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Center for Jewish History
15 West 16th Street
New York, NY 10011
(between 5th and 6th avenues)
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http://www.cjh.org
Public Transportation: F train to 16th street.
N/W/R/ or 6/4/5 to Union Square.
1/9 to 18th Street
Parking: Street parking is permitted on 16th and 17th street after 6 pm. A parking lot is located across the street from the Center's entrance on 16th street.
A/C: YES
ADA Compliant: YES
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FDR and the Jews
Thursday, March 07, 2013
Join Richard Breitman, Allan J. Lichtman and Elizabeth Borgwardt for a discussion of Breitman and Lichtman’s soon-to-be-published book FDR and the Jews, a fascinating new investigation of the machinations, compromises, and dilemmas surrounding the Roosevelt administration’s reactions to the Holocaust-- ... (continued)
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An Evening with the Klezmatics
Sunday, March 10, 2013
Come celebrate the legendary career of the Grammy Award-winning Klezmatics! For decades, the Klezmatics have been at the forefront of a klezmer music revival, reinterpreting Jewish musical tradition and fusing it with other contemporary music genres. This extraordinary evening will include a concert, ... (continued)
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Eruvin
Wednesday, March 13, 2013
6:00pm – Curator's Tour & Viewing of Exhibition
7:00pm – Shiur
Marking the beginning of study of Masechet Eruvin in the Daf Yomi cycle, this program will provide a vibrant learning experience for all audiences, exploring the eruv from the pages ... (continued)
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Yellow Sneaker and "The Matzah Time Crunch"
Sunday, March 17, 2013
Join Yellow Sneaker’s cast of puppet characters on a hilarious journey from the kitchen to the Seder table. Families will be delighted as ordinary household items and models of ritual objects from the archives at the Center are used to interpret the story of the exodus—bringing age-old traditions to ... (continued)
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Louis Marshall and the Founding of Modern American Judaism
Wednesday, March 20, 2013 through Thursday, March 21, 2013
Marshall was a brilliant lawyer and a pioneer of civil rights and environmental causes who exerted a profound effect on the American Jewish community. Yet today Marshall’s memory has faded, even as his legacy lives on. Scholar Matt Silver discusses the paradox of Marshall’s extraordinary career in ... (continued)
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Boris Sandler presents his series Yiddish Writers Monologues: ‘Josef Kerler, Poet and Dissident'
Thursday, March 28, 2013 through Friday, March 29, 2013
Boris Sandler, editor of the Forverts, presents his new documentary about the Yiddish poet Josef Kerler (1918-2000). His lyrical, populist poetry was first lauded and then suppressed in his native Soviet Union. Kerler produced his best work in Israel, where he founded and edited the Yiddish literary ... (continued)
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At the Edge of the Jewish World
Thursday, April 04, 2013 through Thursday, April 04, 2013
Thousands of miles east of the of Mediterranean Sea, deep in the heart of Central Asia, Bukharan Jews occupied the geographical edges of the Jewish world for over a millennium. When the Soviet Union dissolved in 1991, the population, which numbered some 50,000, left their homes en masse, resettling ... (continued)
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Rescue in the Philippines
Wednesday, April 10, 2013 through Wednesday, April 10, 2013
Tells the little-known story of the Philippines’ rescue of over 1,300 Jews from Nazi Europe. Orchestrated by Filipino and American politicians, Colonel Dwight Eisenhower and the Frieder brothers, Cincinnati-based businessmen, this film premiere will feature a discussion with the director, producers, ... (continued)
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An Evening with Ken Burns
Sunday, April 14, 2013
THIS EVENT IS SOLD OUT. FOR SIMULCAST TICKETS, PLEASE CLICK HERE.
Over the course of 5 days in September of 1990, Americans were captivated by Ken Burns’ master history lesson on America’s bloodiest ... (continued)
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An Evening with Ken Burns - SIMULCAST
Sunday, April 14, 2013 through Sunday, April 14, 2013
Over the course of 5 days in September of 1990, Americans were captivated by Ken Burns’ master history lesson on America’s bloodiest conflict. This program features the reflections of the Emmy Award-winning and Oscar-nominated filmmaker on the 150th anniversary of the War and particularly of Jewish ... (continued)
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Through His Eyes (Miba'ad L'eynayim)
Tuesday, April 16, 2013 through Tuesday, April 16, 2013
A fascinating documentary history of Israeli cinema through the eyes of a still photographer, Yoni Hamenahem, who for the past 40 years has photographed the sets of many of Israel's classic films. Since beginning his career in 1973 on the set of The House on Chelouche Street, Yoni has photographed ... (continued)
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Lady at the O.K. Corral
Tuesday, April 16, 2013 through Tuesday, April 16, 2013
For nearly 50 years, she was the common-law wife of Wyatt Earp, the charismatic hero of the O.K. Corral. Yet Josephine Sara Marcus Earp has nearly been erased from Western lore. Join us as Ann Kirschner, author of the new biography Lady at the O.K. Corral, and historian David Koffman bring ... (continued)
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The Hanover Esther Scroll
Wednesday, April 17, 2013 through Thursday, April 18, 2013
For a long time, this gorgeous scroll, written in German and lavishly illustrated, languished unseen in the archives of the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Bibliothek in Hanover. Recently rediscovered by scholars and published in elaborate facsimile by Taschen Books, the megillah yielded some surprising ... (continued)
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Floating Words and Future Cities
Sunday, April 21, 2013
This event is not being sold through SmartTix and we have no information about it. To get your tickets to this event please visit the YIVO website or call 212-294-6127. ... (continued)
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The Momenta Quartet
Monday, April 22, 2013 through Tuesday, April 23, 2013
The Momenta Quartet, Bernice Diener Ensemble-in-Residence at Stern College for Women, Yeshiva University will perform a program of new and 20th-century music. Featuring guest pianist Molly Morkoski; music by Stefan Wolpe, Aaron Copland and Darius Milhaud; and new compositions by David Glaser and Timothy ... (continued)
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john test great hall
Tuesday, April 23, 2013 through Wednesday, April 24, 2013
test ... (continued)
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Music in Motion
Thursday, April 25, 2013 through Friday, April 26, 2013
Phoenix Chamber Ensemble performing:
Frederic Chopin: Waltz, Mazurka, Polonaise
Astor Piazzolla: " Four Seasons of Buenos Aires" for piano trio
J.S.Bach: French Suite No.5 in G Major
Bella Bartok-Zoltan Szekely: Romanian Folk Dances for violin and piano
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Kaddish for Lincoln
Monday, April 29, 2013 through Tuesday, April 30, 2013
In this discussion of Jewish attitudes toward Lincoln--and Lincoln's evolving attitude toward Jews, Lincoln scholar Harold Holzer explores the 16th president's relations with Jews during the Civil War, and assesses whether the Great Emancipator deserved the name many contemporaries gave to him in the ... (continued)
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Jewish Filmmakers in Interwar Central Europe
Tuesday, April 30, 2013
Film As in the U.S., filmmakers from Jewish backgrounds were central in creating popular culture in 1920s-30s Germany, Poland and Hungary. Join us for a lively discussion about “Jewishness” and its meaning in popular culture in Central Europe between the wars and the screening of a rarely ... (continued)
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Sidney Krum Young Artists Concert Series
Sunday, May 05, 2013
The Spring 2013 concert, "Jewish Composers: A German Connection," will present masterpieces by Jewish composers who were influenced by German musical culture, performed by gifted young artists from the Juilliard School, the Manhattan School of Music and other premier conservatories in the metropolitan ... (continued)
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Jewish Women and the Civil War
Monday, May 06, 2013 through Tuesday, May 07, 2013
Whether as volunteers in hospitals, resisters of military occupation, or even spies, Jewish women played a prominent role in nearly all aspects of the war--some were also important memoirists of the conflict. Historians Pamela Nadell, Dale Rosengarten and Nina Silber discuss this intriguing but little-known ... (continued)
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Tsimbl un Fidl
Monday, May 13, 2013 through Tuesday, May 14, 2013
The tsimbl (cimbalom or hammered dulcimer) is a harp-like instrument played with small mallets like a xylophone. For hundreds of years the tsimbl was one of the main instruments of klezmer ensembles across Eastern Europe, capable of dazzling melodic passages as well as transfixing accompaniment ... (continued)
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Yiddish in the City
Sunday, May 19, 2013 through Monday, May 20, 2013
Featuring Heather Klein and Miryem-Khaye Seigel with Dmitri Zisl Slepovitch, pianist.
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Leah
Wednesday, May 22, 2013 through Thursday, May 23, 2013
At the age of four, after walking through the desert from Ethiopia to Sudan, Leah arrived in Israel. This moving new film employs Leah's story to illuminate the broad experiences of Ethiopian Jews who were striving to adjust to life in modern Israel. The film will be followed by a panel discussion. ... (continued)
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Music in Our Time: 2013
Sunday, June 02, 2013
The annual concert features music with Jewish content. This year's program features music by Judith Lang Zaimont, Joel Mandelbaum, Gerald Cohen, Gabriel Kahane, and the Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Yehudi Wyner. ... (continued)
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Jewish Soldiers in the Civil War
Monday, June 03, 2013 through Monday, June 03, 2013
Historian and Civil War scholar John Sellers details a major new research project to identify the thousands of Jews who fought in America’s deadliest conflict. Followed by a panel discussion with collector Robert D. Marcus, historian Lance Sussman and Gettysburg tour guide extraordinaire Gary Kross, ... (continued)
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Hungary and the Holocaust
Tuesday, June 04, 2013
Three leading experts will examine the post-Holocaust and post-communist Jewish community in Hungary through both a historical and contemporary lens. The program will explore three intersecting topics: the Holocaust in Hungary; anti-Semitism and Holocaust minimization in Hungary since 1989; and contemporary ... (continued)
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Lost Temple
Thursday, June 06, 2013
Lost Temple (2010, Sergey Grankin)(English)
German journalist Dirk-Martin Heinzelmann arrives in Israel to make a reportage about the Temple Mount in Jerusalem, the place where according to Jewish tradition the last Jewish Temple stood before it was destroyed over 2000 years ago. After meeting ... (continued)
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No One but Us
Thursday, June 06, 2013 through Friday, June 07, 2013
No One but Us (2011, Roman Shumunov)(Hebrew with English subtitles)
This is a story about the solitude of the new immigrants and their endless struggle to survive, to be accepted and to be a part of Israeli society. Andrei, the protagonist, a new immigrant from the former Soviet Union, discovers ... (continued)
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My Father Evgeni
Thursday, June 06, 2013 through Friday, June 07, 2013
My Father Evgeni (2010, Andrei Zagdansky)(Russian with English subtitles)
From 1961 through 1979 Evgeni Zagdansky was editor-in-chief of the Kiev Popular Science Film Studio. From 1981 through 1992 his son, a film director, Andrei worked in the same film studio. In 1992 Andrei along with his ... (continued)
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The Territory
Thursday, June 06, 2013 through Thursday, June 06, 2013
The Territory (2012, Dmitriy Khavin)(Russian, Hebrew & Arabic with English subtitles)
The Territory is an intimate look into the lives of Israelis from the former Soviet Union who made their new home in the West Bank settlements. While some residents move to the settlements looking for cheaper ... (continued)
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Tsvishn Veltn
Tuesday, June 18, 2013
Musical and spoken-word performance by
PSOY KOROLENKO
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Shane Baker & Yelena Shmulenson ... (continued)
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Bread and Roses, Too
Monday, June 24, 2013 through Monday, June 24, 2013
The labor movement has always been a place of innovation and activity for Jewish women. Exploring this path from the perspective of an early innovator, a labor historian, a union leader, and a cultural activist, this multi-generational panel will explore the role Jewish women continue to play.
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