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June - July 2006<br />
15 West 16th Street - New York - NY - 10011<br />
Phone 212.294.8301 | Fax 212.294.8302 | www.cjh.org
CONTENTS<br />
Exhibitions<br />
Public Programs<br />
u Music<br />
u Genealogy<br />
u Lectures &<br />
u Cinema<br />
Seminars<br />
General In<strong>for</strong>mation<br />
4–8<br />
9–1O<br />
1O<br />
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12–13<br />
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American <strong>Jewish</strong> Historical Society<br />
American Sephardi Federation<br />
Leo Baeck Institute<br />
Yeshiva University Museum<br />
YIVO Institute <strong>for</strong> <strong>Jewish</strong> Research<br />
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The <strong>Center</strong> <strong>for</strong> <strong>Jewish</strong> <strong>History</strong> has emerged from<br />
a vision of a unique central resource <strong>for</strong> the<br />
cultural and historical legacy of the <strong>Jewish</strong> people.<br />
The <strong>Center</strong> embodies the partnership of five major<br />
institutions of <strong>Jewish</strong> scholarship, history and art:<br />
American <strong>Jewish</strong> Historical Society, American<br />
Sephardi Federation, Leo Baeck Institute, Yeshiva<br />
University Museum and YIVO Institute <strong>for</strong> <strong>Jewish</strong><br />
Research. The <strong>Center</strong> serves the worldwide<br />
academic and general communities with<br />
combined holdings of approximately 100 million<br />
archival documents, a half million books and<br />
thousands of photographs, artifacts, paintings and<br />
textiles - the largest repository outside of Israel<br />
documenting the <strong>Jewish</strong> experience. The <strong>Center</strong>’s<br />
extensive program of exhibitions, cultural events<br />
and intellectual gatherings will interest all who<br />
COVER IMAGE<br />
Leo Kopf conducting <strong>Jewish</strong> orchestra and choir; Berlin; circa<br />
early 1930s - Courtesy of the Leo Baeck Institute, New York<br />
wish to explore the richness of the <strong>Jewish</strong> past<br />
and the promise of the <strong>Jewish</strong> future.
www.ajhs.org<br />
American <strong>Jewish</strong> Historical Society Phone 212.294.6160 - Fax 212.294.6161<br />
Founded in 1892, American <strong>Jewish</strong> Historical Society’s holdings include<br />
20 million documents, 50,000 books and thousands of paintings and<br />
memorabilia that bear witness to the remarkable contributions of the<br />
American <strong>Jewish</strong> community to life in the Americas from the 16th Century<br />
to the present.<br />
www.americansephardifederation.org<br />
American Sephardi Federation Phone 212.294.8350 - Fax 212.294.8348<br />
Founded in 1973, American Sephardi Federation joined with Sephardic House<br />
to promote and preserve the spiritual, historical and cultural traditions of all<br />
Sephardic communities to assure their place as an integral part of <strong>Jewish</strong><br />
heritage. Its activities include a Sephardic Library and Archives, exhibitions,<br />
educational and cultural programs, publications, The Sephardi Report, The<br />
Sephardic Film Festival and a scholarship fund <strong>for</strong> Sephardic scholars.<br />
www.lbi.org<br />
Leo Baeck Institute Phone 212.744.6400 - Fax 212.988.1305<br />
Leo Baeck Institute is the single most important source <strong>for</strong> documenting<br />
the vibrant life of German-speaking Jewry spanning several hundred<br />
years. The Leo Baeck Institute’s library and archives offer rare collections<br />
of periodicals from the 19th and 20th Centuries, as well as private letters,<br />
public documents and thousands of memoirs dating back centuries.<br />
www.yumuseum.org<br />
Yeshiva University Museum Phone 212.294.8330 - Fax 212.294.8335<br />
Founded in 1973, Yeshiva University Museum is recognized as an<br />
international museum known <strong>for</strong> its innovative interdisciplinary exhibitions<br />
on <strong>Jewish</strong> life past and present, and its creative interpretations of <strong>Jewish</strong><br />
history and culture <strong>for</strong> audiences of all ages. Its vast collections represent<br />
over 2,000 years of <strong>Jewish</strong> history from the Bronze Age to the present.<br />
www.yivo.org<br />
YIVO Institute <strong>for</strong> <strong>Jewish</strong> Research Phone 212.246.6080 - Fax 212.292.1892<br />
Founded in 1925 in Vilna, Lithuania, to collect the documents and records<br />
of hundreds of <strong>Jewish</strong> communities in Eastern Europe, YIVO remains the<br />
preeminent research institute and academic centre dedicated to Eastern<br />
European <strong>Jewish</strong> studies, Yiddish language and literature, and the American<br />
<strong>Jewish</strong> immigrant experience. Its collections include more than 22 million<br />
documents, 350,000 books and 200,000 photographs, many one of a kind.
Exhibitions<br />
A photograph (ca. 1950) of bar<br />
mitzvah boys at the Pride of Judea<br />
Orphanage - Courtesy of American<br />
<strong>Jewish</strong> Historical Society<br />
‘Cradled in Judea’<br />
<strong>Jewish</strong> Orphanages in New York, 1860-1960<br />
THROUGH SEPTEMBER 29, 2006<br />
DIANE AND MARK GOLDMAN / AJHS GALLERY<br />
A retrospective on the development of <strong>Jewish</strong> organizations, reflecting<br />
the changes in social welfare and theories and practices in child<br />
care. The exhibition captures the experiences of the children - a century<br />
of adversity, yet also a story of their creativity, curiosity, intelligence<br />
and humor; of the power of the orphanage community.<br />
AMERICAN JEWISH HISTORICAL SOCIETY<br />
Cochin Diary: <strong>Jewish</strong> Life in Southern India<br />
Photographs by Joshua Eli Cogan<br />
Hindu children lighting candles in front<br />
of the grave of 16th-century Kabbalist<br />
Nehemiah Mota - Courtesy of the B’nai<br />
B’rith Klutznick National <strong>Jewish</strong> Museum<br />
THROUGH JULY 15, 2006<br />
LEON LEVY / ASF GALLERY<br />
This exhibition explores life in Cochin, a small peninsula town in India<br />
where Jews, Hindus, Muslims and Christians have coexisted <strong>for</strong> centuries,<br />
continuing a venerable tradition of religious pluralism.<br />
Exhibition on loan from the B’nai B’rith Klutznick National <strong>Jewish</strong> Museum.<br />
The exhibition is supported in part by the New York Council <strong>for</strong> the Humanities,<br />
a state affiliate of the National Endowment <strong>for</strong> the Humanities.<br />
AMERICAN SEPHARDI FEDERATION<br />
Leo Kopf conducting <strong>Jewish</strong> orchestra<br />
and choir; Berlin; circa early 1930s -<br />
Courtesy of the Leo Baeck Institute,<br />
New York<br />
On the Wings of Songs<br />
Jews in Central European Music<br />
OPENING JUNE 6, 2006<br />
KATHERINE AND CLIFFORD H. GOLDSMITH / LBI GALLERY<br />
In commemoration of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s 250th anniversary,<br />
this exhibition will showcase the countless unknown <strong>Jewish</strong><br />
musicians and composers who enriched the European cultural life<br />
throughout the 19th and 20th centuries and briefly highlight Mozart’s<br />
<strong>Jewish</strong> patrons important <strong>for</strong> his career.<br />
LEO BAECK INSTITUTE<br />
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Exhibitions<br />
Feminine Principals: Works in Iron, Fiber and Glass<br />
Orna Ben-Ami / Georgette Benisty / Saara Gallin<br />
THROUGH JANUARY 14, 2007<br />
ROSENBERG GALLERY<br />
This exhibition examines how the artists’ works reflect the inherent<br />
qualities of their chosen media (the permanence and rigidity of iron;<br />
the richness and femininity of textiles; the fragility and luminescence<br />
of glass) and the commonalities based on the artists’ shared experiences<br />
as women and Jews.<br />
YESHIVA UNIVERSITY MUSEUM<br />
© Georgette Benisty - Courtesy of<br />
Yeshiva University Museum<br />
The Max Stern Collection of Judaica<br />
THROUGH AUGUST 31, 2006<br />
MUSEUM EXHIBITION ARCADE<br />
Motivated by his desire to restore a heritage devastated by the<br />
Holocaust, Max Stern, founder of the Hartz Mountain Company,<br />
assembled a collection of over 400 Judaica items. This exhibition<br />
includes a variety of ceremonial metalwork and textiles dating<br />
from the 17th to the 20th Century, from North Africa, Europe,<br />
Iran and Turkey.<br />
YESHIVA UNIVERSITY MUSEUM<br />
Torah Shield; Maker: Yoseph, son of<br />
Abraham Zoreph the Humble; silver, gilt,<br />
repoussé, cast; Lvov (Lemberg), Ukraine;<br />
1855; The Max Stern Collection of Judaica<br />
Courtesy of Yeshiva University Museum<br />
Passover Landscapes: Illuminations on the Exodus<br />
Art Haggadah by Rabbi Matthew L. Berkowitz<br />
THROUGH JUNE 30, 2006<br />
MEZZANINE CASE<br />
This new limited edition of Art Haggadah, interpreted in rich vibrant<br />
colors, invites the viewer to participate in an inspiring Seder experience.<br />
Berkowitz, an educator and artist, designed and created the striking<br />
work in Israel; its intricate papercut designs, handmade endpapers,<br />
and landscape-like cover, echo the natural beauty of the Holy Land.<br />
YESHIVA UNIVERSITY MUSEUM<br />
©2005 Rabbi Matthew L. Berkowtiz<br />
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Exhibitions<br />
The Holocaust in the Paintings of Valentin Lustig<br />
Cautious Approach to the Monuments,<br />
oil on canvas, 2003, Collection of Edith<br />
and Egon Balas - Courtesy of Yeshiva<br />
University Museum<br />
THROUGH JANUARY 14, 2007<br />
WINNICK GALLERY<br />
The postwar child of East European Holocaust survivors, Lustig has<br />
created symbolic scenarios of this traumatic period of history, using<br />
his fertile imagination in developing his own iconography consisting<br />
of people, animals, landscapes, still-lives, architecture - all real or<br />
imaginary, in a Surrealist style.<br />
YESHIVA UNIVERSITY MUSEUM<br />
At the Altar of Her Memories<br />
Video Installation by Tova Beck-Friedman<br />
Puppets by Bracha Ghilai<br />
© TBF Studio - Courtesy of Yeshiva<br />
University Museum<br />
THROUGH JANUARY 14, 2007<br />
WINNICK GALLERY<br />
An installation of hand-made puppets by Bracha Ghilai, who, at the<br />
age of seventeen, following liberation from Bergen-Belsen, came to<br />
Israel to start her life over, establishing a puppet theater as a part of<br />
her healing process.<br />
YESHIVA UNIVERSITY MUSEUM<br />
Photograph by Jean-Marc Gourdon<br />
Courtesy of Yeshiva University Museum<br />
Images of Resistance - Past and Present<br />
A Photographic Exhibition Commemorating<br />
Resistance in Belgium, 1940-1945<br />
THROUGH DECEMBER 31, 2006<br />
BETTY AND WALTER L. POPPER GALLERY<br />
This documentary exhibition presents large-scale digital photographs,<br />
wartime images, contemporary portraits and personal testimonies<br />
of 27 courageous men and women (the Resisters) who, more<br />
than 60 years ago, actively resisted Nazi occupation in their small<br />
country, Belgium.<br />
Based on research by Dr. Anne Griffin / Photography by Jean-Marc Gourdon<br />
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Exhibitions<br />
Iron Sculpture by Orna Ben-Ami<br />
THROUGH JANUARY 14, 2007<br />
SCULPTURE GARDEN<br />
This Israeli artist creates solidly rooted sculptures based on her<br />
childhood, linking the personal with the collective memory of her<br />
people. By cutting, bending and welding pieces of hard and unyielding<br />
metal together, Ben-Ami manages to create seemingly soft feminine<br />
objects reflective of her past.<br />
YESHIVA UNIVERSITY MUSEUM<br />
Memories, welded iron, 2004<br />
© Orna Ben-Ami - Courtesy of Yeshiva<br />
University Museum<br />
Vincent Capraro’s Vision<br />
OPENING JUNE 11, 2006<br />
SECOND FLOOR GALLERY<br />
Moved by world events, Vincent Capraro completed a Holocaust sketchbook<br />
in 1961, which was exhibited at the Knesset in 1992 and Yad<br />
Vashem in Jerusalem. In a style reminiscent of both Rembrandt and<br />
Goya, these drawings are universal as they evoke the suffering of humanity<br />
throughout the ages. Also on exhibit are mural-scale paintings<br />
with brilliant powerful strokes of color that record an empathetic agony.<br />
YESHIVA UNIVERSITY MUSEUM<br />
From The Holocaust Scetchbook, 1961<br />
© Vincent Capraro - Courtesy of Yeshiva<br />
University Museum<br />
Fighting <strong>for</strong> a Healthy New Generation<br />
The Society <strong>for</strong> the Protection of <strong>Jewish</strong> Health<br />
THROUGH AUGUST 31, 2006<br />
SELMA L. BATKIN MEZZANINE / JOHN AND GWEN SMART LIBRARY GALLERIES<br />
This exhibition explores the critical work of The Society <strong>for</strong> the<br />
Protection of <strong>Jewish</strong> Health (OZE), established in St. Petersburg in<br />
1912 and related <strong>Jewish</strong> relief organizations devoted to promoting<br />
child health, medical and social aid in Central, Eastern and Western<br />
Europe between 1912 and 1942, through photographs, documents,<br />
posters, books and artifacts from the YIVO Archives and Library.<br />
YIVO INSTITUTE FOR JEWISH RESEARCH<br />
Cover of OZE’s calendar, Latvia, 1940 -<br />
Courtesy of YIVO Institute <strong>for</strong> <strong>Jewish</strong><br />
Research Archives<br />
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Exhibitions<br />
Magen Broshi, 1996<br />
© Photograph by Stanley I. Batkin<br />
Faces of Israel<br />
THROUGH JULY 27, 2006<br />
THE CONSTANTINER GALLERY<br />
This exhibition features sixty color photographs of prominent Israelis,<br />
including diplomats, Supreme Court justices, professors and artists.<br />
These portraits, stunningly photographed by Stanley Batkin, reflect<br />
his passionate interest in Israel as well as the art of photography.<br />
CENTER FOR JEWISH HISTORY<br />
Luminous Manuscript (detail) by<br />
Diane Samuels<br />
Photograph by Joshua Kessler<br />
Luminous Manuscript<br />
PERMANENT WALL INSTALLATION<br />
PAUL S. AND SYLVIA STEINBERG GREAT HALL<br />
Pittsburgh artist Diane Samuels has created a 22 foot square mosaic<br />
tablet, laid out in a design reminiscent of a page of the Talmud.<br />
Consisting of more than 75,000 Jerusalem stone and Starphire glass<br />
tiles, this monumental piece contains 300 archival materials and<br />
handwritten documents from the <strong>Center</strong> partners’ historical collections,<br />
as well as handwritten letters of the alphabet from more than<br />
450 members of the <strong>Center</strong> community in over 56 languages.<br />
Commissioned by the Diane H. and Joseph S. Steinberg Charitable Trust<br />
CENTER FOR JEWISH HISTORY<br />
Biblical Species (detail) by<br />
Michele Oka Doner<br />
Photograph by Frederick Charles<br />
Biblical Species<br />
PERMANENT FLOOR INSTALLATION<br />
GROUND FLOOR<br />
New York based artist, Michele Oka Doner designed and installed this<br />
lyrical 4,000 square foot terrazzo floor embedded with aluminum,<br />
bronze and mother-of-pearl that depicts botanical species which was<br />
inspired by a story from the Old Testament. Doner’s work illustrates<br />
the seven species that Moses’ scouts brought back - such as grapes,<br />
pomegranates, figs, wheat, barley, olives and dates - to illustrate that<br />
the land of Israel flows with milk and honey (12:27).<br />
CENTER FOR JEWISH HISTORY<br />
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Music<br />
PUBLIC PROGRAMS<br />
LECTURE<br />
Photo: Steve J. Sherman<br />
Courtesy of American Symphony Orchestra<br />
J U N E<br />
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The Musical Culture of German Jews<br />
Under the Third Reich:<br />
Cultural Resistance in the Face of<br />
Nazi Persecution<br />
Focusing primarily on the character of the segregated cultural life within<br />
the Jüdischer Kulturbund, an organization created by <strong>Jewish</strong> musicians,<br />
composers and per<strong>for</strong>mers when they were no longer permitted to per<strong>for</strong>m<br />
under the Nazis, Dr. Leon Botstein will contrast the predicament faced by<br />
artists who remained under Nazi rule until the outbreak of the war with the<br />
fate of those who emigrated from Germany and Austria. New and terrifying<br />
political circumstances <strong>for</strong>ced these per<strong>for</strong>mers to re-evaluate their<br />
relationships with Judaism and <strong>Jewish</strong> identity, often leading to a stronger,<br />
more profound commitment to the avant-garde. The destruction of careers<br />
in a culture of which German Jews were an integral part, and to which they<br />
were uncommonly attached, will be analyzed in terms of the artists, their<br />
listeners, and the circumstances under which they produced their art.<br />
YIVO INSTITUTE FOR JEWISH RESEARCH IN COOPERATION WITH LEO BAECK INSTITUTE<br />
Admission: $20 / $10 students<br />
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J U N E<br />
sun.<br />
J U L Y<br />
PUBLIC PROGRAMS<br />
Music / Genealogy<br />
11<br />
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Music in Our Time<br />
CONCERT<br />
A concert of music by contemporary <strong>Jewish</strong> composers, including Samuel<br />
Adler, Gerald Cohen, Miriam Gideon, Simon Sargon and Mark Zukerman.<br />
Per<strong>for</strong>mers<br />
Sahan Arzruni - piano<br />
Cantor Lawrence Avery - tenor<br />
Eileen Clark - soprano<br />
Ilana Davidson - soprano<br />
Stephen Gosling - piano<br />
Elizabeth Rodgers - piano<br />
Carol Wincenc - flute<br />
Mimi Stern-Wolfe - piano<br />
Dan Zhu - violin<br />
AMERICAN JEWISH HISTORICAL SOCIETY AND AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR JEWISH MUSIC<br />
Admission: $12 / $6 AJHS & ASJM members, students and seniors<br />
Info: 212.294.8324<br />
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SAMBERG<br />
FAMILY HISTORY PROGRAM<br />
Summer Fellowships <strong>for</strong> High School Students<br />
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An incredible opportunity <strong>for</strong> a high school student who wants a unique and challenging<br />
summer experience that is truly un<strong>for</strong>gettable!<br />
A fun summer experience in history and genealogy <strong>for</strong> students entering grades 9-12 or<br />
recent graduates. Students will learn investigative techniques and use them to trace their<br />
own family roots, all while they explore NYC’s most historic and remarkable institutions.<br />
The program is made possible through the generous support of The Samberg Family Foundation.<br />
CENTER FOR JEWISH HISTORY AND AMERICAN JEWISH HISTORICAL SOCIETY<br />
Registration Fee: $100 - Need-based scholarships available<br />
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Lectures<br />
&<br />
Seminars<br />
PUBLIC PROGRAMS<br />
J U N E<br />
12<br />
mon.<br />
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Full Swing:<br />
Hits, Runs and Errors in a Writer’s Life<br />
BOOK SIGNING AND DISCUSSION WITH IRA BERKOW<br />
Meet Pulitzer Prize Winning author and The New<br />
York Times columnist, Ira Berkow, who will<br />
recall his life as a sports writer, discussing his<br />
successful newspaper career - from humble<br />
beginning on the streets of Chicago, to winning<br />
the Pulitzer Prize. Written in a memoir style, his<br />
latest publication features a cast of characters<br />
including Muhammad Ali, Saul Bellow, Groucho<br />
Marx, Ted Williams, Tanya Harding and Michael<br />
Jordan among others. Moderated by David<br />
Margolick, Contributing Editor of Vanity Fair<br />
and author of Beyond Glory: Joe Louis vs. Max<br />
Schmelling, and a World on the Brink.<br />
Photo: Howard Schatz<br />
Full Swing: Hits, Runs and Errors in a Writer’s Life will be available <strong>for</strong> sale at<br />
the Fanya Gottesfeld Heller Bookshop at the <strong>Center</strong> <strong>for</strong> <strong>Jewish</strong> <strong>History</strong>.<br />
AMERICAN JEWISH HISTORICAL SOCIETY<br />
Admission: $8 / $5 AJHS members, students and seniors<br />
J U N E<br />
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u 7:OOPM<br />
False Messiahs in Yiddish Historical Drama<br />
MAX WEINREICH CENTER LECTURE SERIES<br />
WORKMEN’S CIRCLE / DR. EMANUEL PATT MEMORIAL LECTURE<br />
With Dr. Joel Berkowitz, State University of New York - Albany<br />
YIVO INSTITUTE FOR JEWISH RESEARCH - Free Admission<br />
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PUBLIC PROGRAMS<br />
Cinema<br />
a film retrospective<br />
C L I F F O R D O D E T S C E N T E N N I A L<br />
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Paradise Lost<br />
Rocket to the Moon<br />
FEATURED PRESENTATION<br />
FOLLOWED BY POST-SCREENING DISCUSSION<br />
This made-<strong>for</strong>-television movie, starring Eli Wallach, Fred<br />
Gwynne, Bernadette Peters and Jo Van Fleet, features a<br />
per<strong>for</strong>mance of Odets’ depression-era drama, focusing<br />
on the lives of Leo and Clara Gordon, a middle-class<br />
husband and wife living in 1932 America.<br />
Dir. Glenn Jordan / 160 mins. / 1974 / Written by Clif<strong>for</strong>d Odets<br />
FEATURED PRESENTATION<br />
FOLLOWED BY POST-SCREENING DISCUSSION<br />
Part social criticism, part romance, Rocket to the Moon,<br />
is a fascinating look into the mind and lives of a complex<br />
set of characters who give voice to feelings of failure,<br />
deferred dreams, and human yearning. Starring Judy<br />
Davis, John Malkovich and Eli Wallach.<br />
Dir. John Jacobs / 118 mins. / 1986 / Written by Clif<strong>for</strong>d Odets<br />
CENTER FOR JEWISH HISTORY AND AMERICAN JEWISH HISTORICAL SOCIETY IN COLLABORATION WITH CUNY GRADUATE CENTER<br />
Admission: $10 / $5 students<br />
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I Followed My Heart to Jerusalem<br />
FILM SCREENING AND BOOK LAUNCH WITH YALE ROE<br />
Yale Roe with actress Liv<br />
Ullmann, 1996 - © Yale Roe<br />
Former ABC-TV executive, writer and filmmaker Yale Roe<br />
left the Chicago suburbs <strong>for</strong> a new life in Jerusalem in 1972.<br />
Roe made the choice to live a very different life, not out of<br />
economic or political necessity, but as a search <strong>for</strong> meaning<br />
and to connect with the Zionist dream. His experiences living in<br />
Jerusalem are made vivid in his popular memoir, I Followed My<br />
Heart to Jerusalem. Roe will read from his memoir and lead a<br />
post-screening discussion of his award-winning documentary<br />
film, Jerusalem: The City Touched by God.<br />
53 mins. / US / 1997<br />
YESHIVA UNIVERSITY MUSEUM - Free Admission / reservations required<br />
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Cinema<br />
PUBLIC PROGRAMS<br />
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LEO BAECK INSTITUTE FILM SERIES<br />
Sophie Scholl - The Final Days<br />
Dir. Marc Rothemund / 117 mins. / Germany / 2005<br />
German with English subtitles<br />
Munich, 1943: Sophie and Hans Scholl are members of the<br />
Weiße Rose (White Rose), a resistance group against the<br />
Nazi regime. When the siblings lay out fliers at the university,<br />
they are caught by the caretaker who calls the Gestapo.<br />
After their imprisonment, they are interrogated <strong>for</strong> days. On<br />
February 22nd, the Scholls and their aide Christoph Probst<br />
are accused of high treason and sentenced to death.<br />
The Goebbels Experiment<br />
Dir. Lutz Hachmeister / 108 mins. / Germany & UK / 2004<br />
German with English subtitles<br />
The Nazi propaganda mastermind behind Hitler speaks in<br />
first person as actor Kenneth Branagh reads pages of the<br />
diary kept by the chief of propaganda, Joseph Goebbels,<br />
revealing the man’s most inner thoughts. German<br />
archives trace the life of the second most powerful man<br />
of the Third Reich, detailing his initial attraction to the<br />
Nazi party and his adoration of Hitler.<br />
From Swastika to Jim Crow<br />
Dir. Lori Cheatle and Martin D. Toub / 60 mins. / US / 2000<br />
Be<strong>for</strong>e and during the Second World War, <strong>Jewish</strong><br />
intellectuals and scholars who escaped Nazi Germany<br />
and immigrated to the U.S. faced an uncertain future.<br />
Confronted with anti-Semitism at major universities<br />
and a public distrust of <strong>for</strong>eigners, a surprising number<br />
secured teaching positions at traditionally Black<br />
colleges in the segregated South. In many cases they<br />
<strong>for</strong>med lasting relationships with their students and had<br />
an important impact on the communities in which they<br />
lived and worked.<br />
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u MAIL Indicate your name, mailing address,<br />
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AMERICAN JEWISH HISTORICAL SOCIETY<br />
AMERICAN SEPHARDI FEDERATION<br />
LEO BAECK INSTITUTE<br />
YESHIVA UNIVERSITY MUSEUM<br />
YIVO INSTITUTE FOR JEWISH RESEARCH<br />
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