15 West 16th Street, New York City, NY 10011 (Btwn. Fifth & Sixth Avenues) Box Office: Call Smarttix at 212-868-4444 or visit www.smarttix.com Subway: Union Sq.-14 St. 14 St. & 6 Ave. 14 St. & 7 Ave. 18 St. & 7 Ave. 14 St. & 8 Ave. Hours: Mon.-Thurs. 9:30am-5pm Fri. 9:30am-3pm Sun. 11am-5pm Yeshiva University Museum Hours: Sun. Tues. Wed. Thurs. 11am-5pm NON PROFIT ORG US POSTAGE PAID NEW YORK - NY PERMIT NO. O4568 May/June Events Celebrating the Richness of the Jewish Past, Present and Future The Center for Jewish History, an affiliate of the Smithsonian Institution, is one of the great public Jewish historical and cultural institutions in the world. Opened in October 2000 as the campus to its five Partner organizations - American Jewish Historical Society, American Sephardi Federation, Leo Baeck Institute, Yeshiva University Museum, and YIVO Institute for Jewish Research - the Center has achieved recognition as a venue of unrivalled historical documentation and scholarship, imaginative exhibitions of art and artifacts, and vital public dialogue. The collections of its Partners total more than 500,000 volumes and 100 million archival documents, and include thousands of pieces of artwork, textiles, and ritual objects, as well as music, films, and photographs. They comprise, taken together, the largest repository of the modern Jewish experience outside of Israel. For general information about the Center please contact us at 212-294-8301 or www.cjh.org. May June 2008 Event Schedule AJHS4American Jewish Historical Society ASF4American Sephardi Federation CJH4Center for Jewish History CPL4Centro Primo Levi LBI4Leo Baeck Institute YUM4Yeshiva University Museum YIVO4YIVO Institute for Jewish Research Thursday, May 1 4 7pm Monday, May 12 4 7pm Tuesday, May 20 4 7pm PEN World Voices Festival: Conversation Between Gods and Laws: The Roman Empire and the Rabbis Israel at 60: A. B. Yehoshua and Leon Wieseltier in Pre-Christian Palestine Can It Remain Both Jewish and Democratic? Festival Event Acclaimed as one of Israel’s preeminent writers, Lecture Natalie Dohrmann, PhD, University of Lecture Moshe Halbertal, Professor of Philosophy and A. B. Yehoshua’s award-winning books, which include The Lover, Pennsylvania will speak about Late Antiquity, one of the Jewish Thought, Hebrew University, Jerusalem. Distinguished Open Heart, and A Journey to the End of the Millenium, have most significant eras in Western history, marked by the Israeli philosopher, scholar and writer Moshe Halbertal raises been widely translated. Don’t miss this special evening with emergence of Christianity and Rabbinic Judaism, and the fundamental questions about the future of Israeli society. Yehoshua as he discusses a lifetime in literature, fact in fiction, forces that led to the dramatic appearance of Islam in the YIVO 4 $15 general, $13 YIVO members, $7 students writing politics and atonement with Leon Wieseltier, Literary Editor early Middle Ages. She will give an overview of the era, of The New Republic. with special focus on the period from 200 to 650 C.E. Wednesday, May 21 4 6 pm CJH/PEN 4 $15 general, $10 CJH and PEN members We will imagine the complex and perhaps unexpected American Jewish Historical Society world shared and shaped by Jews, Christians and Pagans. Emma Lazarus Statue of Liberty Award Dinner 4 Monday, May 5 7pm Full program at www.primolevicenter.org. Reception Honors Jewish chaplains who led survivors Silversmiths and Literati: CPL/Center for Advanced Judaic Studies at the University from DP camps to Israel and the U.S. from 1945 to 1953 of Pennsylvania 4 $15 general, $5 students Jewish Family and Society in 19th Century Modena and Sid Lapidus, Chairman, for his deep commitment to AJHS. Multimedia Presentation and Reception AJHS 4 For further information call 212-294-6164 CPL4 $10 general Wednesday, May 14 4 7:30pm Jewish Influences in Classical Music: Wednesday, May 28 4 7pm Wednesday, May 7 4 7pm Mendelssohn’s Legacy in the Music of Brahms The Experiences of the Elderly in the Vilna Ghetto From Dachau to D-Day, a Memoir by Werner Kleeman Concert Mendelssohn’s Piano Quartet #3 and Brahms Tell Memorial Lecture Elizabeth Strauss, Lecture & Book Signing The author of this memoir Piano Quartet, Op. 25 in G-minor. Performed by Phoenix University of Notre Dame has recently seen his life story published to international Chamber Ensemble under the direction of Vassa Shevel YIVO 4 Free, reservations required. acclaim, full-scale press coverage around the world, and and Inessa Zaretsky. Please call 212-294-6127 or visit www.yivo.org/events countless invitations for interviews and lectures. CJH - This program is made possible through the LBI 4 $10 general, $5 LBI members generous support of Mr. and Mrs. Leonard Blavatnik. Reservations required, call LBI at 212-744-6400 4 $12 general, $6 students and seniors Thursday, May 8 4 7pm Thursday, May 15 4 7pm Sunday, June 1 4 3pm Poland and the Jews: Before and After the Holocaust Young Artists Exploring Our Heritage: Annual Spring Concert: Lecture Jan Gross, Professor of War and Society; A Journey Where Art Meets History Contemporary Jewish Composers Professor of History, Princeton University will speak about Panel Discussion This panel will discuss how young Concert The music of Paul Richards, Arkadie Kougell, the central question of and Polish reaction to his newest Sephardic Jews are discovering and reconnecting Ofer ben Amotz, M. Samiaten, Paul Schoenfield. book, Fear: Anti-Semitism in Poland After Auschwitz: to their history through their own creative processes. For more information please call 212-294-6160. How, after World War II with over 90% of Polish Jewry Featuring: Michael J. Cohen, co-author, Aromas of Aleppo: AJHS/ASJM 4 $18 general, $12 AJHS/ASJM/CJH killed in the Holocaust, was a pogrom and anti-semitism The Legendary Cuisine of Syrian Jews; Michelle members, students and seniors possible in Kielce, Poland? Gross is also the author of the Ishay-Cohen, producer and art director, Aromas of Aleppo: 2001 National Book Award nominee, Neighbors: The The Legendary Cuisine of Syrian Jews; Lisa Ades, Sunday, June 22 4 1-5pm Destruction of the Jewish Community in Jedwabne, Poland. documentary filmmaker. Moderated by Alana Newhouse, 2nd Annual Family Puppet Festival YIVO 4 $15 general, $13 YIVO members, $7 students Arts & Culture editor of The Forward. Performance & Workshop For children and parents. ASF 4 $10 general, $5 ASF members and students Featuring performances by the Czechoslovak-American Sunday, May 11 4 12-6pm Marionette Theater; Karagiozis, traditional Greek The Temple of Jerusalem: From Moses to the Messiah Thursday, May 15, 2008 4 7pm shadow puppets; hands-on puppet-making workshops Conference In conjunction with the exhibition “Imagining The History of OZE: and demonstrations. the Temple,” the Yeshiva University Center for Israel Studies The Society for the Protection of Jewish Health YUM 4 Free with Museum admission presents its first international conference bringing together Abramowicz Memorial Lecture Rakafet Zalashik, scholars of literature, history, archaeology, art history and New York University political science to discuss the place of the Jerusalem Temple YIVO 4 Free, reservations required. in Jewish, Christian and Moslem thought and history. Please call 212-294-6127 or visit www.yivo.org/events YUM 4 Continues on May 12 at Stern College’s Schottenstein Center at 239 E. 34th St. Free, reservations required. Please call The Ackman & Ziff Family 212-960-0189. Genealogy Institute has extended hours on Monday evenings. It is open to the Save the Date for a special members-only evening. Join us on June 4 for an public Mondays from 9:30 am – 7:30 pm exclusive cocktail reception and behind-the-scenes tour. For more information about this event or and Tuesdays through Thursdays from membership please contact Becky Strauss, 212-294-8305 or [email protected]. 9:30 am – 5 pm. For a complete listing of Yeshiva University Museum family workshops please visit www.yumuseum.org or call 212-294-8330 for more information. Unless otherwise noted, for all reservations and inquiries, please call Smarttix at 212-868-4444 or visit www.smarttix.com..