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HESHVAN//TEVET 5777 NEWSLETTER/VOLUME 29:2 NOVEMBER/DECEMBER 2016 Machlokis, Tzuris & Achdus: Disputes, Troubles, and Unity During the Iconic Period of Jewish Settlement in NYC with Barry Feldman Four Sundays, November 13 & 20 and December 11 & 18, 10 am–12 noon r Zarua Congregant community will be discussed. Participants and the need for competing expressions of Barry Feldman will present cases and verdicts. to coalesce and present a united community to New York and to themselves. will be leading • Session 2 (November 20) a four-session An analysis of the Bintel Brief Letters sent • Session 4 (December 18) Oethnographic and historical to the Forward reveals the changing The last session will be a tour highlighting inquiry into institutions needs and concerns of letter writers over selected sites discussed in class and a and incidents that shaped the years as accommodated to life in visit to the Bialystoker Synagogue and a American Jewry during the iconic period of America. traditional shtibl. immigration at the turn of the 20th century. Each session will involve discussion; class • Session 3 (December 11) Barry is an urban historian, museum participation is urged. Sholem Aleichem Died: Let’s Go to a educator, and licensed New York City tour Simcha speaks to the emerging coalescence guide. He has created and developed tours • Session 1 (November 13) of New York’s Jewish Community in the of the Jewish Lower East Side covering the You Be the Judge presents cases brought to first quarter of the 20th century. Questions late 18th century to the present. In the fall the Jewish–American Board of Conciliation. addressed will refer to the reworking of of 2014, he taught a class at OZ about the The need of the court for a Yiddish- traditional organizations to reflect American growth of the Jewish population of New York speaking population, the types of cases sensibilities; the role of the Yiddish press from the end of 19th to the beginning of the presented, and how they reflect the changing in facilitating accommodation to America; 20th century. Printed Matters: The Art of Mark Podwal Opening Sunday, November 6, 6:00 pm ow do we regard the Gallery of the Eldridge Street Synagogue at his office on the Upper East Side. So, thee, Mark Podwal? and was featured in the Berlin Jewish which is it: patients or paintings? Which Let us count the Museum’s show on the Golem. A portfolio of is vocation, and which is avocation? As ways: renowned Podwal prints — originally displayed in the Podwal told an interviewer for QUEENS: The HJewish artist, author, political Czech Republic’s Terezin Ghetto Museum — Magazine of Queens College, “Basically I’m cartoonist, filmmaker, New was shown at the Godwin-Ternbach Museum a juggler. As a physician I believe in science. York Times op-ed contributor, at Queens College, Podwal’s alma mater, last As an artist I believe set designer, and illustrator of books for spring. in legends…. adults and children. His art has been Several of these prints are included in I’m interested in acquired and displayed by museums and the OZ Gallery’s new exhibition, Printed narrative art, art libraries around the world, including the Matters. At the opening, on Sunday evening, that has some Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Victoria and November 6th, Podwal is scheduled to speak meaning, is not just Albert Museum, the Vatican, Yad Vashem, on the subject “Drawing Is a Form of Prayer.” for decoration.” the Bodleian Library, and numerous other This one-person exhibition coincides with As a child university libraries as well as . the publication of a beautiful monograph growing up in His subje