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/ Monday, May 27, 2013: http://www.cjh.org/p/130/e/2180http://www.cjh.org/p/130/e/2180ProgramsSunday, June 02, 2013: The annual concert features music with Jewish content. This year's program features music by Judith Lang Zaimont, Joel Mandelbaum, Gerald Cohen, Gabriel Kahane, and the Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Yehudi Wyner.http://www.cjh.org/p/130/e/2231http://www.cjh.org/p/130/e/2231ProgramsMonday, June 03, 2013: Historian and Civil War scholar John Sellers details a major new research project to identify the thousands of Jews who fought in America’s deadliest conflict. Followed by a panel discussion with collector Robert D. Marcus, historian Lance Sussman and Gettysburg tour guide extraordinaire Gary Kross, who explore the little-known but significant participation of Jews in this most famous – and fateful - of Civil War battles.http://www.cjh.org/p/130/e/2232http://www.cjh.org/p/130/e/2232ProgramsTuesday, June 04, 2013: Three leading experts will examine the post-Holocaust and post-communist Jewish community in Hungary through both a historical and contemporary lens. The program will explore three intersecting topics: the Holocaust in Hungary; anti-Semitism and Holocaust minimization in Hungary since 1989; and contemporary Hungarian Jewish ritual, practice, and identity. Together, these topics form a cohesive yet complex image of the state of history, memory, and practice in Hungary since the fall of communism. The panelists will be: Randolph Braham, Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Political Science, CUNY, who will address the complex question of why the Holocaust in Hungary occurred and unfolded; Paul A. Shapiro, Director of the Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies, who will explore the current state of Holocaust memory in Hungary; and Anna Manchin, Prins Foundation Post-Doctoral Fellow at the Center for Jewish History, who will present the multifaceted portrait of Jewish life and innovation in Hungary today. The panel is co-sponsored by The Center for Jewish History in New York and the Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies (CAHS) of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington D.C. http://www.cjh.org/p/130/e/2244http://www.cjh.org/p/130/e/2244ProgramsWednesday, June 05, 2013: Barzilai and Gildar set out on an evening exploring song and prayer through music from around the world. Their wide-ranging program includes music by: Koussevitzky, Loew, Kvartin, Malavsky, Elstein, Zim, Pucinni, Shemer, and others. ABOUT THE ARTISTS Tenor Shmuel Barzilai was born into a family of cantors in 1957 in Jerusalem, Israel. The essentials of cantorial singing were brought to him by the Viennese Cantor Zalman Polak before he graduated from the Institute of Music and Cantorial Singing in Tel Aviv. Following his classical music education, Barzilai majored in philosophy and Judaic studies at the University of Vienna. He became the Chief Cantor of the Vienna Jewish Community in 1992. Barzilai performs regularyl throughout Europe, Israel, and the US and has participated in various music festivals, both as a soloist and with the Jerusalem Great Synagogue Choir, which tours Europe every year. He also has recorded many CDs and was chosen to sing the prayer El Maleh Rachamim at the memorial service in Mauthausen in 2000. Pianist Daniel Gildar, who was born in Cleveland, Ohio, studied piano, theory, and voice at the Cleveland Institute of Music. He then took part in seven historic missions to Eastern and Central Europe under the auspices of the Chaim and Gila Weiner Society for the Advancement of Cantorial Art. Gildar has an international reputation as an accompanist of Jewish music in voice and piano and accompanied every concert produced by Cantors of the World as well as the annual conventions of the Cantorial Council of America. Daniel Gildar not only performes all around the world as a cantor and pianist but also engages in vocal coaching and teaching the art of chazanut, a form of Jewish Liturgical Music.http://www.cjh.org/p/130/e/2253http://www.cjh.org/p/130/e/2253ProgramsThursday, June 06, 2013: In honor of Israel's 65th Anniversary and as a part of the Russian American Foundation's Annual Russian Heritage Month®, the YIVO Institute and the Russian American Foundation are proud to present the First Annual New Land Film Festival. The most engaging short films and documentaries by Russian-speaking immigrants living all over the world were hand-picked to form a selection that reflects different and exciting aspects of Jewish life. Screenings will be held at YIVO at 3, 5, 7, and 9pm. Lost Temple (2010, Sergey Grankin) German journalist Dirk-Martin Heinzelmann arrives in Israel to make a reportage about the Temple Mount in Jerusalem, the place where according to Jewish tradition the last Jewish Temple stood before it was destroyed over 2000 years ago. After meeting several specialists who are convinced that the Temple stood between the two mosques currently in place, Heinzelmann decides to investigate. He begins to explore the underground Jerusalem with the help of old English maps and a team of speleologists. Despite the threat of Islamists, the warnings of rabbis, and the extremely difficult conditions of the expedition, Heinzelmann reaches his goal and discovers a tunnel leading to the ancient Temple sewage system. The system is still filled with water, but it won't stop the fascinated researcher.http://www.cjh.org/p/130/e/2246http://www.cjh.org/p/130/e/2246ProgramsThursday, June 06, 2013: In honor of Israel's 65th Anniversary and as a part of the Russian American Foundation's Annual Russian Heritage Month®, the YIVO Institute and the Russian American Foundation are proud to present the First Annual New Land Film Festival. The most engaging short films and documentaries by Russian-speaking immigrants living all over the world were hand-picked to form a selection that reflects different and exciting aspects of Jewish life. Screenings will be held at YIVO at 3, 5, 7, and 9pm. The Territory (2012, Dmitriy Khavin) The Territory is an intimate look into the lives of Israelis from the former Soviet Union who made their new home in the West Bank settlements. While some residents move to the settlements looking for cheaper housing, others are motivated by Zionist ideology; and all are influenced by theirpast experience of being an oppressed minority in the Soviet Union. The film is an exploration of questions of identity, religion and conflict.http://www.cjh.org/p/130/e/2247http://www.cjh.org/p/130/e/2247ProgramsThursday, June 06, 2013: In honor of Israel's 65th Anniversary and as a part of the Russian American Foundation's Annual Russian Heritage Month®, the YIVO Institute and the Russian American Foundation are proud to present the First Annual New Land Film Festival. The most engaging short films and documentaries by Russian-speaking immigrants living all over the world were hand-picked to form a selection that reflects different and exciting aspects of Jewish life. Screenings will be held at YIVO at 3, 5, 7, and 9pm. My Father Evgeni (2010, Andrei Zagdansky) From 1961 through 1979 Evgeni Zagdansky was editor-in-chief of the Kiev Popular Science Film Studio. From 1981 through 1992 his son, a film director, Andrei worked in the same film studio. In 1992 Andrei along with his family left Kiev and settled in New York.Evgeni stayed behind. Evgeni's letters to Andrei and Andrei's narrative of father's life intertwine in the multi-layered fabric of the film creating a portrait of the man, his epoch and a self-portrait of the auteur.http://www.cjh.org/p/130/e/2248http://www.cjh.org/p/130/e/2248ProgramsThursday, June 06, 2013: In honor of Israel's 65th Anniversary and as a part of the Russian American Foundation's Annual Russian Heritage Month®, the YIVO Institute and the Russian American Foundation are proud to present the First Annual New Land Film Festival. The most engaging short films and documentaries by Russian-speaking immigrants living all over the world were hand-picked to form a selection that reflects different and exciting aspects of Jewish life. Screenings will be held at YIVO at 3, 5, 7, and 9pm. No One but Us (2011, Roman Shumunov) This is a story about the solitude of the new immigrants and their endless struggle to survive, to be accepted and to be a part of Israeli society. Andrei, the protagonist, a new immigrant from the former Soviet Union, discovers that in order to save his sick father’s life he must buy an expensive drug that is well beyond his means. At the same time, Andrei and his two best friends, Zura and Marat, also living alone in the country, try to achieve their dream to be heard and understood via their poesy music. Andrei decides to get the money for the medicine his father so desperately needs at all costs.http://www.cjh.org/p/130/e/2249http://www.cjh.org/p/130/e/2249ProgramsSunday, June 09, 2013: The American Jewish Historical Society, American Sephardi Federation, Leo Baeck Institute and YIVO Institute for Jewish Research will be selling duplicate copies of books from their library collections.  Most books are about Jewish topics, including: memoirs, biographies, World War II, the Science of Judaism, collected works, academic studies, literature, art and photography. Books are also in languages ranging from English to Yiddish, German, Hebrew, Yiddish, Russian and Polish. In addition, the participating organizations will be selling discounted titles from their regular publications. All proceeds will benefit each organization’s book acquisition fund. Paperbacks: $1 Hardcover: $3 Music and Movies: $1 to $3 Or priced as marked Cash Only! For questions or to be included on the mailing list for future book sales, please contact us.http://www.cjh.org/p/130/e/2241http://www.cjh.org/p/130/e/2241ProgramsWednesday, June 12, 2013: http://www.cjh.org/p/130/e/2211http://www.cjh.org/p/130/e/2211ProgramsThursday, June 13, 2013: Presented by Vivi Lachs, University of London From the 1880s, the wave of immigration that brought East European Jews to New York also brought substantial numbers to the East End of London. In London's over-crowded housing and job market, immigrants struggled to make a living within the 'sweated trades.' Attempts to organize and unionize Jewish workers were led largely by socialists who rallied workers to strike, agitate and demonstrate for the improvement of their working conditions. Socialist activist and poet Morris Winchevsky came to London in 1879. As editor of much of the London Yiddish socialist press, he published poetry as an instrument of political debate. Popular among the Jewish immigrant workers, his poems were declaimed in meetings and sung at demonstrations. In her talk Vivi Lachs will explore the strategies Winchevsky used in his poetry to impart ideas of socialism to immigrants in London. She will also discuss the factors which most influenced the Jewish working class in London and which ultimately undermined Winchevsky's success. Lachs' presentation will touch on issues such as unionization, the role of Jewish philanthropic organizations and the phenomenon of upward mobility in East End London. The talk will also include examples of popular poems and songs which throw light on the interface between the politics and culture of the time and which have been previously unexplored in the historiography of the period. Vivi Lachs is a PhD student in history and music at Royal Holloway, University of London. Her thesis explores Anglo-Yiddish poetry and song that tell of the British immigrant experience 1880-1914, and analyzes the role of these creative texts as agents in political and social debate. Prior to starting her Ph.D. Program Vivi Lachs worked in secondary school education in London. Vivi Lachs is also a Yiddish folk singer with a London based Klezmer band specializing in Yiddish songs of London. Some of these are produced on the CD titled Whitechapel, mayn vaytshepl.http://www.cjh.org/p/130/e/2255http://www.cjh.org/p/130/e/2255ProgramsWednesday, June 19, 2013: Five Greek-Jewish children, who were saved by Christian families during the German Occupation, tell their stories. Their personal accounts of survival add an indelible humanity to history and cover a wide range of issues, from social isolation to survivor guilt. The film also depicts the life of the Greek Jewish communities before the War, complemented with rare images of Occupied Greece from archival material, as well as amateur films by German soldiers and illegal footage shot by Greek patriots. 115 mins. Greek w/English subtitles. The film was produced with the financial support of the American Sephardi Federation and the American Friends of the Jewish Museum of Greece. Presented under the auspices of the Consulate General of Greece and the American Friends of the Jewish Museum of Greecehttp://www.cjh.org/p/130/e/2250http://www.cjh.org/p/130/e/2250ProgramsThursday, June 20, 2013: The Chelsea Music Festival returns to LBI with an evening of music devoted to the Mendelssohn siblings. Felix and Fanny Mendelssohn wrote hundreds of letters to one another and took special delight in sharing details and discoveries of their travels. This evening’s program features the music and letters of these Mendelssohn kindred spirits, and will bring to life the sights and sounds of early 19th-century Britain and Italy through their eyes. Also on the program are folk song arrangements by Benjamin Britten and Mendelssohn’s powerful string quintet No. 2, Op.87 which reveals his genius beyond his more famous string octet. Wine reception with Festival artists to follow.http://www.cjh.org/p/130/e/2252http://www.cjh.org/p/130/e/2252ProgramsMonday, June 24, 2013: The labor movement has always been a place of innovation and activity for Jewish women. Exploring this path from the perspective of an early innovator, a labor historian, a union leader, and a cultural activist, this multi-generational panel will explore the role Jewish women continue to play. With Maida Rosenstein, President Local 2110, UAW; Eleanor Tilson, co-founder of the Coalition of Labor Union Women (CLUW) and Executive Director of 1199 Service Employees International Union Benefit and Pension Fund; and Rachel Bernstein, a co-founder and co-historian of LABOR ARTS and Adjunct Professor of History at the Program in Public History at NYU. Moderated by Esther Cohen, author, activist, former Executive Director of Bread and Roses.http://www.cjh.org/p/130/e/2251http://www.cjh.org/p/130/e/2251ProgramsThursday, July 04, 2013: http://www.cjh.org/p/130/e/2182http://www.cjh.org/p/130/e/2182ProgramsFriday, July 05, 2013: http://www.cjh.org/p/130/e/2181http://www.cjh.org/p/130/e/2181ProgramsMonday, September 02, 2013: http://www.cjh.org/p/130/e/2183http://www.cjh.org/p/130/e/2183ProgramsWednesday, September 04, 2013: http://www.cjh.org/p/130/e/2170http://www.cjh.org/p/130/e/2170ProgramsThursday, September 05, 2013: http://www.cjh.org/p/130/e/2184http://www.cjh.org/p/130/e/2184ProgramsFriday, September 06, 2013: http://www.cjh.org/p/130/e/2185http://www.cjh.org/p/130/e/2185ProgramsFriday, September 13, 2013: http://www.cjh.org/p/130/e/2171http://www.cjh.org/p/130/e/2171ProgramsSaturday, September 14, 2013: http://www.cjh.org/p/130/e/2186http://www.cjh.org/p/130/e/2186ProgramsWednesday, September 18, 2013: http://www.cjh.org/p/130/e/2172http://www.cjh.org/p/130/e/2172ProgramsThursday, September 19, 2013: http://www.cjh.org/p/130/e/2188http://www.cjh.org/p/130/e/2188ProgramsFriday, September 20, 2013: http://www.cjh.org/p/130/e/2187http://www.cjh.org/p/130/e/2187ProgramsWednesday, September 25, 2013: http://www.cjh.org/p/130/e/2173http://www.cjh.org/p/130/e/2173ProgramsThursday, September 26, 2013: http://www.cjh.org/p/130/e/2189http://www.cjh.org/p/130/e/2189ProgramsFriday, September 27, 2013: http://www.cjh.org/p/130/e/2190http://www.cjh.org/p/130/e/2190ProgramsThursday, November 28, 2013: http://www.cjh.org/p/130/e/2192http://www.cjh.org/p/130/e/2192ProgramsFriday, November 29, 2013: http://www.cjh.org/p/130/e/2193http://www.cjh.org/p/130/e/2193ProgramsWednesday, December 25, 2013: http://www.cjh.org/p/130/e/2191http://www.cjh.org/p/130/e/2191Programs