A concert with Dan Franklin Smith (piano) and Gregorij von Leitis (recitation) presenting the last compositions, which the Austrian-Jewish composer Viktor Ullmann was able to finish in the ghetto and concentration camp Theresienstadt, before he was transported to Auschwitz and killed there. His melodram “The Lay of Love and Death of Cornet Christoph Rilke” for recitation and piano is hauntingly…
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Centro Primo Levi Editions is pleased to announce the English language publication of Efratia Gitai: Correspondence 1929–1994, with a stage reading of a selection of the letters featuring Barbara Sukowa, Ronald Gutman and pianist Yali Levi Schwartz. Born in 1909 in Haifa to Russian Zionist parents, Efratia Gitai was “the eldest daughter” of the Second Aliyah, the second wave of Jewish immigrants to Ottoman Palestine. Her…
at The Brotherhood Synagogue (28 Gramercy Park South) Please note: This event will take place at The Brotherhood Synagogue (28 Gramercy Park South) Members of Casa Italiana will receive a special code via E-mail for free admission Salon Sanctuary Concerts presents Ester, Liberatrice del popolo ebreo Alessandro Stradella (1639 – 1682) With Gould, Pillow, Lemos, Pomerantz, An The Old Testament…
[3rd Floor] In the talk “A Slow Revolution: Early Steps Towards Jewish Emancipation in Bohemia, 1780s-1860s,” Jindrich Toman, Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, will guide the audience through select points that mark legal and cultural emancipation of Bohemian Jewry in the decades between the so-called Josephinian Decrees of the 1780s and the…