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Calendar of Programs

CJH EVENT CALENDAR

FEBRUARY 2012

BROWSE MONTHLY

PAST EVENTS

SUNDAY	MONDAY	TUESDAY	WEDNESDAY	THURSDAY	FRIDAY	SATURDAY
			1	2 3:00pm The Broder Singers: Forerunners of the Yiddish Theater presented by YIVO Thursday, February 02, 2012 at 3:00pm The Broder Singers: Forerunners of the Yiddish Theater Miryem-Khaye Seigel, Librarian, Dorot Jewish Division, New York Public Library. Broder singers were the first Yiddish performers to present music and drama in a secular setting beginning in the mid-19th century. This lecture explores the Broder singers’ history, repertoire, and style, and their relationship to Yiddish theater. presented by YIVO	3	4
5 2:00pm The Loewenberg Piano Trio presented by LBI Sunday, February 05, 2012 at 2:00pm The Loewenberg Piano Trio The members of the Loewenberg Trio (Hannah Loewenberg-Harnest, piano, Ilya Movchan, violin, and Jordan Gregoris, cello), met at the Royal College of Music in London and played their debut concert at the Philharmonic Hall (‘Gasteig’) in Munich in November 2010. In their New York debut, they will perform works by Beethoven, Schumann, Shostakovich, and the Swiss-Jewish-American composer Ernest... presented by LBI	6	7 7:00pm The Jewish Antifascist Committee and Its Foreign Delegation presented by YIVO Tuesday, February 07, 2012 at 7:00pm The Jewish Antifascist Committee and Its Foreign Delegation Gennady Estraikh. During World War II, Stalin’s ideologists decided to form a new organization called the Jewish Antifascist Committee (JAC), which became a structural unit of the Soviet Information Bureau, or Sovinformburo. The JAC published the newspaper Eynikayt and had contacts with foreign Jewish organizations. In 1943, the leading members of the JAC, Solomon Mikhoels and... Purchase Tickets presented by YIVO	8	9 12:00pm Belarus in Berlin/Berlin in Belarus: Moyshe Kulbak’s Raysn and Meshiekh ben-Efrayim presented by YIVO Thursday, February 09, 2012 at 12:00pm Belarus in Berlin/Berlin in Belarus: Moyshe Kulbak’s Raysn and Meshiekh ben-Efrayim Marc Caplan, Johns Hopkins University. The two major works that Moyshe Kulbak completed while living in Berlin in the early 1920s count as significant achievements in Yiddish modernism, each poised between nostalgia and apocalypse. In each instance, the author’s location in Berlin obligated him to represent his Belorussian homeland through a variety of distorted, experimental, and innovative... presented by YIVO 7:00pm The St. Petersburg School: The Music of Leo Zeitlin (1884-1930) presented by ASJM and YIVO Thursday, February 09, 2012 at 7:00pm The St. Petersburg School: The Music of Leo Zeitlin (1884-1930) Professor Paula Eisenstein Baker with YIVO’s Sidney Krum Young Artists. Leo Zeitlin belonged to a group of early 20th- century young Russian-Jewish composers--mostly students of the St. Petersburg Conservatory and members of the Society for Jewish Folk Music in St. Petersburg--who were united by the idea of creating a Jewish national music movement. Fascinated by Zeitlin’s masterpiece “Eli... presented by ASJM and YIVO	10	11
12	13 3:00pm The Scorched Melting Pot: Yiddish Culture and American Communism after World War II presented by YIVO Monday, February 13, 2012 at 3:00pm The Scorched Melting Pot: Yiddish Culture and American Communism after World War II Jennifer Young, New York University. In the late 1940s, the International Workers Order (IWO)--a multi-ethnic fraternal order established by Jews active in the American Communist movement that equated injustices against racial, cultural and economic groups--began to champion the rights of ethnic cultures. Jewish leaders of the IWO created a powerful counter-example to what the IWO’s Director... presented by YIVO	14	15	16	17	18
19 2:00pm What They Saved-Pieces of a Jewish Past presented by JGS and AZFGI Sunday, February 19, 2012 at 2:00pm What They Saved-Pieces of a Jewish Past Speaker: Nancy K. Miller As a third-generation descendant of Eastern European Jews, Nancy K. Miller, Distinguished Professor of English and comparative literature at the CUNY graduate center, learns that the hidden lives of her ancestors reveal as much about the present as they do about the past. Her story takes us back to the world of pogroms and mass emigrations at... presented by JGS and AZFGI	20 The Center is closed Monday, February 20th for President's Day. Monday, February 20, 2012 at 11:59pm The Center is closed Monday, February 20th for President's Day. presented by (none)	21	22	23 7:00pm Children and War presented by YIVO Thursday, February 23, 2012 at 7:00pm Children and War Leading Holocaust historian Debórah Dwork (Clark University) and Cathy A. Frierson (University of New Hampshire) will present their research on the devastating impact of the Holocaust and Soviet Terror on children. A discussion will follow, moderated by Jonathan Brent (YIVO Executive Director). Concluding the evening will be a short, riveting film on child survival produced by Centropa and... Purchase Tickets presented by YIVO	24	25
26 10:00am Talking About Jewish Women and Comics presented by YUM, The Jewish Daily Forward, The Stirling Maxwell Centre University of Glasgow, PhD Program in English at the CUNY Graduate Center, Center for Jewish Studies at the CUNY Graduate Center, Routledge (Taylor & Francis Group), and McFarland Sunday, February 26, 2012 at 10:00am Talking About Jewish Women and Comics This international symposium for academics, artists and enthusiasts is being presented in conjunction with the current exhibition Graphic Details: Confessional Comics by Jewish Women and will be chaired by Sarah Lightman (University of Glasgow), Tahneer Oksman (CUNY) and Dr. Amy Feinstein (independent scholar). Speakers include: Miriam Katin, Corinne Pearlman, Ariel Schrag, and Lauren... Purchase Tickets presented by YUM, The Jewish Daily Forward, The Stirling Maxwell Centre University of Glasgow, PhD Program in English at the CUNY Graduate Center, Center for Jewish Studies at the CUNY Graduate Center, Routledge (Taylor & Francis Group), and McFarland	27	28 3:00pm S. An-sky: Writing the History of Jews in the First World War presented by YIVO Tuesday, February 28, 2012 at 3:00pm S. An-sky: Writing the History of Jews in the First World War Polly Zavadivker, University of California at Santa Cruz. Between 1914 and 1917, the ethnographer, playwright, and relief worker S. An-sky spent months at a time on a remarkable mission to assist and document the experiences of Jews throughout Galicia and the Russian pale of Settlement. An-sky's war writing was important not only in its own right, but also because so many of its features--the... presented by YIVO 6:30pm Abraham Lincoln and the Jews presented by AJHS Tuesday, February 28, 2012 at 6:30pm Abraham Lincoln and the Jews Dr. Gary P. Zola, Executive Director of The Jacob Rader Marcus Center of the American Jewish Archives (AJA) and Professor of the American Jewish Experience at Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion (HUC-JIR) in Cincinnati. Lectures on Teddy Roosevelt (March 27) and Harry S. Truman and Ronald Reagan (April) to follow this Spring. Purchase Tickets presented by AJHS	29 4:00pm The International Community and the Jewish Minority Question in the 'New Europe' during the 1930s presented by CJH Wednesday, February 29, 2012 at 4:00pm The International Community and the Jewish Minority Question in the 'New Europe' during the 1930s During the 1930s the region between Germany and the Soviet Union was inhabited by more than five million Jews whose possible migration to the west caused concerns in the international community. Dr. Jan Lanicek, Prins Foundation Post-Doctoral Fellow, will address the existence of the 'Jewish minority question' in this East-Central European region and its treatment by the international community... presented by CJH

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