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2000 Programs
Fall
2000
Monday,
October
16, 2000
INAUGURAL LECTURE
Michel Thomas,
will speak on his remarkable life
The subject of
Christopher Robbins's forthcoming biography, Test
of Courage (The Free Press, October 2000), Thomas was born in Poland, raised in
Germany, an lived in pre-war France. After Hitler came to power, he
survived capture, torture, and Klaus Barbie by using his remarkable
intellectual and emotional strength to sustain his physical and moral
courage--in the camps, in the French Resistance, and with the U.S.
Counterintelligence. Thomas's life experiences led him to develop one
of the most innovative and revolutionary teaching systems of the
twentieth century, using the untapped potential of the human mind.
Author John le Carre calls Thomas "one of the bravest men you will ever
read about." Abraham Foxman, National Director of the Anti-Defamation
League, calls him a "truly inspiring hero."
Thursday,
October
19,
2000
OPENING EXHIBITION AT THE CENTER
FOR JEWISH HISTORY
Selections from the LBI
Collections: 400 Years of German-Jewish
History
To
celebrate the
grand opening of the Center for Jewish History, the LBI will present an
illumination of various aspects of German-Jewish culture from the
beginning of the modern era in the 17th century to the 20th. This
historical journey through four centuries will highlight the
Institute's rich holdings of documents, books, and artwork that are
rarely, if ever, shown together. The focus will be on the mainstays of
Jewish life: the family, the community, culture, and religion.
Wednesday,
November 1,
2000 (by invitation only)
LEO BAECK INSTITUTE 6TH ANNUAL GALA DINNER
Dr. and Mrs. Arthur Hertzberg, Dinner Co-Chairs
Edgar M. Bronfman,
Chairman, The Seagram Co., Ltd.,
President, World Jewish Congress, will be the recipient of the Leo
Baeck Medal
Edgar Bronfman's
many
accomplishments in the world of business, culture, and the arts are
superseded only by his even more impressive civic and philanthropic
activities, for which President Clinton awarded him the nation's
highest civilian honor, the Presidential Medal of Freedom. In honor of
Mr. Bronfman's relentless pursuit of justice in seeking a resolution
between Swiss banks and other European institutions that were
depositories of Jewish wealth whose owners perished in the Holocaust
and for expediting the subsequent accord between German companies and
the German government, the LBI is pleased to award Mr. Bronfman with
the Leo Baeck Medal.
Thursday,
November 2,
2000
44th ANNUAL LEO BAECK MEMORIAL LECTURE
Daniel Libeskind,
Architect of the Jewish Museum, Berlin,
will speak on The
Space of Encounter
One of Europe's
most
innovative architects, Daniel Libeskind has won acclaim with his
non-traditional ideas about architectural symbolism and space.
Libeskind was awarded Germany's most important national Architecture
Prize by Bundespraesident Johannes Rau in recognition of his
talent. "The Space of Encounter" will be the story of Libeskind's
design for his much praised Jewish Museum in Berlin.
Tuesday,
November
28,
2000
Richard Blinder,
founding partner of the architectural firm
Beyer Blinder Belle will speak on The
Structural Challenge of
Diversity
One of New
York's
leading architectural firms, Beyer Blinder Belle had the uniquely
difficult task of designing the Center for Jewish History. Mr. Blinder
will discuss the challenges of building a library, archive, and museum;
an office building, concert hall, and cafe; as well as art galleries,
conference rooms and classrooms, for five different organizations under
one roof.
Spring
2000
Wednesday,
January 12,
2000, 7:30p.m.
Professor Omer Bartov,
Professor of History, Rutgers
University
will speak on his book:
The
German Army and Genocide
For
the past
fifty
years, the German Wehrmacht has been portrayed as a
professional military organization representing the highest standards
of patriotism and honor. Professor Bartov thoroughly shatters this
myth, showing that many of the nearly twenty million German soldiers
were involved in crimes against civilians and prisoners of war.
Copies of The
German Army and Genocide will be
on sale
at the lecture.
Thursday,
January 27,
2000, 7:30p.m.
Professor Fritz Stern,
Author and Historian
will speak on his latest book:
Einstein's German World (Princeton University Press, 1999)
Time Magazine
has just named Albert Einstein "Person of the Century". Fritz Stern
identifies some of the early social, cultural and personal influences
on this remarkable man who "personified our times and will be recorded
by history as having the most lasting significance" on our century.
Copies of Einstein's
German World will be on sale at
the lecture.
Thursday,
February 3,
2000, 7:30p.m.
Professor Hyman A. Enzer,
Professor of Sociology at Hofstra
University and Professor
Sandra Solotaroff-Enzer,
Associate
Professor of English, emerita, at SUNY Nassau Community College
and editors of:
Anne Frank: Reflections on
Her Life and Legacy (University of Illinois Press, 1999)
Of
all the
memoirs
that convey the devastation of the Holocaust, Anne Frank's Diary
of
a Young Girl has been the most
enduring. The Enzers have put
together an anthology, including contributions by Bruno Bettelheim,
Philip Roth and Simon Wiesenthal to scrutinze the unending
controversies about the ways in which popular films and literary
adaptations have altered perceptions of her life and legacy.
Copies of Anne
Frank: Reflections on Her Life and Legacy will be on sale at the lecture.
Tuesday,
March
28,
2000, 7:30p.m.
Saul Touster,
Professor of Law and American Studies,
emeritus, Brandeis University
will speak on:
The Survivors' Haggadah (Jewish Publication Society, April
2000)
When Professor Touster found an original copy of this volume among his
father's papers, he became intrigued with its origin and determined to
learn how it came to be. Remarkably, it was written and illustrated by
survivors, printed by the U.S. Army of Occupation in Munich, 1946 (the
Third Army, insignia "A"), and used to celebrate the first Passover
after liberation of the camps and the allied victory over the Nazis.
Wednesday, April
5,
2000, 7:30p.m.
Jane Kallir presents: Saved from Europe - The
Holocaust and the New York Art Scene
Ms. Kallir is the granddaughter of Otto Kallir who founded the
prestigious Galerie St. Etienne in 1939 after fleeing his native
Vienna. He brought with him and exhibited artwork salvaged from
war-torn Europe. In the years to come, Galerie St. Etienne transformed
the perception and tastes of the New York art scene by introducing it
to European modernism.
Thursday,
April
6,
2000, 7p.m.
Opening of an exhibit by Leo
Glueckselig: Sketches of the
20th Century
Mr. Glueckselig's acclaimed drawings on different media are on view
from April 7 through May 11, 2000 at the Goethe-Institut, New York,
1014 Fifth Avenue.
Hours: Mon/Wed/Fri: 9 am to 5 pm.
Tue/Thu: 9 am to 7 pm
Sat:
12 noon to 5 pm
Presented
by the Austrian Cultural Institute, the
Goethe-Institut, Aufbau and the Leo Baeck Institute.
Thursday,
April
13,
2000, 7:30p.m.
First Annual George L.
Mosse Memorial Lecture
Anson Rabinbach,
Department of History, Princeton University
will speak on
An Abyss Opened Before Us:
Germans, Jews, and the Modernity of
the Holocaust
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