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FILM SCREENING
tuesday, March 3, 1 PM*
Spell Your Name
(Ukraine, 2006, DVD, 89 minutes)
Q&A with director Sergey Bukovsky
Incorporating new footage shot on location in Ukraine with the testimonies of local people, this film follows three Ukrainian journalism students who absorb the personal accounts of local residents who escaped brutal execution and those who rescued friends and neighbors during the Holocaust.
Free with suggested donation
This film is produced by the USC Shoah Foundation Institute and co-executive produced by Steven Spielberg and Victor Pinchuk.
Presented in conjunction with the current exhibition The Shooting of Jews in Ukraine: Holocaust by Bullets.
*Due to the weather, the date and time of this program have been changed from Monday, March 2 at 7 p.m. to Tuesday 3/3 at 1 p.m.
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LITERARY PROGRAM
Wednesday, March 4, 7 PM
Novelists and 9/11
Moderated by Lexy Bloom, Senior Editor, Vintage/Anchor Books
With Claire Messud, The Emperor’s Children; Deborah Eisenberg; Twilight of the Superheroes; and Siri Hustvedt, The Sorrows of an American
What happens when serious fiction incorporates the newsworthy and traumatic events of the day? Inspired by Irène Némirovsky and her accounts of the occupation of France, novelists will discuss the challenges of writing about 9/11.
At 6 P.M., take a highlights tour of Woman of Letters: Irène Némirovsky and Suite Française.
$10, $7 students/seniors, $5 members
Space is limited. Pre-registration for tours is required. Call 646.437.4202 to reserve your spot.
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BOOK PROGRAM
Sunday, March 8, 2:30 PM
A Hidden Life: A Memoir of August 1969
(Melville House Publishing, 2009)
With Newbery award-winning author Johanna Reiss, The Upstairs Room interviewed by journalist Akiva Gottlieb, The Nation
The acclaimed author’s new book is told in a stunning and sparse narrative style and blends her memories of being hidden as a child in Holland during the Holocaust with the mystery surrounding her husband’s death.
Free with suggested donation
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PANEL
Wednesday, March 11, 7 PM
Feminism and Faith
Moderated by Kathryn Joyce, Quiverfull:Inside the Christian Patriarchy Movement
With Blu Greenberg, On Women and Judaism: A View from Tradition; the Right Reverend Jane Holmes Dixon, former Episcopal Bishop of Washington; and Asra Q. Nomani, Standing Alone: An American Woman’s Struggle for the Soul of Islam
Three women discuss their struggle to reconcile their feminism with their religious beliefs and practices, and share how they have reclaimed their religions in a personal way.
$10, $7 students/seniors, $5 members
Co-sponsored by the Interfaith Alliance
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PANEL
Sunday, March 15, 2 PM
With pre-program film screening at 1 PM
Jews in the Cradle of India
Romiel Daniel, the Indian Jewish Congregation of USA; Nathan Katz, Who Are the Jews of India?; and Rahel Musleah, journalist; and Rabbi Yehuda Krusky, Chabad-Lubavitch Movement
1 P.M. Screening of In Search of the Bene Israel (Directed by Sadia Shepard, U.S.A., 2008, DVD, 38 minutes)
2 P.M. Panel
(Co-sponsored by the Indian Jewish Congregation of USA)
India, a country that values religious and ethnic diversity, has long been home to three Jewish communities and has remained largely free of anti-Semitism. Journey to Jewish Kolkata, Mumbai, and Kochi, and find out how the recent attacks in Mumbai are affecting that small but thriving community.
$10, $7 students/seniors, $5 members
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BOOK DISCUSSION
Wednesday, March 18, 7 PM
Nextbook's Jewish Encounters Series Presents
resurrecting Hebrew
(Schocken Books/Nextbook, 2008)
With author Ilan Stavans interviewed by Gabriel Sanders, senior editor, Nextbook
The author raises urgent questions about the role Hebrew plays in Jewish survival and in the origins of the modern State of Israel.
$10, $7 students/seniors, $5 members
Co-sponsored by the National Yiddish Book Center
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PERFORMANCE
Wednesday, March 25, 7 PM
Punishing Blow
Q&A with playwright Randy Cohen (The Ethicist, New York Times Magazine) and actor/director and producer Seth Duerr
Arrested, tried, and convicted, following an anti-Semitic tirade, a college professor can stay out of jail if he gives a public lecture [this play] about one person of his choosing from a list of the 100 most influential Jews. His choice will surprise you.
$15, $12 students/seniors, $7 members
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FILM SCREENING
Sunday, March 29, 1PM
My Neighbor, My Killer
(U.S.A., 2009, DigiBeta, 80 minutes)
Q&A with director & producer Anne Aghion
After nearly a decade filming in a tiny Rwandan community, award-winning filmmaker Aghion takes an unprecedented and intimate look at the government-established, citizen-based courts and a society’s efforts to rebuild itself.
$10, $7 students/seniors, $5 members
Presented in association with the Human Rights Watch International Film Festival and the Program in Holocaust and Human Rights Studies at the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law
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BOOK PROGRAM
Wednesday, April 1, 7 PM
Manischewitz: The Matzo Family
(KTAV Publishing House, 2008)
Cookbook author and TV host Joan Nathan interviews Laura Manischewitz Alpern for this pre-Passover program
If you attend one program about matzo this Passover, this is it. Audience members will receive a free box of matzo.
Co-sponsored by the Manischewitz Company
$10 adults, $7 students/seniors, $5 members
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BOOK PROGRAM
Sunday, April 19, 2:30 PM
The World in a City: Traveling the Globe Through the Neighborhoods of the "New" New York
(Ballantine Books, 2007)
With New York Times columnist Joe Berger interviewed by New York Times legend Arthur Gelb
Urban enthusiasts and armchair explorers alike can visit Ghana, the Philippines, Ecuador, Uzbekistan, and Bangladesh for the price of a subway ride. Two New York Times veterans bring to life the sights, smells, tastes, and people of the globe in an intimate look at New York City’s vibrant neighborhoods.
Produced in conjunction with New York City's Immigrant Heritage Week and the Mayor's Office
$10 adults, $7 students/seniors, $5 members
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MULTIMEDIA PRESENTAION & PANEL FOR YOM HASHOAH
wednesday, April 22, 7PM
Blooming Through the Ashes: An International Anthology on Violence and the Human Spirit
(Rutgers University Press, 2008)
With editor Clifford Chanin, The Legacy Project; Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett, New York University; and dramatic readings from the anthology
"Much of the literature of the past century is a de profundis on behalf of the desperate and the deprived … it has had the paradoxical effect of raising spirits and creating hope."--Seamus Heaney
This program will explore, through art and staged readings, how societies rebuild and heal through remembrance.
$10, $7 students/seniors, $5 members
Presented in honor of Yom HaShoah
Produced in association with Bisno Productions
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BOOK PROGRAM
wednesday, April 29, 7PM
Aliya: Three Generations of American-Jewish Immigration to Israel
(St. Martin's Griffin, 2006)
With author Liel Leibovitz interviewed by Samuel G. Freedman, author of Jew vs. Jew: The Struggle for the Soul of American Jewry
A journalist and veteran of the Israeli army, Leibovitz explores the fears, hopes, and dreams of three generations of Israeli immigrants. The author details the emotional journey from carefree Americans to proud Israelis, and will discuss how this most recent unsettled phase of Israel's existence is affecting those in the planning stage of making aliya.
Presented in honor of Yom Haatzmaut
Free with suggested donation
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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
Edmond J. Safra Plaza
36 Battery Place
New York, NY 10280
General Information
1.646.437.4200
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