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Posts tagged as “Jewish”

The Annual Chanukah Concert

Ever a joyous experience, with music, song plus a special story for the holiday. Join us for a fun-filled afternoon that will thrill and delight. Ticket Info: $18 general; $12 AJHS/ASJM/CJH members; $9 seniors, students at bpt.me/3671934 or 800-838-3006  

Poetry from Al-Andalus to the Romansas

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…

The Singer’s Warsaw Festival of Jewish Culture

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…

Book Talk. Courage and Fear by Ola Hnatiuk

Join the Ukrainian Studies Program at the Harriman Institute, Columbia University for a presentation by Ola Hnatiuk of her book Courage and Fear (Academic Studies Press, 2019). Thoughtful, insightful, exceptionally well researched and moving at the same time, Courage and Fear is the book that plunges the reader into the depth of the history in one of the most contested places on the European map. The…