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February 2007 American Jewish Historical Society NON PROFIT ORG American Sephardi Federation US postage Leo Baeck Institute paid Yeshiva University Museum NEW YORK - NY YIVO Institute for Jewish Research PERMIT NO. O4568 15 West 16th Street, New York, NY 10011 Phone 212.294.8301 Fax 212.294.8302 wwww.cjh.org PROGRAMS &EX YIVO InstituteforJewishResearch Y Leo BaeckInstitute American SephardiFederation American JewishHistoricalSociety HIBITIONS eshiva UniversityMuseum Phone 212.294.8301 Fax 212.294.8302 wwww.cjh.org 212.294.8302 Fax Phone 212.294.8301 J ANUARY 15 West 16th Street, New York, NY 10011 NY10011 York, New 15 West16thStreet, -F EBRUARY 2007 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 4 5 CONTINUING EXHIBITIONS 2007 CONTINUING EXHIBITIONS 2007 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
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