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Upcoming
Programs
Unless
otherwise noted:
All events are held in the Forchheimer Auditorium of the Center for
Jewish History
15 West 16th Street, New
York, NY 10011
For more
information or to RSVP for
the events please call Norma Kirschen at 212-744-6400 or email her at nkirschen@lbi.cjh.org
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Wednesday, April 2
10:00 AM-1:00 PM |
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Leo Baeck
Institute
cordially invites you to a
book
presentation
Jewish Daily Life in Germany, 1618-1945
Edited by Professor Marion Kaplan
German (C.H. Beck Verlag, 2003),
English (Oxford University Press, 2005), and
Hebrew (The Zalman Shazar Center, 2008)
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In the
Kovno
Room
Center
for Jewish History
15 West
16th Street
New York
City
This book
portrays the drama of German-Jewish history by
examining the everyday lives of ordinary Jews. It
traces the gradual ascent of Jews scattered
throughout Germany, in rural areas as well as in
more urban ghettos, from impoverished outcasts to
comfortable bourgeois citizens, and their dramatic
descent during the Nazi era. Using a wide variety
of original sources, the authors focus on the
qualitative aspects of ordinary life – emotions,
impressions, and perceptions that provide insights
easily overlooked in more traditional studies.
The program at LBI will present
lectures by the four contributing authors:
Robert Liberles, Ben Gurion University,
Beersheva, Israel, Overlapping Spheres: A
Reevaluation of Jewish-Christian Daily Relations
in Early Modern Germany.
Steven Lowenstein, University of Judaism,
Los Angeles, Changes in the Jewish Family in
Germany
1780-1870.
Marion Kaplan, New York University,
Friendship on the Margins: Social Relations
between Jews and other Germans in Imperial
Germany.
Trude Maurer, Universität Göttingen,
Germany, Interactions between Jews and non-Jews in
Weimar and Nazi Germany.
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Leo Baeck
Institute
cordially invites you to an
exhibition and
special reception
HERMANN
STRUCK:
Artistic Wanderer from Berlin to Haifa
(Exhibition opens March 31, 2008)
Hermann Struck, Eretz Israel, Woodcut, no date
Katherine
& Clifford H. Goldsmith Gallery
Center for Jewish History
15 West 16th Street
New York City
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Hermann
Struck (Chaim Aaron ben David, 1876-1944) was a respected and
admired Berlin artist as well as master printer who taught etching
to Marc Chagall, Lesser Ury and other noted artists of his time. An
early Zionist and Orthodox Jew, Struck was one of the first to move
to Palestine in1923, settling in Haifa and subsequently joining the
faculty of the Bezalel Academy in Jerusalem.
This exhibit presents Struck’s work in the context of the emerging
modern art movements in Germany and Palestine. A rare collection of
watercolors depicting Palestine in the 1920s and 1930s will be shown
along with photos, letters and publications by and about this modern
master whose influence on 20th century art is only now beginning to
be recognized. On display will also be works from the LBI
collections by Struck’s contemporaries, Max Liebermann, Josef
Israels, Lesser Ury and Jacob Steinhardt.
RSVP: (212) 744-6400
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