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Book Talk. A Russian Immigrant: Three Novellas by Maxim D. Shrayer

Marshall D. Shulman Seminar Room 420 W 118th Street, #1219 International Affairs Building, New York City

Please join us for a book talk with Maxim D. Shrayer, internationally acclaimed author of the memoirs Waiting for America and Leaving Russia and of the story collection Yom Kippur in Amsterdam. Shrayer’s new book of fiction, A Russian Immigrant: Three Novellas, explores the lives of immigrants from Russia and the former USSR. A Professor of Russian, English, and Jewish Studies at Boston College, Shrayer is the winner of the 2007 National Jewish…

Exile and Creativity: Book Launch

Rizzioli Bookstore 1133 Broadway, New York City

Book discussion followed by wine reception. Giorgio Van Straten, Alessandro Cassin, Alexander Stille and Fraser Ottanelli. Exile and Creativity, published by CPL Editions, is a collection of essays  from a program series held in 2017-18 by the Italian Cultural Institute in New York jointly with Centro Primo Levi. The essays examine the lives of Italian man and women who were…

Dante and the Discourse of Race in 20th Century America

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

Allen Tate, Melvin Tolson, Robert Penn Warren, Ralph Ellison A lecture by Dennis Looney In this presentation Dr. Looney examines how the reception of Dante Alighieri--his biography and the Divine Comedy--contributes to the productive literary entanglement of several key figures of American literary life in the middle of the 20th century. Since 2014, Dennis Looney has served as director of the…

Midwives, Musicians, Soldiers, Rabbis:Whose Stories will become Jewish History?

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

Come join leading musicians, historians, and an award-winning novelist on March 12 to celebrate the release of The Posen Library of Jewish Culture and Civilization, Volume 6: Confronting Modernity, 1750-1880, edited by Elisheva Carlebach. A lively discussion will explore “Whose stories will become Jewish history?” as Deborah Dash Moore, Elisheva Carlebach, Dara Horn, Itamar Borochov  bring to life through words and music the period…

$10

Film: Hiroshima, my love (Hiroshima mon amour)

La Maison Française (Columbia) Buell Hall, 515 West 116th Street, New York City

A French actress filming an anti-war film in Hiroshima has an affair with a married Japanese architect as they share their differing perspectives on war. A classic black-and-white story of love, war, suffering and forgetfulness, which was sweated out of an affair between a French actress (Emmanuelle Riva) and a married Japanese architect (Eiji Okada) in the titular bomb-ravaged city.

Exhibition opening: The Genesis and Life of Opera Kata Kabanova

Bohemian National Hall 321 E 73rd St., New York

Opening of the exhibition "The Genesis and Life of Janacek's Opera Kata Kabanova" exploring the circumstances surrounding the creation and first staging of the opera in Brno in 1921. It also presents the history of productions of Janacek’s operas at the Metropolitan Opera and a series of paper collages by a Brno-based artist Vendula Chalankova featuring characters from Janacek’s operas…

Homage to Spring With Helge Antoni

Scandinavia House 58 Park Avenue, New York City

Internationally acclaimed Swedish pianist Helge Antoni presents a celebration of spring’s arrival through performances of works by C. Sinding, J. Sibelius, E. Grieg, W. Stenhammar, and T. Rangström. The concert includes pieces from Sinding’s Popular Song, Op. 32, Serenade, Op. 33, and Rustle of Spring, Op. 32; Sibelius’s Romance, Op. 24 and The Birchtree and The Fir Tree, Op. 75;…

$25