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The Singer’s Warsaw Festival of Jewish Culture

Lincoln Square Synagogue 180 Amsterdam Avenue, New York City, NY, United States

The Singer’s Warsaw Festival of Jewish Culture -- one of the most celebrated arts festivals in Poland -- returns to New York City, November 17–19, 2019 for the second year. The most highly anticipated event on Warsaw’s cultural calendar, this year’s local program features a cantorial concert by Yaakov Lemmer and Frank London, film screenings, readings of short stories by…

Lessons from the Propaganda Underground: How Cold War Optics Can Help Us Read Our World

1219 International Affairs Building 420 West 118th Street, New York City, United States

Featuring Margaret Peacock, University of Alabama.   The twentieth century witnessed the advent of modern propaganda. Many associate propaganda with the Nazi regime, with its vitriolic efforts to conjure militant hyper-nationalism and anti-Semitism. But far more pervasive and long lasting was the propaganda that characterized the Cold War that followed. Propagandists from the Soviet Union and the United States mobilized new…

International Law and the Negotiation of the Treaty of Paris (1783)

The European Institute at Columbia University 420 W 118th St #1205, New York City, United States

The European History & Politics Workshop is supported by the European Institute at Columbia University. The workshop will meet on select Mondays over the course of the academic year at Columbia University (Philosophy 302) from 12:00pm-1:30pm. Participants will discuss pre-circulated work-in-progress over a light lunch. Please note that these workshops are by invitation only. If you are interested in attending,…

Book Talk. Strategic Frames: Europe, Russia, and Minority Inclusion in Estonia and Latvia by Jennie L. Schulze

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

Join the Program on U.S.-Russia Relations at the Harriman Institute for a talk with Jennie L. Schulze, author of Strategic Frames: Europe, Russia, and Minority Inclusion in Estonia and Latvia(University of Pittsburgh Press, 2018). Strategic Frames analyzes minority policies in Estonia and Latvia following their independence from the Soviet Union. It weighs the powerful influence of both Europe and Russia on their policy…

The Righteous Gypsy

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

Directed by Jakov & Dominik Sedlar and Pravednica Ciganka, this 2016 short film tells the story of the only Gypsy woman honored by Israel as a "Righteous amongst the Nations." Ticket Info: $10 general at bpt.me/4333932 or 800-838-3006  

Poetry from Al-Andalus to the Romansas

Los Corassones Avlan 148 W. 4th Street, New York City, NY, United States

We continue the conversation on poetry from the perspective of Spanish Jewish practitioners. Isabelle Levy, Tamar Menashe, and Raymond P. Scheindlin will read poems in some of the languages of Sephardi Jews and discuss the interconnected histories of secular Hebrew poetry of al-Andalus, the Judeo-Spanish romansas which drew upon Castilian and Galician-Portuguese tropes, and the contiguous poetic practices in Arabic…

Celan in Israel: A Conversation between Ulrich Baer and Amir Eshel

Deutsches Haus NYU 42 Washington Mews, New York City, NY, United States

Deutsches Haus at NYU presents a conversation between Professor Ulrich Baer (New York University) and Professor Amir Eshel (Stanford University) on Paul Celan’s visit to Israel in 1969 and on how Israel (past and present) could be seen through the poet's work. Photo of Paul Celan About the event: In 1969, the poet Paul Celan, who upended modern poetry with…

A “Furiosus” Preview

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

Roberto Scarcella Perino's Opera Comes to New York Composer Roberto Scarcella Perino's latest opera Furiosius, based on Ariosto's Orlando Furioso, with a libretto by Flora Gagliardi, will receive its American premiere in May, 2020. The composer will be giving a presentation of the work in the company of Professors Eugenio Refini (NYU) and Lina Bolzoni (Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa), featuring…

Professor Andersen’s Night Book Talk With Dag Solstad

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

Award-winning Norwegian novelist Dag Solstad joins us with author Rebecca Dinerstein for a book talk on his newest novel, an existential murder mystery titled Professor Andersen’s Night. On Christmas Eve, 55-year-old professor Pål Andersen sits alone in his living room, drinking coffee and cognac and lost in a train of thought, when he glances out the window and sees a man strangling a…

Rembrandt’s Legacy: A PersonalConversation

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

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.