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Conscious History: Polish Jewish Historians before the Holocaust

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

Natalia Aleksiun and Sam Kassow will discuss the legacies of Jewish historians before the Holocaust who wrote both academic and popular history for their community and engaged in creating a sense of Polish-Jewish belonging, while also fighting for their rights as an ethnic minority. What shaped their sense of both scholarly and communal mission? How relevant is their work to…

$10

Between Serialism and Suprematism: Nikolai Roslavets’s Modernist Music

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

Please join the Ukrainian Studies Program at the Harriman Institute, Columbia University for a presentation by Leah Batstone (Hunter College, CUNY). The compositions of Nikolai Roslavets, one of many Ukrainian composers often mistaken for Russian, demonstrate the unique musical position of Ukraine in the history of early twentieth-century music. As a mediator between the compositional serialism of the Second Viennese School of…

Lo squadrone bianco

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

(The White Squadron, 1936) In conjunction with the exhibition Propaganda: The Art of Political Indoctrination On view at Casa Italiana March 4 - April 17, 2020 Lo squadrone bianco (Italy, 1936, b/w, 94 min.) In ITALIAN with ENGLISH subtitles Directed by Augusto Genina Starring Fosco Giachetti, Antonio Centa, Fulvia Lanzi Introduced by Alberto Zambenedetti, University of Toronto From the Casa Italiana Zerilli-Marimo.