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Wednesday, May 2, 7 P.M.
In partnership with
the Jewish Community Project Downtown (JCP)
BOOK
The Blessing of a Skinned Knee:
Using Jewish Teachings to Raise
Self-Reliant Children
(Penguin Group, 2001)
With author Wendy Mogel, Ph.D
Join us for an evening with nationally acclaimed clinical psychologist, educator, and workshop leader Wendy Mogel, who creates a new road map for parenting by drawing on the wisdom of the Torah, Talmud, and important Jewish teachings. Adults will leave this discussion with a new set of priorities and skills for raising self-reliant, compassionate, and ethical children in an increasingly challenging world.
A New York Times bestseller, The Blessing of a Skinned Knee has been praised by Publisher’s Weekly as “impassioned, lyrical and eminently practical…a real treasure.”
$25 adults, $20 students/seniors, $18 members
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Wednesday, May 9, 7 P.M.
FILM
daring to Resist: Three Women
Face the Holocaust
(1999, USA, 57 minutes, DVD)
Post-screening discussion with filmmaker Martha Lubell and Shulamit Lack, featured in the film
Following the lives of three Jewish women during the war years, this documentary chronicles their resilience and ingenuity. As teenagers, they left behind family in Holland, Hungary, and Poland. Forging documents, they changed identities, hiding and smuggling others, all in an effort to escape capture by the Nazis. These women believed what their parents could not—that the Nazi genocide would engulf them all and that resistance was not an option but a necessity.
Screened in conjunction with the Museum’s exhibition Daring to Resist: Jewish Defiance in the Holocaust.
$10 adults, $5 students/seniors, $5 members
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Sunday, May 13, 2:30 P.M.
MOTHER'S DAY
jewish Cooking in America
Joan Nathan in conversation with Hasia Diner
Bring the mothers in your life for a chat with award-winning cookbook author and host of the acclaimed PBS series Jewish Cooking in America with Joan Nathan. Learn about the memorable food that has accompanied the memorable moments in Joan's life – from her early days as foreign press officer to Jerusalem Mayor Teddy Kolek, to the inspiration for her book, The Foods of Israel Today, with recipes from Jewish, Christian, and Muslim traditions.
Hasia Diner is a professor of American Jewish History at New York University and author of Hungering for America: Italian, Irish, and Jewish Foodways in the Age of Migration.
A light reception to toast mom, and a book signing, will follow the program.
$25 adults, $20 students/seniors, $18 members
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Wednesday, May 16, 7 P.M.
FILM
New York Premiere
Swimming in Auschwitz
(2007, USA, 63 minutes, DVD)
Post-screening discussion with historian Michael Berenbaum, director Jon Kean, and Renee Firestone, featured in film
Sentenced to the most notorious Nazi death camp, six women discuss the horrors that they faced and the spirit that they preserved. Coping with loss and separation, these survivors tell stories of friendship, humor, and a mischievous swim in the German soldiers’ pool at Auschwitz.
Screened in conjunction with the Museum’s exhibition Daring to Resist: Jewish Defiance in the Holocaust
$10 adults, $7 students/seniors, $5 members
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Wednesday, May 30, 7 P.M.
BOOK
leni: The Life and Work of Leni Riefenstahl
(Knopf, 2007)
With author Steven Bach
A short clip from Riefenstahl's film Olympia will accompany the discussion.
"If you haven't thought of 'Nazi artist" as a noxious and corrupting oxymoron, Bach's scrupulous account of a zealously masked life may persuade you otherwise."
-Cynthia Ozick
Steven Bach is the author of two previous biographies, Marlene Dietrich: Life and Legend and Dazzler: The Life and Times of Moss Hart.
$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, June 10, 2:30 P.M.
FILM
New York Premiere
Creating Harmony: The Displaced Persons' Orchestra ay St. Ottilien
(2007, USA, 75 minutes, DVD)
A short performance by violinist David Arben will precede the screening.
Post-screening discussion with co-producers
John J. Michalczyk and Ronald A. Marsh.
The story of the Jewish orchestra at the St. Ottilien Displaced Persons camp in Bavaria reveals the healing power of music, and the artists who possessed such indisputable talent that even their captors stood in awe of them.
Mr. Arben, a survivor of six concentration camps as well as a violinist for the Displaced Persons Orchestra, is the former associate concertmaster of the Philadelphia Orchestra.
Screened in conjunction with the exhibition
Daring to Resist: Jewish Defiance in the Holocaust
$10 adults, $7 students/seniors, $5 members
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Wednesday, June 13, 6 P.M.
FILM
Nuremberg:
the Nazis Facing Their Crimes
(2006, France, 90 minutes, DVD)
6 P.M. Introduction | 6:30 P.M. Screening
Panelists:
Christian Delage, French filmmaker and historian
Michael Berenbaum, historian
Ernest W. Michel, Holocaust survivor and reporter at the Nuremberg trials
Professor Harry Reicher, University of Pennsylvania Law School
Richard Sonnenfeldt, chief interpreter for the American prosecution of Nazi war criminals at the Nuremberg Trials.
Narrated by Christopher Plummer, this gripping documentary presents archival footage of the Nuremberg Trials shot under the direction of the legendary John Ford. American film crews captured every moment of the trial at Nuremberg, and 60 years later, these archives have been digitally re-mastered and edited to reveal never before seen material.
$10 adults, $7 seniors/students, $5 members
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Wednesday, June 20, 7 P.M.
dISCUSSION
Catskills on the Hudson
Comedian Freddie Roman in conversation with Scott Blakeman
Laugh your touchas off at this hilarious discussion with NPR humorist Scott Blakeman and Freddie Roman, one of the great Borscht Belt k'nockers from the 1950s and 60s Catskills. So, nu? What are you waiting for?
Freddie Roman produced and starred in Catskills on Broadway in the early '90s.
He currently emcees the Friars Club’s celebrity roasts featured on Comedy Central.
This program is in conjunction with the new exhibition opening June 14:
The Other Promised Land: Vacationing, Identity, and the Jewish-American Dream.
$20 adults, $15 students/seniors,
$10 members
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Wednesday, July 11, 7 P.M.
BOOK
the Man in the White Sharkskin Suit: My Family's Exodus from Old Cairo to the New World
(Ecco/HarperCollins Publishers, 2007)
Author Lucette Lagnado in discussion with New York Times editorial legend, Arthur Gelb
In this poignant and breathtaking memoir, Lucette Lagnado recounts the exile of her Jewish Egyptian family from Cairo to Paris to New York, and her father's heroic and tragic struggle to survive his "riches to rags" trajectory.
Lucette Lagnado, an investigative reporter and senior special writer for The Wall Street Journal is the co-author of Children of the Flames -- Dr. Mengele and the Untold Story of the Twins of Auschwitz.
Arthur Gelb has had a long and distinguished career as a reporter, critic and editor on The New York Times.
Mr. Gelb is also the author of City Room, his highly acclaimed memoir of his years in The Times newsroom.
$10 adults, $7 students/seniors,
$5 members
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Wednesday, July 25, 7 P.M.
SPECIAL EVENT
second annual NY's Best Emerging
Jewish Artists
Hosted by comedian Seth Herzog
*Please visit www.mjhnyc.org for an
up-to-date list of performers.
After last summer’s sold-out July 25 show, this event will showcase a new line-up of the best local Jewish talent. Established performers will introduce emerging Jewish artists for a dynamic evening of cutting-edge , art, comedy, music, and film.
The festivities continue on the Museum’s third floor terrace overlooking NY Harbor with an after party and open bar.
$25 members, $30 non-members
New York’s Best Emerging Jewish Artists has been made possible, in part, by the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council with the generous support of The September 11th Fund.
Vodka is courtesy of Zyr Russian Vodka.
Co-sponsored by the Young Friends of the Museum.
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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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