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THE CENTER FOR JEWISH HISTORY HAS EMERGED FROM A VISION OF A UNIQUE CENTRAL RESOURCE FOR THE CULTURAL AND HISTORICAL LEGACY OF THE JEWISH PEOPLE. THE CENTER EMBODIES THE PARTNERSHIP OF FIVE MAJOR INSTITUTIONS OF JEWISH SCHOLARSHIP, HISTORY AND ART: AMERICAN JEWISH HISTORICAL SOCIETY, AMERICAN SEPHARDI FEDERATION, LEO BAECK INSTITUTE, YESHIVA UNIVERSITY MUSEUM AND YIVO INSTITUTE FOR JEWISH RESEARCH. THE CENTER SERVES THE WORLDWIDE ACADEMIC AND GENERAL COMMUNITIES WITH COMBINED HOLDINGS OF APPROXIMATELY 100 MILLION ARCHIVAL DOCUMENTS, A HALF MILLION BOOKS AND THOUSANDS OF PHOTOGRAPHS, ARTIFACTS, PAINTINGS AND TEXTILES - THE LARGEST REPOSITORY OUTSIDE OF ISRAEL DOCUMENTING THE JEWISH EXPERIENCE. THE CENTERʼS EXTENSIVE PROGRAM OF EXHIBITIONS, CULTURAL EVENTS AND INTELLECTUAL GATHERINGS WILL INTEREST ALL WHO WISH TO EXPLORE THE RICHNESS OF THE JEWISH PAST AND THE PROMISE OF THE JEWISH FUTURE. PHONE 212.294.8301 - FAX 212.294.8302 - WWW.CJH.ORG AMERICAN JEWISH HISTORICAL SOCIETY Founded in 1892, the American Jewish Historical Society’s archival holdings include 20 million documents, 50,000 books, paintings and other objects that bear witness to the remarkable con- tributions of the American Jewish community to life in the Americas from the 16th century to the present. Among the treasures of this heritage are the first American book published in Hebrew and the handwritten original of Emma Lazarus’ The New Colossus, which graces the Statue of Liberty. PHONE 212.294.6160 - FAX 212.294.6161 - WWW.AJHS.ORG

AMERICAN SEPHARDI FEDERATION Founded in 1973, American Sephardi Federation joined with Sephardic House to promote and preserve the spiritual, historical and cultural traditions of all Sephardic communities to assure their place as an integral part of Jewish heritage. Its activities include a Sephardic Library and Archives, exhibitions, educational and cultural programs, publications, The Sephardi Report, The Sephardic Film Festival and a scholarship fund for Sephardic scholars. PHONE 212.294.8350 - FAX 212.294.8348 - WWW.AMERICANSEPHARDIFEDERATION.ORG

LEO BAECK INSTITUTE Leo Baeck Institute is the single most important source for documenting the vibrant life of German-speaking Jewry spanning several hundred years. The Leo Baeck Institute’s library and archives offer rare collections of periodicals from the 19th and 20th Centuries, as well as private letters, public documents and thousands of memoirs dating back centuries. PHONE 212.744.6400 - FAX 212.988.1305 - WWW.LBI.ORG

YESHIVA UNIVERSITY MUSEUM Founded in 1973, Yeshiva University Museum is recognized as an international museum known for its innovative interdisciplinary exhibitions on Jewish life past and present, and its creative interpretations of Jewish history and culture for audiences of all ages. Its vast collections represent over 2,000 years of Jewish history from the Bronze Age to the present. PHONE 212.294.8330 - FAX 212.294.8335 - WWW.YUMUSEUM.ORG

YIVO INSTITUTE FOR JEWISH RESEARCH Founded in 1925 in Vilna, Poland, to collect the documents and records of hundreds of Jewish communities in Eastern Europe, YIVO remains the preeminent research institute and academic centre dedicated to Eastern European Jewish studies, Yiddish language and literature, and the American Jewish immigrant experience. Its collections include more than 22 million documents, 350,000 books and 200,000 photographs, many one of a kind. PHONE 212.246.6080 - FAX 212.292.1892 - WWW.YIVO.ORG

COVER IMAGE East side Hebrew School, 43 and 29 Attorney Street, New York, 3.17.1933 Sign: East Side Talmud Torah organized by Rabbi Abraham Beiman Photographers: J.B. Lightman and A.S. Simon © Graduate School for Jewish Social Work Records - American Jewish Historical Society New Exhibitions

Blavatnik Archive: W ords and Memories of the Russian Front THROUGH DECEMBER 31, 2006 •MAIN LOBBY The Blavatnik Archive and the Center for Jewish History present this exhibit which commemorates the tremendous efforts of Russian Jewish soldiers from the Red Army , whose valor in 1941-1945 contributed to the end of the Great Patriotic W ar and WWII. The selected collection of surviving personal letters, journals and memorabilia, is an invaluable historical account, unedited and un- distorted by official record. The storytellers are not famous, yet it is their crum- pled 60-year -old pieces of paper and personal stories that serve as a window © The Blavatnik Archive into people’s heroism and as a testament to the truth. THE BLA V A TNIK ARCHIVE AND CENTER FOR JEWISH HISTOR Y

By the Rivers of Babylon: Photographs from the London Jewish Museum NOVEMBER 2-15, 2006 •THE CONST ANTINER GALLER Y A photographic and textual exploration of the history of the Iraqi Jewish community , from its ancient roots following the exile to Babylon 2,600 years ago, through to the present day . Baghdad Revisited: Iraqi Jewish Art and

Artifacts from Private Collections © The Jewish Museum - London OPENING NOVEMBER 2, 2006 •LEON LEVY / ASF GALLER Y Ritual objects, memorabilia, photographs and documents depicting the Iraqi Jewish heritage as it is preserved and perpetuated in the Diaspora. AMERICAN SEPHARDI FEDERA TION

The Story of Joseph: Unveiling the Text OPENING NOVEMBER 19, 2006 •SECOND FLOOR GALLER Y A graduate of the Bezalel Art Institute in Jerusalem, and a T orah student for many years, Jerusalem fiber artist and teacher , Chana Cromer has created a se- ries of fabric wall hangings that reflect the text and commentary in the story of Joseph. Drawing our attention to the centrality of cloth in the Biblical narrative, Cromer’s multilayered artworks shed light on the complex layers of Joseph’s personality and the interfacing symbolism in his “coat of many colors.” YESHIV A UNIVERSITY MUSEUM

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Erwin Piscator: Theatre in Exile in New York and Beyond THROUGH MID-DECEMBER 2006 KATHERINE AND CLIFFORD H. GOLDSMITH / LBI GALLER Y A look at Erwin Piscator’s impact on American theater. Piscator developed the Epic Theater in W eimar Berlin together with playwright Bertold Brecht. Piscator’s productions used lecture, montage and multimedia, and presented political and social issues beyond the emotional and aesthetic dimensions of a play. In 1939, he brought these methods to America as director of both the Dramatic W orkshop at The New School and the Studio Theater in New York City. LEO BAECK INSTITUTE Erwin Piscator , Berlin, September 192 7 Photo montage: Sasha Stone - Courtesy of Lahr v on Leïtis Ar chiv e

Resistance and Memory in Belgium: 1940-1945, Images Past and Present THROUGH DECEMBER 31, 2006 •BETTY & W ALTER L. POPPER GALLER Y This documentary exhibition presents large-scale digital photographs, wartime images, contemporary portraits and personal testimonies of 27 courageous men and women (the Resisters) who, more than 60 years ago, actively resisted Nazi occupation in their small country, Belgium [Based on research by Dr. Anne Grif- fin / Photography by Jean-Marc Gourdon] YESHIVA UNIVERSITY MUSEUM Photo: Andr ée Geulen, rue Neuv e, Brussels, May 1944 Courtesy of Y eshiv a Univ ersity Museum

Spinoza in the Y iddish Mind THROUGH DECEMBER 31, 2006 •SELMA L. BATKIN MEZZANINE CASE The philosopher Baruch Spinoza, long ignored by Jews, was rediscovered in mid-19th century by Yiddish-speaking Jewry, and became a symbol of Jew - ish secularism. Many Yiddish and Hebrew writers from Eastern Europe studied, translated or commented on his works. This exhibit, on the 350th anniversary of the famous kheyrem (excommunication), displays the Yiddish world’s intense interest in the rationalist from Amsterdam. YIVO INSTITUTE FOR JEWISH RESEARCH Spinoza, painting b y Isaac Lichtenstein - Courtesy of YIV O Institute for Je wish R esear ch Libr ary

S E P – O C T 2 O O 6 | CENTER FOR JEWISH HISTORY Current Exhibitions

The Holocaust in the Paintings of Valentin Lustig THROUGH JANUARY 14, 2007 •WINNICK GALLERY The postwar child of East European Holocaust sur vivors, Lustig has created sym- bolic scenarios of this traumatic period of histor y, using his fertile imagination in developing his own iconography consisting of people, animals, landscapes, still-lives, architecture - all real or imaginar y, in a Surrealist style. YESHIVA UNIVERSITY MUSEUM Cautious Approac h t o t he Monuments oil on canvas, 2OO3, Collection of Edit h and Egon Balas

At the Altar of Her Memories: Video Installation by Tova Beck-Friedman, Puppets by Bracha Ghilai THROUGH JANUARY 14, 2007 •WINNICK GALLERY An installation of hand-made puppets by Bracha Ghilai, who, at the age of sev- enteen, following liberation from Bergen-Belsen, came to Israel to start her life over, establishing a puppet theater. © TBF S tudio YESHIVA UNIVERSITY MUSEUM

Feminine Principals: Works in Iron, Fiber and Glass Orna Ben-Ami • Georgette Benisty • Saara Gallin THROUGH JANUARY 14, 2007 •ROSENBERG GALLERY This exhibition examines how the artists’ works reflect the inherent qualities of their chosen media (the permanence and rigidity of iron; the richness and femi- ninity of textiles; the fragility and luminescence of glass) and the commonalities based on the artists’ shared experiences as women and Jews. YESHIVA UNIVERSITY MUSEUM F iber sculp ture, 2OO5 © George tt e Benisty Iron Sculpture by Orna Ben-Ami THROUGH JANUARY 14, 2007 •SCULPTURE GARDEN This Israeli artist creates solidly rooted sculptures based on her childhood, linking the per- sonal with the collective memory of her people. By cutting, bending and welding pieces of hard and unyielding metal together, Ben-Ami manages to create seemingly soft feminine objects reflective of her past. YESHIVA UNIVERSITY MUSEUM Memor ies, welded iron, 2OO4 © Or na Ben- Ami

CENTER FOR JEWISH HISTORY | NOV – DEC 2OO6 Curr ent Exhibitions

The Max Stern Collection of Judaica THROUGH JANUAR Y 28, 2007 •MUSEUM ARCADE Motivated by his desire to restore a heritage devastated by the Holocaust, Max Stern, founder of the Hartz Mountain Company, assembled a collection of over 400 Judaica items. This exhibition includes a variety of ceremonial metalwork and textiles dating from the 17th to the 20th Century, from North Africa, Europe, Iran and Turkey. YESHIVA UNIVERSITY MUSEUM T or ah Shield; silv er , gilt, r epoussé, cast, Lv o v (Lemberg), Ukr aine; 1855

A Photographic Study of the Lower East Side: 1934 THROUGH MARCH 30, 2007 •DIANE & MARK GOLDMAN / AJHS GALLER Y Created in response to demolition plans for the old neighbourhood, these re - markable photographs capture this small, crowded sliver of New York City in transition. During the early 1930s, the Lower East Side had developed a reputa- tion as both an incorrigable slum and an important site of American Jewish memory. As the City of New York planned to redevelop the neighborhood, JB Lightman set out to capture its historical significance on film. A Photographic Study of the Lower East Side: 1934 will feature both visions in new silver gelatin prints from Lightman’s original negatives alongside period maps and architects’ renderings of the neighborhood’s streets and buildings. AMERICAN JEWISH HISTORICAL SOCIETY

East side Hebr e w School, 43 and 29 Attorne y Str eet, Ne w Y ork, 3.17.1933 Sign: East Side T almud T or ah organized b y R abbi Abr aham Beiman Photogr aphers: J.B. Lightman and A.S. Simon © Gr aduate School for Je wish Social W ork R ecor ds - American Je wish Historical Society

Exploring the North Atlantic: Traders, Scholars and Vikings THROUGH 2007 •MUSEUM ARCADE AND SECOND FLOOR GALLER Y European, American and Jewish interaction in the year 1000 is examined in this experiential exhibition, featuring the commentaries of the great Medieval scholar Rashi, and displays of an interactive market and a Viking trading ship. YESHIVA UNIVERSITY MUSEUM

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Public Programs wed. Between Klezmer and Sepharad: Meditations in Cartoon by Joann Sfar

NOV u 7:00 PM LECTURE AND DISCUSSION After the success of The Rabbi’s Cat, Joann Sfar’s new book, Klezmer, explores the odds and ends of the Eastern European side of his family. Profane, messy and wildly enthusiastic - much like the music itself - Klezmer tells the story of Noah, who narrowly escapes the massacre of his bandmates by rival musicians, and goes on to put together a new band with some yeshiva students exiled for theft. Also in the tale is his voluptuous love interest, Chava and Tshokola, a less than truthful gypsy on the run from Cossacks. Mr. Sfar is interviewed by David Shasha, Director of the Center for Jewish Heritage.

AMERICAN SEPHARDI FEDERATION •Admission: $10 t hurs Emma Lazarus

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NOV BOOK LAUNCH AND DISCUSSION Before these categories even existed, Emma Lazarus was a feminist, a Zionist and an internationally famous Jewish- American writer. Born in 1849 into a wealthy Sephardic family, Lazarus felt compassion for the downtrodden Jews of Eastern Europe - refugees whose lives had little in common with her own - and through her writing and advocacy she helped redefine the meaning of America itself. In a new groundbreaking biography, Emma Lazarus is brought to life as a poet, an activist and a prophet of the world we inhabit today.

Join E s t h e r Sc h o r, po e t an d pr o f e s s o r of En g l i s h at Pr i n c e t o n U n i v e r s i t y, fo r a li v e l y di s c u s s i o n on he r ne w bi o g r a p h y, Emma Lazarus. T h i s a c c l a i m e d b o o k e x a m i n e s t h e l i f e a n d w o r k o f the iconoclastic 19th centur y poet whose verse gave a voice t o t h e S t a t u e o f L i b e r t y. F o r t h i s s p e c i a l e v e n t , t h e o r i g i n a l manuscript of Lazarus’ T h e N e w C o l o s s u s , p a r t o f t h e A J H S archive, will be on view. AMERICAN JEWISH HISTORICAL SOCIETY Emma Lazarus CO-SPONSORED BY AMERICAN SEPHARDI FEDERATION AND NEXTBOOK © American Je wish Historical Society Admission: $5

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. Composing Herself: Finding Miriam Gideon in Her 1958 Opera Fortunado

NOV u 10 :30 AM JEWISH MUSIC FORUM Stephanie Jensen-Moulton, Professor Ellie Hisama and Professor Bruce Saylor, CUNY Graduate Center, Cantor Charles Osborne and special guest, Milton Babbitt. AMERICAN JEWISH HISTORICAL SOCIETY AND AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR JEWISH MUSIC Free Admission

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. Markuze’s Seyfer Refues: A Yiddish Medical Manual of 1791

NOV u 1 2 NOON YIDDISH LANGUAGE SEMINAR Dr. Chava Lapin, Queens College/CUNY YIVO INSTITUTE FOR JEWISH RESEARCH - MAX WEINREICH CENTER •Free Admission

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. Artist’s Talk with Orna Ben-Ami u EXHIBITION1:00 PM TOUR AND TALK

NOV Orna Ben-Ami will take us on a tour of her iron sculptures in the exhibition, Feminine Principals: Works in Iron, Fiber and Glass, and present an illustrated lecture on her work including public art installations in Israel. YESHIVA UNIVERSITY MUSEUM •Free with Museum Admission For reser vations email [email protected] or 212.294.8330 x8816

mon Feminine Principals Workshop: Iron . u 6:00 PM WORKSHOP

NOV In this workshop exploring the media of the three women artists whose work is exhibited in the current show Feminine Principals: Works in Iron, Fiber and Glass, we focus on metal as a medium with a hands-on jewelr y making workshop preceded by a tour of the exhibition and slide presentation with the artist Orna Ben-Ami. YESHIVA UNIVERSITY MUSEUM •Admission: $15 / $10 YUM members and students [includes materials and Museum Admission]

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Public Pr ogr ams mon Pressure Point . u MONDAY7:00 PM NIGHT FILM SERIES: FILM AND PSYCHOANALYSIS Dir. Hubert Cornfield / US / 1962 / 91mins.

NOV Post-screening discussion with Dr. Maurice Preter, Assistant Professor of Clinical Psychiatry, Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons.

CENTER FOR JEWISH HISTOR Y •Admission: $10 / $5 students and seniors tues The Untold Story of Yungvald, Vilna’s Last . Literary Generation

NOV u 7:00 PM DINA ABRAMOWICZ MEMORIAL LECTURE Dr. Justin Cammy, Smith College Y I V O I N S T I T U T E F O R J E W I S H R E S E A R C H - M A X W E I N R E I C H C E N T E R •F r e e A d m i s s i o n wed. Roman Vishniac: Commissioned Photographs of Jewish Life in Eastern Europe and the Framing of

NOV Collective Memory u CJH2:00 GRADUATE PM SEMINAR Maya Benton, CJH Fellow 2005 and Ph.D. Candidate in History of Art, Courtauld Institute of Art, London. Respondent: Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett, New York University. Conducted by Hasia Diner, Paul S. and Sylvia Steinberg Professor in American Jewish Studies, New York University. CENTER FOR JEWISH HISTOR Y

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The Jews of Cuba . u JEWISH2:00 PM GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY MONTHLY MEETING

NOV Many American Jews have relatives who lived in or transited through Cuba, often staying months or years before they came to the U.S. Jay Levinson, author of The Jewish Community of Cuba: The Golden Years, 1906-1958, will explore this history through the archives he visited and the genealogical information he found. JEWISH GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY AND CENTER GENEALOGY INSTITUTE Admission: $5 / Free for JGS members [RSVP: 212.294.8326 / [email protected]]

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mon Zelig . u MONDAY7:00 PM NIGHT FILM SERIES: FILM AND PSYCHOANALYSIS

Dir. Woody Allen / US / 1983 / English and German / 79 mins. NOV u LATE9:00 NIGHT PM SCREENING STREET OF CROCODILES Dir. Quay Brothers / UK / 1986 / 21 mins. / Adapted from a short stor y by Bruno Schulz CENTER FOR JEWISH HISTORY •Admission: $10 / $5 students and seniors

t ues Music of Felix Mendelssohn . u CONCERT7:00 PM

The genius of Felix Mendelssohn, often called the 19th centur y Mozart, became evident NOV ver y early, and during his short life he created a vast treasure of astonishingly complex, varied and beautiful music. One of the most influential composers of the 19th centur y, his legacy was neglected for much of the 20th centur y. With this concert of Mendelssohn’s chamber music, the Phoenix Chamber Ensemble pays a tribute to his genius. Admission: $12 / $6 students and seniors

t ues Writers on “Roots” . u 7:00 PM READINGS [6:00 PM - GALLERIES OPEN FOR VIEWING]

Orna Ben-Ami’s intriguing sculpture, Roots, on display in the exhibition, Feminine NOV Principals, Works in Iron, Fiber, and Glass, reflects the artist’s search for roots both as a woman and a Jew. The Museum has commissioned six emerging New York City- based writers to create original pieces of fiction, non-fiction and poetry inspired by the sculpture. Join us for an evening of readings by these writers who will also share their own contrasting experiences of rootedness and rootlessness. YESHIVA UNIVERSITY MUSEUM •Free with Museum Admission For reser vations email [email protected] or 212.294.8330 x8816

wed. Mendele’s Art of Breathing Through Both Nostrils: SY Abramovitsch Between Yiddish and Hebrew

NOV u YIVO7:00 DISTINGUISHED PM LECTURE Professor Dan Miron, Leonard Kaye Professor of Hebrew Literature, Dept. of Middle East and Asian Languages and Cultures, Columbia University. YIVO INSTITUTE FOR JEWISH RESEARCH •Admission: $10 / $5 YIVO members and students

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NOV [5:30 PM - GALLERIES OPEN FOR VIEWING] What can one person do in the face of oppression? A panel of human rights advocates, scholars, ethicists, and resisters will explore this question, focusing on the Belgian citizens depicted in the current exhibition, Resistance and Memory in Belgium: 1940-1945. Baron Georges Schnek, a member of the French Resistance portrayed in the exhibit, joins us from Belgium.

Georges Schnek with other Je wish r esisters in F r ance, 1943 YESHIVA UNIVERSITY MUSEUM •Free with Museum Admission For reservations email [email protected]

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. Y iddish Territorialism and Its Organ, Afn Shvel u 1 2 NOON YIDDISH LANGUAGE SEMINAR

DEC Dr. Sheva Zucker, League for Yiddish

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. B e t w e e n F r i e n d s : H a n n a h A r e n d t & M a ry M c C a r t h y u THEATRICA7:00 PM L PRODUCTION AND TALK

DEC Hannah Arendt and Mary McCarthy, were two of the most important American intellectuals of their generation - politically engaged, socially active, powerful, gossipy women who became increasingly close during the decades after W orld W ar II. The two friends discuss the Cold W ar, McCarthyism, Vietnam, Kennedy liberalism, the student riots of the 1960s. Talk back with Vivian Gornick, director and Elizabeth Young-Bruehl, biographer of Hannah Arendt. A theatrical adaptation by Vivian Gornick in collaboration with The House of Elder Artist. Part of the centennial conference on Hannah Arendt presented by the Institute for the Humanities at NYU and the Hannah Arendt Organization. Admission: $20 / $15 students and seniors

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Sigmund Freud: Jewish World

u DEC This international conference will look at the impact and influence of Judaism and anti-semitism on the founder of psychoanalysis, and his patients. Sigmund Freud’s 150th birthday is being celebrated all over the world in conferences, exhibitions, journals, and books. These events address many aspects of his work, especially his contribution to the culture of his time and to modern scientific, literary, and historical thought. We will focus specifically on Freud’s Jewish World – his Jewish roots, his ambivalence toward Judaism, the context of turn-of-the-centur y Vienna, and how these influences affected his work.

LEO BAECK INSTITUTE, YIVO INSTITUTE FOR JEWISH RESEARCH AND THE SIGMUND FREUD ARCHIVES Registration: $160 (Sat: $40 - Sun: $80 - Mon: $60) Full details at www.cjh.org/Freud/intro.htm Email [email protected] •Phone/Fax 718.728.7416 •Voice Mail 718.278.0863

mon Beyond Good and Evil . u MONDAY7:00 PM NIGHT FILM SERIES: FILM AND PSYCHOANALYSIS

Dir. Liliana Cavani / Italy-France-West Germany / 1977 / Italian with English Subtitles / 130 mins. DEC Post-screening discussion with Angela Von Der Lippe, author and senior editor, W.W.Norton, and Matthew von Unwerth, Director of the Brill Librar y, New York Psychoanalytic Institute. CENTER FOR JEWISH HISTORY •Admission: $10 / $5 students and seniors

tues. Moroccan Dream Weavers: North African Themes in Art, Literature and Music

DEC u 7:00 PM PANEL DISCUSSION [6:00 PM - GALLERY TOURS AND ARTIST’S TALK] A venerable place in the Jewish Diaspora, Morocco is also an exotic landscape floating between the West and the Orient. As a site of a “magical” Jewish past, Morocco inspires and infuses the work of contemporar y Jewish writers, artists and musicians. We begin with a reception and galler y viewing with artist Georgette Benisty, whose fiber dolls, woven from North African fabrics and colors, reference her childhood in Casablanca. The program continues with a panel of emerging artist and scholars including Tangier-born lecturer and writer Yaelle Azagur y (Barnard College) and Samuel Thomas, musician and ethnomusicologist. YESHIVA UNIVERSITY MUSEUM AND AMERICAN SEPHARDI FEDERATION Admission: $10 / $8 YUM & ASF members and students

CENTER FOR JEWISH HISTORY | NOV – DEC 2OO6 Public Programs thurs. Of War, Labor and Youth: The Talmud in Paris, 1968 One Hundred Years with Emmanuel Levinas

DEC u 6:30 PM PANEL DISCUSSION Placing Jewish ethics above all debates between the religious and the secular, Levinas drew wider global attention to classic rabbinic text, restoring it to its rightful place among the greatest achievements of human thought. Speakers: Richard Bernstein (The New School), Richard A. Cohen (Princeton University), Judith Friedlander (CUNY Graduate Center), Warren Zeev Harvey (Hebrew University), Solomon Malka, (CUNY Graduate Center), Michael Smith (Berry College) This centennial program is made possible through the support of the Gisella Levi Cahnman Seminar Fund and is co-presented by The Levinas Ethical Legacy Foundation in collaboration with the Association pour la Célébration du Centenaire d’Emmanuel Levinas (France) and the Centre Raïssa et Emmanuel Levinas, the American Sephardi Federation and the Yeshiva University Museum.

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. Mediterranean Israeli Music: The Politics of Aesthetics

DEC u 10:30 AM JEWISH MUSIC FORUM Dr. Amy Horowitz, Ohio State University. Respondent Professor Zvi Ben-Dor Benite, New York University. AMERICAN JEWISH HISTORICAL SOCIETY AND AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR JEWISH MUSIC

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. Hip, Heymish and Hot!!! u 3:00 PM ANNUAL HANUKKAH CONCER T

DEC Eleanor Reissa, among the most beloved and gifted interpreters of Yiddish music, sings Yiddish Soul and presents treasures from the luscious world of Yiddish song. Accompanied by her band, Ms. Reissa puts a jazz flare into old Yiddish standards as well as gems that feel contemporary and yet traditional. You don’t have to know Yiddish to adore this program! Joining Ms. Reissa is the inimitable storyteller, Isaiah Sheffer, who, again this year, will entertain us with works by some of the world’s most famous Jewish writers. AMERICAN JEWISH HISTORICAL SOCIETY AND AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR JEWISH MUSIC Admission: $12 / $6 AJHS & ASJM members, students and seniors

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mon Dead of Night . u MONDAY7:00 PM NIGHT FILM SERIES: FILM AND PSYCHOANALYSIS

Dir. Alberto Cavalcanti, Charles Crichton, Basil Dearden and Robert Hamer / UK / 1945 / 102 mins. DEC Post-screening discussion with Dr. Leon Bolter, Training and Super vising Analyst, New York Psychoanalytic Institute and Associate Clinical Professor of Psychiatr y, Mt. Sinai Medical School, NY. CENTER FOR JEWISH HISTORY •Admission: $10 / $5 students and seniors

wed Hester Street . u WINTER7:00 PM WEDNESDAYS: A CENTURY OF FILM ON THE LOWER EAST SIDE

Dir. Joan Micklin Silver / US / 1974 / Black and White / English and Yiddish / 89 mins. DEC This film series, in conjunction with the exhibition A Photographic Study of the Lower East Side: 1934, begins with Joan Micklin Silver’s adaptation of Abraham Cahan’s stor y, Hester Street. The film portrays the life of a Jewish Community in transition, where immigrants must reexamine their identities as Jews in light of American opportunities and values. Carol Kane was nominated for an Oscar for her portrayal of Gitl, an Eastern European Jew who arrives with her child on Ellis Island in 1896 to join her husband. This is a touching, amazingly painstaking evocation of immigrant life on New York’s Lower East Side in the 1890s. Post-screening discussion with Joan Micklin Silver, director, and Andy Ingall, Assistant Curator, Broadcast Archive/New York Jewish Film Festival, The Jewish Museum. The film series continues into April 2007 - For full details, visit www.ajhs.org AMERICAN JEWISH HISTORICAL SOCIETY Admission: $10 / $5 AJHS members, students and seniors thurs. Sociology, Science and Psychoanalysis: The Place of Bildung in the Development of DEC Sigmund Freud and Abraham Brill u 7:00 PM 50TH ANNUAL LEO BAECK INSTITUTE MEMORIAL LECTURE Dr. Arnold Richards notes the development of the sociology of scientific knowledge and the evolution of psychoanalysis by Jews in the Habsburg Empire. The lecture will consider the impact of historical, cultural and personal factors on the thinking and professional commitments of Sigmund Freud and Abraham Arden Brill. LEO BAECK INSTITUTE •Admission: $10 / $5 LBI members [RSVP: 212.744.6400]

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