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BOOK
Sunday, December 2, 2:30 PM
Just Say Nu: Yiddish for Every Occasion (When English Just Won’t Do)
(St. Martin’s Press, 2007)
With author Michael Wex
“Wise, witty and altogether wonderful … Mr. Wex has perfect pitch.”
-The New York Times
This hilarious new primer prepares its readers to discuss food, relationships, parenting, and politics—and instructs us on the five must-know Yiddish phrases. Just Say Nu is a colorful guide to the roots, grammar, and familiar expressions of the Yiddish language.
Co-sponsored by the National Yiddish Book Center Tickets:
$10 adults, $7 seniors/students, free for Museum and National Yiddish Book Center members
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CONCERT
Wednesday, December 5, 7 PM
Celebrate Hanukkah
with The Andy Statman Trio
“Andy Statman is the real thing—a musician’s musician.”
-The New Yorker
Join the Andy Statman Trio for a unique blend of klezmer, rock, folk, and jazz. Statman has worked with musical legends Jerry Garcia and Bob Dylan, and was a lead musician on Itzhak Perlman’s klezmer sensation, In the Fiddler’s House.
Tickets:
$25 adults, $20 seniors/students, $15 members
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CONCERT
Tuesday, December 25
Performances at 1 & 3:30PM
Challah-lujah
Starring Joshua Nelson & His Kosher Gospel Choir
“Sure to bring the house down…”
-Time Out New York
Performing to sold-out crowds at the Museum for two years in a row, Joshua Nelson is back for another spectacular set of shows. Melding Hebrew tunes with Joshua’s Nelson’s unique spirit, the Kosher Gospel Choir has sparked a revolution in Jewish music.
Tickets:
$35 adults, $25 seniors/students $20 members
1 PM Performance
3:30 PM Performance
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FILM & DISCUSSION
Sunday, January 6, 2:30 PM
The Truce
(Miramax, 1997, 125 min)
Actor John Turturro in conversation with Budd Mishkin
Based upon Primo Levi’s autobiographical novel, The Reawakening, this film follows Levi from his liberation from Auschwitz on his long journey home. An Italian-Jewish chemist, Levi was a member of the Italian resistance before he was captured and deported to Auschwitz. In his struggle to rediscover freedom, Levi’s post-liberation experiences ring true with many survivors.
Emmy-award winner actor John Turturro has appeared in over sixty films, including The Color of Money and The Bronx is Burning. Budd Mishkin is the host of NY1’s weekly profile series One on 1 with Budd Mishkin.
Tickets:
$10 adults, $7 seniors/students, $5 members
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BOOK
Wednesday, January 9, 6:30 PM
Churchill’s Promised Land:
Zionism and Statecraft
(Yale University Press, 2007)
With author Michael Makovsky
Michael Makovsky traces Churchill’s position toward Zionism from the start of World War I through his final years as prime minister in the 1950s. Exploring Churchill’s attitudes, civic ideals, and twentieth-century British diplomacy, Makovsky offers a unique profile.
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
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DISCUSSION
Wednesday, January 16, 6:30 PM
The Legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
“If we are to go forward, we must go back and rediscover those precious values — that all reality hinges on moral foundations and that all reality has spiritual control.”
- Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
To honor Dr. King’s legacy the Museum presents an interfaith discussion that focuses on the relationship between spiritual practice and social change. Leaders from Christian, Jewish, Buddhist, and Muslim communities will discuss the lessons of justice and equality that inspire their own activism.
This program is dedicated to the memory of Carolyn Goodman, who became a nationally prominent civil rights advocate and social justice activist after her son Andrew, along with two other young civil rights workers, Michael Schwerner and James Chaney, was murdered by the Ku Klux Klan in Mississippi in 1964.
Moderated by Rev. Dr. C. Welton Gaddy, President, The Interfaith Alliance Foundation;
With Fr. Daniel Berrigan, S.J., West Side Jesuit Community
Dr. Calvin O. Butts, III, Pastor Abyssinian Baptist Church
Dr. Ingrid Mattson, Director, Islamic Chaplaincy and Professor, Macdonald Center for Islamic Studies and Christian-Muslim Relations, Hartford Seminary
Rev. T.K. Nakagaki, Head Resident Minister, The New York Buddhist Church
Author Al Vorspan, Director of Social Action Emeritus, Union for Reform Judaism
Co-sponsored by The Interfaith Alliance Foundation
Tickets:
$10 adults, $7 students/seniors, $5 members
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FILM SERIES
ANDRZEJ WAJDA & THE JEWS: THE POLITICS OF MEMORY
No Polish filmmaker has engaged in the study of the history of Polish Jews more extensively than Andrzej Wajda. Over the course of his 50-year-career, Wajda has returned repeatedly to this topic, both resisting and yielding to a changing array of political alignments and ideological agendas to present the history of this complex relationship. Each screening will be followed by a scholarly discussion of Wajda's contributions both to the art of cinema and to the documentation of Polish Jewry.
These programs are supported by the New York Council for the Humanities, a state affiliate of the National Endowment for the Humanities.*
* Any views, findings, conclusions, or recommendations expressed in this program do not necessarily represent those of the National Endowment for the Humanities.
This series is made possible, in part, through the support of the Polski Instytut Sztuki Filmowej (the Polish Film Institute) and Filmoteka Narodowa (The National Film Library). |
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FILM 1
Wednesday, January 23, 6:30 PM
Samson
(Poland, 1961, 117 min, Betacam)
Screenplay: Kazimierz Brandys, based on his novel, and Andrzej Wajda
Introduction and post-screening discussion with Leonard Quart, Professor Emeritus of Cinema Studies, College of Staten Island, CUNY
Jakob Gold, sentenced to prison for killing an anti-Semitic man in self-defense, is released when the Germans invade Poland. He soon finds himself imprisoned again—in the Warsaw Ghetto. In attempting to escape, Gold finds a new group of allies to fight against a common enemy.
Tickets:
$10 adults, $7 students/seniors, $5 members
*Special Discount: Purchase tickets for two films —get the third free. All tickets must be purchased together.*
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FILM 2
Sunday, January 27, 2:30 PM
Landscape After Battle
(Poland, 1970, 108 min, 35mm)
Screenplay: Andrzej Brzozowski and Andrzej Wajda, based on Tadeusz Borowski’s novel
Introduction and post-screening discussion with Antony Polonsky, Professor of Jewish History, Brandeis University
Landscape After Battle is a tragic love story between two young survivors, a Pole and a Jew, who struggle in the aftermath of the Holocaust to come to terms with their feelings of distrust and disorientation. This film powerfully captures the war’s toll on youthful creativity and the human spirit.
Tickets:
$10 adults, $7 students/seniors, $5 members
*Special Discount: Purchase tickets for two films —get the third free. All tickets must be purchased together.*
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FILM 3
Wednesday, January 30, 6:30 PM
Korczak
(Poland, 1990, 113 min, DVD)
Screenplay: Agnieszka Holland
Introduction and post-screening discussion with Morris Dickstein, Distinguished Professor of English, CUNY Graduate Center
Korczak follows the final days of the legendary Polish educator, children’s author, and pediatrician, Dr. Janusz Korczak, who courageously dedicated himself to protecting Jewish orphans during the war. After setting up an orphanage in the Warsaw Ghetto, he managed to create an insular world of social justice that contrasted with the oppressive life outside.
Tickets:
$10 adults, $7 students/seniors, $5 members
*Special Discount: Purchase tickets for two films —get the third free. All tickets must be purchased together.*
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FILM 4
Sunday, February 3, 1 PM
U.S. PREMIERE
The Condemnation of Franciszek Klos
(Poland, 2000, 96 min, Betacam)
Screenplay: Andrzej Wajda, based on Stanislaw Rembek’s novel
1 pM: Screening
3:00 PM: Discussion moderated by
Stuart Liebman, Professor of Film Studies, Queens College and the CUNY Graduate Center; with Joanna Michlic, Helene and Allen Apter Chair in Holocaust Studies and Associate Professor of History, Lehigh University; and others
Directed by Wajda for Polish TV, The Condemnation of Franciszek Klos tells the story of a Polish policeman who aided the occupying Nazi soldiers in his village. In the powerful climax of the film, Klos must choose between his family’s wishes and his loyalty to the German oppressors.
Following the film, the panel of scholars will discuss Wajda’s Jewish themes throughout the course of his career.
Tickets:
$10 adults, $7 students/seniors, $5 members *Special Discount: Purchase tickets for two films —get the third free. All tickets must be purchased together.*
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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.
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Programs, performers, dates, and times are subject to change.
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