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2001 Programs
Spring
2001
Thursday,
February 22,
2001
YOSSI SHAIN,
Goldman Professor of Government at Georgetown
University, former head of the Department of Political Science at Tel
Aviv University, and author of Marketing
the American Creed Abroad:
Diasporas in the U.S. and Their Homelands (Cambridge University
Press, 2000)
and
TONY
SMITH,
Professor of Political Science, Tufts University, and author of Foreign
Attachments: The Power of Ethnic Groups in the Marketing of American
Foreign Policy (Harvard
University Press, 2000)
will speak on The Power of
Ethnic Groups in the Making of American
Foreign Policy
Monday,
March 5,
2001
at 6:30 pm
THE
COMEDIAN HARMONISTS: SIX LIFE STORIES
A documentary film sponsored
by the Leo Baeck Institute
Eberhard Fechner's documentary tells the story of Germany's
legendary vocal sextet undone by Nazi bigotry. Fechner interviewed four
surviving members, interweaving their stories with the group's
triumphant rise and tragic demise, underscored by their mellifluous
tones and easy-listening repertory. Branded "degenerate" because three
of its members were Jewish, the group was forced to disband at the
height of a Beatles-like popularity.
The documentary is in two parts, each 96 minutes in German with English
subtitles.
Admission is $7.00; $3.50 for members, students, and seniors.
Sunday,
March 11,
2001
at 3:00 pm
and
Monday, March 12, 2001 at 7:30 pm
The Leo Baeck Institute and Elysium--Between Two
Continents present
Tell Everyone, Everyone
About Us
Artists in Exile: Hounded by Hate--Bearing Witness to Humanity
Vienna--Berlin--New York, Composers in Exile The concert
features
works by Paul Dessau, Hanns Eisler, Erich Wolfgang Korngold, Ernst
Krenek, Egon Lustgarten, Kurt Weill, and Alexander Zemlinsky. Either
because of their religion or their unorthodox originality, they were
forbidden to pursue their profession and their work was banned under
the Nazis. As a result, countless artists left their European homeland
and found refuge in the United States. Their works celebrate their
brave defense of humanitarian values that still inspire us today.
With Jeannie Im (soprano), Anna Tonna (mezzo-soprano), Paul Bellantoni
(baritone), directed by Gregorij H. von Lëitnis, under the
musical
direction of Hartmut Kretzschmann (piano). Host: Michael Lahr
Tickets are necessary:
$20 general admission; $15 for
members, students, and senior citizens
For advance sales call the Center for Jewish History's Box Office:
917-606-8200
Thursday,
March
29, 2001
Anne D. Dutlinger,
Professor of Art and Curator at Moravian
College, Bethlehem, PA,
will speak on Art, Music, and
Education as Strategies for Survival:
Theresienstadt 1941-1945 Developed for
propaganda purposes by the Germans, Theresienstadt, the "model ghetto",
evolved into a complex and well-designed set piece, seemingly populated
by actively engaged artists and musicians, intellectuals, civic
leaders, and children at play. Professor Dutlinger has written about
the art that survived while the artists perished. She will speak on
this tragic paradox which is yet another part of the history of our
people.
Wednesday,
April
4th,
2001
The Officers and Trustees of the Leo Baeck Institute and Rabbi Andrew
Bachman, Skirball Director at the Edgar Bronfman Center for Jewish Life
Hillel at NYU, present the
2nd Annual George L. Mosse
Memorial Lecture
featuring Professor Steven E.
Aschheim, Department of European
Studies, Hebrew University, who will speak on George
Mosse--The
Man, the Work, the Legacy
Professor Aschheim holds the Vigevani Chair of European Studies at
Hebrew University, Jerusalem, where he teaches cultural and
intellectual history. His most recent book is In
Times of Crisis:
Essays on European Culture, Germans, and Jews;
forthcoming in May
of this year is Scholem,
Arendt, Klemperer: Intimate Chronicle in
Turbulent Times. He was a
student of George Mosse's at the
University of Wisconsin, Madison, and later became a close friend as
well as an academic colleague. He is an ideal choice to speak on Mosse.
Thursday,
May 3,
2001,
at 6:00 pm
Due to popular demand, a repeat performance!
THE
COMEDIAN
HARMONISTS: SIX LIFE STORIES
A documentary film sponsored
by the Leo Baeck Institute
Eberhard Fechner's documentary tells the story of Germany's
legendary vocal sextet undone by Nazi bigotry. Fechner interviewed four
surviving members, interweaving their stories with the group's
triumphant rise and tragic demise, underscored by their mellifluous
tones and easy-listening repertory. Branded "degenerate" because three
of its members were Jewish, the group was forced to disband at the
height of a Beatles-like popularity.
The documentary is in two parts, each 96 minutes in German with English
subtitles.
Tickets go on sale Monday, April 16. Admission is $7.00; $3.50 for
members, students, and seniors. For tickets,
call the
Center for Jewish History's Box Office: 917-606-8200
Sunday,
May 13th,
2001,
at 4:00 PM Hudson
Shad:
Crossing the Waters, the music
of the Comedian Harmonists and The Revelers Inspired by the
American close harmony group, The Revelers, Harry Frohman placed an ad
in a 1927 Berlin newspaper looking for sweet-voiced souls to form a
German counterpart. The result was the extraordinary Comedian
Harmonists, performing an eclectic combination of music hall,
rathskeller, Alpine folk, American blues, gospel, ragtime, and jazz.
Hudson Shad came together in the same high jinks style to perform on
Broadway and throughout Germany. Hudson Shad celebrates the connection
between the Comedian Harmonists and their American inspiration,
covering favorites such as Whispering,
Lucky Day and Duke
Ellington's Creole Love Call. Tickets
are
necessary:
$25 general admission
For advance sales call the Center for Jewish History's Box Office:
917-606-8200
Wednesday,
May
16th,
2001
Melinda Guttman will speak on her forthcoming book, The
Enigma of Anna O. A Biography of Bertha Pappenheim (Moyer Bell,
May 2001) Bertha
Pappenheim
(1859-1937) grew up in a wealthy orthodox Jewish family in Vienna. At
the age of 21, her father became ill and she developed strange symptoms
herself. Bertha was treated by the family doctor, Joseph Breuer, whose
colleague, Sigmund Freud, became interested in the "talking cure." They
collaborated on the first book on psychoanalysis, Studies
in
Hysteria. After her father's
death, Bertha moved to Frankfurt,
where she became active in the struggle for women's rights. (From
Amazon.com)
Thursday,
June
7th, 2001
Dr. Michael A. Meyer,
Adolph S. Ochs Professor of Jewish
History, Hebrew Union College, Cincinnati, Ohio, will speak on Ludwig
Meidner: Expressionist Painter, Orthodox Jew, Bisexual Ludwig Meidner
(1884-1966) was one of the foremost artists and poets of German
Expressionism. He was unique in that he chose to be a fully observant
Jew while at the same time struggling with his bisexual inclinations
that he could not harmonize with his orthodoxy.
Monday,
June
25th, 2001
Edwin Black,
journalist and author of The
Transfer
Agreement: The Dramatic Story of the Pact between the Third Reich and
Jewish Palestine (2nd edition,
Carroll & Graf Publishers,
2001), will speak on his new book, IBM
and the Holocaust: The
Strategic Alliance Between Nazi Germany and America's Most Powerful
Corporation (Crown
Books, 2001) Edwin Black's
compelling story of the corporate collusion between IBM and Nazi
Germany in the genocide of European Jewry sheds new light on German
efficiency. IBM provided the Third Reich with the technology that
facilitated the identification, roundup, and ultimately the
annihilation of millions of Jews.
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