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The Newish Jewish Encyclopedia

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

Deeply knowing, highly entertaining, and just a little bit irreverent, The Newish Jewish Encyclopedia is an unputdownable encyclopedia of all things Jewish and Jew-ish covering culture, religion, history, habits, language, and more. Readers will refresh their knowledge of the Patriarchs and Matriarchs, the artistry of Barbra Streisand, the significance of the Oslo Accords, the meaning of words like balaboosta,balagan, bashert, and bageling. Understand all…

$15

Music On Park Avenue With Per Tengstrand & Opus 21 Rachmaninoff’s Second Concerto

Scandinavia House 58 Park Avenue, New York City, NY, United States

THU—NOV 21—7:30 PM Pre-concert talk, 7 PM $25 ($20 ASF Members) Series Pass $125 ($100 ASF Members) This season, Swedish pianist Per Tengstrand returns to Scandinavia House for the Music on Park Avenue concert series with a special presentation of famous piano concerti performed with musicians from Princeton chamber music group Opus 21. This evening, Tengstrand and Opus 21 musicians…

Holy Mass in Suffrage of Baroness Mariuccia Zerilli-Marimò

Catholic Center NYU 238 Thompson Street, New York, NY, United States

at The Catholic Center at NYU (238 Thompson St.) Four years ago, our founder Baroness Zerilli passed away. Every day here at Casa, the institution she nurtured with love, wisdom, and boundless energy, we feel the profound sadness of her loss. However, we continue to feel the joy and honor of being the custodians of Casa's mission, as she had…

Lecture: Forgotten Geographies of Artistic Diplomacy w/ Sarah-Neel Smith

Hagop Kevorkian Center 255 Sullivan Street, New York City, NY, United States

Dr. Sarah-Neel Smith will discuss Turkey’s art world of the 1960s and ’70s through the lens of Abby Grey’s collecting activities, focusing on the intersection of art and international discourses about democracy in the wake of World War II.

Traveling with Adele (In viaggio con Adele)

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

N.I.C.E. Film Festival New Italian Cinema Events (N.I.C.E.) Film Festival celebrates its 29th edition in the United States. In viaggio con Adele (2018, Italy, 83 min.) In ITALIAN with ENGLISH subtitles Directed by Alessandro Capitani Starring Alessandro Haber, Sara Serraiocco, Isabella Ferrari Adele, a young girl who suffers from a mental disorder, has never met her father and has always lived under…

The New Land /Nybyggarna Liv Ullmann: A Celebration

Scandinavia House 58 Park Avenue, New York City, NY, United States

FRI—November 22—6:30 PM $12 ($7 ASF Members) 202 min. In Swedish with English subtitles. In this epic sequel to the 1971 film The Emigrants, Karl-Oskar (Max von Sydow) and his wife Kristina (Liv Ullmann), having journeyed to America from Sweden, are now living in the wilderness of Minnesota. While building a farmhouse and clearing and farming their land, they must…

UNSOUND NEW YORK 2019

St. Peter's Church 346 W. 20th St., New York, NY, United States

KSIEZYC at 8 p.m. St. Peter’s Church in Chelsea. 346 W 20th St, New York, NY 10011 FREE Polish Cultural Institute New York is delighted to invite you again to the U.S. edition an adventurous music festival from Poland. Since 2010 we have been engaged in festival innovative programming that features an immersive aural and visual experience led by electronic…

Scenes From A Marriage /Scener ur ett äktenskap Liv Ullmann: A Celebration

Scandinavia House 58 Park Avenue, New York City, NY, United States

SAT—November 23—2 PM $12 ($7 ASF Members) 169 min. In Swedish with English Subtitles. In one of Ingmar Bergman’s most lauded and approachable works, Scenes From A Marriage explores the disintegration of the marriage between Marianne (Liv Ullmann), a family lawyer specializing in divorce, and Johan (Erland Josephson), spanning a period of 10 years. Despite seeming to have it all, Marianne…

“One of the Greatest Untold Stories of WWII”: A Decade-Long Quest after my Father and a Quarter Million other Holocaust Refugees

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

It is a largely unknown and astonishing fact that most Polish Jews who escaped Nazi extermination survived as refugees in Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Iran and India. Mikhal Dekel, whose then 13-year-old father was such a refugee, will share her archival research and global travel to retrace their 13,000 mile route. Dekel tells a story at once intimate and historically sweeping, conversing…

$5

The Seine, the River that Made Paris

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

To RSVP, please click here. Elaine Sciolino’s new book explores the history and mythology, the romantic and the everyday life of the magical Seine river that runs through the heart of Paris. In the spring of 1978, as a young journalist in Paris, Elaine Sciolino was seduced by a river. In The Seine, she tells the story of that river through its rich…