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“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…

On Finding and Fabricating: Memory and Family History in Katja Petrowskaja’s “Maybe Esther”

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

Deutsches Haus at NYU presents a talk by DAAD Visiting Scholar Susanne Rohr about the desire for continuity, identity, and belonging in one’s own family history and her interpretation of Katja Petrowskaja’s collection of stories, Maybe Esther. About the event: A topic that is being broadly discussed in contemporary German and U.S.-American literature is a desire for continuity, identity, and…

41° Parallelo

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

Short Films from the Naples Film Festival In collaboration with the Naples Film Festival. The following films were selected specifically for Casa Italiana by a special jury made up of students of the NYU Department of Italian Studies: Ciruzziello by Ciro D'Aniello La Gita by Salvatore Allocca Alma by Michelangelo Fornaro La scelta by Giuseppe Alessio Nuzzo Scenario by Jay…

A Woman’s Perspective: An Evening with Zuzana Justman

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

Mon, November 25, 2019 at 7:00 pm at Bohemian National Hal,cinema 321 E 73 St, New York City The Czech-American Emmy Award-winning filmmaker and writer will discuss three of her major films Voices of the Children (1996), A Trial in Prague (2000), and Czech Women: Now We Are Free (1993) Moderated by Helena Fisera and Christopher Harwood Limited seating! RSVP:…

On the Shoulders of Giants: Rabelaisian Authorial Avatars in the Age of Print – Virginia Krause

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

The point of departure for this talk is the controversial hypothesis that Les Œuvres de Louise Labé was not the work of a woman author, but rather a literary hoax by a group of male poets. Rather than weighing in on this on-going polemic, however, Krause asks to what extent the conditions underlying the Labé hypothesis apply more generally to…

Art Reception & Talk: Interwoven over Millenia: East, West, Ancient and New

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

The contemporary fiber art of Stanley Bulbach embodies the arts, technologies, and traditions of the ancient civilizations upon which the modern East and West are founded. His contemporary imagery is expressed through the wool spinning, dyeing, and weaving of the ancient East, technologies that, for example, underlie modern computers and digital monitors. These age old utilitarian arts and technologies protected…

Jews of the Wild West

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

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

A Very Jewish Christmas: Old World Jewish Christmas Traditions

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

The "December Dilemma" is a long-standing issue in America, but it also has deep roots in Eastern Europe, where the context and relationships between Jews and Gentiles were quite different. In this talk, Itzik Gottesman will examine the fascinating Jewish beliefs and traditions related to Christmas in the Old World. A Hanukkah candle lighting ceremony and a kosher Chinese food dinner will…

$15

Penetrating the Third Reich: Polish Secret Agents in the OSS

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

Please join the East Central European Center at the Harriman Institute for a talk with John Micgiel, author of Project Eagle: Polscy wywiadowcy w raportach i dokumentach wojennych amerykanskiego Biura Sluzb Bezpieczenstwa (Krakow: Universitas, 2019). John Micgiel's book tells the story of cooperation between the Polish Government in Exile and the U.S. Office of Strategic Services (OSS) during World War…