Eastern Europe studied, translated or commented on his works. This exhibit, on the 350th anniversary of the famous kheyrem (excommunication), displays the Yiddish world’s intense interest in the rationalist from Amsterdam.

YIVO INSTITUTE FOR JEWISH RESEARCH

Spinoza in the Yiddish Mind

Spinoza in his Attic Chamber, painting by Isaac Lichtenstein - Courtesy of YIVO Institute for Jewish Research Library

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OPENING SEPTEMBER 10, 2006MUSEUM ARCADE European, American and Jewish interaction in the year 1000 is examined in this experiential exhibition, featuring the commentaries of the great Medieval scholar Rashi, and displays of an interactive market and a Viking trading ship.

YESHIVA UNIVERSITY MUSEUM

Exploring the North Atlantic: Traders, Scholars and Vikings

Courtesy of Yeshiva University Museum

Current Exhibitions

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THROUGH SEPTEMBER 29, 2006DIANE AND MARK GOLDMAN / AJHS GALLERYA retrospective on the development of Jewish organizations, reflecting the changes in social welfare and theories and practices in child care. The exhibition captures the experiences of the children - a century of adversity, yet also a story of their creativity, curiosity, intelligence and humor; of the power of the orphanage community.

AMERICAN JEWISH HISTORICAL SOCIETY

‘Cradled in Judea’Jewish Orphanages in New York, 1860-1960

A photograph (ca. 1950) of bar mitzvah boys at the Pride of Judea Orphanage - Courtesy of American Jewish Historical Society

THROUGH OCTOBER 15, 2006LEON LEVY / ASF GALLERYThis exhibition explores life in Cochin, a small peninsula town in India where Jews, Hindus, Muslims and Christians have coexisted for centu-ries, continuing a venerable tradition of religious pluralism.Exhibition on loan from the B’nai B’rith Klutznick National Jewish Museum. The exhibition is supported in part by the New York Council for the Humanities, a state affiliate of the National Endowment for the Humanities.

AMERICAN SEPHARDI FEDERATION

Cochin Diary: Jewish Life in Southern IndiaPhotographs by Joshua Eli Cogan

Hindu children lighting candles in front of the grave of 16th-century Kabbalist Nehemiah Mota - Courtesy of the B’nai B’rith Klutznick National Jewish Museum

Vincent Capraro’s VisionTHROUGH NOVEMBER 2, 2006SECOND FLOOR GALLERY Moved by world events, Vincent Capraro completed a Holocaust sketch-book in 1961, which was exhibited at the Knesset in 1992 and Yad Vashem in Jerusalem. In a style reminiscent of both Rembrandt and Goya, these drawings are universal as they evoke the suffering of humanity throughout the ages. Also on exhibit are mural-scale paintings with bril-liant powerful strokes of color that record an empathetic agony.


From The Holocaust Scetchbook, 1961 © Vincent Capraro Courtesy of Yeshiva University Museum

Current Exhibitions

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THROUGH DECEMBER 31, 2006BETTY AND WALTER L. POPPER GALLERYThis documentary exhibition presents large-scale digital photographs, wartime images, contemporary portraits and personal testimonies of 27 courageous men and women (the Resisters) who, more than 60 years ago, actively resisted Nazi occupation in their small country, Belgium. Based on research by Dr. Anne Griffin / Photography by Jean-Marc Gourdon


Resistance and Memory in Belgium: 1940-1945, Images Past and Present

Photo: Andrée Geulen, rue NeuveBrussels, May 1944 Courtesy of Yeshiva University Museum

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THROUGH JANUARY 14, 2007WINNICK GALLERY

The postwar child of East European Holocaust survivors, Lustig has cre-ated symbolic scenarios of this traumatic period of history, using his fer-tile imagination in developing his own iconography consisting of people, animals, landscapes, still-lives, architecture - all real or imaginary, in a Surrealist style.


The Holocaust in the Paintings of Valentin Lustig

Cautious Approach to the Monuments oil on canvas, 2003,Collection of Edith and Egon Balas Courtesy of Yeshiva University Museum

THROUGH JANUARY 14, 2007WINNICK GALLERYAn installation of hand-made puppets by Bracha Ghilai, who, at the age of seventeen, following liberation from Bergen-Belsen, came to Israel to start her life over, establishing a puppet theater as a part of her healing process.


At the Altar of Her MemoriesVideo Installation by Tova Beck-FriedmanPuppets by Bracha Ghilai

© TBF Studio Courtesy of Yeshiva University Museum

Current Exhibitions


THROUGH JANUARY 28, 2007MUSEUM ARCADEMotivated by his desire to restore a heritage devastated by the Holocaust, Max Stern, founder of the Hartz Mountain Company, assembled a collec-tion of over 400 Judaica items. This exhibition includes a variety of cer-emonial metalwork and textiles dating from the 17th to the 20th Century, from North Africa, Europe, Iran and Turkey.


The Max Stern Collection of Judaica

Torah Shield; silver, gilt, repoussé, cast Lvov (Lemberg), Ukraine; 1855 Courtesy of Yeshiva University Museum

THROUGH JANUARY 14, 2007ROSENBERG GALLERYThis exhibition examines how the artists’ works reflect the inherent qualities of their chosen media (the permanence and rigidity of iron; the richness and femininity of textiles; the fragility and luminescence of glass) and the commonalities based on the artists’ shared experiences as women and Jews.


Feminine Principals: Works in Iron, Fiber and GlassOrna Ben-Ami • Georgette Benisty • Saara Gallin

Fiber sculpture, 2005 © Georgette Benisty Courtesy of Yeshiva University Museum

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THROUGH JANUARY 14, 2007SCULPTURE GARDENThis Israeli artist creates solidly rooted sculptures based on her child-hood, linking the personal with the collective memory of her people. By cutting, bending and welding pieces of hard and unyielding metal together, Ben-Ami manages to create seemingly soft feminine objects reflective of her past.


Iron Sculpture by Orna Ben-Ami

Memories, welded iron, 2004 © Orna Ben-Ami Courtesy of Yeshiva University Museum

PUBLIC PROGRAMS

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Songs of Modernity CABARET PERFORMANCE WITH COMMENTARY

The European Jewish cabaret thrived from the 1880s through the mid 20th century. The New Budapest Orpheum Society [NBOS], an eight member ensemble, revives songs from these troupes while also exploring the remarkable musical traditions created by composers and lyricists in exile. Hauntingly beautiful songs, shoved to the peripheries of 20th century history, are transformed into a new and compelling history of the modern Jewish experience. The NBOS performance mixes skits, comedy, and songs in German, Hebrew, Yiddish and English, with scholarly commentary.

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YIVO INSTITUTE FOR JEWISH RESEARCHAdmission: $20 / $10 students

New Budapest Orpheum SocietyPhoto: Dan Dry / www.dandry.com - Courtesy of The University of Chicago

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PT Bauhaus Architecture in Tel Aviv

LECTURE

Speakers Sam Gruber and Michael Turner will vividly illustrate an array of remarkable early 20th century buildings, created by Jewish designers who had fled Europe and were influenced by Bauhaus principals. Our speakers have been at the forefront for recognizing, interpreting, and conserving the architectural richness of the White City district in Tel Aviv, a UNESCO World Heritage Site. This presentation is the first of the Art Deco Society of New York’s Global Art Deco Lecture Series.

YESHIVA UNIVERSITY MUSEUM CO-SPONSORED BY THE ART DECO SOCIETY OF NEW YORKAdmission: $15 / $10 YUM & Art Deco Society of New York members and students

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CT Lonely House:

A Concert of Kurt Weill Songs CONCERT [IN FRENCH AND ENGLISH]

February 26, 1933 marked the Burning of the Reichstag. Barely a month later, Kurt Weill, recently celebrated composer of the Threepenny Opera, the figure-head musician of the Entartete Kunst (art banned as Degenerate Art), was deeply wounded by the open slander that was to follow him even abroad. As a result, he forever turned his back upon Germany, and was never again to speak his mother tongue.

PERFORMERS

A co-production of the Stadttheater, Fürth and Beyerischer Rundfunk, Studio Franken, Germany.

LEO BAECK INSTITUTE IN COOPERATION WITH THE GOETHE INSTITUT, NEW YORK AND SAN FRANCISCOAdmission: $15 / $10 LBI members / $7 students

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Jutta Czurda - vocalsRichie Beirach - arranger / pianist

Gregor Hübner - violinVeit Hübner - bass


Photo: Thomas Schlijper / www.schlijper.nl

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T Curator Talk with Anne Griffin LECTURE

Dr. Anne Griffin, Professor of Political Science, Cooper Union, will speak about the current exhibition, Resistance and Memory in Belgium: 1940-1945, Images Past and Present, which grew out of her journey to Belgium to interview former WWII Belgian resistance members.

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YESHIVA UNIVERSITY MUSEUMFree with Museum Admission

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Feminine Principals Workshop SeriesThree special programs exploring the media of the three women artists whose work is on diplay in Feminine Principals: Works in Iron, Fiber and Glass.

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27FiberThis program includes a gallery tour with the artist, Georgette Benisty, a talk by Désirée G. Koslin, Fashion Institute of Technology, and a fiber craft workshop for adults.

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YESHIVA UNIVERSITY MUSEUMAdmission: $15 / $10 YUM members and students [includes Museum Admission and material fee] $35 for for all 3 workshops

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PUBLIC PROGRAMS Symposium

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T From Heretic to Hero: A Symposium on the Impact of Baruch Spinoza on the 350th Anniversary of His Excommunication, 1656-2006 SYMPOSIUM

A one-day symposium dedicated to exploring the historical reasons and current implications of what many scholars consider the most notorious and repercussive excommunication in all of Jewish history: the banishment of Baruch (Benedictus) Spinoza from the Jewish Community of Amsterdam in 1656.

YIVO INSTITUTE FOR JEWISH RESEARCHAdmission: $10 / $5 students and seniorsFor more information please call 212.246.6080 or visit www.yivo.org

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Courtesy of YIVO Institute for Jewish Research Archives

This program is sponsored in part by the New York Council for the Humanities, a state affiliate of the National Endowment for the Humanities


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PT Jewish Journalists, American Journalism

DISCUSSIONWith Franklin Foer, Editor, The New Republic, J.J. Goldberg, Editor in Chief, The Forward, Clyde Haberman, Columnist, “NYC”, The New York Times, William Kristol, Editor, The Weekly Standard, and others. Moderator: David Margolick, Contributing Editor, Vanity Fair. In the wake of events in the Middle East, explore with some of the most influential American Jewish journalists provocative questions. How do Jewish journalists respond to news with a Jewish interest? What are the pulls and tugs on them? Are Jewish journalists afraid/comfortable with stories with a Jewish angle? At one time “all” Jewish journalists were considered liberal. Is this so today? How does this impact their perspective on “Jewish” news?YIVO INSTITUTE FOR JEWISH RESEARCH – Admission: $20 / $7 students

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PUBLIC PROGRAMSLectures Seminars&

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T Morality and Strategy in the War on Terror: The Israeli Experience LECTURE WITH MOSHE HALBERTALWhat are the moral limitations and challenges to fighting a war on terror? What are consequences of the enemy attacking one set of civilians and, by disguising itself within its own civilian population, completely obliterating the distinction between combatants and non-combatants? What can be learned, both morally and strategically, from ordinary war that is applicable to this very different condition? Moshe Halbertal, Professor of Philosophy at Hebrew University and Fellow of the Shalom Hartman Institute, will examine the approach adopted by the Israeli defense forces in facing these challenges, and the lessons that can be drawn – perhaps, for the United States – from this approach.

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YIVO INSTITUTE FOR JEWISH RESEARCH – Admission: $15 / $7 students

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T The Banality of Good: Rescuers in Italy at the Time of Persecution LECTURE HOSTED BY DR. SEYMOUR P. LACHMANWith a panel of historians, survivors, and rescuers, this program, hosted by Dr. Seymour P. Lachman, Distinguished Professor in Residence, Wagner College, will explore human, social, and political aspects of those instances in which Italian citizens and public officers chose to help persecuted Jews, at the risk of their lives, by opposing the anti-Semitic policies of the government. This program is based on the books, The Righteous of Italy, which is part of the Yad Vashem Encyclopedia of the Righteous Among the Nations, and History of the Shoah: the Crisis of Europe, the Extermination of the Jews, and the Remembrance of the 20th Century.

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CENTER FOR JEWISH HISTORY, THE CONSULATE GENERAL OF ITALY, WAGNER COLLEGE AND CENTRO PRIMO LEVI – Admission: $10

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T The Yiddish Experiment in Minsk, 1920-1938 SEMINARElissa Bemporad, CJH Fellow 2005 and Ph.D. Candidate in History at Stanford University. Respondent: Gennady Estraikh, Rauch Associate Professor of Yiddish Studies, New York University. Academic Coordinator: Hasia Diner, Paul S. and Sylvia Steinberg Professor of American Jewish History, New York University.

CJH Graduate Seminar

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CENTER FOR JEWISH HISTORY Free Admission [RSVP 212.294.8325 / [email protected]]

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T Jews and Money LECTURE WITH NIALL FERGUSON

For centuries, Jews have been associated with capitalism and particularly with finance. The association has been both positive - a story of over-achievement in the face of discrimination - and negative - a source of fuel for anti-Semitic conspiracy theories about Jewish power. As the author of The House of Rothschild and the forthcoming Warburg, as well as works such as The Cash Nexus and, most recently, The War of the World that have dealt more generally with questions of money and power, Niall Ferguson, Laurence A. Tisch Professor of History at Havard University and Professor at Harvard Business School, is well placed to offer some new thoughts on an old and often vexed question: Is there really something unique about the relationship between Jews and business? And if so, what exactly is it that sets the Jewish experience apart from that of other market-dominant ethnic minorities?

YIVO INSTITUTE FOR JEWISH RESEARCH – Admission: $15 / $7 students

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PT The End of Music: Gideon Klein’s Final String Quartet

Michael Beckerman, Professor of Music, New York University Respondent: TBACo-sponsored by Department of Music, New York University

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T Music and Memory Among Crypto-Jews in Portuguese Border Villages

Judith Cohen, York University Respondent: Jane Gerber, CUNY Graduate Center

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AMERICAN JEWISH HISTORICAL SOCIETY AND AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR JEWISH MUSIC – Free Admission

Photo: Dewald Aukema


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T The Hidden Children in Belgium [Just A Link / Un Simple Maillon] FILM SCREENING AND DISCUSSION

In connection with the current exhibition Resistance and Memory in Belgium: 1940-1945, Images Past and Present, the Belgian documentary, Un Simple Maillon / Just A Link will be screened. The film portrays the work of Andree Geulen, a righteous gentile, who placed Jewish children in convents in Belgium during WWII. Included in the film are interviews with the children whom Ms. Geulen saved. Post-screening discussion with Suzanne Vromen, Professor Emerita of Sociology, Bard College.

Dir. Frederic Dumont / Belgium / 2003 / 52 mins. / French with English subtitlesYESHIVA UNIVERSITY MUSEUM – Free with Museum Admission

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CT Clara Lemlich: A Strike Leader’s Diary

FILM SCREENING AND DISCUSSION

Filmmaker Alex Szalat tells the story of the young, Jewish, Ukranian-born woman who, in 1909, sparked the Uprising of the 20,000 - the first massive strike of New York City garment workers. Post-screening discussion with Professor Alica Kessler-Harris, Columbia University, and others. Dir. Alex Szalat / US / 2004 / B&W and Colour / 51 mins. AMERICAN JEWISH HISTORICAL SOCIETY CO-SPONSORED BY THE NEW YORK LABOR HISTORY ASSOCIATION – Free Admission

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PT My Future is in America: Yiddish Immigrant Autobiographies

JEWISH GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY MONTHLY MEETINGDaniel Soyer, Associate Professor of History at Fordham University, is co-editor of My Future is in America: East European Jewish Autobiographies [NYU Press / YIVO Institute for Jewish Research, 2006].

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T The Lost: The Search for Six of Six Million JEWISH GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY MONTHLY MEETINGDaniel Mendelsohn returned to his family’s ancestral shtetl of Bolechow, Ukraine, to learn the truth about a branch of his family that vanished in the Holocaust. His book, The Lost, was recently published by HarperCollins.

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GENEALOGY GENEALOGY INSTITUTE AND JEWISH GENEALOGICAL SOCIETYAdmission: $5 / Free for JGS members [RSVP 212.294.8326 / [email protected]]

PUBLIC PROGRAMSCinema


On the occasion of the 150th Anniversary of the Birth of Sigmund FreudAll films are followed by couch-talks on Freud, analysis, dreams, religion and madnessCheck our web site at www.cjh.org for full details and updates on hosts and special guests

Series Ticket: $100 / $50 students & seniors Single Ticket: $10 / $5 students & seniors

Date Palm Café will be open for refreshments before each screening

This series is made possible through the generous support of The Brenner Family Foundation, The Sam Spiegel Foundation and Sheri Cyd Sandler.

u SEPTEMBER 18 - 7PM Young Dr. Freud [Der Junge Freud] Germany / 1976 / B&W / 98 mins. / German with English subtitlesPost-screening discussion with Dr. Arnold Richards

u SEPTEMBER 25 - 7PMSecrets of a Soul Dir. Georg Wilhelm Pabst / Germany / 1926 / B&W / 97 mins. / Silent with English intertitlesLate Night Screening - 8:30PMFreud Home MoviesSigmund Freud, His Family and Colleagues 1928-1929The Eleventh Congress of the Psychoanalytic Association 1929Freud at Potzledorf, 1932Freud Home Movies 1937-1938 Library of Congress and Freud Archives / 90 mins.

u OCTOBER 9 - 7PMDreams, Psychoanalysis and FilmA conversation and screening hosted by Bruce Sklarew with Lynn Gamwell

u OCTOBER 16 - 7PMThe Soulkeeper: The True Story of Sabina Spielrein [Prendimi L’anima]Dir. Roberto Faenza / Italy-France-UK / 2002 / 90 mins. / English and Italian with English subtitles

u OCTOBER 30 - 7PM1919UK / 1985 / B&W and Color / 99 mins.

u NOVEMBER 6 - 7PMThe Cook, The Thief, His Wife and Her LoverFrance-Netherlands-UK / 1989 / 124 mins. / English

u NOVEMBER 13 - 7PMPressure PointDir. Hubert Cornfield / US / 1962 / B&W / 91 mins.

u NOVEMBER 20 - 7PM ZeligDir. Woody Allen / USA / 1983 / B&W and Color / 79 mins. / English and German Late Night Screening - 8:30PMStreet of CrocodilesUK / 1986 / Color / 21mins.

u DECEMBER 4 - 7PMBeyond Good and EvilDir. Liliana Cavani / Italy-France-West Germany / 1977 / 130 mins. / Italian with English subtitles

u DECEMBER 11 - 7PMDead of NightDir. Alberto Cavalcanti / UK / 1945 / 102 mins.

u DECEMBER 18 - 7PMPersonaDir. Ingmar Bergman / Sweden / 1966 / 83 mins. / Swedish with English subtitles

F I L M A N D P S Y C H O A N A L Y S I SMonday Night Film Series

PUBLIC PROGRAMS Cinema

Calendar AT-A-GLANCE

WED

. The Yiddish Experiment in Minsk, 1920-1938

P16SEMINAR CJH

TUES. Jews and Money:

A Lecture with Niall Ferguson

YIVO

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. The Lost: The Search for Six of Six Million

JGS-CGI

FRI.

Music and Memory Among Crypto-Jews in Portuguese Border Villages

AJHS-ASJM

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. Clara Lemlich: A Strike Leader’s Diary

AJHS

TUES. Curator Talk with Anne Griffin

YUM

TUES. The Banality of Good: Rescuers in Italy

at the Time of Persecution

CJH-CPL

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. Lonely House: A Concert of Kurt Weill Songs

LBI

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N. Feminine Principals Workshop – Glass

YUM

TUES. Morality and Strategy in the War on

Terror: The Israeli Experience

YIVO

TUES. The Hidden Children in Belgium:

Just A Link / Un Simple Maillon

YUM

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. Feminine Principals Workshop – Fiber YUM

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. From Heretic to Hero: A Symposium on the Impact of Baruch Spinoza

YIVO

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. My Future is in America: Yiddish Immigrant Autobiographies

JGS-CGI

TUES. American Publications,

Jewish Editors

YIVO

TUES. Bauhaus Architecture in Tel Aviv

P10ART YUM

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The End of Music: Gideon Klein’s Final String Quartet

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Jewish Cabaret in Exile – Songs of Modernity

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GENEALOGY P12

SYMPOSIUM P14

ART WORKSHOP P11

CINEMA P12

CONCERT P10

LECTURE P15

ART P11

CINEMA P12

GENEALOGY P12

LECTURE P16

P16FORUM

P15LECTURE

P15LECTURE

ART WORKSHOP P11

FORUM P16

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CENTER FOR JEWISH HISTORY - BOX OFFICE15 WEST 16TH STREET, NEW YORK, NY 10011

* For mail orders received at least 7 days BEFORE the date of the program, tickets will be mailed to the mailing address.

* For mail orders received within less than 7 days, tickets will be held at the Box Office.

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GROUP TOURS - Docent-led tours include exhibitions of the five partners and other public spaces. Call 917.606.8226 for groups of 10 or more. Lunch arrangements can be accommodated. Free public tours, exclusive of the YU Museum galleries, are held Tuesdays and Thursdays at 2pm.

Support the Center Today!Contribute today to help us preserve the irreplaceable records

of the Jewish people for future generations

Supporter: $50-$99– One Membership card, which provides: u Discounts at the Book Store and Café u Discounts on Center tours and events – A one–year subscription to the newsletter– Quarterly Calendar of Events

Donor: $100-$499All of the privileges listed under Supporter plus:– Additional Membership cards– Acknowledgement of your generosity in

our publications– Special seminars with chief archivists and

genealogists– Smithsonian National Associate Membership

Scholar: $500-$999All of the privileges listed under Donor plus:– Two complimentary tickets to events listed

on a Choose Your Event Program– Invitations to special receptions & events

at the Center– One CJH Tote bag

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u Please mail this form along with your payment to CENTER FOR JEWISH HISTORY Attn: Development Office15 West 16th StreetNew York, NY 10011

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Donors of $1,000 and above: Members of the Circle at the Center Depending on the giving level, donors will be eligible to receive additional complimentary tickets to Center events, special invitations for major exhibitions and events, private tours of the Center which include behind-the-scenes access to the Center’s facilities, the opportunity to name a seat in the Leo and Julia Forchheimer Auditorium in perpetuity and the acknowledge-ment of major gifts on our Benefactors Wall.

For more information on benefits available to Circle at the Center donors, please contact CJH DEVELOPMENT OFFICE – 212.294.8310

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