Sunday, January 8, 2:30 P.M.

Intersecting Streams: Jews in Emma Lazarus' New York

Prof. Hasia Diner, NYU, and Prof. Aviva Ben-Ur, UMass, Amherst

Emma Lazarus’ lifetime was a period of change and challenge in the American Jewish world. Diner and Ben-Ur assess what the Ashkenazi and Sephardic Jewish communities in late 19th-century New York shared and where they diverged.

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

Co-sponsored by the American Jewish Historical Society

Presented in conjunction with Emma Lazarus: Poet of Exiles. Tour the exhibition at 1:30 P.M. Space is limited and pre-registration is required. Call 646.437.4202.

Wednesday, January 11, 7 P.M.

Medical Discrimination in America

Prof. Alondra Nelson, Columbia University, and Prof. Susan Reverby, Wellesley College; moderated by Gabriel Sanders, Director of Public Programs

Reverby, an authority on the infamous Tuskegee syphilis study, and Nelson, whose new book chronicles the Black Panthers’ fight against medical discrimination, discuss how racially based medical theories affected the treatment of the African American community both before and after World War II.

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

Presented in conjunction with Deadly Medicine: Creating the Master Race. Tour the exhibition at 6 P.M. Space is limited and pre-registration is required. Call 646.437.4202.

Wednesday, January 18, 7 P.M.

At the Edge of the Abyss: Concentration Camp Diary,
1943-1944

(Northwestern University Press, 2012)

By David Koker, edited by Robert Jan van Pelt

Historian Robert Jan van Pelt in conversation with Museum Director Dr. David G. Marwell

While an inmate at Vught, a concentration camp in the Netherlands, Dutch Jew David Koker maintained an almost daily record of his thoughts and impressions. First published in Holland in 1977, the diary is now available in English.

$10, $5 members

Sunday, January 22, 2:30 P.M.

The Soviet Exodus

Prof. Henry Feingold (“Silent No More”: Saving the Jews of Russia) in conversation with journalist Gal Beckerman (When They Come for Us, We’ll Be Gone: The Epic Struggle to Save Soviet Jewry)

Feingold and Beckerman evaluate the history and legacy of the movement to liberate the Jews of the USSR.

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

Co-sponsored by the Forward

Presented in conjunction with Let My People Go!: The Soviet Jewry Movement, 1967-1989. The exhibition will be open to program ticket holders from 1:30 P.M. to 2:30 P.M.

NEW YORK PREMIERE
Wednesday, January 25, 7 P.M.

The Chosen

Adapted by Aaron Posner and Chaim Potok from the novel by Chaim Potok

Staged reading directed by Jonathan Solari
Post-performance Q&A with the director

In 1940s Brooklyn, an unlikely friendship develops between two young Jewish men—one, the son of an influential Hasidic spiritual leader, the other, the son of a renowned Zionist professor.

$15, $12 students/seniors, $10 members

Sunday, January 29, 2:30 P.M.

The Primo Levi Center Presents
Italian Eugenics: Forging the
"New Man"

Francesco Cassata, University of Genoa, in conversation with Alessandro Di Rocco, president, Primo Levi Center

Cassata and Di Rocco discuss the intersection of science and politics in fascist Italy, and how the country's scientific community participated in promoting the notion of “fitness” endorsed by the Mussolini regime.

Free with suggested donation

Presented by the Primo Levi Center, the Museum, the Consulate General of Italy, and the Cahnman Foundation in observance of International Holocaust Remembrance Day.

Now On View

Emma Lazarus: Poet of Exiles

Called a "fascinating exhibit" by the Associated Press

“Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free…” Emma Lazarus was a fourth generation Sephardic-American whose poetry gave voice to the Statue of Liberty. Be inspired by her life’s story.

Learn more.

Read an article from the New York Times' City Room blog.
Read an article on WNET/Thirteens' Metro Focus blog.
Read an article from the Associated Press.

A free companion mobile tour of Emma Lazarus’ New York, narrated by Julianna Margulies and developed in conjunction with the exhibition, is available for download.

Voices of Liberty at the
Keeping History Center


Experience this award-winning soundscape of inspiring stories of immigration—past and present—in a gallery with breathtaking views of the Statue of Liberty. Come add your family's story, too.

Learn more.

Now On View

Let My People Go! The Soviet Jewry Movement, 1967-1989

This exhibition tells the story of Jews in the former Soviet Union who wanted to emigrate but were denied permission to leave. Learn about their efforts to maintain a Jewish identity, their struggles with Soviet authorities, and the worldwide support they received.

This traveling exhibition is organized and circulated by the State of Israel–Ministry of Public Diplomacy and Diaspora Affairs and Beit Hatfutsot, the Museum of the Jewish People, Tel Aviv.

Learn more.

Closes January 16

Deadly Medicine: Creating the Master Race

This exhibition examines Nazism’s roots in biology and genetics and reveals how doctors and scientists, advocating a program of social reform for the “greater good,” implemented a racial eugenics program that ultimately led to the murder of Europe’s Jews and millions of others deemed racially inferior.

Read a review from the Jewish Week.
Read an article from Jewish Ideas Daily.

This exhibition is produced and traveled by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.

Learn more.

From left to right: Refusenik, Sway Machinery, Mama Doni

Wednesday, February 1, 7 P.M.
Unlikely Collaboration: Gertrude Stein, Bernard Faÿ, and the Vichy Dilemma

Author Barbara Will, Dartmouth College, and Ruth Franklin, The New
Republic, examine what led Gertrude Stein to translate into English the speeches of Marshal Philippe Pétain, head of the Vichy regime.

$10, $5 members




Sunday, February 12, 11 A.M. – 5 P.M.
The Refusenik Experience

11 A.M. - Refusenik (1997, 120 min.) Produced and directed by Laura Bialis

2:30 P.M. - And the Wind Returneth (1991, 133 min., Russian with English subtitles) Written and directed by Mikhail Kalik; post-screening discussion with film historian Olga Gershenson, UMass Amherst

Filmmaker Mikhail Kalik left the USSR for Israel in 1971. Eighteen years later, he returned to Moscow to create an autobiographical film.

$10, $7 students/seniors, $5 members Price includes both films.




Wednesday, February 15, 7 P.M.
Sway Machinery with Piano Music and Song Trio

In their latest album, Sway Machinery combines neo-cantorial vocals with the mystical traditions of Mali. The band is joined by the experimental Piano Music and Song Trio.

$15, $12 students/seniors, $10 members




FAMILY PURIM CONCERT
Sunday, February 26, 2:30 P.M.
Funky, Family Purim with the Mama Doni Band

1:30 – 3:30 P.M. CRAFT ACTIVITIES Free with concert ticket

2:30 P.M. CONCERT The Mama Doni Band is back for a pre-Purim concert featuring brand new songs and a costume parade. For ages 3 to 10.

$10, $7 children 10 and under
Museum members: $7, $5 children 10 and under




Wednesday, February 29, 7 P.M.
The Role of the Critic
Adam Kirsch (Why Trilling Matters) and Judith Shulevitz (The Sabbath World),two of today’s leading literary critics, discuss the legacy of Lionel Trilling and the evolving place of the critic in today’s intellectual world.

$10, $5 members

92nd Street Y Presents

Will to Create, Will to Live:
The Culture of Terezin

January 9 - February 16

This multi-disciplinary exploration into the culture of the Terezín/Theresienstadt Nazi transition camp, where vibrant life and art flourished despite suffering, includes concerts, panel discussions, some with survivors of Terezín, film screenings, literary readings, and an exhibition of art and artifacts from Terezín.

Special discount for Museum e-bulletin subscribers:
20%off on all events. Visit 92Y.org/Terezin and enter TZJO in the Promo Code box of the event page, then click “Buy Tickets,” or call 212.415.5500.

Emma Lazarus: Poet of Exiles is made possible, in part, through the generous support of the Righteous Persons Foundation, the Pickman Exhibition Fund, The Blanche and Irving Laurie Foundation, David Berg Foundation, American Express, Patti Askwith Kenner and Family, George Klein, Klara and Larry Silverstein, the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Legislature, The Seth Sprague Educational and Charitable Foundation, Salo W. and Jeannette M. Baron Foundation, Con Edison, and David Bruce Smith Family Foundation. New York magazine and Jewish Week are media partners.

The Keeping History Center, dedicated by Morton Pickman in memory of Morris and Fannie Pickman, is made possible by a generous grant from the Lower Manhattan Development Corporation, which is funded by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development; with additional support from former New York State Senator Eric T. Schneiderman.

Let My People Go! The Soviet Jewry Movement, 1967-1989 is a traveling exhibition organized and circulated by the State of Israel–Ministry of Public Diplomacy and Diaspora Affairs and Beit Hatfutsot, the Museum of the Jewish People, Tel Aviv. It is part of the original exhibition Jews of Struggle: The Jewish National Movement in the USSR, 1967–1989, curated by Beit Hatfutsot in 2007. It was initiated by the Remember and Save Association and its director Aba Taratuta. The exhibition has been adapted for American audiences in cooperation with the Museum of Jewish Heritage – A Living Memorial to the Holocaust.

Deadly Medicine: Creating the Master Race is a traveling exhibition produced by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, and is sponsored in part by The David Berg Foundation, the Dorot Foundation, the Lester and Sheila Johnson Robbins Traveling and Temporary Exhibitions Fund, the Rosenbluth Family, The Samberg Family Foundation, and the Viterbi Family Foundation of the Jewish Community Foundation of San Diego. The New York presentation of Deadly Medicine is made possible, in part, through the generous support of the Pickman Exhibition Fund, Dr. Israel Jacobowitz, and Dr. Roger Sachs.