Film: Restoring Tomorrow

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

NY Premiere Screening with Filmmaker Aaron Wolf. In Partnership with the American Jewish Historical Society and the Center for Jewish History. Director Aaron Wolf’s personal journey of rediscovery comes alive in Restoring Tomorrow, the story of how a treasured local temple near demise is lifted up by a community’s determination. Wolf’s documentary explores how, when any community puts their mind…

Film Screening: Restoring Tomorrow

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

NY Premiere Screening with Filmmaker Aaron Wolf. In Partnership with the American Jewish Historical Society and the Center for Jewish History. Director Aaron Wolf’s personal journey of rediscovery comes alive in Restoring Tomorrow, the story of how a treasured local temple near demise is lifted up by a community’s determination. Wolf’s documentary explores how, when any community puts their mind…

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Zemlinsky, Janacek, Dvorak and Their Muses

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

Performance by Zemlinsky Quartet, illustrated talk by Nicholas Chong. Love, requited or otherwise, can spark the creation of great music. In 1865, Antonin Dvorak’s feelings for Josefina Cermakova inspired the song-cycle Cypresses. His love was unrequited, but years later he arranged some of the songs for string quartet, creating a set of exquisite miniatures. Leos Janacek was sixty-three when he…

Ukraine at the Epicenter of the World Storm: The First Results

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

Please join the Ukrainian Studies Program at the Harriman Institute, Columbia University for a presentation by Ambassador Yuriy Scherbak. Yuriy M. Scherbak (Shcherbak) is a Ukrainian writer, screenwriter, publicist, epidemiologist, politician, diplomat, and environmental activist. He is a Doctor of Medicine (1983) and Laureate of the Y. Yanovsky Literary Prize (1984) and the O. Dovzhenko State Prize (1984). Yuriy Scherbak graduated from…

When US Press Flirted with Fascism

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

Co-presented by NYU Department of History and Centro Primo Levi. Ruth Ben Ghiat and Alexander Stille in conversation with Mauro Canali on his new research and book La scoperta dell’Italia on American correspondents in Fascist Italy. Respondent to be announced. Mauro Canali’s new research, published as La scoperta dell’Italia, examines the activity, impact, and perspectives of American correspondents in Italy from 1900 to 1945 and the beginnings of the modern tradition of international political…

Re-Thinking Populism on the Left

Albertine 972 5th Avenue, New York, NY, United States

What if populism was more than the image of demagoguery seen across our media? Join Chantal Mouffe and Jonathan Smucker as they discuss the “populist moment” that Western democracies face today and what it means for the left, themes from Mouffe’s latest book, For a Left Populism, just out in the US with Verso Books. In English. Free and open to the public. No RSVP necessary. Chantal…

Film Screening & Discussion. Frost

Deutsches Haus Columbia 420 West 116th Street, New York City, NY, United States

Please join the Ukrainian Film Club of Columbia University for a screening of the film Frost (2017) as part of the Fall 2018 Olena Yershova Retrospective Film Series at Columbia. Producer Olena Yershovawill participate in the discussion. Frost, directed by Sharunas Bartas of Lithuania, is an unheroic road story of discovery when a selfless Lithuanian couple drives a truck loaded with humanitarian aid for Ukrainians…

Baltic Film Festival

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

The festival will include 18 films and feature 7 U.S. premiere screenings and 9 NYC premieres, and will include notable classic films that have rarely been seen outside of Europe as well as the latest features, documentaries, and animation films from some of the best established and upcoming filmmakers from Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania. Click here to see the full film line up…

Roma Città Aperta [Rome Open City]

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

In conjunction with the exhibition NeoRealismo: The New Image in Italy, 1932-1960 Roma città aperta (Italy, 1945, 103 min.) In ITALIAN with ENGLISH subtitles Directed by Roberto Rossellini Starring Anna Magnani, Aldo Fabrizi, Marcello Pagliero Introduced by Stefano Albertini, NYU This harrowing 1945 drama by Roberto Rossellini centers on the Nazi occupation of Rome and the brave few who struggled against…

Gilded Age Newsmakers: Dvorak and Thurber

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

From the moment Czech composer Antonin Dvorak stepped ashore to assume the post of Director of the National Conservatory of Music of America in September 1892, he was besieged by reporters anxious to follow his every move. Active behind the scenes was music impresario Jeannette Meyer Thurber, Founder and President of the Conservatory and a New York mover and shaker.…