UNCC Concert Honors Jewish Prisoners Who Rebelled in Song
SEVENTY-THREE YEARS AGO, Jewish prisoners interred at Terezin, the notorious Nazi concentration camp, used their singing of Giuseppe Verdi’s "Requiem Mass" as a most unlikely weapon against their captors. In June 1944, 150 inmates, weakened...
Corsets and Comedy: Inside Amazon’s The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel
On a trendy street in Williamsburg, tucked in next to a Michelin-starred restaurant and a bar once frequented by Kendall Jenner, there’s a portal to another era: a 1950s department store where display cases are glowing...
Fragments of a Glorious History
Discovering Iraqi Mesorah: Reflections on an Exhibit
Fragments of a sefer Torah, open to Parashas Lech Lecha, a Gemara Maseches Yoma, a large sefer Tehillim — at least 18 inches tall — a religious guidebook...
Remembering the last Jews of Iraq
The story of the Jews in Iraq is one that dates back 2,500 years, but such was the speed that they were forced to abandon their homeland following the end of the Second World War and creation of...
The Jewish Revolution: how Soviet Jews pursued artistic modernity and political freedom after 1917
When 2018 rolls round, the cottage industry dedicated to poring over the 100-year legacy of the Russian Revolution will be put to bed. And while the sheer volume of exhibitions, books, TV series and...
Exhibit Tour: Celebrate SD!
Wednesday, November 29, 2017 at 10:00 AM
Join the CJC for an exclusive curator-led tour of the San Diego History Center’s exhibit “Celebrate San Diego! The History and Heritage of San Diego’s Jewish Community.” Walk...
‘Watching the moon at night’: The film that speaks truth to terror
A documentary about terror, especially if you have come perilously close to experiencing it in your own life or have lost people you love to it, as I have, can have you biting your lips,...
Gustav Mahler: Jewish Identity and Nineteenth-Century Musical Culture
Thursday, November 30, 2017, 6:00 PM
A Pre-Concert Lecture
with Dr. Daniel Jütte (NYU)
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To be followed at 7:00 PM by
Cantata Profana performing
Gustav Mahler's
"Das Lied von der Erde"
and works by Strauss, Meyerbeer, Schoenberg, and Lewandowski that place Mahler's...
The Sorceress (Di Kishefmakherin) for the first time in over 80 years!
The first musical theatre piece to be produced under NYTF's Global Restoration Project, an initiative to repair and bring to life the lost, damaged, and forgotten works of the Yiddish theatre canon.
5 performances...