SPRING 2016
CONCERTS | TOURS | TALKS | CLASSES FAMILY & SCHOOL PROGRAMS EGG ROLLS, EGG CREAMS & EMPANADAS FESTIVAL 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. Co-sponsored with Kehila Kedosha Janina Synagogue and Museum. and Synagogue Janina Kedosha Kehila with Co-sponsored (bass). Hofstra David and (violin) Fand Rima friends by accompanied be will They Jewish. American and European Eastern Sephardic, Yiddish, including communities, immigrant Jewish diverse from emerged that melodies café and folk perform (accordion) Butera Ismail and (vocals) KarpelDeborah duo musical concert, lively this In seniors and students $15 adults; $25 pm 7 at 30 March Wednesday, with DeborahKarpelandIsmailButera Music Café and Folk Jewish (bass). 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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.
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$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
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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 COMMEMORATIVE LECTURE SERIES 30 Jewish Folk and Cafe Music 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. She was an 7 The American Jewish Response advocate of direct observation to understand how places to the Refugee Crisis function, evolve and fail, emphasizing the importance of local 10 Pre-Passover Nosh & Stroll wisdom over distant expertise. She introduced ground-breaking 13 Herencia Judia Concert ideas in The Death and Life of Great American Cities (1961) contradicting traditional planning theories and urban renewal 17 Matzo Madness Family Program policies. On the centennial year of her birth, the Museum at 17 Jewish Classical Music Concert Eldridge Street and the Center for the Living City present a year-long series of lectures featuring important voices in journalism, architecture, preservation and urban design. MAY All events are introduced by award-winning author and 3 Jew and Christians Class (Morning) preservationist Roberta Brandes Gratz. 3, 10 Jews and Christians Class (Evening) Michael Kimmelman, 4 Jane Jacobs Lecture | Michael Kimmelman Architecture Critic for 5 Not Just the Weekly Torah Portion The New York Times 8 Mother’s Day Walking Tour Wednesday, May 4 at 6:30 pm 15 All of a Kind Family Walking Tour Pay What You Wish 15 Yiddish Culture in the Age of the Start-up 26 Yiddish and Chinese Folk Music Elizabeth Barlow Rogers, Landscape Designer and Preservationist Wednesday, June 15 at 6:30 pm
Pay What You Wish JUNE 1, 8, 15, 22 Fall speakers will include Mindy Fullilove, How to Advocate for Yourself in the World Paul Goldberger, Adam Gopnik, Sanford Ikeda, 15 Jane Jacobs Lecture | Elizabeth Barlow Rogers
Richard Rabinowitz, Janette Sadik-Khan, Calendar of Upcoming Events 19 Egg Rolls, Egg Creams & Empanadas Festival Richard Sennett, Saskia Sessen, Richard Sennett, 23 After Hours Treasures of the Archive Ronald Shiffman, Ray Suarez and Darren Walker.
RSVP & information: eldridgestreet.org | 212.219.0888 x205 EGG ROLLS, Celebrate the diverse ethnic communities of the Museum’s Lower East Side/ EGG CREAMS Chinatown neighborhood. This block party, which began as a celebration of & EMPANADAS Jewish and Chinese art, culture and community, has become our signature event with thousands of people joining FESTIVAL us every year. By popular demand, we have expanded the festival to also Sunday, June 19 showcase the contributions of the 12–4 pm | Free neighborhood’s Puerto Rican community. Anna Shneyderman What to expect? Lots of fun, including klezmer, cantorial, Peking opera, bomba and plena music; Yiddish, Mandarin and Spanish lessons; Hebrew and Chinese scribal art, yarmulke making, Chinese and Puerto Rican mask making; games of Mah Jongg; community arts and crafts; and, of course, kosher egg rolls, egg creams, empanadas and other tasty traditional foods! Kate Milford David Hogarty
Funding for the festival is provided in part by NYC & Co. Foundation/MBPO Cultural Tourism, New York City Council/ The Honorable Margaret Chin; New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in Partnership with the City Council, New York State Council on the Arts, and the National Endowment for the Arts.
RSVP & information: eldridgestreet.org | 212.219.0302 Experience the richness of Jewish history and culture from biblical times to the present in the Lifelong Learning Museum’s open, pluralistic and historic environment.
Not Just the Weekly Torah Portion The Mapping and with Dr. Regina Stein Morris Kaplan Scholar in Residence Making of Brooklyn Thursdays, March 3, 10, 17, 24, 31, April 7, 14, May 5 with Barry Feldman, from 11 am to 12:30 pm Urban Historian $120 for eight-session class; $20 per class; RSVP required Monday Mornings, Bring your questions and opinions as we explore a variety March 7, 14, 21, 28 of issues raised by the Torah portion each week. Knowledge from 11 am to 12:30 pm of Hebrew and previous Torah study are not required. $75 for four-session class; RSVP required Jews and Christians: There has always been a mystique From Beginnings to Communities about Brooklyn: its distinctive speech with Dr. Regina Stein Morris Kaplan Scholar in Residence patterns, ethnic neighborhoods, feisty Tuesday Evenings, March 8, 15, 22, 29, April 5, 12, attitudes, cultural institutions and the May 3, 10 | from 6:30 to 8 pm Dodgers. The borough’s recent renaissance suggests Brooklyn’s popularity will extend well into the twenty-first $120 for eight-session class; RSVP required century. This four-session class will map Brooklyn’s history Who was Jesus? How did his fellow Jews respond to his from the colonial period to the present, and explore its diverse teachings? Why was he crucifi ed? Given that Rabbinic Judaism neighborhoods and demographics, cultural institutions and developed at the same time, how did they impact each other? famous personalities. Vibrant class participation, nostalgia, Why and how did Jews and Christians become mutually memories and items of material culture are encouraged. exclusive? These are some of the questions we will explore as we analyze both Jewish and Christian sources that paint very different portraits of these movements. How to Advocate for Yourself in the World with Betsy Gotbaum Wednesday Mornings, June 1, 8, 15 and 22 Jews and Christians: from 11 am to 12:30 pm Semester II, The Early Years $75 for a four-session class; RSVP required with Dr. Regina Stein Morris Kaplan Scholar in Residence There are many definitions of the word advocate and hundreds Tuesday Mornings, March 1, 8, 15, 22, 29, of advocacy groups. As former Public Advocate of the city of April 5, 12, May 3 | from 11 am to 12:30 pm New York, Betsy Gotbaum will describe how she interprets the $120 for eight-session class; RSVP required role of this position, what were the important issues she The life and teachings of Jesus came to be interpreted and confronted and where people can turn to within and without revised by his disciples—most signifi cantly by Paul. What were city agencies when confronted with a myriad of problems She the issues over which Paul and the other disciples disagreed? will give examples of problems and issues, and ask the class How did these disagreements affect the development of to share their own experiences with advocacy. Christianity? What impact did these developments have on the Rabbinic Judaism which was fl owering at the same time? Lifelong learning classes are funded, in part, by the Alice Lawrence When and why did Jews and Christians come to a parting of Foundation with support provided by the Edouard Foundation, Marta Jo Lawrence, Epstein Teicher Philanthropies, The Marc Haas Foundation, the the ways? These are some of the questions we will explore Lucius N. Littauer Foundation, the Leo Rosner Foundation, New York State as we analyze a variety of sources that paint very different Council on the Arts, and the NYC Department of Cultural Affairs, in portraits of these movements from the late 1st through partnership with the City Council. the 6th centuries. RSVP & information: eldridgestreet.org | 212.219.0888 x205 “The tour fit perfectly with our curriculum and areas of interest by covering both details about the Jewish immigrant experience as well as ways of worship. The synagogue was beautiful and exceeded expectations!” —Grade 4 Teacher, British International School “Rich with information and tons of fun. The students enjoyed listening to the history and the change of New York. They learned from the pre-visit, the introduction, and the tour.”—Grade 2 Teacher, PS 2
Preservation Kate Milford School Detectives Programs Explore a world filled with color, stories and secrets at our Learn about Immigrant History, family programs. Each month Architecture, Jewish Holidays and Culture features a different theme, Sunday–Thursday from 10 am to 4 pm a colorful art project, and a $6 per K–12 student; $8 college student; new discovery. $10 per adult chaperone; subsidies available
Matzo Madness! Write, sketch, and hunt for clues! Students of all ages and Sunday, April 17 backgrounds explore the 1887 Eldridge Street Synagogue from 11 am to 1 pm as they enjoy interactive programs about immigration, architecture, Jewish holidays and culture, and the ever-changing $20 per family | For ages 4–11 neighborhood of the Lower East Side. All programs are aligned Prizes, surprises, and plagues so sweet, they won’t scare with the Common Core Standards and are customized to anyone away! It’s Matzo Madness at Eldridge Street! support the classroom curriculum and a variety of learning Preservation Detectives make edible plagues, holiday art, and styles. Please see our website at eldridgestreet.org/education for discover Eldridge’s own story of freedom on a special Passover information on access and homeschool programs. scavenger hunt.
All of a Kind Family Walking Tour Sunday, May 15 from 11 am to 12:30 pm
$20 per family | For ages 4–11 Kate Milford Enchanting young readers for generations, All of a Kind Family tells the story of five sisters growing up on the Lower East Side a century ago. Stroll through the story and onto the streets as we bring Sydney Taylor’s beloved novel to life. Along the way, taste pickles from a barrel and shop for treats in an old fashioned candy store! Kate Milford
RSVP & information: eldridgestreet.org | 212.219.0302 x6 Thank You The Museum’s educational and cultural programs are supported, in part, with institutional grants provided by:
David Berg Foundation Rene Bloch Foundation Brenner Family Foundation The Chazen Foundation Elias A. Cohen Foundation William and Dewey Edelman Charitable Trust The Edouard Foundation, Inc. Eisenberg Family Foundation Epstein Teicher Philanthropies Foundation Abraham and Mildred Goldstein Charitable Trust The Marc Haas Foundation J. Ira and Nicki Harris Family Foundation Jewish Community Youth Foundation William H. Kearns Foundation The Eugene Lang Foundation The Blanche and Irving Laurie Foundation The Alice Lawrence Foundation Samuel Levy Foundation Space Rental The Lucius N. Littauer Foundation Celebrate your life cycle or special occasion in one of New York Manhattan Borough President’s Office/ City’s most magnificent and historic spaces. The Eldridge Street The Honorable Gale Brewer Synagogue is an 1887 National Historic Landmark located in Y. H. Mirzoeff & Sons Foundation, Inc. the heart of the Lower East Side. The building has been Museum Association of New York meticulously restored and named “Architecture’s Ten Best” by National Endowment for the Arts The New Yorker and New York Magazine. New York City Council/The Honorable Margaret Chin NYC & Company Foundation Our glorious main sanctuary is a unique and beautiful site for New York City Department for the Aging/ a wedding ceremony, film shoot, birthday, memorial, reunion, The Honorable Donna M. Corrado corporate event, board meeting and more. The Museum offers New York City Department of Cultural Affairs you the opportunity to host an elegant affair or a casual in Partnership with the City Council get-together. Our site can accommodate up to 350 people. New York State Council on the Arts with the support of All events must use a certified kosher caterer. Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Legislature Information: Call 212.219.0888 x204 or Leo Rosner Foundation email [email protected]. Charles and Mildred Schnurmacher Foundation, Inc. The Silver Family Foundation Stainman Family Foundation Inc. Judy and Warren Tenney Foundation Oscar J. Tolmas Charitable Trust Michael Tuch Foundation, Inc. The Zankel Foundation
As of February 1, 2016 photos: Craig Paulson
RSVP & information: eldridgestreet.org | 212.219.0888 About Kate Milford Museum Hours and Admission Sunday–Thursday from 10 am to 5 pm Friday from 10 am to 3 pm Synagogue tours are offered on the hour.
$14 adults; $10 students/seniors $8 children 5-17; Children under 5 are free Pay what you wish on Monday 12 Eldridge Street Between Canal and Division Streets B & D train to Grand Street; F train to East Broadway Pay What You Wish Mondays are supported by the Manhattan Borough President’s Office, New York City Council/The Honorable Margaret Chin, New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, New York State Council on the Arts, and the NYC Department for the Aging.
The Museum at Eldridge Street, a non-sectarian cultural organization in Lower Manhattan, preserves and interprets the historic 1887 Eldridge Street Synagogue, a magnificent National Historic Landmark that has been meticulously restored. Exhibits, tours, cultural events and educational programs tell the story of Jewish immigrant life at the turn of the last century, explore architecture and historic preservation, inspire reflection on cultural continuity, and foster inter-group collaboration and exchange. Erika Parry
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