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Wednesday, November 1, 7 P.M.
sPECIAL ACOUSTIC CONCERT
ivri Lider: Up close And Personal
One of the most successful Israeli rock artists performing today, Ivri Lider’s lyrics and unique voice express the thoughts of a new generation. Lider, a gay activist, composed the original soundtracks for Eytan Fox’s award-winning films Walk on Water and Yossi and Jagger, and the recently released Bubble.
Join Ivri Lider and his special guests for an intimate evening of acoustic music followed by a discussion and wine reception with the artists.
Co- sponsored by Israel at Heart
Reserved seating: $35, $25. Members and students with valid ID receive a $5 discount.
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Wednesday, November 8, 7:30 P.M.
DISCUSSION
20th Century Papal Relationships
with The Jews
Moderated by Sister Mary Boys,
Union Theological Seminary;
with Dr. Frank Coppa, St. John’s University; Rabbi James Rudin, American Jewish Committee; and Dr. Susan Zuccotti,
Columbia University
Even as we celebrate Pope John Paul II’s relationship with the Jewish people, we take this opportunity to put him in an historical and theological context by reflecting on the words and deeds of his twentieth-century papal predecessors — their teachings about Judaism and their attitudes toward the Jewish people. Among the topics under discussion will be papal policies toward conversion, receptivity to Zionism, how Jews are referred to in the church’s liturgical life, and the papacy during the Holocaust. The panel will also offer perspectives on the papacy of Benedict XVI, successor to John Paul II.
Panelists:
Sister Mary Boys is a professor of practical theology at Union Theological Seminary and an adjunct faculty member at the Jewish Theological Seminary. She is the author of four books including the award-winning Has God Only One Blessing? Judaism as a Source of Christian Self-Understanding and Jewish Christian Dialogue: One Woman’s Experience. She has been a member since 1965 of the Sisters of the Holy Names, a congregation of Roman Catholic women.
Dr. Frank J. Coppa is professor of history, director of the doctoral program in modern world history, and director of the Vatican Studies symposium at St. John's University, New York. Dr. Coppa is the author of a series of biographies, including Pope Pius ?: Crusader in a Secular Age (1979) and Cardinal Giacomo Antonelli and Papal Politics in European Affairs (1990).
Rabbi James Rudin is Senior Interreligious Advisor and on the Board of Governors of the American Jewish Committee. He participated in meetings with Pope John Paul II at the Vatican, in World Council of Churches conferences in Geneva, and is founder of the National Interreligious Task Force on Black-Jewish relations. His latest publication is The Baptizing of America: Politics, Piety, and the Coming Theocracy.
Dr. Susan Zuccotti has written three books about the roles of the Italians, French, and Catholics during the Holocaust. Her first book, The Italians and the Holocaust: Persecution, Rescue, and Survival, received the National Jewish Book Award for Holocaust Studies in the United States, and her book Under His Very Windows: The Vatican and the Holocaust in Italy was given the National Jewish Book Award for Jewish-Christian Relations and the Sybil Halpern Milton Prize of the German Studies Association.
$5 all tickets, free for members
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Sunday, November 12, 1:30 P.M.
CONCERT
Jewish Composers: Jerusalem to Broadway
With featured artists Guy Mannheim, tenor, Shirit-Lee Weiss, soprano, and
Dror Baitel, pianist
Join Israeli soprano Shirit-Lee Weiss and Israeli tenor Guy Mannheim, a soloist with the New Israeli Opera, for an exciting musical journey from the streets of Jerusalem, through the shtetls of Eastern Europe and the cities of Western Europe after WWII, to the sparkling lights of Broadway. In a true celebration of the Jewish spirit, the program will include the music and lyrics of world-renowned artists such as Bernstein, Sondheim, and Weill, along with Israeli music by Naomi Shemer, Zohar Argov, and others.
Tenor Guy Mannheim has performed with the New Israeli Opera, the New York Chamber Opera, and in concerts and recitals in Israel, Germany, and New York.
Soprano Shirit-Lee Weiss appears regularly in the contemporary music group Musica Nova in addition to performing in works by young composers, and in musical and children’s theater productions.
$15 adults, $12 seniors, $10 students/members
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Wednesday, november 15, 7 P.M.
BOOKS
Fear: Anti-Semitism in Poland After Auschwitz
Antony Polonsky, professor at Brandeis University
in conversation with author Jan T. Gross
The estimated 10 percent of Polish Jews who survived the Holocaust returned to a hostile and dangerous Poland. They encountered anti-Semitism in everyday relations, experienced difficulties rebuilding their lives, and were victims of outright violence, including murder. In his recently published book, Fear, Jan Gross recounts many post-war
anti-Semitic acts that caused most Polish Jews to flee Poland, never to return.
Antony Polonsky is the Albert Abramson Professor of Holocaust Studies at Brandeis University. He has won the National Jewish Book Award in Eastern European Studies and been awarded the Knight’s Cross, order of merit, Republic of Poland for outstanding services to studies in Polish Jewry.
Jan T. Gross was a 2001 National Book Award nominee for his widely acclaimed Neighbors: The Destruction of the Jewish Community in Jedwabne, Poland. He teaches history at Princeton University, where he is a Norman B. Tomlinson ’16 and ’48 Professor of War and Society.
$10 adults, $7 seniors, $5 students; free for members
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Sunday, November 19, 2:30 P.M.
FILM
Runway
Nearly 2,000 Hungarian women were transported in cattle cars from the Auschwitz concentration camp to the town of Walldorf, Germany in 1944. The women were put to work for several months of grueling, often fatal conditions. In November 2000, nineteen of the survivors returned to Walldorf. Arriving by plane, they touched down on the very runway they helped to build more than half-a-century earlier. They learned of their role in the runway’s construction — and why its assembly had been kept so secret.
This film is a story of how a town came to terms with its regretful history, and how faith in humanity is restored in the minds of a handful of women who thought it lost forever.
Walldorf survivors and the director of the Walldorf Museum will be present for the post-screening discussion.
Co-sponsored by Facing History and Ourselves
$10 adults, $7 seniors, $5 students/members
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Wednesday, November 29, 7 P.M.
BOOK
From Baghdad to Brooklyn
(Coffee House Press, October 2005)
In conversation with author Jack Marshall
Inspired by the discovery of his late father’s letters, Jack Marshall’s memoir is a coming-of-age story about his childhood spent in Brooklyn’s Arabic-speaking Jewish community.
A critically acclaimed poet, Jack Marshall has received a PEN Center USA West Award, two Bay Area Book Reviewers’ Awards, and was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award.
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.
$5 all tickets, free for members
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Sunday, December 3, 2:30 P.M.
CONCERT
Brave Old World — Song of the Lodz Ghetto
With Alan Bern, Michael Alpert, Kurt Bjorling, and Stuart Brotman
“..nothing less than brilliant, a recreation that is not merely respectful but stunningly inventive.”
Jewish Week
The world-renowned music ensemble Brave Old World will perform Song of the Lodz Ghetto, a unique musical theatrical work featuring rare Jewish street and folk music created between 1940 and 1944 in the Nazi ghetto of Lodz, Poland. Combining the soulfulness of Yiddish tradition, the finesse of classical music and the vitality of jazz, the music of Brave Old World is unique and unforgettable.
Co-sponsored by the National Yiddish Book Center
$20 adults, $18 seniors, $15 students/members
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wednesday, December 6, 7 P.M.
BOOK
The Heebie-Jeebies at CBGB’s
(Chicago Review Press, 2006)
With moderator Mary Lucia, author Steven Lee Beeber, Susan Blond, Danny Fields, and Lenny Kaye
Join us for a look at the fascinating New York Jewish origins of Punk. Our panel of famous figures from the music scene will address Punk’s ironic humor, leftist political engagement, and concern with the common man, among other topics. The Heebie-Jeebies of the title is more than just a joke then— it is an expression of the nervous “shpilke” ridden nature of Punk.
Steven Lee Beeber is a freelance journalist and writer. His articles and stories have appeared in The Paris Review, the New York Times, Spin, and elsewhere. He is the editor of Awake: A Reader for the Sleepless, an anthology featuring work by writers such as Margaret Atwood and Joyce Carol Oates.
Danny Fields is the former manager of The Ramones, The MC5, and Iggy Pop, and is a well known Punk personality.
Lenny Kaye, creator of the extremely influential garage rock anthology “Nuggets,” is also a founding member of the Patti Smith Group.
Mary Lucia is a music host on Minnesota Public Radio. She has been voted the Best FM radio personality two years in a row by the City Pages.
$10 adults, $7 seniors, $5 students/members
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wednesday, December 20, 7 P.M.
CONCERT
Women of Tzadik Celebrate Hanukkah
Presented with Sephardic Music Festival, Modular Moods, and Barzilai
Basya Schechter, Jewlia Eisenberg, and Ayelet Rose Gottlieb
An eclectic line-up of innovative, female performers will highlight the diversity of the Sephardic community and its musical traditions. In addition to sharing a home at the Tzadik record label, these artists share a vision for presenting rich Jewish music in a way that embraces and revives traditional styles while creating a new, modern sound.
Basya Schechter leads the popular ensemble Pharaoh’s Daughter which combines Hasidic chants, Mizrachi and Sephardi folk-rock, and spiritual stylings filtered through percussion, flute, strings, and electronica. Pharaoh’s Daughter has toured extensively throughout America, Europe, Greece, and the U.K.
Jewlia Eisenberg is the founder, bandleader, and performer behind Charming Hostess a “klezmer-funk/girly-punk” ensemble. Their music incorporates doo-wop, Balkan harmony, and Andalusian melody.
Jerusalem native Ayelet Rose Gottlieb performs music that combines free improvisation with elaborate composition, spicy Middle Eastern scales, and adventurous texts. Gottlieb’s newest album, Mayim Rabim, is a reinterpretation of biblical love poetry from the Song of Songs.
$20 adults, $18 seniors, $15 student/members
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Monday, December 25
performances at 1 P.M. & 3:30 P.M.
CONCERT
Challah-lujah
Starring Joshua Nelson
& His Kosher Gospel Choir
“I have never heard a voice like (Joshua Nelson’s). He literally brings the house down.”
Oprah Winfrey
If you missed last year’s sold-out performance, Joshua Nelson is back again this year with two shows. Melding Hebrew tunes with Joshua Nelson’s unique spirit, the Kosher Gospel Choir has sparked a revolution in Jewish Music.
Joshua Nelson, an African-American Jew known as the Prince of Gospel Music, has been hailed by critics across the world for his unique voice, which bears a strong resemblance to the legendary singer Mahalia Jackson’s passionate vocal stylings. He has performed at major venues across the United States and internationally, and was the subject of the documentary Keep on Walking.
$35 adults, $25 seniors, $20 students/members
Performance at 1 P.M.
Performance at 3:30 P.M.
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Ticket Purchase
On-line: Click on the link listed after each program.
Phone: Call 1.646.437.4202
In Person: Visit the Museum Box Office at 36 Battery Place,
Battery Park City, New York.
Unless otherwise noted, all events take place at:
Museum of Jewish Heritage
A Living Memorial to the Holocaust
36 Battery Place
New York, NY 10280
General Information
1.646.437.4200
Advance ticket purchases are recommended. All sales are final.
Phone and internet orders are subject to service charges.
Programs, performers, dates, and times are subject to change.
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