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Thursday, March 1, 7 P.M.
SPECIAL EVENT - CABARET
March Follies:
A Preposterous Pre-Purim Pageant
7 P.M. Pre-show festivities
8 P.M. Show begins
Hosted by Rebbetzin Hadassah Gross
with comedians Julie Goldman, Seth Herzog,
and Lenny Marcus
Join the 'Queen of Judeo Kitsch' and her fabulous friends for a cabarert show with live music; stand up comedy, masks and drinks. Costumes are optional – graggers and masks will be provided.
Open bar and snacks included with admission. Vodka courtesy of Zyr Russian Vodka.
Sponsored by the Young Friends of the Museum.
The Young Friends Division is made up of young professionals (21-40) dedicated to raising funds and awareness on behalf of the Museum through social, educational, and philanthropic programming. Young Friends members enjoy benefits including special events, discounts, and free Museum admission.
In cooperation with Jewcy and Storahtelling.
$36 members, $40 non-members
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Wednesday, March 7, 7 P.M.
FILM
Be Fruitful and Multiply
(2005-USA/Israel, 50 minutes, Beta SP)
For ultra-orthodox women there is no higher commandment than the biblical imperative to "be fruitful and multiply." In many instances this results in families with 10, 12, or even 16 children. In this even-handed documentary, director Shosh Shlam presents women who revel in their roles as head of their large families, and others who decided to limit their family size.
Panelists will include:
Shoshana Bulow, moderator, LCSW, psychotherapist
Viva Hammer, research associate, Hadassah-Brandeis Institute and partner, DC law firm of Crowell & Moring
Pearl Stroh, featured in Be Fruitful and Multiply and director, Chabad of the West Side Early Learning Center
Shosh Shlam, director, Be Fruitful and Multiply
$10 adults, $7 students/seniors, $5 members
Co-sponsored by JOFA
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Sunday, March 11, 1-4 P.M.
DISCUSSION
Rosenblatt Forum
Why Israel Matters Today
Nearly sixty years ago when the United Nations approved the partition plan leading to the creation of the state of Israel, the horrors of the Holocaust were still fresh in people's minds. Now, in 2007, as Israel copes with the aftermath of the latest in an ongoing series of wars with its Arab neighbors, and its very existence is threatened, our speakers discuss Israel's relevance today from a variety of viewpoints.
In a discussion that will go beyond the standard rhetoric about Israel, these scholars, policy makers, and journalists will explore difficult issues and get to the heart of recent phenomena like the publication of Jimmy Carter's controversial new book, and the sense of alienation and estrangement that some liberals and college students seem to feel toward Israel.
Schedule of speakers:
Jeffrey Goldberg, moderator, the Washington correspondent for The New Yorker and author of
Prisoners: A Muslim and a Jew Across the Middle East Divide
Naomi Chazan, professor, Hebrew University
and Academic College of Tel-Aviv-Yaffo
David Makovsky, director, Project on the Middle East Peace Process, The Washington Institute
Ruth R. Wisse, professor, Harvard University
$15 adults, $12 students/seniors, $10 members
The Rosenblatt Forum is made possible through a generous gift by Lief D. Rosenblatt, and endows a wide range of public programs.
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Wednesday, March 14, 7 P.M.
BOOK
My Father's Secret War: A Memoir
(Miramax Books, 2007)
Author Lucinda Franks in discussion with
Dan Rather, Global Correspondent, Dan Rather Reports, HDNet
"...a moving suspense story, brilliantly written and suffused with sensitivity and yearning."
-Elie Wiesel
"an unsparing double portrait of an elusive and mysterious man and the daughter determined to learn the fullest truth about his life."
-Joyce Carol Oates
"I was swept away."
-Cynthia Ozick
In this riveting memoir, Lucinda Franks discovers that the remote, troubled man she grew up with had in fact been a daring spy in World War II
– posing as a Nazi SS officer, operating behind enemy lines and witnessing the liberation of the first concentration camp. Video presentation will accompany discussion.
Journalist Lucinda Franks is a Pulitzer Prize winning journalist who has written for The New York Times and the New Yorker.
** THIS PROGRAM IS SOLD OUT **
Note: For more information please call the Museum's box office at 646.437.4202.
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Sunday, March 18, 11:30 A.M.-1:30 P.M.
FOR FAMILIES
Passover Family Program
Led by performer Shira Kline
and puppeteer Anna Sobel with her puppet friends
Presented with The Jewish Community Project Downtown (JCP)
Enjoy a fun-filled afternoon of storytelling, singing, and craft activities. Children will create hand puppets to perform alongside Shira, and will make their own haggadot and chocolate matzo.
Lunch will be served.
Seating is limited so reserve your tickets today.
For more information call 646-437-4300.
Advance Ticket Price:
$40 per family of 4, $15 per adult, $10 per child
Door Price:
$45 per family of 4, $20 per adult, $10 per child
Museum Family-Level Members:
$35 per family of 4 / $10 per adult / $5 per child
The Museum's family programs are made possible, in part, by the generous support of the Margaret Neubart Foundation Trust.
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Wednesday, March 21, 7 P.M.
BOOK
The Great Escape: Nine Jews Who Fled Hitler and Changed the World
(Simon and Schuster, 2006)
Author Kati Marton in discussion with her husband, Richard C. Holbrooke, former US ambassador to the United Nations
Kati Marton tells the story of nine Hungarian-Jewish immigrants and their astonishing success and influence in the West, especially in the United States. Among the men she follows are Robert Capa, the first photographer to go ashore on D-Day; Arthur Koestler, author of the anticommunist novel Darkness at Noon; and Michael Curtiz; the director of Casablanca.
Kati Marton, an award-winning former NPR and ABC News correspondent, is the author of Hidden Power: Presidential Marriages That Shaped Our History, a New York Times bestseller.
$10 adults, $5 students/seniors, free for members
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Sunday, March 25, 2:30 P.M.
CONCERT
Regina Resnik Presents
Crossing All Boundaries
Opera legend Regina Resnik, narrator;
Katherine Whyte, soprano; Audrey Babcock, mezzo-soprano; Michael Philip Davis, tenor;
Milos Repicky, piano;and Annaliesa Place, guest violinist
A rich kaleidoscope of music on Jewish themes by famous composers, such as Kaddish by Ravel, the rarely heard Hebrew songs of Glinka, Mussorgsky, and Rimsky-Korsakov; the Song Cycle on Jewish Folk Poetry by Shostakovich; and the New York premiere of Letter to Warsaw by Thomas Pasatieri will be performed. Classics by Massenet, Tchaikovsky, and Schubert, sung in Yiddish and originally made popular by the great Jewish singers of the past, round out this unique concert.
$25 adults, $20 students/seniors, $15 members
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Wednesday, March 28, 7 P.M.
BOOK - LOOKING BACK FACING FORWARD
Confronting the Perpetrators:
A History of the Claims Conference
(Vallentine Mitchell, 2007)
with author Marilyn Henry
In 1951, Israel and an ad hoc consortium of Jewish organizations, known as the Claims Conference, negotiated with West Germany for "moral and material amends" for Nazi-era damages. Nearly 60 years later the Claims Conference has won compensation for hundreds of thousands of Nazi victims, and established enduring legal and moral precedents for redress for victims of human rights abuses.
$5 all tickets, free for members
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.
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Sunday, April 15
DAY-LONG OBSERVANCE
Annual Gathering of Remembrance and Yom HaShoah
Tickets are no longer available for the Annual Gathering of Remembrance.
Please visit the Museum on Yom HaShoah, April 15, free of charge. Speak with survivors, contemplate Andy Goldsworthy's Garden of Stones, or simply reflect in the quiet galleries.
Yom HaShoah
Holocaust Remembrance Day
Come to the Museum to remember those who were lost, and learn from those who survived. Hear personal stories from artifact donors, Holocaust survivors, and their families.
Museum admission is free for everyone
Annual Gathering of Remembrance
2 P.M.
Join community leaders for New York City’s oldest and largest commemoration to honor the six million Jews who perished in the Holocaust. This year’s Annual Gathering of Remembrance will be held at the Museum. The keynote speaker will be Henry Kissinger.
New York City’s largest and oldest Holocaust commemoration gathers together nearly 1,500 Holocaust survivors and their families, who this year, will be making their way downtown for the event. After several years of holding the event at Temple Emanu-El and two interim years at Hunter College, the Annual Gathering of Remembrance will be held on the grounds of the Museum of Jewish Heritage – A Living Memorial to the Holocaust.
The Annual Gathering of Remembrance has always coincided with the date of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, when Jews courageously took up arms and improvised weapons against their Nazi oppressors. In conjunction with the Museum’s new groundbreaking exhibition Daring to Resist: Jewish Defiance in the Holocaust opening on April 16, the theme of this year’s gathering is Jewish resistance. Manhattan District Attorney and Museum Chairman Robert M. Morgenthau will also address the gathering.
Tickets are no longer available for the Annual Gathering of Remembrance.
Please visit the Museum on Yom HaShoah, April 15, free of charge. Speak with survivors, contemplate Andy Goldsworthy's Garden of Stones, or simply reflect in the quiet galleries.
Co-sponsored by the Museum, the Warsaw Ghetto Resistance Organization, and the American Gathering of Jewish Holocaust Survivors, in association with American World Congress for World Jewry, the Anti-Defamation League, Consulate General of Israel, Jewish Community Relations Council of New York Inc., Jewish Labor Committee, New York Board of Rabbis, and UJA-Federation of New York.
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Wednesday, April 18, 7 P.M.
FILM & DISCUSSION
Partisans of Vilna
(1986, 130 minutes, 35 mm)
Post-screening discussion
with producer Aviva Kempner, and
survivors featured in the film
Interviews with survivors of the Jewish resistance movement tell the largely unknown story of young Jews and others who organized resistance in the Vilna Ghetto and fought as partisans in the woods. Among those featured are Israeli poet Abba Kovner, a resistance leader; and Chaika Grossman, former Israeli Knesset member.
Screened in conjunction with the Museum's new exhibition opening April 16 - Daring To Resist: Jewish Defiance in the Holocaust.
$10 adults, $7 students/seniors, $ 5 members
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Wednesday, April 25, 7 P.M.
Witness
Ruth Gruber in discussion with Dava Sobel
Don't miss this opportunity to hear from modern day hero Ruth Gruber, and to celebrate the publication of Witness, her new book. Gruber, now 95, will share her incredible stories about life as an adventurer, international correspondent, photographer, and witness to --and maker of--history. Presented in conjunction wtih the exhibition: From the Heart: The Photojournalism of Ruth Gruber.
Dava Sobel is the author of the international best-seller Longitude and the recipient of the 1999 Los Angeles Times Book Award for Galileo's Daughter. Sobel draws much of her literary inspiration from Gruber, who is her aunt.
Due to overwhelming demand, there are no longer tickets available for Witness: Ruth Gruber in Discussion With Dava Sobel on Wednesday April 25.
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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.
Phone and internet orders are subject to service charges.
Programs, performers, dates, and times are subject to change.
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