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The German-Jewish Cookbook

Center for Jewish History 15 W. 16th Street, New York City

The mother-daughter team behind The German-Jewish Cookbook (Brandeis University Press, 2017), Gabrielle Rossmer Gropman and Sonya Gropman, discuss their historical and gastronomic exploration of German-Jewish cuisine with the Gefilteria’s Jeffrey Yoskowitz and historian Atina Grossmann (Cooper Union). This event will include a reception (Kosher dairy) with a tasting menu of items from the book: Berches (German-Jewish challa) Liptauer (a classic cheese spread with Hungarian origins) Krautsalat (cabbage slaw) Orangentorte (0range cake) Wine, Beer, and…

$10

Lecture: Aging Gracefully. Restoring Carpaccio’s Saint Ursula Cycle

Casa Italiana Zerilli-Marimò (NYU) 24 West 12th Street, New York City

A lecture by Melissa Conn, Director Venice Office, Save Venice Inc. How to best care for Carpaccio’s princess bride has occupied conservation professionals for nearly 500 years, from the first documented restoration treatment in 1521, to Save Venice’s current conservation efforts. Now housed in the Accademia Galleries, this 15th-century narrative cycle of nine canvases illustrating the story of Saint Ursula suffers…

The Receptionist: An Education at The New Yorker

Albertine 972 5th Avenue, New York

In 1957, when a young Midwestern woman landed a job at The New Yorker, she didn’t expect to stay long at the reception desk. But stay Janet Groth did, and for twenty-one years she had the best seat in the house. In addition to taking messages, she ran interference for jealous wives checking on adulterous husbands, drank with famous writers at…

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The Hatred of Literature – William Marx & Ben Lerner

La Maison Française (NYU) 16 Washington Mews, New York City

William Marx Writer, critic, professor of Comparative Literature, Université Paris Nanterre; author of La Haine de la littérature (The Hatred of Literature, Harvard University Press, 2018) Ben Lerner, respondent Poet, novelist, critic; MacArthur Fellow; author of No Art; Leaving the Atocha Station; 10:04; The Hatred of Poetry Eric Banks, moderator Director, New York Institute for the Humanities For the last 2,500 years literature has been attacked,…

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