Preserving Our History http://www.cjh.org/ en-us 2006 Center for Jewish History all rights reserved http://www.cjh.org/images/cjh_rss.jpg http://www.cjh.org/ May 11, 2008: In conjunction with the exhibition "Imagining the Temple," the Yeshiva University Center for Israel Studies presents its first international conference bringing together scholars of literature, history, archaeology, art history and political science to discuss the place of the Jerusalem Temple in Jewish, Christian and Moslem thought and history.Continues on May 12 at Stern College's Schottenstein Center at 239 E. 34th St. http://www.cjh.org/programs/calendar.php?eventID=1378 http://www.cjh.org/programs/calendar.php?eventID=1378 Programs May 12, 2008: Natalie Dohrmann, PhD, University of Pennsylvania will speak about Late Antiquity, one of the most significant eras in Western history, marked by the emergence of Christianity and Rabbinic Judaism, and the forces that led to the dramatic appearance of Islam in the early Middle Ages. She will give an overview of the era, with special focus on the period from 200 to 650 C.E. We will imagine the complex and perhaps unexpected world shared and shaped by Jews, Christians and Pagans.Full program at the Primo Levi Center website.Presented by the Primo Levi Center and the Center for Advanced Judaic Studies at the University of Pennsylvania http://www.cjh.org/programs/calendar.php?eventID=1379 http://www.cjh.org/programs/calendar.php?eventID=1379 Programs May 14, 2008: Mendelssohn's Piano Quartet #3 and Brahms Piano Quartet, Op. 25 in G-minor. Performed by Phoenix Chamber Ensemble under the direction of Vassa Shevel and Inessa Zaretsky.This concert is made possible through the generous support of Mr. and Mrs. Leonard Blavatnik. http://www.cjh.org/programs/calendar.php?eventID=1380 http://www.cjh.org/programs/calendar.php?eventID=1380 Programs May 15, 2008: This panel will discuss how young Sephardic Jews are discovering and reconnecting to their history through their own creative processes. Featuring: Michael J. Cohen, co-author, Aromas of Aleppo: The Legendary Cuisine of Syrian Jews; Michelle Ishay-Cohen, producer and art director, Aromas of Aleppo: The Legendary Cuisine of Syrian Jews; Vanessa Hidary, actress, poet and playwright; and Galeet Dardashti, vocalist for the all-female Mizrahi/Sephardi band, Divahn.Moderated by Alana Newhouse, Arts and Culture editor of The Forward. Panel will be followed by tastings of sweet and savory delights from Aromas of Aleppo: The Legendary Cuisine of Syrian Jews. http://www.cjh.org/programs/calendar.php?eventID=1381 http://www.cjh.org/programs/calendar.php?eventID=1381 Programs May 15, 2008: Rakafet Zalashik, New York University http://www.cjh.org/programs/calendar.php?eventID=1384 http://www.cjh.org/programs/calendar.php?eventID=1384 Programs May 18, 2008: Speaker: Jill CulinerWhen Moldavia and Walachia united to become Romania in 1858, the new constitution granted citizenship to Christians only. Jews became foreigners in their own country. Forbidden to be market traders, artisans, innkeepers, evicted from villages, twenty thousand were soon on the streets and starving. In 1899, 78 unemployed Jewish artisans from Romania and Bessarabia decided to cross Europe on foot, then continue, by ship, to America. To raise money they would give theatrical performances in Yiddish. Although the authorities forced this group of Fusgeyers (wanderers) to continue on by train at the Austro-Hungarian border, they attracted much admiration. Soon thousands of Jewish men and women were forming Fusgeyer groups, training in long-distance walking, and leaving for North America in the search for freedom and respect. When they arrived, they worked as peddlers in mining towns or founded Jewish farming communities. One hundred years later, photographer, artist and writer Jill Culiner crossed Romania on foot, looking for lost Jewish communities, searching through European archives, then tracing the immigrant trail from Vienna to Liverpool and across America. Her book, Finding Home: In the Footsteps of the Jewish Fusgeyers (Sumach Press) won the Tannenbaum Prize for Canadian Jewish History in 2005. Copies of the book will be sold and signed following the program.The Ackman & Ziff Family Genealogy Institute will be open 12:30 to 1:45 pm for networking with other researchers and access to research materials and computers. http://www.cjh.org/programs/calendar.php?eventID=1389 http://www.cjh.org/programs/calendar.php?eventID=1389 Programs May 20, 2008: Moshe Halbertal, Professor of Philosophy and Jewish Thought, Hebrew University, JerusalemDistinguished Israeli philosopher, scholar and writer Moshe Halbertal raises fundamental questions about the future of Israeli society. Halbertal will share his thoughts on the future of Israel between nationalism, democracy and religion. http://www.cjh.org/programs/calendar.php?eventID=1382 http://www.cjh.org/programs/calendar.php?eventID=1382 Programs May 21, 2008: This reception honors Jewish chaplains who led survivors from DP camps to Israel and the U.S. from 1945 to 1953 and Sid Lapidus, Chairman, for his deep commitment to AJHS.For further information call 212-294-6164. http://www.cjh.org/programs/calendar.php?eventID=1383 http://www.cjh.org/programs/calendar.php?eventID=1383 Programs May 28, 2008: Elizabeth Strauss, University of Notre Dame http://www.cjh.org/programs/calendar.php?eventID=1385 http://www.cjh.org/programs/calendar.php?eventID=1385 Programs June 1, 2008: he music of Paul Richards, Arkadie Kougell, Ofer ben Amotz, M. Samiaten, Paul Schoenfield.For more information please call 212-294-6160. http://www.cjh.org/programs/calendar.php?eventID=1376 http://www.cjh.org/programs/calendar.php?eventID=1376 Programs June 5, 2008: In celebration of the publication of "Black Grass," short fictions in response to the Holocaust, the author, Bernard Otterman, will give a dramatic reading and discuss the origins of the stories in his book.A reception and book signing will follow the reading.For more information on the book, visit the Jewish Heritage Project and the author's website. http://www.cjh.org/programs/calendar.php?eventID=1388 http://www.cjh.org/programs/calendar.php?eventID=1388 Programs June 16, 2008: On Bloomsday, 2003 The Center for Jewish History and Jewish Heritage staged an exciting dramatic reading of scenes from Joyce’s Ulysses, featuring Kathleen Chalfant and a host of talented actors playing the Odysseus-like protagonist Leopold Bloom. The acclaimed performance has now become the centerpiece of a film which plays with notions as light as reading Joyce in bed and as serious as what kind of Jew Leopold Bloom really was. The film travels to Ireland to reveal how an anti-Semitic outbreak in Limerick in 1904 inspired Joyce to create Dublin’s best known fictional Jew.Join us for a preview of this work in progress in the very auditorium where it was first performed. The evening will include conversation with the filmmakers and special additional readings. http://www.cjh.org/programs/calendar.php?eventID=1391 http://www.cjh.org/programs/calendar.php?eventID=1391 Programs June 22, 2008: Featuring performances by the Czechoslovak-American Marionette Theater; Karagiozis, traditional Greek shadow puppets; hands-on puppet-making workshops and demonstrations. http://www.cjh.org/programs/calendar.php?eventID=1377 http://www.cjh.org/programs/calendar.php?eventID=1377 Programs June 22, 2008: Speaker: Logan Joseph KleinwaksMany pre-World War 2 business, address, and organizational directories from Eastern and Central Europe have been made available online as part of library digitization programs. They can potentially help genealogists discover relatives or places where relatives lived. The website kalter.org makes it feasible to search 22,000 pages of these directories -- an important resource that should not be missed by researchers of families from Romania, Poland, or Galicia. Logan Joseph Kleinwaks will explain how to search these directories by focusing on real examples, with a complete walk-through from software installation to refining searches based on search results.Mr. Kleinwaks will also describe ShoahConnect.org, his website that provides tools for working with one of the most important Jewish genealogical sources, the more than two million Pages of Testimony documenting Shoah [Holocaust] victims on YadVashem.org. By using this website to associate an email address with Pages of Testimony, a researcher can potentially make contact with submitters and relatives of victims. More than 8,000 such associations have already been made by nearly 500 users. ShoahConnect also makes it easier to manage searches at YadVashem.org that return many results from the vast database.The Ackman & Ziff Family Genealogy Institute will be open 12:30 to 1:45pm for networking with other researchers and access to research materials and computers. http://www.cjh.org/programs/calendar.php?eventID=1390 http://www.cjh.org/programs/calendar.php?eventID=1390 Programs