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BOOK PROGRAM
wednesday, September 9, 7 P.M.
The Believers
(HarperCollins, 2009)
Author Zoë Heller (What Was She Thinking? Notes on a Scandal) interviewed by Gabriel Sanders, deputy editor, Tablet Magazine
Set in New York City in 2002, Heller’s latest novel is a satire about an idealistic Jewish family that implodes after the patriarch, a famous civil rights lawyer, falls ill. Following Joel Litvinoff’s stroke, his wife, Audrey, uncovers a secret that forces her to reexamine everything she thought she knew about their 40-year-marriage. In the meantime, their children are facing their own issues of identity. These deeply flawed yet compelling characters’ examinations of their own beliefs are heartbreaking and humorous.
$5, free for members
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FAMILY PROGRAM
Sunday, September 13, 1 P.M.
Tours begin at 11:30 a.M. & 3 p.M.
American Girl: Meet Rebecca Rubin
(American Girl Publishing, 2009)
Author Jacqueline Dembar Greene
Get to know the newest American Girl, Rebecca Rubin, a 9-year-old Russian-Jewish immigrant living on the Lower East Side in 1914. Greene will talk about her new character at this family-friendly program.
Audience members will be entered into a raffle to take home a Rebecca doll, courtesy of Mattel. One raffle entry per person.
$15 for a family up to 4, $5 for each additional person
Free for Museum members and Family-level members
This program is recommended for children 6 and up. Space is limited, please reserve tickets in advance.
Join us for Love Thy Neighbor, an immigration-focused family tour at 11:30 a.m. or 3 p.m. The tour is free with admission to the program. Space is limited. Pre-registration for the tour is required.
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THEATRE PROGRAM
Monday, September 14, 7 P.M.
Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl
A Radio Play by Meyer Levin
Post-performance discussion with authors Cynthia Ozick, Neil Baldwin, and others.
Director, Eleanor Reissa
Producer, Jennifer Strome
Cast includes: Jonathan Hogan, Sara Kapner,
Lori Wilner, Jessica Dean, Stuart Zagnit, Cheryl Stern, Macleod Andrews, Mary Rasmussen, and Andy Proskey
Not heard since the eve of Rosh Hashanah in 1952 when it aired nationally on CBS Radio, Levin's play was the first adaptation of the Diary. Following the performance, a distinguished panel will examine the play's historical context and its controversial fall into obscurity.
American author and journalist Meyer Levin was based in London as a war correspondent in 1943. He was the first American journalist to enter a work camp, Ohrdruf, followed by Bergen-Belsen, Dachau, and others. He suffered tremendous guilt as witness to the atrocities and wrote of his inability to tell the story of the Jews of Europe. That changed when he encountered The Diary of Anne Frank. A well-regarded writer, Levin was the author of 13 novels including the best seller Compulsion in 1956.
$15, $12 students/seniors, $10 members
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BOOK PROGRAM
wednesday, September 16, 7 P.M.
All Other Nights
(W.W. Norton & Co., 2009)
Author Dara Horn interviewed by Alana Newhouse, editor-in-chief, Tablet Magazine
Horn will discuss her latest novel which tells the story of a Jewish merchant’s son turned Union Army spy and the difficult choices he must make for his family and country during the Civil War.
Based on real personalities like Judah Benjamin, the Confederacy’s Jewish Secretary of State and spymaster, and on historical facts and events ranging from an African-American spy network to the dramatic self-destruction of the city of Richmond, All Other Nights is a gripping and suspenseful story of men and women driven to the extreme limits of loyalty and betrayal.
$5, free for members
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PANEL
wednesday, October 14, 7 P.M.
Tour begins at 6 p.M.
Racial Laws: Nuremberg & Jim Crow
Robert Burt, Yale Law School; Jonathan Holloway, African-American Studies, Yale University; and Henry Feingold, The Graduate Center, CUNY
Leading academics examine whether the Nuremberg and Jim Crow laws were motivating factors in the alliance between American Jews and blacks from World War II through the Civil Rights era.
$10, $7 students/seniors, $5 members
Join us for a tour of Beyond Swastika and Jim Crow: Jewish Refugee Scholars at Black Colleges at 6 P.M. Space is limited. Pre-registration for tour is required.
Presented in conjunction with the current exhibition Beyond Swastika and Jim Crow: Jewish Refugee Scholars at Black Colleges
This program has been made possible by a generous gift from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany: Rabbi Israel Miller Fund for Shoah Research, Documentation and Education.
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DANCE PROGRAM
wednesday, October 21, 7 P.M.
Daniel Gwirtzman Dance Company in Tribe
Part of Nextbook's Jewish Body Festival
With original music by Shawn Baltazor and Roxy Coss played live by a jazz quintet and violinist Sarah Geller; costumes by fashion designer Levi Okunov; Q&A and workshop with choreographer Daniel Gwirtzman and dance critic Elizabeth Zimmer
This world-premiere finds inspiration from Judaism and explores the human body as a source of reflection, strength, humor, and celebration. Following the performance, the Company will offer a workshop on fun and simple folk dances from around the world.
Daniel Gwirtzman directs, choreographs, teaches, and dances for the New York-based Daniel Gwirtzman Dance Company. His choreography has been presented at prestigious venues throughout the country and abroad.
$10, $7 students/seniors, $5 members
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BOOK PROGRAM
Sunday, October 25, 2:30 P.M.
We Were Merchants: The Sternberg Family and the Story of Goudchaux's and Maison Blanche Department Stores
(Louisiana State University Press, 2009)
Author Hans J. Sternberg with Eli Evans (The Provinicials: A Personal History of Jews in the South); moderated by Museum director Dr. David G. Marwell.
Sternberg provides a warm and compelling account of how his parents, Erich and Lea, fled from Nazi Germany to the United States, embraced their new home, and together with their children built Goudchaux’s into a Baton Rouge legend. The store that eventually became Goudchaux’s/Maison Blanche was an independent retail force during the golden era of the department store and, by 1989, the largest family-owned department store in America. Mr. Sternberg is joined in conversation by Eli N. Evans, a native son and poet laureate of the Jewish south.
Following the discussion, please join us for a reception.
$5, free for members
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BOOK PROGRAM
wednesday, october 28, 7 P.M.
Tour begins at 6 p.M.
The Third Reich and the Ivory Tower: Complicity and Conflict on American Campuses
(Cambridge University Press, 2009)
Professor Stephen H. Norwood, University of Oklahoma
The author will examine the indifferent and sometimes complicit attitudes of Ivy League and Seven Sisters schools toward the plight of European Jews from 1933-1938, including their own quota systems for Jewish students and restricted hiring policies for Jewish professors.
Norwood’s research shows that universities were highly influential in shaping public opinion and many of the nation’s most prominent university administrators refused to take a principled stand against the Hitler regime. Instead, universities welcomed Nazi officials to campus and participated enthusiastically in student exchange programs with Nazified universities in Germany.
$5, free for members
Join us for a tour of Beyond Swastika and Jim Crow: Jewish Refugee Scholars at Black Colleges at 6 P.M. Space is limited. Pre-registration for tour is required.
Presented in conjunction with the current exhibition Beyond Swastika and Jim Crow: Jewish Refugee Scholars at Black Colleges
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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
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36 Battery Place
New York, NY 10280
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