SPRING 2016 CONCERTS | TOURS | TALKS | CLASSES FAMILY & SCHOOL PROGRAMS EGG ROLLS, EGG CREAMS & EMPANADAS FESTIVAL 5/26 3/13 4/13 Hot Pstromi Eléonore Weill Ben Lapidus Allison Charney Our concert series presents 4/17 Jewish musical traditions at risk of disappearing and looks at the way Jewish music both influences and draws inspiration from other cultural traditions. Lost & Found Music Herencia Judia with Benjamin Lapidus The Jewish Music of Provence Wednesday, April 13 at 7 pm with Eléonore Weill, Pete Rushefsky, $25 adults; $15 students and seniors Jake Shulman-Ment and Jordon Morton Guitarist Ben Lapidus and Herencia Judía—featuring Jorge Sunday, March 13 at 3 pm Bringas, Manuel Alejandro Carro, Cantor Samuel Levine, Onel $25 adults; $15 students and seniors Mulet, and Felix Sanabria—present an Afro-Latin take on Jewish This quartet of celebrated klezmer musicians delves into the liturgy. Enjoy a joyous musical and spiritual journey as the group lost corners of the Yiddish-speaking communities of Europe explores the music of Jewish holidays and daily prayers as well and discovers a treasure trove of Judéo-Provençal songs. as a wide range of Afro-Latin genres like bomba, plena, son, Enjoy beautiful melodies from France, Romania, Moldova changüí, comparsa, danzón, and the Yoruba traditions of Cuba. and Ukraine with Eléonore Weill (wooden flutes), Pete Rushefsky (tsimbl), Jake Shulman-Ment (violin) and I Am for My Beloved: Jordon Morton (bass). A Concert of Jewish Classical Music with Allison Charney and Arts Ahimsa Jewish Folk and Café Music Sunday, April 17 at 3 pm with Deborah Karpel and Ismail Butera $25 adults; $15 students and seniors Wednesday, March 30 at 7 pm This beautiful concert on the theme of love and peace features $25 adults; $15 students and seniors acclaimed soprano Allison Charney, violinist Laura Goldberg, In this lively concert, musical duo Deborah Karpel (vocals) and the Arts Ahimsa chamber ensemble, and veteran actor Jordan Ismail Butera (accordion) perform folk and café melodies that Charney. They will premiere gloriously uplifting music by emerged from diverse Jewish immigrant communities, including composers Kim D. Sherman and Moshe S. Knoll, including a Yiddish, Sephardic, Eastern European and American Jewish. string quartet piece inspired by the hometown of the Eldridge They will be accompanied by friends Rima Fand (violin) and Street Synagogue’s founding Rabbi, Abraham Aaron Yudelovitch. David Hofstra (bass). Co-sponsored with Kehila Kedosha Janina Synagogue and Museum. Yiddish and Chinese Folk Music with Hot Pstromi and EastRiver Ensemble Thursday, May 26 at 7 pm $25 adults; $15 students and seniors Presenting a mash-up of Chinese and Yiddish folk music traditions! In this joyous concert, violinist Yale Strom’s Hot Pstromi and the EastRiver Ensemble explore the historical and musical connections between the Russian Jews and Chinese who lived together in Harbin, China from the turn The beautiful cover drawing was created by illustrator Anna Nadler (www.AnnaNadler.com) at one of the Museum’s 2015 Open Houses for Artists and Photographers. of the twentieth century through World War II. Deborah Karpel | Ismail Butera RSVP & information: eldridgestreet.org | 212.219.0888 x205 3/16 4/7 4/10 Debbie Wells Stars in the Ring Book Launch with Mike Silver Tuesday, April 5 from 6:30 to 8 pm Pay What You Wish Talks & Walks Relive an era when fabulous boxers named “Slapsie Maxie” Rosenbloom, Ruby Goldstein Remembering the Women (“The Jewel of the Ghetto”), and Leach Cross (“The Fighting of the Triangle Fire Dentist”), literally fought their way out of poverty to become Talk with Debbie Wells instant heroes to a generation struggling to enter the social Wednesday, March 16 at 7 pm and economic mainstream. At this reception, lecture, and book Pay What You Wish signing we will celebrate the publication of historian Mike Annie Nicholas, an eighteen-year-old Russian Jewish immigrant, Silver’s Stars in the Ring: Jewish Champions in the Golden worked as a button-maker at the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory. Age of Boxing (Lyons Press). Tragically on March 25, 1911, she and 145 other workers— mainly young Italian and Jewish women—died as a fire broke Yearning to Breathe Free: The American out on the factory floors. Debbie Wells, Co-Founder and Jewish Response to the Refugee Crisis Partner of Artful Circle, relates the story of her husband’s family Thursday, April 7 at 7 pm who are descendants of Annie Nicholas, and traces how the Ticket $12 adults, $10 for students and seniors fire sparked the rise of the labor union movement and fire At this important round-table event, speakers from HIAS safety regulations in America. (Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society), the American Jewish Historical Society, and newly settled refugees discuss the mounting crisis Don’t Let My Baby and the American Jewish response. Do Rodeo Co-sponsored by the Anne Frank Center USA and the Multifaith Alliance for Syrian Refugees: A project of the Tanenbaum Center for Interreligious Book Launch with Boris Fishman Understanding in Cooperation with JDC Tuesday, March 29 from 6:30 to 8 pm Pay What You Wish Pre-Passover Nosh & Stroll Join us for a reading and wine reception Sunday, April 10 from 10:45 am to 12:45 celebrating the publication of author $28 per person; RSVP required at nycjewishtours.org Boris Fishman’s moving and often hilarious Includes a nosh and meets in front of Bialystoker Synagogue, second novel Don’t Let My Baby Do 7-11 Bialystoker Place/Willett Street Rodeo (Harper Collins, 2016), about Russian- This tasty tour starts at the Bialystoker Synagogue, where we’ll Jewish immigrants in New Jersey who adopt ooh and aah over Tiffany-inspired stained glass and zodiac a boy from Montana who turns out to be murals. From there we’ll visit Beth Hamedrash Hagadol and wild. Looking for answers, the family goes other sites of Jewish signifi cance on the Lower East Side. west for the first time in their American To get you ready for Passover, we’ll stop by The Pickle Guys lives, but it’s the parents who are forever where they will be preparing horseradish for the holiday, and transformed when they finally meet their end at our landmark site, the 1887 Eldridge Street Synagogue, adopted country. for a delicious nosh and talk from our friends at Streit’s Matzos. Co-sponsored with the Lower East Side Jewish Conservancy. Thanks to Streit’s Matzos for their kosher food donation. RSVP & information: eldridgestreet.org | 212.219.0888 x205 MORE TALKS & WALKS Balabustas! A Mother’s Day Walking Tour Sunday, May 8 from 11 am to 1 pm $35 per person; RSVP required Kate Milford at nycjewishtours.org Includes a mimosa toast and light brunch For Mother’s Day, explore Jewish women’s history of the Lower East Side. We’ll begin with a mimosa toast in the historic dining After Hours room of the Henry Street Settlement Explore our landmark in a relaxed and intimate setting. where we will hear about our first Lower Different than the daytime museum experience, After Hours East Side heroine, Lillian Wald. Then features hands-on tours, trivia nights, story slams and follow in the footsteps of generations other fun events, along with a wine reception. of neighborhood women, discovering synagogues, shops, settlement houses, Beyond the Façade: Art & Architecture Tour a mikvah, and even a red light district. We’ll Thursday, March 10 from 6:30 to 8:30 pm end with a tour and a light brunch courtesy of Kossar’s Bialys at the Museum at Eldridge Street. $30 per person Co-presented with the Lower East Side Jewish Conservancy. Discover the synagogue’s most surprising features while Thanks to Kossar’s Bialys for their kosher food donation. enjoying a glass of wine and good company. See if you can detect what is original and what is restored. Learn about the Yiddish Culture in the Age of the Start-up building’s newest element, a contemporary stained-glass Sunday, May 15 at 3 pm artwork by artist Kiki Smith and architect Deborah Gans. $12 adults; $10 students and seniors Co-sponsored with Brooklyn Brainery Yiddish is often seen as a dying language. But the last decade has seen a younger, secular generation of Yiddish lovers launch Treasures of the Archives websites, start and reform organizations, and even found a Thursday, June 23 from 6:30 to 8:30 pm Yiddish-speaking farm. Who are these new Yiddishists? What, $30 per person if anything, defines Yiddish culture in the age of the start-up? See rarely displayed Judaica and artifacts from the Museum’s This panel brings together prominent scholars and activists of collection and some surprise objects from the City Reliquary’s New Yiddishism: Sarah Zarrow, managing editor of In geveb: Lower East Side collection on this behind-the-scenes tour of the A Journal of Yiddish Studies; Sandy Fox, doctoral candidate Eldridge Street Synagogue. After, enjoy a wine reception. at NYU; Ross Perlin, of the Endangered Language Alliance; Co-sponsored with City Reliquary Dmitri Zisl Slepovich, ethnomusicologist and leader of the band Litvakus; and Eitan Kensky of the Yiddish Book Center who will serve as moderator. Co-sponsored with the Yiddish Book Center Kate Milford RSVP & information: eldridgestreet.org | 212.219.0888 x205 MARCH 1, 8, 15, 22, 29 Jews and Christians Class (Morning) 3, 10, 17, 24 & 31 Not Just the Weekly Torah Portion 7, 14, 21, 28 Mapping and Making of Brooklyn 8, 15, 22, 29 Jews and Christians Class (Evening) 10 After Hours Art & Architecture Tour 13 Jewish Music of Provence 16 Remembering the Women of the Triangle Fire Jane Jacobs 29 Don’t Let My Baby Do Rodeo Book Launch 30 Jewish Folk and Cafe Music COMMEMORATIVE LECTURE SERIES Celebrating the Centennial of Jane Jacobs’ Birth Presented with the APRIL 5 Stars in the Ring Book Launch 5, 12 Jews and Christians Classes (Morning & Evening) Jane Jacobs (1916-2006) was a writer whose work changed 7, 14 Not Just the Weekly Torah Portion the way the world views and understands cities.