Preserving Our History http://www.cjh.org/ en-us 2006 Center for Jewish History all rights reserved http://www.cjh.org/images/cjh_rss.jpg http://www.cjh.org/ Thursday, February 02, 2012: Miryem-Khaye Seigel, Librarian, Dorot Jewish Division, New York Public Library. Broder singers were the first Yiddish performers to present music and drama in a secular setting beginning in the mid-19th century. This lecture will explore the Broder singers’ history, repertoire, and style, and their relationship to Yiddish theater.http://www.cjh.org/p/130/e/1931http://www.cjh.org/p/130/e/1931ProgramsSunday, February 05, 2012: The members of the Loewenberg Trio (Hannah Loewenberg-Harnest, piano, Ilya Movchan, violin, and Jordan Gregoris, cello), met at the Royal College of Music in London and played their debut concert at the Philharmonic Hall (‘Gasteig’) in Munich in November 2010. In their New York debut, they will perform works by Beethoven, Schumann, Shostakovich, and the Swiss-Jewish-American composer Ernest Bloch.http://www.cjh.org/p/130/e/1932http://www.cjh.org/p/130/e/1932ProgramsTuesday, February 07, 2012: Gennady Estraikh. During World War II, Stalin’s ideologists decided to form a new organization called the Jewish Antifascist Committee (JAC), which became a structural unit of the Soviet Information Bureau, or Sovinformburo. The JAC published the newspaper Eynikayt and had contacts with foreign Jewish organizations. In 1943, the leading members of the JAC, Solomon Mikhoels and Itsik Fefer, visited the USA, Canada, Mexico, and England. This lecture will concentrate on the events around Mikhoels and Fefer's American sojourn.http://www.cjh.org/p/130/e/1952http://www.cjh.org/p/130/e/1952ProgramsThursday, February 09, 2012: Marc Caplan, Johns Hopkins University. The two major works that Moyshe Kulbak completed while living in Berlin in the early 1920s count as significant achievements in Yiddish modernism, each poised between nostalgia and apocalypse. In each instance, the author’s location in Berlin obligated him to represent his Belorussian homeland through a variety of distorted, experimental, and innovative perspectives.http://www.cjh.org/p/130/e/1933http://www.cjh.org/p/130/e/1933ProgramsThursday, February 09, 2012: Professor Paula Eisenstein Baker with YIVO’s Sidney Krum Young Artists. Leo Zeitlin belonged to a group of early 20th- century young Russian-Jewish composers--mostly students of the St. Petersburg Conservatory and members of the Society for Jewish Folk Music in St. Petersburg--who were united by the idea of creating a Jewish national music movement. Fascinated by Zeitlin’s masterpiece “Eli Zion,” cellist Paula Eisenstein Baker started to investigate the life and works of this remarkable, but almost unknown, composer. The result was an important volume of chamber music coinciding with growing international interest in Jewish art music from early 20th-century Russia.http://www.cjh.org/p/130/e/1934http://www.cjh.org/p/130/e/1934ProgramsMonday, February 13, 2012: Jennifer Young, New York University. In the late 1940s, the International Workers Order (IWO)--a multi-ethnic fraternal order established by Jews active in the American Communist movement that equated injustices against racial, cultural and economic groups--began to champion the rights of ethnic cultures. Jewish leaders of the IWO created a powerful counter-example to what the IWO’s Director of Jewish Education Itshe Goldberg called the “scorched melting pot.” They argued for the continuing growth of the Yiddish language and Jewish culture, integrally American and yet uniquely Jewish.http://www.cjh.org/p/130/e/1935http://www.cjh.org/p/130/e/1935ProgramsMonday, February 20, 2012: http://www.cjh.org/p/130/e/1958http://www.cjh.org/p/130/e/1958ProgramsThursday, February 23, 2012: Leading Holocaust historian Debórah Dwork (Clark University), author of Children with a Star: Jewish Youth in Nazi Europe (Yale University Press, 1993), and Cathy A. Frierson (University of New Hampshire), author of Children of the Gulag (Yale University Press, 2010), will discuss the devastating impact of the Holocaust and Soviet Terror on children. The discussion will be followed by a short, riveting film on child survival produced by Centropa.http://www.cjh.org/p/130/e/1936http://www.cjh.org/p/130/e/1936ProgramsSunday, February 26, 2012: This international symposium for academics, artists and enthusiasts is being presented in conjunction with the current exhibition Graphic Details: Confessional Comics by Jewish Women and will be chaired by Sarah Lightman (University of Glasgow), Tahneer Oksman (CUNY) and Dr. Amy Feinstein (independent scholar). Speakers include: Miriam Katin, Corinne Pearlman, Ariel Schrag, and Lauren Weinstein (Graphic Details artists); Professor Joanne Leonard (University of Michigan); and Dr. Heike Bauer (Birkbeck College, University of London). For more information visit Symposium Forward.http://www.cjh.org/p/130/e/1937http://www.cjh.org/p/130/e/1937ProgramsTuesday, February 28, 2012: Polly Zavadivker, University of California at Santa Cruz. Between 1914 and 1917, the ethnographer, playwright, and relief worker S. An-sky spent months at a time on a remarkable mission to assist and document the experiences of Jews throughout Galicia and the Russian pale of Settlement. An-sky's war writing was important not only in its own right, but also because so many of its features--the authority of the witness, the use of oral testimony, and the perspectives of individuals--anticipated ways that the Holocaust would be written about 30 years later.http://www.cjh.org/p/130/e/1938http://www.cjh.org/p/130/e/1938ProgramsTuesday, February 28, 2012: Dr. Gary P. Zola, Executive Director of The Jacob Rader Marcus Center of the American Jewish Archives (AJA) and Professor of the American Jewish Experience at Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion (HUC-JIR) in Cincinnati. Lectures on Teddy Roosevelt (March 27) and Harry S. Truman and Ronald Reagan (April) to follow this Spring.http://www.cjh.org/p/130/e/1939http://www.cjh.org/p/130/e/1939ProgramsWednesday, February 29, 2012: During the 1930s the region between Germany and the Soviet Union was inhabited by more than five million Jews whose possible migration to the west caused concerns in the international community. Dr. Jan Lanicek, Prins Foundation Post-Doctoral Fellow, will address the existence of the 'Jewish minority question' in this East-Central European region and its treatment by the international community in the framework of the minority treaties signed in 1919. Dealing with the prelude to the Holocaust, the lecture offers a novel perspective on bystanders' responses to the persecution of the Jews during the 1930s.http://www.cjh.org/p/130/e/1940http://www.cjh.org/p/130/e/1940ProgramsThursday, March 01, 2012: Jonathan Dekel-Chen, Hebrew Universityhttp://www.cjh.org/p/130/e/1941http://www.cjh.org/p/130/e/1941ProgramsFriday, March 02, 2012: Emanuel Berman will speak about the Polish memoir of Basia Berman, a Jewish survivor in World War II Poland.http://www.cjh.org/p/130/e/1962http://www.cjh.org/p/130/e/1962ProgramsMonday, March 05, 2012: Ruth von Bernuth, University of North Carolina. Yiddish stories describing the intellectual limitations of the Khelemer naronim, the fools, or, in the more common ironic formulation, the wise men of Chelm, made their debut in Eastern Europe in the 19th century. This talk explores the most significant editions of the tales, as well as the German Schildbürgerbuch as their precursor.http://www.cjh.org/p/130/e/1942http://www.cjh.org/p/130/e/1942ProgramsThursday, March 08, 2012: Joshua Rubenstein, Northeast Regional Director of Amnesty International USA, will discuss his new book, Leon Trotsky: A Revolutionary's Life (Harvard University Press, 2011). http://www.cjh.org/p/130/e/1943http://www.cjh.org/p/130/e/1943ProgramsThursday, March 15, 2012: As always, we will have a breadth of film surveying the richness of Sephardic Jewish culture with roots in medieval Iberia and the Ottoman Empire, and covering Jewish communities worldwide with post-screening dialogues.http://www.cjh.org/p/130/e/1944http://www.cjh.org/p/130/e/1944ProgramsFriday, March 16, 2012: Joshua Price, Yale University. Based on a critical translation of six of Khayim Zhitlovski's essays, this talk will explore the evolution of Zhitlovski's program for secular Yiddish culture before and after Czernowitz, his radical plan for American Jewry, and his approach to translation in theory and practice.http://www.cjh.org/p/130/e/1945http://www.cjh.org/p/130/e/1945ProgramsMonday, March 19, 2012: Adam J. Sacks, Cahman Foundation Fellow, PhD candidate at Brown University Dr. Samuel Moyn, Columbia University, responding Dr. Jonathan Karp, Binghamton University, presiding Intended for an academic audience; space is limited.http://www.cjh.org/p/130/e/1946http://www.cjh.org/p/130/e/1946ProgramsThursday, March 22, 2012: Jonathan Brent, Arnold Richards, and others will discuss the cohort of psychoanalysts in the United States who belonged to the Communist Party in the 1930s and 1940s, and their impact on both clinical practice and theory.http://www.cjh.org/p/130/e/1963http://www.cjh.org/p/130/e/1963ProgramsMonday, March 26, 2012: Natalia Aleksiun, Touro College. During the Second Polish Republic the history of East European Jews became a well-defined field. At the center of it was the Dr. Tsemakh Shabad Aspirantur (graduate school), which brought together Jewish academics and helped to train the next generation of scholars. In this lecture, Professor Aleksiun explores this unique program in the context of the Jewish community in Vilna and in comparison with other Jewish centers.http://www.cjh.org/p/130/e/1947http://www.cjh.org/p/130/e/1947ProgramsTuesday, March 27, 2012: Dr. Lance Sussman, Senior Rabbi of Reform Congregation Keneseth Israel in Elkins Park, PA, teacher of Jewish History at Temple University. Lectures on Harry S. Truman and Ronald Reagan to follow this Spring.http://www.cjh.org/p/130/e/1948http://www.cjh.org/p/130/e/1948ProgramsWednesday, March 28, 2012: Phoenix Chamber Ensemble performing trios by Cesar Franck, Joaquin Turina and Enrique Granados. This program is made possible through the generous support of Mr. & Mrs. Leonard Blavatnik.http://www.cjh.org/p/130/e/1949http://www.cjh.org/p/130/e/1949ProgramsThursday, March 29, 2012: In celebration of the release of A Jewish Voice from Ottoman Salonika: The Ladino Memoir of Sa'adi Besalel a-Levi, join a conversation with two leading scholars of Sephardic history about the quest for lost sources and perspectives on the Judeo-Spanish past. As they describe the experience of uncovering, translating, and interpreting the first Ladino memoir known to be written, Professors Stein (UCLA) and Rodrigue (Stanford) will reflect on the challenges and rewards of writing Sephardic history. Sara Ivry, Senior Editor, Tablet Magazine, moderator.http://www.cjh.org/p/130/e/1950http://www.cjh.org/p/130/e/1950ProgramsMonday, April 02, 2012: Leonidas Donskis, Member of the European Parliament for Lithuania. In Eastern Europe, the way history is remembered, forgotten, or ignored shapes modern-day political and social issues. Many in Eastern Europe today wish to ignore, forget, or erase from history both the Holocaust and the presence of Jews before World War II. Dr. Donskis will discuss the dangers of the willful forgetting of history, which he describes as the final blow dealt to the victims of the Holocaust. http://www.cjh.org/p/130/e/1964http://www.cjh.org/p/130/e/1964ProgramsTuesday, April 17, 2012: Presented by Dr. Ronald Radosh, Adjunct Felllow, The Hudson Institute, columnist for PJMedia.com, and Prof. Emeritus of History, CUNY. http://www.cjh.org/p/130/e/1961http://www.cjh.org/p/130/e/1961ProgramsSunday, May 06, 2012: Since the 19th century, Jews have played prominent roles in a variety of leftist political movements. At the same time, associations between Jews and communism have been a frequent leitmotif of antisemitic thinking. While the political Left often spoke out against antisemitism and promised Jews tolerance and an end to distinctions between Jews and non-Jews, specific, prominent, leftists espoused antisemitic ideas. In addition, Jews cultivated their own, uniquely Jewish, socialist parties and ideologies. In recent years, the relationship between Jews and the Left has been further complicated by left-wing opposition to the State of Israel and debates about the extent to which this opposition bleeds into outright antisemitism. YIVO, in association with AJHS, will bring together historians, political scientists, philosophers, and journalists from Europe, Israel, and America to discuss some of the important topics pertaining to the relationship between Jews and the Left.http://www.cjh.org/p/130/e/1965http://www.cjh.org/p/130/e/1965ProgramsMonday, May 07, 2012: Since the 19th century, Jews have played prominent roles in a variety of leftist political movements. At the same time, associations between Jews and communism have been a frequent leitmotif of antisemitic thinking. While the political Left often spoke out against antisemitism and promised Jews tolerance and an end to distinctions between Jews and non-Jews, specific, prominent, leftists espoused antisemitic ideas. In addition, Jews cultivated their own, uniquely Jewish, socialist parties and ideologies. In recent years, the relationship between Jews and the Left has been further complicated by left-wing opposition to the State of Israel and debates about the extent to which this opposition bleeds into outright antisemitism. YIVO, in association with AJHS, will bring together historians, political scientists, philosophers, and journalists from Europe, Israel, and America to discuss some of the important topics pertaining to the relationship between Jews and the Left.http://www.cjh.org/p/130/e/1966http://www.cjh.org/p/130/e/1966ProgramsTuesday, May 22, 2012: Boundaries separating the natural from the supernatural dissolve as ill-fated pledges, unfulfilled passions, and untimely deaths ensnare two families in a tragic labyrinth of spiritual possession. The Dybbuk is based on the celebrated play of the same name by S. An-sky written during the turbulent years of 1912-1917 and inspired by An-sky’s ethnographic research of Jews living in the Polish-Russian countryside just before World War I. Yiddish, newly remastered with English subtitles by the National Center for Jewish Film.http://www.cjh.org/p/130/e/1967http://www.cjh.org/p/130/e/1967ProgramsWednesday, May 30, 2012: Phoenix Chamber Ensemble performing classical music for two, four and six hands by Frederic Chopin, Sergei Rachmaninoff, Antonin Dvorak, Francis Poulenc and Astor Piazzolla. This program is made possible through the generous support of Mr. & Mrs. Leonard Blavatnik.http://www.cjh.org/p/130/e/1960http://www.cjh.org/p/130/e/1960Programs