Latest Past Events

Economic Crisis in Europe: East and West European Dimensions

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

Please join the Harriman Institute and the European Institute for a talk with Klaus Segbers, Adjunct Professor of International & Public Affairs, SIPA/Harriman Institute; Director of the Center for Global Politics, Freie Universität Berlin. The EU is experiencing perhaps its most difficult period since its foundation. External pressure is significant, and internal constraints and quarrels cannot be overlooked, with East European EU…

Jews of the Wild West

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

PLEASE NOTE: This is not a film screening. Western Jewish pioneers are a largely forgotten chapter in U.S. history. And yet, they played a definitive and often colorful role shaping the expansion of the United States. There were nationally known names such as Levi Strauss, Samsonite founder Jesse Shwayder and the Guggenheim family, who built their great fortunes through grit…

$15

Rembrandt’s Legacy: A PersonalConversation

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

Please note: This event has been postponed. Commemorating the 350th anniversary of Rembrandt’s death, Rabbi Meir Soloveichik and Thomas Kaplan, philanthropist and private collector of the Dutch master’s works, discuss Rembrandt’s legacy.