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Calendar of Programs

Calendar of Programs

CJH EVENT CALENDAR

DECEMBER 2011

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4 10:00am Weinreich in America presented by YIVO Sunday, December 04, 2011 at 10:00am Weinreich in America Max Weinreich (1894–1969) was a principal founder of the YIVO Institute and oversaw its move from Vilna to New York in 1940. A renowned linguist, Weinreich devoted his life to promoting and studying Yiddish, applying the latest advances in social science to the problems facing the Jewish people, and encouraging other scholars. This day-long conference will feature leading experts on Weinreich... Purchase Tickets presented by YIVO	5	6 4:00pm Courting Self-Image in Early Modern Ashkenaz: David Oppenheim and Jewish Law between the Bet Din and Yeshiva presented by CJH Tuesday, December 06, 2011 at 4:00pm Courting Self-Image in Early Modern Ashkenaz: David Oppenheim and Jewish Law between the Bet Din and Yeshiva Joshua Z. Teplitsky, Cahnman Foundation Fellow, Ph.D candidate at New York University. Dr. Jay Berkowitz, University of Massachusetts, responding. Dr. Nancy Sinkoff, Professor of History and Jewish Studies, Rutgers University, presiding. Intended for an academic audience; space is limited. presented by CJH	7 6:30pm Before the Upheaval: Jewish Daily Life in 19th Century Poland Reflected in the Guttmacher Kvitlekh presented by YIVO Wednesday, December 07, 2011 at 6:30pm Before the Upheaval: Jewish Daily Life in 19th Century Poland Reflected in the Guttmacher Kvitlekh Presenter: Glenn Dynner, Professor of Judaic Studies, Sarah Lawrence College Moderator: David Engel, Greenberg Professor of Holocaust Studies, Professor of Hebrew and Judaic Studies, and Professor of History at New York University This seminar is part of a series highlighting the Polish Jewish collections in the YIVO Archives and... presented by YIVO	8	9	10
11 1:00pm The Hidden Cause of the Great Recession: Realeconomik presented by YIVO Sunday, December 11, 2011 at 1:00pm The Hidden Cause of the Great Recession: Realeconomik Grigory Yavlinsky's Realeconomik: The Hidden Cause of the Great Recession (And How to Avert the Next One) explores the widespread disregard for moral values in global business decisions and calls for restoration of principled behavior in politics and economic practices. Yavlinsky will speak about his book and comment on current conditions in both Russia and the west with regard to the... Purchase Tickets presented by YIVO	12 7:00pm Keeper of the Klezmer Flame - The Life and Legacy of German Goldenshteyn presented by CJH and Center for Traditional Music and Dance Monday, December 12, 2011 at 7:00pm Keeper of the Klezmer Flame - The Life and Legacy of German Goldenshteyn The arrival of Bessarabian-Jewish clarinetist German Goldenshteyn in Brooklyn in the mid-1990s was one of the most important developments in the international revival of klezmer music. Celebrated by younger musicians here as a living treasure, Goldenshteyn brought with him an unprecedented collection of over 1,000 handwritten transcriptions of Bessarabian klezmer music – a musical repository of... Purchase Tickets presented by CJH and Center for Traditional Music and Dance	13	14 1:00pm Highlights from the exhibitions currently on view presented by YUM Wednesday, December 14, 2011 at 1:00pm Highlights from the exhibitions currently on view presented by YUM	15 6:30pm Bismarck and the Growth of Modern Anti-Semitism in Germany presented by LBI Thursday, December 15, 2011 at 6:30pm Bismarck and the Growth of Modern Anti-Semitism in Germany Jonathan Steinberg, Professor of History, University of Pennsylvania. Professor Steinberg is the author of the highly acclaimed new book Bismarck: A Life, which Dr. Henry Kissinger called "the best study of Bismarck in the English language." Steinberg describes the political genius of the man who dominated his era. Bismarck's belief in Prussia’s cohesion and authority, and in a nationalism... presented by LBI	16	17
18 3:00pm David's Harp - A Hanukkah Concert presented by AJHS and ASJM Sunday, December 18, 2011 at 3:00pm David's Harp - A Hanukkah Concert An amazing afternoon of some of the Middle East's most thrilling and scintillating music, featuring the group David's Harp, that holds many surprises for the audience. And, of course, Isaiah Sheffer, host of Public Radio International's Selected Shorts, will open the program reading a wonderful story from the pen of a great Jewish writer - a tradition of the annual Hanukkah program. ... Purchase Tickets presented by AJHS and ASJM	19	20 6:00pm First Light of Hanukkah presented by YUM and the Center together with AJHS, ASF, LBI and YIVO Tuesday, December 20, 2011 at 6:00pm First Light of Hanukkah Come celebrate Hanukkah at the Center for Jewish History with a candle lighting, concert, open galleries and refreshments. 6:00pm YU Museum and Center Partner Exhibitions' Viewing and Reception 6:30pm Lighting of the Hanukkiah Light a beautiful Menorah designed by artist Oded Halahmy... Purchase Tickets presented by YUM and the Center together with AJHS, ASF, LBI and YIVO	21	22	23	24
25 The Center is closed Sunday, December 25th. Happy Holidays! Sunday, December 25, 2011 at 11:59pm The Center is closed Sunday, December 25th. Happy Holidays! presented by (none)	26 The Center is closed Monday, December 26th. Happy Holidays! Monday, December 26, 2011 at 11:59pm The Center is closed Monday, December 26th. Happy Holidays! presented by (none)	27	28	29	30	31

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