On the Island of Rhodes, after the Shabbat, families gathered for the Havdalah, the ceremony that separates the day of rest from the beginning of a new week of work. After the recitation of the prayers over sweet wine and a bowl of spices, life resumed as before the pause of the sixth day. The women would seat in the…
"Daddy is a Hero" is a humorous, immersive story about a family: love between parents and a brother and sister who stick together even though they fight. Love helps them to overcome dragons, illnesses, and more. This performance also includes live music. The show is performed by an independent puppet theater company LokVar - two actors with large and small…
Italy's Migrant Detention Centers and Colonial Concentration Camps A lecture by Stephanie Malia Hom Followed by a conversation between the author and Prof. Ruth Ben-Ghiat (NYU) Stephanie Malia Hom presents an excerpt from her new book, Empire’s Mobius Strip: Historical Echoes in Italy’s Crisis of Migration and Detention (Cornell UP, 2019). Italy’s current crisis of Mediterranean migration and detention has…
Everyone knows Phil Rosenthal loves to eat. The star of the hit series, Somebody Feed Phil, and co-creator of Everybody Loves Raymond, travels the world to taste the best local cuisine. So, what will we feed Phil at the Center for Jewish History? With hundreds of vintage Jewish cookbooks here in the archives, we have a few recipes in mind.…
Screening of a Slovak documentary film “Spytaj sa vasich ’89” (Ask at Home ’89) that brings an insight into the lives of people in the former Czechoslovakia in the context of major social changes during the Velvet Revolution in November 1989. The screening is followed by an interactive Q&A with the director Barbora Bereznakova, engaging audience in the conversation through…
A concert featuring the music of Dvořák, Smetana, Janáček, Martinů, Fišer, and an original composition "A Musical Tribute to Václav Havel" for cello and pianoby Lora Al Ahmad. Since 1999, Mannes has presented a year-long music festival every year. Each festival has a theme and a program of more than 20 concerts, performed by the Mannes School of Music's gifted…
Medardo Rosso and the Contemporary Origins of Modern Sculpture A lecture by Sharon Hecker, art historian Two decades after unification, Italy was characterized by uncertain nationalism and ambivalent internationalism. The generation that grew up in the aftermath of the Risorgimento was filled with hopes followed by disillusionment. The death of Risorgimento hero Giuseppe Garibaldi in 1882 intensified feelings of anxiety…
Tuesday, November 5, 2019 at 7 pm Bohemian National Hall, cinema 321 E 73 St, New York City FILM + DISCUSSION Screening of a 2019 documentary film about a Czech journalist and a hero of Bulgaria, Vladimír Sís (1889-1958) Vladimír Sís was a Czech patriot, journalist, and writer. At age 23, he sent his reports from the frontline of the…
Join the Program on U.S.-Russia Relations for a discussion with Alexey Trepykhalin, a former legal and political specialist at the U.S. Embassy in Moscow. Mr. Trepykhalin will discuss U.S.-Russian cooperation in law enforcement projects in transnational organized crime and rule of law, and the changing work environment for Foreign Service Nationals accompanying the recent deterioration in bilateral relations. Alexey Trepykhalin is…
Drawing on the Arab heritage of oral tradition and mosaic patterns, Leila and the Wolvesis an exploration of the collective historical memory of Arab women. Shot over seven years, and in often treacherous conditions, Srour’s film is a masterpiece of filmmaking, mixing together archival footage, fairy-tale storytelling, aesthetically bold imagery, and dramatizations of situations faced by women in Lebanon and…