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Calendar of Programs

Calendar of Programs

CJH EVENT CALENDAR

NOVEMBER 2011

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PAST EVENTS

SUNDAY	MONDAY	TUESDAY	WEDNESDAY	THURSDAY	FRIDAY	SATURDAY
		1 6:30pm Jewish Soldiers in Blue & Gray presented by AJHS Tuesday, November 01, 2011 at 6:30pm Jewish Soldiers in Blue & Gray Coinciding with the 150th anniversary of the Civil War, Jewish Soldiers in Blue & Gray (directed by Jonathan Gruber) is a first-of-its-kind film that reveals the little-known struggles facing American Jews both in battle and on the home front during the nation’s deadliest war. This documentary reveals an unknown chapter in American history when allegiances during the War Between... Purchase Tickets presented by AJHS 6:30pm Life and Loss in the Shadow of the Holocaust by Rebecca Boehling and Uta Larkey presented by LBI Tuesday, November 01, 2011 at 6:30pm Life and Loss in the Shadow of the Holocaust by Rebecca Boehling and Uta Larkey The authors of Life and Loss in the Shadow of the Holocaust (Cambridge University Press, 20011) will present their new book. A family’s recently-discovered correspondence provides the inspiration for this fascinating and deeply-moving account of Jewish family life before, during and after the Holocaust. Rebecca Boehling and Uta Larkey reveal how the Kaufmann-Steinberg family was... presented by LBI	2 6:30pm Glikl's Legacy: Jewish Women in France before the Revolution presented by CJH Wednesday, November 02, 2011 at 6:30pm Glikl's Legacy: Jewish Women in France before the Revolution Based on the records of the Metz rabbinic court, Professor Jay Berkovitz will examine how the lives of Jewish women prior to the French Revolution both mirrored and expanded on the example set by the famous memoirist, Glikl Hamel. Professor Berkovitz, the recipient of the Center’s inaugural National Endowment for the Humanities Senior Scholar Fellowship, is spending the year 2011-2012 in... Purchase Tickets presented by CJH	3 4:00pm Possessed by the Other: The Still-Possessing Power of An-sky's Dybbuk presented by CJH Thursday, November 03, 2011 at 4:00pm Possessed by the Other: The Still-Possessing Power of An-sky's Dybbuk Agnieszka Legutko, Morris and Alma Schapiro Fellow, Ph.D candidate at Columbia University. Dr. Michael Steinlauf, Gratz College, responding. Dr. Nancy Sinkoff, Professor of History and Jewish Studies, Rutgers University, presiding. Intended for an academic audience; space is limited. presented by CJH 6:30pm From Kabul to Queens: The Jews of Afghanistan and Their Move to the United States presented by ASF Thursday, November 03, 2011 at 6:30pm From Kabul to Queens: The Jews of Afghanistan and Their Move to the United States From Kabul to Queens details the story of a small Jewish community that lived in relative peace with its Sunni Muslim neighbors. Sara Aharon captures a poignant chapter of contemporary Jewish social history in her portrayal of Afghan Jews in transition, and bridges the experiences of these Jews in Afghanistan to their successes and struggles in rebuilding a new life in the U.S. and... presented by ASF	4	5
6 10:00am Folktales of Israel: A Festival of Jewish Storytelling Honoring Professor Peninnah Schram presented by YUM, YU Stern College for Women, American Zionist Movement Sunday, November 06, 2011 at 10:00am Folktales of Israel: A Festival of Jewish Storytelling Honoring Professor Peninnah Schram Bringing together internationally renowned storytellers and scholars, Folktales of Israel: A Festival of Jewish Storytelling is a day dedicated to the art of storytelling in and about the Land of Israel. At this moment of political tensions, this festival highlights the beauty of Israel and its peoples, presenting through scholarship and performance some of the ways that storytellers have... presented by YUM, YU Stern College for Women, American Zionist Movement 6:00pm Across a Cultural Divide, by Paul Mendes Flohr: Rabindranath Tagore, Albert Einstein, and Martin Buber presented by LBI and The Asia Society Sunday, November 06, 2011 at 6:00pm Across a Cultural Divide, by Paul Mendes Flohr: Rabindranath Tagore, Albert Einstein, and Martin Buber Leo Baeck and The Asia Society present a lecture by Paul Mendes-Flohr about the fascinating relationship between German-Jewish intellectuals Albert Einstein and Martin Buber and the Bengal Poet Rabindranath Tagore. By the 1930s, European intellectuals had become interested in Eastern art and philosophy, especially in divergent concepts of art, science, music, education and... presented by LBI and The Asia Society	7 7:00pm Jewish Deportees: Displaced Persons in the Soviet Union during World War II presented by YIVO Monday, November 07, 2011 at 7:00pm Jewish Deportees: Displaced Persons in the Soviet Union during World War II During World War II the Soviet Union put into effect several strategies to get rid of “enemies of the state,” including the forced deportation of thousands of Jews into labor camps in the harsh climate of Siberia. Many were not able to survive; the parents of speaker Louis Beck were among the fortunate ones. This evening, Louis Beck and Ze’ev Levin will seek to inform about a piece of... Purchase Tickets presented by YIVO	8	9 2:00pm From Access to Integration - Digital Technologies and the Study of Jewish History presented by CJH Wednesday, November 09, 2011 at 2:00pm From Access to Integration - Digital Technologies and the Study of Jewish History From Access to Integration seeks to build a network of communication for professionals at archives, libraries and museums to partner on future projects and expand on one another's existing work within the digital humanities. As the first formal meeting of information professionals to address these specific needs for the discipline of Jewish studies, the conference will highlight collective... presented by CJH	10 7:30pm Digitization and its Discontents for Jewish History presented by CJH Thursday, November 10, 2011 at 7:30pm Digitization and its Discontents for Jewish History Scholarship and teaching are changing, rapidly and radically, in all fields of the humanities and social sciences. The impetus for this change is coming from a transformation in our ways of storing, finding, reading, citing and making texts and documents. Many of us find the new world uncomfortable but there is an immense amount to be gained. Dr. Anthony Grafton, Princeton historian, will... Purchase Tickets presented by CJH	11 1:00pm Societal Trends and Archives Outreach: Constructing Roadmaps for Program Growth and Sustainability presented by CJH Friday, November 11, 2011 at 1:00pm Societal Trends and Archives Outreach: Constructing Roadmaps for Program Growth and Sustainability Speaker: V. Chapman-Smith Special collections and archives, like other cultural institutions, are struggling today with audience and patron sustainability. Many institutions are experiencing drops in patron use and program attendance. Others face challenging financial situations, which have required reductions in staff and operating hours. Others feel they are barely... presented by CJH	12
13	14 12:30pm The Jewish Policy of Russian Military and Civilian Authorities and the Crisis in the Russian Empire, 1914-1917 presented by YIVO Monday, November 14, 2011 at 12:30pm The Jewish Policy of Russian Military and Civilian Authorities and the Crisis in the Russian Empire, 1914-1917 From the first days of World War I, Russian commanders pointed to the alleged disloyalty of Russia’s Jewish population. The Russian army began to solve the "problem" of Jewish disloyalty using local and mass expulsions from various localities, hostage-taking, and restrictions on the movement of Jews in the frontal zone. This lecture by Dr. Semion Goldin examines the reasons for such an attitude... Purchase Tickets presented by YIVO	15 12:30pm Wandering Soul: The Dybbuk's Creator, S. An-sky presented by YIVO Tuesday, November 15, 2011 at 12:30pm Wandering Soul: The Dybbuk's Creator, S. An-sky The man who would become S. An-sky--ethnographer, war correspondent, author of the best-known Yiddish play, The Dybbuk--was born Shloyme-Zanvl Rapoport in 1863, in Russia’s Pale of Settlement. His journey from the streets of Vitebsk to the center of modern Yiddish and Hebrew theater, by way of St. Petersburg, Paris, and war-torn Austria-Hungry, was both extraordinary and in some... Purchase Tickets presented by YIVO	16 1:00pm Highlights from the exhibitions currently on view presented by YUM Wednesday, November 16, 2011 at 1:00pm Highlights from the exhibitions currently on view presented by YUM 6:30pm Not Idly By – Peter Bergson, America and the Holocaust presented by CJH, AJHS, Varian Fry Institute Wednesday, November 16, 2011 at 6:30pm Not Idly By – Peter Bergson, America and the Holocaust On November 24, 1942, Rabbi Stephen Wise held a press conference announcing State Department confirmation that the Jews of Europe were being mass murdered. How did American Jews and their leaders respond to the crisis? Not Idly By--Peter Bergson, America and the Holocaust, an award-winning new documentary by Pierre Sauvage (55 min.), presents the challenging testimony of Peter Bergson,... Purchase Tickets presented by CJH, AJHS, Varian Fry Institute 6:30pm Einstein on the Road by Josef Eisinger presented by LBI Wednesday, November 16, 2011 at 6:30pm Einstein on the Road by Josef Eisinger At the height of his fame, Albert Einstein traveled throughout the world, from Japan to South America and many places in between. During these voyages, between 1922 and 1933, he was in the habit of keeping travel diaries, in which he recorded his impressions of people and events, and his musings on everything from music and politics to quantum mechanics and psychoanalysis. These fascinating... presented by LBI	17 7:00pm Sidney Krum Young Artists Concert Series: Fall Concert 2011 presented by YIVO Thursday, November 17, 2011 at 7:00pm Sidney Krum Young Artists Concert Series: Fall Concert 2011 A program highlighting orchestra and chamber music works by little-known Jewish composers. Featured pieces include Joachim Stutchevsky's "Klezmer Wedding Music," a sextet by Alexander Krein, and a suite for chamber orchestra by Lev Aronson. Purchase Tickets presented by YIVO	18	19
20 2:00pm Odessa: Genius and Death in a City of Dreams presented by JGS and AZFGI Sunday, November 20, 2011 at 2:00pm Odessa: Genius and Death in a City of Dreams Speaker: Charles King Odessa, the greatest port on the Black Sea was home to one of the most progressive and creative Jewish communities in Europe. Odessa grew as a trading center throughout the nineteenth century and inspired some of Russia's most enduring writers, artists, and musicians. Charles King has uncovered new documents that shed light on an untold... presented by JGS and AZFGI	21	22 6:30pm Two Cities under Siege: The Jews of Vilna and Warsaw during World War I presented by YIVO Tuesday, November 22, 2011 at 6:30pm Two Cities under Siege: The Jews of Vilna and Warsaw during World War I Presenter: Andrew Koss, Research Fellow, YIVO Institute for Jewish Research, Adjunct Assistant Professor, Department of Judaic Studies, Brooklyn College Moderator: Gennady Estraikh, Associate Professor of Yiddish Studies, New York University This seminar is part of a series highlighting the Polish Jewish collections in the YIVO Archives and... presented by YIVO	23	24	25	26
27	28 7:30pm New York Music Ensemble Does Mixed Media presented by YUM Monday, November 28, 2011 at 7:30pm New York Music Ensemble Does Mixed Media With renowned soprano Susan Naruki, the New York New Music Ensemble presents works by two American composers: David Glaser, whose Of Twilight, based on Charles Simic's "Dimestore Alchemy" for ensemble and singer, will receive its world premiere, and Stephen Dembski, represented by The Show, a short story by Donald Barthelme, for ensemble, speaker, and projected images. These... presented by YUM	29	30

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