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What is the Cantorial “Golden Age”?

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

Among aficionados and practitioners, the term cantorial "Golden Age" draws to mind a discrete body of work recorded by a well-known cadre of Eastern European cantors working in Europe and America in the 1900s-30s. This narrative of a Golden Age was shaped by cantors working in tandem with commercial distribution networks, advertisements in print media, and the efforts of intellectuals…

Political Protest and Culture in Today’s Russia

Barnard College 3009 Broadway, New York, NY, New York City, NY, United States

Join for a lecture by journalist, literary critic, curator, and political activist Anna Narinskaya. This event is part of the Super-NOS Russian Literary Festival, sponsored by the Harriman Institute, Barnard Slavic Department, Columbia Slavic Department, and the Mikhail Prokhorov Charitable Foundation. Please click here to register. Anna Narinskaya is a journalist, literary critic, curator, and political activist. Since 2018, she has served as chair of the jury for…

Yellow Star, Red Star: Holocaust Remembrance after Communism

NYU Politics Department 19 West 4th Street, Room 217, New York, New York

Yellow Star, Red Star asks why Holocaust memory continues to be fraught – ignored, appropriated, or obfuscated – throughout Eastern Europe, the principal location of the Holocaust. As part of European Union accession process, Jelena Subotić shows, East European states were required to adopt, participate in and contribute to the already established Western narrative of the Holocaust. This has created…

Symposium Misinformation, Media Manipulation, and Antisemitism

Italian Academy (Columbia) 1161 Amsterdam Avenue, New York City, NY, United States

Annual event marking Holocaust Remembrance Day Welcoming remarks: Barbara Faedda Executive Director, Italian Academy, Columbia Speakers: Ioana Literat Assistant Professor of Communication, Media and Learning Technologies Design, Teachers College, Columbia University “Youth political expression in online spaces” Rachel Deblinger (via Skype) Director of the Modern Endangered Archives Program at the UCLA Library; Co-Director of the Digital Jewish Studies Initiative at UC…

Family History Today: Jewish Students, Medical Globetrotters, and Persevering Women

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

At first, aspiring Jewish men from Galicia, Lithuania, and elsewhere ventured to Padua University to study medicine when other schools across Europe refused their admission. Then, from the end of the eighteenth century onward, Jews from Galicia attended Habsburg universities—from Lemberg/Lwów and Kraków, to Vienna, Pest and Prague. Many nineteenth-century Jewish medics influenced Galician life beyond their profession, advocating educational,…

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African Catholic: Decolonization and the Transformation of the Church – Elizabeth A. Foster

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

African Catholic (Harvard University Press, 2019) by Elizabeth A. Foster examines how French imperialists and the Africans they ruled imagined the religious future of French sub-Saharan Africa in the years just before and after decolonization. The story encompasses the political transition to independence, Catholic contributions to black intellectual currents, and efforts to alter the church hierarchy to create an authentically “African” church. Elizabeth…

A Reading by Lev Rubinstein

Barnard College 3009 Broadway, New York, NY, New York City, NY, United States

Join for a reading by Lev Rubinstein, postmodernist Russian poet, prose-writer, and performer. The event will be preceded by a reception at 6:00pm and followed by a Q&A session after the reading. This event is part of the Super-NOS Russian Literary Festival, sponsored by the Harriman Institute, Barnard Slavic Department, Columbia Slavic Department, and the Mikhail Prokhorov Charitable Foundation. This a Russian-language…

Book Talk. Giuseppe Mazzini’s Young Europe and the Birth of Modern Nationalism in the Slavic World by Anna Procyk

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

Join the Ukrainian Studies Program and the East Central European Center at the Harriman Institute for a presentation by Anna Procyk of her book Giuseppe Mazzini’s Young Europe and the Birth of Modern Nationalism in the Slavic World (University of Toronto Press, 2019). Giuseppe Mazzini’s Young Europe and the Birth of Modern Nationalism in the Slavic World examines the intellectual currents in Eastern…

The Sower (Le Semeur)

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

To RSVP, please click here. Following the coup d’état of December 2, 1851, President Louis Napoleon Bonaparte was crowned Emperor Napoleon III, setting off a bloody campaign of repression to root out his opponents. In some regions, entire villages were cleared of their adult male population. Marine Francen’s ravishing first feature uses this historical context and the true story of…

Modernity, Fascism & Resistance

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

How Four Ethiopians Confronted, Maneuvered and Survived the Italo-Ethiopian War of 1935-1941 In collaboration with Centro Primo Levi NYU Department of History NYU Tisch School of the Arts NYU Department of Italian Studies NYU Center for the Study of African and the African Diaspora (CSAAD) Modernity, Fascism & Resistance How Four Ethiopians Confronted, Maneuvered and Survived the Italo-Ethiopian War of 1935-1941…