DISCUSSIONS

October 24

October 28

BOOKSBOOKS

October 30

November 28

FILM
November 18

CONCERTS

October 8-10

October 17

November 7

PERFORMANCE

November 14

SPECIAL CONCERT SERIES

Monday, October 8, 7 P.M.

Tuesday, October 9, 7 P.M.

Wednesday, October 10, 7 P.M.

idan Raichel

Songs for Peace: The Acoustic Series

Featuring Idan Raichel, with Colombian singer/songwriter Marta Gomez, New African Jazz and Soul artist Somi, Ethiopian-Israeli singer Cabra Casay, and percussion master Itamar Doari.

Join Israeli artist Idan Raichel for his very first series of intimate acoustic concerts in New York. Idan, who was featured in Central Park's popular 2007 Summerstage series, blends the unique sounds of Israel’s cultural tradition with styles from around the world for a sound that Billboard calls "a multi-ethnic tour de force.". Showcasing new and old musical partnerships, Idan and his guests will celebrate the universal language of music.

The New York Times has named the The Idan Raichel Project one of the 2007’s best world music albums; the debut CD went multi-platinum in Israel, receiving Best Single, Artist of the Year, and Best Album awards. 

These concerts are part of the Daniel Pearl Music Days, and is presented in conjunction with the Holocaust and United Nations Outreach Program, established to raise awareness of the Holocaust and to help prevent genocide.

Co-sponsored by Israel at Heart

This program is made possible through the generous support of Mrs. Avery Fisher.

Tickets:

Reserved seating: $45, $30 each night.

Members receive a $5 discount on each ticket.  Discounts available for groups of 10 or more.

*One Night Only

A limited number of $75 VIP tickets are available for the Wednesday, October 10 show.

Ticket purchase includes a post-concert wine reception with Idan and his special guests.

CONCERT

Wednesday, October 17, 7 P.M.

Vladimir Feltsman

Virtuoso Pianist: Music from Poland

and Russia

Since his arrival in the U.S. from the Soviet Union in 1987, world-class pianist Vladimir Feltsman has graced every major concert hall in the country, including notable performances at Carnegie Hall and the White House. This fall the dynamic artist will perform music from Poland's keyboard master, Chopin, and one of Russia's most dramatic piano pieces: Mussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition. Feltsman's celebrated version of the epic work has been called "electrifying" and the "best live performance" by top critics from The New York Times to the Seattle Times.

Peabody award-winning broadcaster and producer Elliot Forrest will interview

Mr. Feltsman in a post-concert conversation.

This program is made possible through the generous support of Mrs. Avery Fisher

Tickets:

Reserved seating: $35, $25, $15.

Members receive a $5 discount on each ticket.  Discounts available for groups of 10 or more.

*A private dinner with Mr. Feltsman will follow the performance. To purchase tickets for the dinner, please call Becky Strauss, Assistant Director of Annual Giving, at 646.437.4321.

DISCUSSION

wednesday, October 24, 7 P.M.

Catskills on Film

Moderated by Phil Brown, founder and president, the Catskills Institute and professor, Brown University; with Shelly Altman, screenwriter, Sweet Lorraine; Pamela Gray, screenwriter, A Walk on the Moon; and Joan Micklin Silver, director, Hester Street and Crossing Delancey

Our panel of filmmakers will pay tribute to the heyday of the Catskills and its depiction in film.  Panelists will share favorite clips from their classic movies, and discuss current projects that explore the once-thriving Jewish resort scene. 

This program is presented in conjunction with the special exhibition: The Other Promised Land: Vacationing, Identity, and the Jewish-American Dream.

Tickets:

$10 adults, $7 students/seniors, $5 members

SYMPOSIUM

Sunday, October 28, 1-5 PM

Jewish Resistance Reconsidered  

With Yehuda Bauer, professor emeritus, Hebrew University of Jerusalem; Judy Baumel-Schwartz, associate professor, Bar-Ilan University, Israel;

David Engel, professor, New York University;

Israel Gutman, professor emeritus, Hebrew Univeristy of Jerusalem; Yitzchak Mais, exhibition curator; and Robert Shapiro, assistant professor, Brooklyn College, CUNY. 

Leading Jewish scholars from Israel and North America will discuss the Museum’s groundbreaking exhibit, which shatters the myth that Jews went passively to their deaths during the Holocaust.  Speakers will consider the context in which Jews found themselves, struggling against the overwhelming strength and ruthlessness of their enemy.  The panel will expand the definition of defiance to include the range of activities that Jews engaged in, and will explore underlying aspects of Jewish identity that left Jews both prepared and unprepared to confront the atrocities that they faced.  

This symposium will honor the achievements of professor Israel Gutman, a resistance fighter in the Warsaw ghetto uprising and leading Israeli Holocaust historian. 

This program has been made possible in part by a generous gift from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany: Rabbi Israel Miller Fund for Shoah Research, Documentation and Education.

This program is presernted in conjunction with the exhibition: Daring to Resist: Jewish Defiance in the Holocaust.

Tickets:

$12 adults, $10 students/seniors, free for members

Free admission to Daring to Resist: Jewish Defiance in the Holocaust with ticket purchase.

BOOK

Tuesday, October 30, 7 P.M.

The Dreyfus Affair: a Democratic Legacy

With Vincent Duclert, professor agrégé, École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales

In 1894, French-Jewish military officer Alfred Dreyfus was imprisoned on charges of treason; more than ten years passed before Dreyfus was exonerated and readmitted into the army. Centuries later, scholars still point to the trial as a turning point in French politics. In his new biography, L'honneur d'un Patriote (2006). Professor Duclert will discuss the ways in which collective memory of the Dreyfus affair have influenced current ideas of democracy and mobilized movements against anti-Semitism in France.

Tickets:

$5 all tickets, free for members

sunday, November 18, 2:30 P.M.

Ulica Granicza (Border Street)

(Poland, 1948, 122 minutes, Beta SP)

Introduction and post-screening discussion with professor Stuart Liebman, CUNY Graduate Center

Recreating the final days of the Warsaw Ghetto uprising, director Aleksander Ford explores war and resistance from the perspective of children: young Jewish boys plotting for their own survival, and non-Jewish Poles rejecting the Nazi occupation as an insult to their Polish heritage. This film follows their fight against a common enemy, striving toward the same goal, with very different stakes at hand. 

Screened in conjunction with the exhibition:

Daring to Resist: Jewish Defiance in the Holocaust.

Tickets: 

$10 adults, $7 students/seniors, $5 members

TOP

BOOK

Wednesday, November 28, 7 P.M.

Holocaust Odysseys: The Jews of Saint-Martin-Vésubie and Their Flight through France and Italy

(Yale University Press, 2007)

With author Susan Zuccotti

[Zuccotti] helps turn painful memories into valuable history

-Publishers Weekly

In her newest book, Susan Zuccotti uncovers the chilling stories of nine central and eastern European Jewish families displaced to France, and later to Italy, during the war.  Faced with escalating danger, these Jewish refugees endured intense persecution, were deported to Auschwitz, or were forced to disperse in flight.  Zuccotti describes their agonizing struggle, and the evolution of France’s policies toward Jews.

Susan Zuccotti is an independent historian living in New York City and author of the award-winning Under His Very Windows: The Vatican and the Holocaust in Italy.

This program is part of the Museum’s book club, Looking Back, Facing Forward, co-sponsored by the Forward and moderated by its associate editor, Gabriel Sanders.

Tickets:

$5 all tickets, free for members