reading room closure
Please note: The Center will be open to the public Friday, December 26. The Reading Room and Ackman and Ziff Genealogy Institute will be closed.
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reading room closure
holidays and closures
The Center is closed Thursday, December 25 for Christmas.
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holidays and closures
holiday celebration
The Hanukkah Concert: Featuring Gerard Edery and His Virtuoso Musicians
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holiday celebration
16th street book club
Suddenly, a Knock on the Door by Etgar Keret (2012)
The 16th Street Book Club is a lively group that meets to discuss modern Jewish literature.
Bringing up a child, lying to the boss, placing an order in a fast-food restaurant: in Etgar Keret’s new collection, daily life is complicated, dangerous, and full of yearning. In his most playful and most mature work yet, the living and the dead, silent children and talking animals, dreams and waking life coexist in an uneasy world. Overflowing with absurdity, humor, sadness, and compassion, the tales in Suddenly, a Knock on the Door establish Etgar Keret—declared a “genius” by The New York Times—as one of the most original writers of his generation.
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16th street book club
exhibit opening, concert & reception
A Festival of Lights Sephardi Style
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exhibit opening, concert & reception
early closure
Please Note: the Center will close at 5pm on Wednesday, December 17
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early closure
curator's tour
Modeling the Synagogue - from Dura to Touro
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curator's tour
ruth gay seminar in jewish studies
Albanian-Jewish Relations and the Contributions of U.S. Ambassador to Albania, Herman Bernstein (1876-1935)
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ruth gay seminar in jewish studies
book talk
From the Shtetl to the Lecture Hall: Jewish Women and Cultural Exchange
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book talk
puppet theater
Radical Puppetry: The Modicut Project
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puppet theater
curator's tour
Echoes of the Borscht Belt: Contemporary Photographs by Marisa Scheinfeld
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curator's tour
exhibit opening and lecture
Fighting for Kaiser and Fatherland: German-Jewish Soldiers and the Quest for Integration, 1914-1935
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exhibit opening and lecture
early closure
Please Note: the Center will close at 5pm on Monday, December 3
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early closure
lecture
Coming of Age in Poland: Jewish Life Stories from the 1930s
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lecture
lbi memorial lecture
Leo Baeck Memorial Lecture with Josef Joffe
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lbi memorial lecture
sidney krum young artists concert series
Klezmer Influences in American Jewish Music
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sidney krum young artists concert series
wwi—jewish experiences in the trenches and at the home front film series
Commissar
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wwi—jewish experiences in the trenches and at the home front film series
panel discussion
Modeling the Flood Story - from Ancient to Modern Times
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panel discussion
holidays and closures
The Center is closed Friday, November 28 for Thanksgiving.
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holidays and closures
holidays and closures
The Center is closed Thursday, November 27 and Friday, November 28 for Thanksgiving.
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holidays and closures
early closure
Wednesday, November 26: the Reading Room and Genealogy Institute will close at 2pm. The Center will close at 3pm.
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early closure
ruth gay seminar in jewish studies
From the YIVO Archives: If Books Could Talk
The Story of Three Jewish Treasures Rescued from the Vilna Ghetto
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ruth gay seminar in jewish studies
jewish genealogical society monthly meeting
No One Remembers Alone: Memory, Migration, and the Making of an American Family
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jewish genealogical society monthly meeting
16th street book club
The World to Come by Dara Horn (2006)
The 16th Street Book Club is a lively group that meets to discuss modern Jewish literature.
A million-dollar Chagall is stolen from a museum during a singles' cocktail hour. The unlikely thief, former child prodigy Benjamin Ziskind, is convinced that the painting once hung in his parents' living room. This work of art opens a door through which we discover his family's startling history—from an orphanage in Soviet Russia where Chagall taught to suburban New Jersey and the jungles of Vietnam.
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16th street book club
panel discussion
Towards Life: Reviving Jewish Life in Contemporary Poland
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panel discussion
lecture
Mizrahi Music, Piyyut, and the Search for Israeli Identity
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lecture
discussion
The Rosenburg Files: A Study of the Involvement of Former Nazi Party Members in the German Justice Ministry post World War II
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discussion
concert
Stravinsky, Ravel, and Prokofiev: Composing in War Time
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concert
early closure
Please Note: the Center will close at 5pm on Monday, November 17
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early closure
panel discussion
Jews and the Berlin Wall
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panel discussion
panel discussion
Giving Women their Place in Holocaust History
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panel discussion
curator's tour
Modeling the Synagogue - from Dura to Touro
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curator's tour
lecture
Researching your Ancestors’ World War I Military and Civilian Experiences at the Center for Jewish History
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lecture
theatrical readings
Jews and the Great War: A Reflection at the Centennial
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theatrical readings
conference
World War I and the Jews
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conference
discussion
Czechs, Slovaks and the Jews, 1938-48: Beyond Idealisation and Condemnation
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discussion
wwi—jewish experiences in the trenches and at the home front film series
A Letter to Mother
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wwi—jewish experiences in the trenches and at the home front film series
film retrospective
The Alchemist: A Péter Forgács Film Retrospective
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film retrospective
panel discussion
Creating History: Can We Tell the Past?
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panel discussion
concert and talk
Raysn: The Lost Jewish Music of Belarus Featuring Zisl Slepovitch and Litvakus (Special CD Release Program)
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concert and talk
curator's tour
Modeling the Synagogue – from Dura to Touro
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curator's tour
lecture and book signing
Jews on the Chocolate Trail
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lecture and book signing
a concert for daniel pearl
Building Bridges: From Bene Beraq to Baghdad
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a concert for daniel pearl
jewish genealogical society monthly meeting
Passenger Manifests and the Immigrant Voyage
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jewish genealogical society monthly meeting
literary reading
Two Jewish Loves: Food and Literature
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literary reading
film and discussion
Jewish Women in American Sport: Settlement Houses to the Olympics
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film and discussion
film and discussion
Jacques Faitlovitch and the Lost Tribes
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film and discussion
holidays and closures
The Center is closed Friday, October 17 for Simchat Torah.
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holidays and closures
holidays and closures
The Center is closed Thursday, October 16 for Shemini Atzeret and Friday, October 17 for Simchat Torah.
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holidays and closures
holidays and closures
The Center will close at 2:00pm on Wednesday October 15 for Erev Shemini Atzeret.
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holidays and closures
theater
The Haunted Sukke: An Evening of Participatory Theater and Open Mic
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theater
wwi—jewish experiences in the trenches and at the home front film series
La Grande Illusion (The Grand Illusion)
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wwi—jewish experiences in the trenches and at the home front film series
talk
Making/History: Reconstructing the Gwozdziec Synagogue
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talk
holidays and closures
The Center is closed Friday, October 10 for Sukkot.
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holidays and closures
holidays and closures
The Center will close at 2:00pm on Wednesday October 8 for Erev Sukkot.
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holidays and closures
ruth gay seminar in jewish studies
Farewell to Communism: Howard Fast and Soviet Yiddish Writers
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ruth gay seminar in jewish studies
symposium
NY Archives Week
2pm: Introduction to archival research (Lillian Goldman Reference Services Division, third floor)
Learn about how to do research with primary sources, including navigating a finding aid and proper handling of archival materials.
3pm: How to use original material in family history research (Ackman & Ziff Family Genealogy Institute, third floor)
Learn about the genealogical research process and how to evaluate archival family history documents.
4pm: Show-and-tell (Lillian Goldman Reading Room, third floor)
Discover some of the wonderful material in the collections of the Center’s five Partners.
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symposium
artist's tour
Echoes of the Borscht Belt: Contemporary Photographs by Marisa Scheinfeld
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artist's tour
panel discussion
Stefan Zweig: The Impossible Exile
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panel discussion
panel discussion
Taras Shevchenko: Ukrainian Nationalism, Poetry and the Jews
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panel discussion
discussion
The Lost Shul Mural: Reclaiming, Restoring and Preserving a Treasure from the Past
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discussion
holidays and closures
The Center is closed Friday, September 26 for Rosh Hashana.
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holidays and closures
holidays and closures
The Center is closed Thursday, September 25 and Friday, September 26 for Rosh Hashana.
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holidays and closures
holidays and closures
The Center will close at 2:00pm on Wednesday September 24 for Erev Rosh Hashana.
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holidays and closures
16th street book club
The People of Forever Are Not Afraid by Shani Boianjiu (2012)
The 16th Street Book Club is a lively group that meets to discuss modern Jewish literature.
Yael, Avishag, and Lea grow up together in a tiny, dusty Israeli village, attending a high school made up of caravan classrooms, passing notes to each other to alleviate the universal boredom of teenage life. When they are conscripted into the army, their lives change in unpredictable ways, influencing the women they become and the friendship that they struggle to sustain. Yael trains marksmen and flirts with boys. Avishag stands guard, watching refugees throw themselves at barbed-wire fences. Lea, posted at a checkpoint, imagines the stories behind the familiar faces that pass by her day after day. They gossip about boys and whisper of an ever more violent world just beyond view. They drill, constantly, for a moment that may never come. They live inside that single, intense second just before danger erupts.
In a relentlessly energetic and arresting voice marked by humor and fierce intelligence, Shani Boianjiu, winner of the National Book Foundation’s “5 Under 35,” creates an unforgettably intense world, capturing that unique time in a young woman's life when a single moment can change everything.
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16th street book club
wwi—jewish experiences in the trenches and at the home front film series
The Fighting 69th
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wwi—jewish experiences in the trenches and at the home front film series
lecture
Golde and Her Daughters: Soviet Jewish Women under Stalin
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lecture
concert
Memorial: Trios by Schubert, Brahms and Zaretsky
Phoenix Chamber Ensemble performing Schubert’s Trio in E-flat major, Brahms’ Trio in C major and Zaretsky’s 9/11 – In Memoriam.
Maureen Nelson, violin
Richard Belcher, cello
Karl Kramer, horn
Jonathan Breit, voice
Vassa Shevel, piano
Inessa Zaretsky, piano
Made possible through the generous support of Mr. & Mrs. Leonard Blavatnik.
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concert
lecture
Abraham Sutzkever: The Power in Poetry
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lecture
film and discussion
Special Film Viewing: Rare Archival Footage from a Century of the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee (JDC)
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film and discussion
discussion
The Chosen Few: How Education Shaped Jewish History, 70 CE-1492
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discussion
holidays and closures
The Center is closed Monday, September 1 in honor of Labor Day.
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holidays and closures
holidays and closures
The Center is closed Sunday, August 31 and Monday, September 1 in honor of Labor Day.
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holidays and closures
16th street book club
Stations West by Allison Amend (2010)
The 16th Street Book Club is a lively group that meets to discuss modern Jewish literature.
Oklahoma is a forgotten territory of "Indians, outlaws, and immigrants" when its first Jewish settler, Boggy Haurowitz, arrives in 1859. Full of expectations, he finds the untamed region a formidable foe, its landscape rugged, its resources strained.
In Stations West, four generations of Haurowitzes, intertwined with a family of Swedish immigrants, struggle against the Territory's "insatiable appetite." The challenges of creating a home amid betrayals, nature's vagaries, and burgeoning statehood prove too great. Each generation in turn succumbs to the overwhelming lure of the transcontinental railroad, and each returns home to find the landscape of their youth, like themselves, changed beyond recognition, their family utterly transformed.
Dramatic and lyrical, Allison Amend's first novel, steeped in the history and lore of the Oklahoma Territory, tells an unforgettable multigenerational — and very American — story of Jewish pioneers, their adopted family, and the challenges they face. Amid the founding of the West, Stations West's generations struggle to forge and maintain their identities as Jews, as immigrants, and as Americans.
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16th street book club
lecture
Legal and Practical Aspects of Genealogical Research in Galicia (Poland and Ukraine)
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lecture
lecture
The Red Cross, Jewish Relief Agencies, and the Holocaust
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lecture
podbrodz lecture
The Capital of Yiddishland: YIVO and its Relationship to Vilna
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podbrodz lecture
16th street book club
A Bintel Brief: Love and Longing in Old New York by Liana Finck (2014)
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16th street book club
mordkhe and charne schaechter memorial program
YIVO's Newest Treasure: The Chaim Grade and Ina Hecker-Grade Archive
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mordkhe and charne schaechter memorial program
holidays and closures
The Center is closed Friday, July 4 in honor of Independence Day.
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holidays and closures
family history today
Places You May Not Have Looked: Research on NYC and Beyond
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family history today
jewish genealogical society monthly meeting
Finding the Only Child's Niece: Truth and Fiction in Genealogical Sources
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jewish genealogical society monthly meeting
exhibition opening and benefit reception
Luis Moses Gomez: Pioneer Merchant in Colonial America
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exhibition opening and benefit reception
family history today
Panel: Ancestors from All Over the World
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family history today
book event & dramatic reading
Dear Mendl, Dear Reyzl: Yiddish Letter Manuals from Russia and America
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book event & dramatic reading
family history today
Film screening and How-To: The New “Big Bang” In Genealogical Research: Universal Matching of Databases and Family Trees
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family history today
family history today
Centuries of Surnames: What Names Can Tell Us
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family history today
family history today
StoryCorps recording sessions
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family history today
podbrodzer lecture
Jewish-Christian Relations in Poland: How One Town Overcame Its Past
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podbrodzer lecture
family history today
StoryCorps recording sessions
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family history today
family history today
Meet the Artist: Diane Samuels
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family history today
family history today
Tour of the Genealogy Institute
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family history today
16th street book club
My Father's Paradise: A Son's Search for His Family's Past by Ariel Sabar (2009)
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16th street book club
early closure
The Center will close at 5pm on Monday, June 9 due to a private event.
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early closure
holidays and closures
The Center is closed Thursday, June 5 for Shavuot.
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holidays and closures
holidays and closures
The Center is closed Wednesday, June 4 for Shavuot.
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holidays and closures
early closure
The Center will close at 2:00PM on Tuesday, June 3 for Erev Shavuot
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early closure
book talk
Rethinking Jabotinsky
Hillel Halkin, Author and Translator; Rebecca Kobrin, Columbia University; Edward Rothstein, New York Times; Abraham Socher, Moderator, Jewish Review of Books
How do we understand Vladimir Jabotinsky’s legacy? Born in Odessa, a celebrated Russian journalist, first-rate novelist, and progenitor of today’s Likud Party, Jabotinsky’s life and work have been rife with contradictions and misunderstandings. In his new, insightful biography, Jabotinsky: A Life (Yale University Press) – the first in English in nearly twenty years – celebrated author Hillel Halkin provides a fresh look at Jabotinsky as a writer, political thinker and leader.
This event features Hillel Halkin in conversation with celebrated New York Times cultural critic, Edward Rothstein, Columbia University historian Rebecca Kobrin, and moderator Abe Socher, editor of The Jewish Review of Books.
Jabotinsky – A Life appears Spring 2014 in the Jewish Lives Series of Yale University Press..
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book talk
concert
Music in Our Time 2014: Jewish Music by 20th and 21st Century Composers
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concert
concert
Prayers for Fellow Prisoners
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concert
book talk
City of the Sun
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book talk
lecture
Warriors in Blue: Soldiers, Seders and Solidarity
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lecture
holidays and closures
The Center is closed Monday, May 26 in honor of Memorial Day.
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holidays and closures
mixed media program
We Are Children Just the Same
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mixed media program
theater
“How is this Professor Freud, and how does he actually behave?” Diary of an Analysis, April 1921
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theater
book event
Second-Hand Book Sale
The American Jewish Historical Society, American Sephardi Federation, Leo Baeck Institute and YIVO Institute for Jewish Research will be selling duplicate copies of books from their library collections. Most books are about Jewish topics, including: memoirs, biographies, World War II, the Science of Judaism, collected works, academic studies, literature, art and photography. Books are also in languages ranging from English to Yiddish, German, Hebrew, Russian and Polish.
In addition, the participating organizations will be selling discounted titles from their regular publications.
All proceeds will benefit each organization’s book acquisition fund.
Paperbacks: $1
Hardcover: $3
Music and Movies: $1 to $3
Or priced as marked
Cash Only!
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book event
film and discussion
Watchers of the Sky
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film and discussion
book event
Second-Hand Book Sale
The American Jewish Historical Society, American Sephardi Federation, Leo Baeck Institute and YIVO Institute for Jewish Research will be selling duplicate copies of books from their library collections. Most books are about Jewish topics, including: memoirs, biographies, World War II, the Science of Judaism, collected works, academic studies, literature, art and photography. Books are also in languages ranging from English to Yiddish, German, Hebrew, Russian and Polish.
In addition, the participating organizations will be selling discounted titles from their regular publications.
All proceeds will benefit each organization’s book acquisition fund.
Paperbacks: $1
Hardcover: $3
Music and Movies: $1 to $3
Or priced as marked
Cash Only!
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book event
gesher galicia meeting
Austria, Poland, Ukraine: 3 Countries, 5 Archives, 12 Wonderful Days of Discovery
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gesher galicia meeting
jewish genealogical society monthly meeting
Immigration and Naturalization Records: Beyond the Basics
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jewish genealogical society monthly meeting
book talk
YIVO and the Making of Modern Jewish Culture: Scholarship for the Yiddish Nation
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book talk
concert
Season Finale: Concerto Celebration
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concert
film
The Last Jews of Baghdad
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film
curator's tour
Modeling the Synagogue - from Dura to Touro
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curator's tour
theater
"Native Genius": A Night of Entertainment Celebrating the History of Jewish Contributions to American Theatre, 1800-1860
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theater
book talk
Jewish Pasts, German Fictions
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book talk
panel discussion
The Quest for Jewish Ethics
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panel discussion
meetup
Women in Jewish History Edit-a-thon
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meetup
concert and lecture
Open Secret: The Jewish Sound in Soviet Music
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concert and lecture
artist's tour
Home Suite - Drawings by Traci Tullius
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artist's tour
panel discussion
Uprooted: New Perspectives on Jewish Refugees and Migrants after World War II
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panel discussion
discussion
Preservation Week: Ask the Experts
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discussion
panel discussion
Reinventing Jewishness in Post-Communist Hungary: Antisemitism and Jewish Renaissance
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panel discussion
tour
Preservation Week: Behind the Scenes
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tour
tour
Preservation Week: Behind the Scenes
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tour
16th street book club
Wide Awake by David Levithan (2006)
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16th street book club
discussion
The Life and Art of Krystiana Robb-Narbutt (1945-2006)
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discussion
film screening and lecture
The Forbidden Tragedy: History and Memory of the Shoah in the Soviet Union Yom Hashoah Memorial Program
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film screening and lecture
discussion
Jews and the Ukrainian Revolution 2014
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discussion
film and discussion
There Was Once…
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film and discussion
holidays and closures
The Center is closed Tuesday, April 22 for Pesach.
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holidays and closures
holidays and closures
The Center is closed Monday, April 21 for Pesach.
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holidays and closures
screening
The Story of the Jews: Parts 1 and 2
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screening
performance
Speak Up! Open Mic in Yiddish
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performance
holidays and closures
The Center is closed Wednesday, April 16 for Pesach.
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holidays and closures
holidays and closures
The Center is closed Tuesday, April 15 for Pesach.
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holidays and closures
holidays and closures
The Center will close at 2:00pm on Monday, April 14 for Erev Pesach.
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holidays and closures
curator's tour
Light and Shadows: The Story of Iranian Jews
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curator's tour
book talk
Loyalty Betrayed: Jewish Chaplains in the German Army during the First World War
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book talk
book talk
The Jews in the Caribbean
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book talk
symposium
Passing the Torch: Jewish Music Archives and the Future of Yiddish Song
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symposium
screening
Story of the Jews Premier - Part II
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screening
concert
The Momenta String Quartet: Jewish Composers, Old and New
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concert
panel discussion
Eastern Jews - Western Jews: World War I and the Transformation of the Jewish Experience
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panel discussion
film and discussion
Free Fall
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film and discussion
screening
Story of the Jews Premier - Part I
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screening
lecture with musical examples
Mixing Musics: Istanbul Jews and Their Sacred Songs
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lecture with musical examples
jewish genealogical society programs at cjh
My Father's Wars: Migration, memory and the Violence of a Century
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jewish genealogical society programs at cjh
reading
Jewish Poetry Now: A Reading and Discussion Celebrating The Bloomsbury Anthology of Contemporary Jewish American Poetry
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reading
17th annual ny sephardic jewish film festival
Closing Night
Film: Would I Lie to You #3 (New York Premiere)
La Verite si Je Mens #3
Director: Thomas Gilou
Would I Lie to You #3 has the buddies in business as garment workers-cum-dealmakers trying to salvage their professional and personal livelihoods amid countless obstacles. ASF honoree, Enrico Macias, has a role in this fun film. Will their escapades tear them apart or will they, once again, triumph with panache!
France, 2012. 115 mins. French, Mandarin, Hebrew, English w/English subtitles.
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17th annual ny sephardic jewish film festival
17th annual ny sephardic jewish film festival
Would I Lie to You #3 (Sneak Preview)
La Verite si Je Mens #3
Director: Thomas Gilou
Would I Lie to You #3 has the buddies in business as garment workers-cum-dealmakers trying to salvage their professional and personal livelihoods amid countless obstacles. ASF honoree, Enrico Macias, has a role in this fun film. Will their escapades tear them apart or will they, once again, triumph with panache!
France, 2012. 115 mins. French, Mandarin, Hebrew, English w/English subtitles.
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17th annual ny sephardic jewish film festival
17th annual ny sephardic jewish film festival
Stolen Documents? Franco and the Holocaust (US Premiere)
Documentos robados? Franco y el Holocausto
Director: Yolanda Villaluenga
With the outbreak of WWII, Jews from all over Europe looked to Spain as a possible refuge or as the only possible transit route to safety in the Americas. How did the Franco regime treat Eastern European Jews and the Sephardim trying to escape Europe by crossing the Pyrenees? What was the role of Spanish consuls in Paris, Berlin, or Budapest, as deportations to concentration camps accelerated? Why have thousands of documents having to do with Franco’s policy regarding the Jews during WWII disappeared? Was Franco, the Spanish dictator who admired Hitler and Mussolini, a defender of the Jewish people during the Holocaust or was a myth created with a clear purpose in mind? The film attempts to answer these questions with testimonies of Jewish families, people who helped save them, and historians. Included are fragments of a unique film shot in Sephardic communities of Greece at the beginning of the 20th century.
Spain, 2012. 53 mins. Spanish w/English subtitles.
Post-screening discussion with the filmmaker.
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17th annual ny sephardic jewish film festival
book talk
Beyond the Myth of the Shtetl: A New History of Jewish Life in East Europe
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book talk
17th annual ny sephardic jewish film festival
The Stigma? (US Premiere)
l’Estigma?
Director: Martí Sans
The Stigma? grew out of its director’s practically expiatory need to take a second look at his own prejudices. Focused on Spain, and more specifically, on Catalonia, the film unravels the history and mutations of Judeophobia, from the Christian accusations of “deicide” to the appearance of the modern State of Israel. It exposes the widespread ignorance that exists in many quarters regarding things Jewish and discusses the anti-Israel slant of a part of the Spanish press.
Spain, 2012. 73 mins. Catalan, Spanish and Hebrew w/English subtitles.
Post-screening discussion with the filmmaker.
A wine reception follows the films!
The presentation of Stolen Documents? and The Stigma? is made possible through the generous support of the Consulate General of Spain in New York, Cultural Consul, Iñigo Ramirez de Haro, Cultural Officer, Águeda Sanfiz and Alba Parejo.
Thanks to the Institut Ramon Llull for its support of the translation of The Stigma?
Sincere appreciation to Daniel Sherr for his work in translating both scripts from Catalan and Spanish into English.
Thanks to Dr. Moisés Cohen and Elvi Wines (www.elviwines.com) for providing the wine for this evening’s reception.
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17th annual ny sephardic jewish film festival
17th annual ny sephardic jewish film festival
Enrico Macias: A Life in Song
Director: Antoine Casubolo Ferro
A Jewish pied-noir musician and singer, Enrico Macias, is a unique figure in the French musical landscape. Over the past 50 years, the boy from Constantine, Algeria, has become the spokesman for the thousands of North African, and other Middle Eastern Jews, who fled their homelands in the 1950’s and 1960’s. A utopian, singing of love and friendship between nations, he has gradually become not only a messenger for peace, but also one of the most popular singers in France.
France, 2012. 52 mins. French w/English subtitles.
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17th annual ny sephardic jewish film festival
17th annual ny sephardic jewish film festival
Shadow in Baghdad (New York Premiere)
Director: Duki Dror
For 2000 years Jews played a major role in Iraqi society and an important role in the making of modern Iraq. Later the would be brutally driven out and virtually annihilated as a community. In this film a young journalist from Baghdad sets out to write about the family of Linda Abdul Aziz, an Iraqi Jew who escaped to Israel in the early 70's. Linda left Iraq, but her father stayed, only to disappear and his fate remain unknown. The film uncovers the tragic end of Linda's father, as well as that of the whole Jewish community, and shows how a generation of young Iraqis are beginning to acknowledge the tragedy inflicted on the Jewish community and the void they left behind.
The presentation of Shadow in Baghdad is made possible through the generous support of Jamil Ezra/Bweta Foundation.
Post-screening discussion with the filmmaker.
Israel, 2013. 65 mins. English and Hebrew w/English subtitles.
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Director: David Langer
In 2003, thousands of Jewish religious artifacts were saved from the basement of Suddam Hussein’s intelligence headquarters when American troops entered Baghdad. The film chronicles the final journey in New York ten years later (2013) of forty-nine Torah scrolls and religious documents framed in the turbulent history of Babylonian-Iraqi Jewry.
USA, 2014. 6mins
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17th annual ny sephardic jewish film festival
opera
Kisses to the Children
Director: Vassilis Loules
The stories of five Greek-Jewish children who were saved by Christian families during the German Occupation. Their personal accounts of survival add an indelible humanity to the history and cover a wide range of issues, from social isolation to survivor guilt. The film also depicts the life of the Greek Jewish communities before the War, with rare images of Occupied Greece from archival material, as well as amateur films by German soldiers and illegal footage shot by Greek patriots.
Greece, 2011. 115 mins. Greek w/English subtitles.
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opera
17th annual ny sephardic jewish film festival
A Bookstore in Six Chapters:The Story of Renee and Solon Molho
Writer/Director: Edward Serotta
Renee Saltiel and Solon Molho grew up in one of the greatest Sephardic Jewish communities, Salonika, or Thessaloniki, in today's Greece. 90,000 Jews lived there before WWII and by the time the Germans had rounded up the city's Jews, almost none were left. A few returned. Renee and Solon did manage to survive, thanks to a Spanish diplomat and some very brave Greek families.
Produced by Centropa in cooperation with the Jewish Museum Berlin and the Jewish Museum Thessaloniki.
Vienna, 2013. 25 mins.
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Director: Andrés Enrique-Arias
In the early 20th century 300 Sephardic families from Rhodes emigrated to Los Angeles (USA) and established a Judeo-Spanish (Ladino) language neighborhood in the area around 55th St and Hoover, in South Central Los Angeles. A century later the last survivors of that generation tell the story of the community and reflect upon their vanishing language and culture.
USA and Spain, 2013. 28 mins. English and Judeo-Spanish (Ladino), with English subtitles.
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17th annual ny sephardic jewish film festival
17th annual ny sephardic jewish film festival
The Longest Journey: The Last Days of the Jewish Community of Rhodes
Director: Ruggero Gabbai
The 2,000 year-old Jewish community of Rhodes was almost destroyed when the majority of its residents were transported to Auschwitz on July 19, 1944. The film weaves together testimonies of three of the few Jews to have survived Auschwitz. They, along with the film crew, returned to Rhodes from their respective lives in New York, Rome and Brussels and recount memories of family and communal life, interactions with the local Greeks, Turks and Italians, cultural traditions, as well as the tragic last days of their community. The film provides a view of Jewish life in Rhodes under Italian dominion before the War. Through the lens of these narrators, their early lives in Rhodes unfold as a sort of ‘paradise lost’.
The presentation of The Longest Journey is made possible through the generous support of Florence Amzallag Tatistcheff.
Post-screening discussion with Stella Levi and Alessandro Cassin, Centro Primo Levi.
Italy, 2012. 50 mins. Italian w/English subtitles.
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17th annual ny sephardic jewish film festival
17th annual ny sephardic jewish film festival
Breaking the Wall (US Premiere)
Writer/Director: Yitzhak Halutzi
Dr. Vicki Shiran led a major social struggle for equal rights and for the advancement of Mizrahim in Israel for 30 years until her untimely death in 2004. Shiran’s story is also the story of the rise, and some say the fall, of the social struggle for equality that has characterized Israel in the past 40 years.
Post-screening discussion with the filmmaker and Dr. Shiran’s daughter, Ofrit Peres.
Israel, 2012. 66mins. Hebrew w/English subtitles.
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17th annual ny sephardic jewish film festival
17th annual ny sephardic jewish film festival
Joann Sfar Draws From Memory
Director: Sam Ball
The prolific Joann Sfar has published 150 graphic novels, including the French bestseller, The Rabbi’s Cat. This portrait tracks his odyssey through the Algerian and Eastern European Jewish heritage that serves as the wellspring of his work.
USA, 2012. 56 mins. French w/English subtitles.
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17th annual ny sephardic jewish film festival
17th annual ny sephardic jewish film festival
The Rabbi's Cat
Directors: Joann Sfar, Antoine Delesvaux
This colorful, highly original and beautifully animated film adaptation of Joann Sfar’s bestselling graphic novel tells the story of a talking cat and his philosophical musings on religion. It also reveals the colorful seaside world of 1920s Algiers, when Jews and Arabs coexisted in relative peace.
France, 2009. 89 mins. French w/English subtitles.
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17th annual ny sephardic jewish film festival
17th annual ny sephardic jewish film festival
Rita Jahan Farouz
Director: Ayal Goldberg
Rita Jahan Farouz immigrated to Israel from Iran with her family when she was eight years old. On the eve of her forty-ninth birthday, with tension between Tehran and Jerusalem looming, she records her first album in Farsi. At the same time we discover an intimate portrait of a family missing their homeland and their extended family, now scattered around the world. A year later, Rita is invited to perform at the United Nations. The warm response she receives proves what is often forgotten: countries are made up of individuals, and there is nothing like music to bring them together.
Israel, 2013. 76mins. Hebrew, Farsi & English w/English subtitles.
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Director: George Itzhak
Iranian-Jewish identity is expressed through the stories of two women artists and activists, Orly Noy and Josephine Mairzadeh, who are engaged in creative work that attempts to create a bridge between Iran and Israel, and their identities: the Iranian and the Jews.
The presentation of Reading Tehran in Tel-Aviv is made possible through the support of Yeshiva University Museum.
Join filmmaker George Itzhak, singer, composer, scholar Galeet Dardashti and artist Josephine Mairzadeh in conversation and Q&A following the films.
The film complements Yeshiva University Museum's exhibition, Light and Shadows: The Story of Iranian Jews. Guests are invited to visit the exhibition before the films.
USA, 2013. 20mins
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17th annual ny sephardic jewish film festival
17th annual ny sephardic jewish film festival
Handa Handa 4 (New York Premiere)
Directors: David Ofek, Neta Shoshani
Ronen and his girlfriend, Orit, have been dating for almost three years and her parents are demanding they either marry or break up. They both come from highly respected Bukharian families. Ronen and his brother, Hay, are the stars of the much loved Handa Handa theatre troupe. Between tradition and modernity, we follow their story as we follow the brothers on the road with their show.
Followed by a discussion and special presentation with Ronen and Hay Davidov!
Israel, 2013. 58 mins. Hebrew, English and Bukhari, Hebrew & English subtitles.
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17th annual ny sephardic jewish film festival
17th annual ny sephardic jewish film festival
My Best Holiday (New York Premiere)
Director: Phillipe Lellouche
Claude and Isabelle, their sons, Simon (12) and Bibou (8), and his mother-in-law, travel to Brittany. Isabelle has caught Claude cheating on her and has chosen the village of her childhood for their holiday.
Joined by friends, they are all greeted with a particularly chilly attitude at the Café Pondemer. North African Jews, Catholic Bretons, Parisians, provincial types: it's not easy to get along. But, with humor and humility, bonds are formed. For Bibou and Simon, who falls in love for the first time, it’s their best vacation!
France, 2012. 94 mins. French w/English subtitles.
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17th annual ny sephardic jewish film festival
17th annual ny sephardic jewish film festival
Ballad of the Weeping Spring
Director: Benny Toraty
Twenty years after a car accident, for which he was held responsible, the legendary tar (lute) player Yosef Tawila (Uri Gavriel) is running a bar in northern Israel. The son (Dudu Tassa) of his band mate Avram, who also survived the accident, arrives with news that his father is dying. He brings notations for “The Weeping Springtime Symphony,” a piece Yosef and Avram worked on together but never performed . Yosef decides to reunite the remaining members of the band to grant his dying friend’s final wish—and perhaps to heal his own tortured soul. The film is filled with outstanding music.
Israel, 2012. 105mins. Hebrew w/English subtitles.
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17th annual ny sephardic jewish film festival
17th annual ny sephardic jewish film festival
Opening Night Benefit Gala Reception
Film: Enrico Macias: A Life in Song
Director: Antoine Casubolo Ferro
A Jewish pied-noir musician and singer, Enrico Macias, is a unique figure in the French musical landscape. Over the past 50 years, the boy from Constantine, Algeria, has become the spokesman for the thousands of North African, and other Middle Eastern Jews, who fled their homelands in the 1950’s and 1960’s. A utopian, singing of love and friendship between nations, he has gradually become not only a messenger for peace, but also one of the most popular singers in France.
France, 2012. 52 mins. French w/English subtitles.
followed by
Presentation of the ASF Pomegranate Lifetime Achievement Award to International Singer, Songwriter and Actor Enrico Macias.
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17th annual ny sephardic jewish film festival
curator's tour
Light and Shadows: The Story of Iranian Jews
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curator's tour
concert
Famous Duos: Masterpieces for Violin and Piano
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concert
lecture
Lost Souls: Retrieving Jewish War Orphans after the Holocaust
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lecture
panel discussion
Exploring Esther: The Origins, Values and Power of Purim
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panel discussion
purim celebration
The Whole Megillah
Yellow Sneaker Puppets will celebrate Purim in their family show Harry the Hamantaschen Tells the Whole Megillah…and then some! Purim has never been so mysterious, as Harry the Hamantaschen, Private Eye, takes the audience through the Purim story, back in time to the city of Shushan. Kids will cheer (and boo!) as the story unfolds and Esther and Mordechai save the day (with a little help from a hamantaschen in a fedora). Stay after the show to share some hamantaschen with Harry and for a special Purim art project, inspired by the YU Museum exhibition, Light & Shadows: The Story of Iranian Jews."
For families with children of all ages.
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purim celebration
lecture and interactive presentation
Facets of Holocaust Research: Victims and Survivors, Possessions and Plunder Search strategies and Integrating Resources
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lecture and interactive presentation
book talk
Please Note: This Event Has Been Cancelled
Crossing the Borders of Time: A True Story of War, Exile, and Love Reclaimed
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book talk
lecture
Jacob Glatstein: A Yiddish Genius in Anglicizing America
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lecture
symposium
Tevye's Daughters: How East European Jewish Women Confronted Modernity
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symposium
max weinreich fellowship lecture
YIVO, Freud, and American Jewry: Discourse on Eastern Europe as a “Talking Cure” for American Jewish Ambivalence
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max weinreich fellowship lecture
book talk
American Jewish Political Culture and the Liberal Persuasion
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book talk
jewish genealogical society programs at cjh
From Genealogy to History: Exploring the Jewish 20th Century through One Family's Story
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jewish genealogical society programs at cjh
panel discussion
The Power of the Geniza
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panel discussion
curator's tour
Light and Shadows: The Story of Iranian Jews
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curator's tour
The Impact of World War I and the Russian Revolution on the World of Russian and East European Jewry
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film and discussion
American Jerusalem: Jews and the Making of San Francisco
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film and discussion
holidays and closures
The Center is closed Monday, February 17th for President's Day.
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holidays and closures
roundtable discussion
Unresolved History: Jews and Lithuanians after the Holocaust
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roundtable discussion
book talk
PLEASE NOTE: Loyalty Betrayed: has been rescheduled for April 9, 2014
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book talk
roundtable discussion
PLEASE NOTE: This event is rescheduled for tomorrow (2/14) at 10:30am. Unresolved History: Jews and Lithuanians after the Holocaust
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roundtable discussion
panel discussion
Jews, Cities and Culture: Hamburg, New York and Kiev
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panel discussion
lecture and conversation
Y. L. Peretz in a Time of Revolution
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lecture and conversation
panel discussion
PLEASE NOTE: Due to the inclement weather, this event will be rescheduled.
Iranian Jewish Identity
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panel discussion
book talk
A Guide for the Perplexed - A Conversation with Dara Horn
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book talk
lecture with musical examples
America's Enduring Cantorate
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lecture with musical examples
holidays and closures
The Center is closed on Monday, January 20th for Martin Luther King, Jr. Day
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holidays and closures
film roundtable
The Afterlives of Edgar G. Ulmer
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film roundtable
jewish genealogical society programs at cjh
Jewish Records Indexing-Poland: A New Era Has Begun
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jewish genealogical society programs at cjh
concert and artist talkback
Two Worlds/Tsvey Veltn: CD Release Concert
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concert and artist talkback
archive launch
Survey of Jewish Archival Records in Southern Transylvania and Bukovina
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archive launch
discussion/performance
Judah Halevi in Word and Sound - Poetry, Piyyut, and Liturgy
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discussion/performance
curator's tour
Threshold to the Sacred: The Ark Door of Cairo’s Ben Ezra Synagogue
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curator's tour
Rethinking Kishinev: How a Riot Changed 20th Century Jewish History
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memorial program
Remembering Mikhl Herzog
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memorial program
holidays and closures
The Center is closed Wednesday, January 1 for New Year's Day.
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holidays and closures