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American Jewish Historical Society American Jewish Historical Society American Sephardi Federation Founded in 1892, American Jewish Historical Society’s holdings include 20 million documents, 50,000 books and thousands of paintings and Leo Baeck Institute memorabilia that bear witness to the remarkable contributions of the Yeshiva University Museum American Jewish community to life in the Americas from the 16th YIVO Institute for Jewish Research Century to the present. www.ajhs.org Phone 212.294.6160 Fax 212.294.6161
The Center for Jewish History has emerged from a vision of a unique American Sephardi Federation Founded in 1973, American Sephardi Federation joined with Sephardic central resource for the cultural and historical legacy of the Jewish people. House to promote and preserve the spiritual, historical and cultural The Center embodies the partnership of five major institutions of Jewish traditions of all Sephardic communities to assure their place as an integral part of Jewish heritage. Its activities include a Sephardic scholarship, history and art: American Jewish Historical Society, Library and Archives, exhibitions, educational and cultural programs, American Sephardi Federation, Leo Baeck Institute, Yeshiva University publications, The Sephardi Report, The Sephardic Film Festival and a scholarship fund for Sephardic scholars. Museum and YIVO Institute for Jewish Research. The Center serves the www.americansephardifederation.org worldwide academic and general communities with combined holdings Phone 212.294.8350 Fax 212.294.8348 of approximately 100 million archival documents, a half million books Leo Baeck Institute and thousands of photographs, artifacts, paintings and textiles - the Leo Baeck Institute is the single most important source for documenting largest repository outside of Israel documenting the Jewish experience. the vibrant life of German-speaking Jewry spanning several hundred years. The Leo Baeck Institute’s library and archives offer rare collections The Center’s extensive program of exhibitions, cultural events and of periodicals from the 19th and 20th Centuries, as well as private letters, intellectual gatherings will interest all who wish to explore the richness public documents and thousands of memoirs dating back centuries. www.lbi.org Phone 212.744.6400 Fax 212.988.1305 of the Jewish past and the promise of the Jewish future. Yeshiva University Museum Founded in 1973, Yeshiva University Museum is recognized as an inter- Contents national museum known for its innovative interdisciplinary exhibitions on Jewish life past and present, and its creative interpretations of New Exhibitions______pages 4-5 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 Continuing Exhibitions______pages 6-8 the present. www.yumuseum.org Phone 212.294.8330 Fax 212.294.8335 January Events______pages 9-10 YIVO Institute for Jewish Research February Events______pages 11-13 Founded in 1925 in Vilna, Lithuania, to collect the documents and General Information______page 14 records of hundreds of Jewish communities in Eastern Europe, YIVO remains the preeminent research institute and academic centre Support______page 15 dedicated to Eastern European Jewish studies, Yiddish language and literature, and the American Jewish immigrant experience. Its
LBI exhibit Auktion 392: Reclaiming the Galerie Stern, Düsseldorf Photo credit: Nicolas Neufchatel, Portrait of Jean van collections include more than 22 million documents, 375,000 books Eversdijck, oil on wood, 1580. Lot 280 at the Lempertz Auction 392, Cologne, 1937. and 225,000 photographs, many one of a kind. www.yivo.org Phone 212.246.6080 Fax 212.292.1892 2 3 New Exhibitions 2007 New Exhibitions 2007
ajhs-asf-lbi-yivo Gallery Hours Opening February 11 - May 20, 2007 Monday - Thursday 9:30am - 5pm Friday 9:30am - 3pm Sunday 11am - 5pm Kikar Zahav Tahor “A Talent of Pure Gold”: Illuminated Miniatures by Barbara Wolff YUM Gallery Hours Exhibition Arcade Sunday, Tuesday, Wednesday & Thursday 11am - 5pm The great treasures of Medieval manuscripts are YUM Gallery Admission $8 general / $6 - students, seniors and children 5-18 distinguished by the miniature worlds they open to us, Free for YUM members, children under 5 and YU students and staff with ID a world that New York artist Barbara Wolff has recreated in this exhibition. Wolff’s mastery of Medieval and Renaissance artists’ techniques and materials is apparent Opening January 21 - April 22, 2007 in her fluency with burnished gold on vellum and Reuben Kadish’s Holocaust Sculpture hand-ground pigments like azurite, malachite and An Enclosed Garden (Shir HaShirim 4:12-14), Sculpture Garden Barbara Wolff, 2006 lapis lazuli. Expressionist brutality and raw emotion manifest Raised gilding, shell gold and pigment on goatskin YUM parchment themselves in the work of Reuben Kadish, a sculptor, draughtsman, painter and printmaker. During WWII, he was assigned to document bombed-out villages in Burma and India, and those searing experiences resulted February 11 – May 31, 2007 in his creating an impressive series of deeply scored terra Auktion 392: Reclaiming the Galerie Stern, cotta and bronze sculptures that viscerally reflected his Düsseldorf Abstract Expressionist roots. The bronze works in this Katherine and Clifford H. Goldsmith/LBI Gallery Sculpture Garden reflect his ferocious reaction to the In 1937, Kunsthaus Lempertz in Cologne, one of Europe’s oldest Holocaust Head, terracotta, Reuben Kadish, 1985 horrific world events and crimes against humanity that auction houses, sold the inventory of the Julius Stern Gallery he personally witnessed during World War II, as well as at the behest of the Nazi government. The owner of the gallery, his fierce response to the Holocaust and Hiroshima. Max Stern, fled to England and opened a new gallery which was YUM short-lived because Stern was interned at the Isle of Man at the outbreak of World War II as an enemy alien. After the war, he returned to Germany and was able to reclaim a small fraction February 4 – May 20, 2007 of his property, but discovered that Lempertz had sold artwork The Illuminated Torah: Yonah Weinrib he had left in their art storage for safekeeping. After Dr. Stern’s The Book of Exodus, Illustrated death, his estate learned of the forced sale of the Stern collection and began to investigate Betty and Walter L. Popper Gallery the issue of art restitution. Before the backdrop of that auction at Kunsthaus Lempertz Rabbi Yonah Weinrib, a Torah scholar and an artist, was in 1937, this exhibition shows the Stern works that were offered for sale in the auction, commissioned to create this amazing manuscript which collectively known by its lot number, Auktion 392. This exhibit takes on new relevance in combines pen and ink, watercolor, gouache, and airbrush the context of current cultural dialogue and legal issues that surround looted and stolen art. painting on parchment, together with calligraphy, Leo Baeck Institute in association with Concordia University, Montreal, Canada. Curated by micrography, and elaborate illumination. The illustrations Dr. Catherine MacKenzie. LBI Ten Plagues, Ten Utterances, The Book of Exodus, are based on Rabbi Weinrib’s profound scholarship and Illustrated knowledge of traditional commentaries. This is his third Rabbi Yonah Weinrib, 2006 Pen, ink, watercolor, gouache, airbrush painting, exhibition at Yeshiva University Museum. calligraphy, micrography on parchment. YUM
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Extended through January 14 Extended through January 28 Resistance and Memory in Belgium: 1940-1945, Feminine Principals: Works in Iron, Fiber and Glass Images Past and Present Orna Ben-Ami – Georgette Benisty – Saara Gallin Betty and Walter L. Popper Gallery Rosenberg Gallery This documentary exhibition presents large-scale digital photo- This exhibition examines how the artists’ works reflect the inherent graphs, wartime images, contemporary portraits and personal qualities of their chosen media (the permanence and rigidity testimonies of 27 courageous men and women (the Resisters) of iron; the richness and femininity of textiles; the fragility and who, more than 60 years ago, actively resisted Nazi occupation luminescence of glass) and the commonalities based on the artists’ in their small country, Belgium. (Based on research by Dr. Anne shared experiences as women and Jews. YUM Griffin/Photography by Jean-Marc Gourdon). YUM Fiber sculpture, 2OO5 © Georgette Benisty Photo: Andrée Geulen, rue Neuve, Brussels, May 1944 Courtesy of Yeshiva University Museum Through January 28 Through January 14 The Max Stern Collection of Judaica Iron Sculpture by Orna Ben-Ami Museum Arcade Sculpture Garden Motivated by his desire to restore a heritage devastated by the This Israeli artist creates solidly rooted sculptures based on her Holocaust, Max Stern, founder of the Hartz Mountain Company, childhood, linking the personal with the collective memory of assembled a collection of over 400 Judaica items. This exhibit her people. By cutting, bending and welding pieces of hard and includes a variety of ceremonial metalwork and textiles dating unyielding metal together, Ben-Ami manages to create seemingly from the 17th to the 20th Centuries, from North Africa, Europe, soft feminine objects reflective of her past. YUM Iran and Turkey. YUM
Torah Shield; silver, gilt, repoussé, cast, Lvov (Lemberg), Ukraine; 1855 Memories, Welded Iron, 2OO4 © Orna Ben-Ami Through March 25 Extended through January 28 The Story of Joseph: Unveiling the Text At the Altar of Her Memories Video Fiber Artworks by Chana Cromer, Jerusalem Installation by Tova Beck-Friedman Gallery B Puppets by Bracha Ghilai A graduate of the Bezalel Art Institute in Jerusalem, and a Winnick Gallery Torah student for many years, Jerusalem fiber artist and teacher, An installation of hand-made puppets by Bracha Ghilai, Chana Cromer has created a series of fabric wall hangings that who, at the age of seventeen, following liberation reflect the text and commentary in the story of Joseph. Drawing from Bergen-Belsen, came to Israel to start her life our attention to the centrality of cloth in the Biblical narrative, © TBF Studio over, establishing a puppet theater. YUM Cromer’s multilayered artworks shed light on the complex layers of Joseph’s personality and the interfacing symbolism in his Extended through January 28 Sheaf: The Great Giver (detail) “coat of many colors.” YUM Chana Cromer, 2004 The Holocaust in the Paintings of Valentin Lustig Winnick Gallery The postwar child of East European Holocaust survivors, Lustig has created symbolic scenarios of this traumatic period of history, using his fertile imagination in developing his own iconography consisting of Cautious Approach to the Monuments, oil on canvas, people, animals, landscapes, still-lives, architecture 2OO3, Collection of Edith and Egon Balas – all real of imaginary, in a Surrealist style. YUM 6 7 Continuing Exhibitions 2007 January 2007
Through March 30 Monday, January 8 A Photographic Study of the Lower East Side: 1934 7pm Max Weinreich Center/Racolin Memorial Lecture Diane & Mark Goldman / AJHS Gallery “Jewish Life in Kiev at the Turn of the 20th Century” Created in response to demolition plans for the old neighborhood, Victoria Khiterer, Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of History, University of Central these remarkable photographs capture this small, crowded sliver Arkansas; Doctoral candidate, Near Eastern and Judaic Studies, Brandeis University. of New York City in transition. During the early 1930s, the Lower YIVO L ecture East Side had developed a reputation as both an incorrigible slum Free Admission. Reservations required. and an important site of American Jewish memory. As the City of New York planned to redevelop the area, J.B. Lightman set out to capture its historical significance on film. This exhibit features Tuesday, January 9 both visions in new silver gelatin prints from Lightman’s original 6pm negatives, alongside period maps and architects’ rendering of the Gallery Talk: Valentin Lustig and Art After Auschwitz neighborhood’s streets and buildings. AJHS
Artist Valentin Lustig will speak about his work in the exhibition, The Holocaust Paintings al k 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 of Valentin Lustig. The artist, born in Cluj after WWII, portrays the pre-war landscapes of © Graduate School for Jewish Social Work Records - American Jewish Historical Society his native Romania haunted by Holocaust victims. Andrew Weinstein, Assistant Professor of Art History, Fashion Institute of Technology, will introduce Lustig and discuss how the Through March 30 artist’s surrealist paintings relate to the work of other contemporary artists whose work
Baghdad Revisited: Iraqi Jewish Art and deals with the Holocaust. For reservations, e-mail: [email protected] G allery T Artifacts from Private Collections or call 212.294.8330 x.8816. Leon Levy / ASF Exhibition Cases Free with Museum Admission Ritual objects, memorabilia, photographs and documents depicting the Iraqi Jewish heritage as it is preserved and perpetuated in the Diaspora. Friday, January 12 12pm Yiddish Language Seminar Through 2007 “Hersh Gros and his Boyberik Band– The First Klezmer Revival?” Exploring the North Atlantic: Traders, Jeffrey Wollock, Professor of English and Performance Studies, Texas A&M University. YIVO
Scholars and Vikings S eminar Free Admission Museum Arcade and 2nd floor gallery Reservations Required 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. YUM Sunday, January 14 12pm to 4pm Puppet Festival (Ages 5 and up) Bracha Ghilai’s handcrafted puppets, on display in the exhibition, At the Altar of Her Memories, are examples of a Central European tradition of puppet-making and performance which was brought to Israel. This program includes family workshops,
demonstrations, film and gallery tours. Performances by the Czechoslovak-American F estival Marionette Theatre, Chinese Theatre Works, and the Greek Shadow Puppet Theater. For reservations, e-mail: [email protected] or call 212.294.8330 x.8816. Free with Museum Admission
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diaries ofyoungadultswhodocumentedtheirday-to-daystruggletosurvive. Thefirst Stern College,willintroduceaneveningofinspired readings fromtheHolocaust Storyteller, Voices From Salvaged Pages 7pm Tuesday, January30 Yeshiva Universitystudentswillread. award-winning book, person narrativeswere collected byauthor, Free Admission.Reservations required. YIVO Itay Zutra, “Dervayterte shtifbrider -Yiddish Modernism andtheZionist State” 7pm Monday, February 12 Free Admission. of theLowerEastSide:1934. Lower EastSidewithascholar--related tothecurrent exhibition, Join usforanafternoonofactivities–docenttours,videoscreening, discussiononthe Lower EastSideDay 1pm to4pm Sunday, February 11 University Museum. or call 212-294-8350. tickets, checkASF’s websiteafter January1,2007atwww.americansephardifederation.org, about Jewishculture outside the Western world.Forfulldetailsonfilms,speakers and films thatoftendepictcharactersandthemescontrastingwiththecommonstereotypes The Israeliindustrychampionstheinternationalsceneproducingsuccessful Cinema. Israeli in voices Sephardic the and Americanculture, thisyear’s festivalwillfocuson Striving tomovetheSephardicheritageawayfromexoticismandintomainstream Jewish documentaries, U.S.premieres, andconversationswithfilmmakers. returns forthe11thseasonwith screenings ofcriticallyacclaimedfeature filmsand The annualcinematicexplorationofSephardicJewishhistory, cultures andtraditions 11th NYSephardic Jewish FilmFestival Thursday, February 1through Wednesday, February 8 Free withMuseumAdmission Max WeinreichCenter/HortMemorial Lecture Doctoralcandidate,JewishLiterature, JewishTheologicalSeminary ofAmerica Peninnah Schram Salvaged Pages: Diaries of the Holocaust American Sephardi Federation withSephardic HouseandtheYeshiva
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2007 February , Director, Jewish Resource Center, Baruch College; Professor Center, Jewish Resource , Director, Dr. Henry Feingold Dr. Winter Wednesdays: A Century of Film on the Lower East Side A Century of Film on Winter Wednesdays: of a generation of Jewish thinkers in shaping that history. Director: Joseph Dorman. Guest Director: thinkers in shaping that history. of a generation of Jewish Speaker: Wednesday, February 28 February Wednesday, 7pm Arguing This intellectualism. was a hotbed of Jewish during the 1930s, City College, New York’s the from minds to emerge of the greatest of four and follows the careers, World story, film tells the Irving Howe, and Irving Kristol - and Bell, Nathan Glazer, that environment - Daniel peculiar role of American intellectual history and of the both provides a powerful record of History, Baruch College and The Graduate Center, CUNY. USA, 1998. 106 mins. USA, 1998. 106 mins. CUNY. The Graduate Center, Baruch College and of History, students and seniors $10/$5 for AJHS members,
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Beth Wenger of Pennsylvania. USA, 1988. 97 mins. $10/$5 for AJHS members, students and seniors Jewish upbringing. Her grandmother (Reizl Bozyk), unhappy with her unmarried status, unhappy with her unmarried Her grandmother (Reizl Bozyk), upbringing. Jewish a nice Jewish Miles) to introduce her to intervenes, and contracts a matchmaker (Sylvia but the situation to date pickle salesman, Sam Posner, agrees man. Isabelle reluctantly Director: assumptions. her of some rethink to her forces Isabelle (Amy Irving) manages a New York City bookstore Isabelle (Amy Irving) manages a New York and her life revolves around the between feels she conflict the resolve She is trying to intellectual friends she meets there. traditional down-to-earth more to fit into this “urbane” environment, and her desire her Wednesday, February 21 February Wednesday, 7pm Crossing Delancey YIVO $15/ $7 students. and define themselves to themselves and others? In the diaspora and Israel, are the are Israel, to themselves and others? In the diaspora and and define themselves difficulties arise what of the 21st century, Given the new realities descriptions different? from these differences? Are We a People: The Anomalies of Jewish Identity Identity Anomalies of Jewish The We a People: Are and Religion of Faith; a Unique Coincidence of Nation A People and Community political thinkers, pre-eminent one of America’s Considered describe how Jews questions. How does being both affect insights into age-old, provocative Tuesday, February 20 February Tuesday, 7pm Sephardi Federation. Free Admission 10:30am Jewish Music Forum Music Jewish 10:30am Ladino Recordings of Commercial A Century Record: on Music Sephardic Seroussi Professor Edwin Respondent: Friday, February 16 February Friday,
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