Alex Blue, a Jewish-Mexican folk singer-songwriter, will be in concert at the Museum followed by a Q&A. This event is part of Carnegie Hall’s Nuestros sonidos festival.
Presented by the Museum of Jewish Heritage - A Living Memorial to the Holocaust in partnership with Battery Park City Authority.
Enjoy Yiddish music in a concert led by Craig Judelman featuring an all-star ensemble with beloved vocalists Lorin Sklamberg and Sasha Lurie. Free with registration at mjhnyc.org.
Presented by the Museum of Jewish Heritage - A Living Memorial to the Holocaust in partnership with Battery Park City Authority.
Celebrate both the Jewish holiday Purim and Nowruz, the Persian New Year, with film screenings, a Persian shadow puppet show, dance performances, a reading of the Megillah, a Persian tea house, and backgammon games with instructors.
Explore your roots at this Museum-wide festival. Enjoy music performances, lectures on genealogy and the history of immigration to the United States, workshops on intergenerational storytelling, family activities, and there will be opportunities to talk with genealogists who can help you explore your family history. For more information, please visit: mjhnyc.org
Join the Museum of Jewish Heritage and the Knickerbocker Chamber Orchestra for a special concert on Juneteenth, the holiday that commemorates the emancipation of slaves in the United States. Presenting music that celebrates the Black experience, and featuring the world premiere of KCO Music Director Gary S. Fagin’s Good Trouble, inspired by the late Congressman and civil rights icon John Lewis.
In an intense and musical dramatization, J O B: A Simple Man tells the story of the emigrant’s journey from the old world—a little village in Russia—to the new world in New York. Starring award-winning Danish actress Ina-Miriam Rosen - baum, directed by Rolf Heim, and featuring oboist Henrik Goldschmidt and accordion virtuoso Anders Singh Vesterdahl.
In an intense and musical dramatization, J O B: A Simple Man tells the story of the emigrant’s journey from the old world—a little village in Russia—to the new world in New York. Starring award-winning Danish actress Ina-Miriam Rosen - baum, directed by Rolf Heim, and featuring oboist Henrik Goldschmidt and accordion virtuoso Anders Singh Vesterdahl.
Join the University of Michigan School of Music, Theatre, & Dance for Music in Auschwitz. Featuring pieces arranged by Polish political prisoners who were members of the men’s orchestra in the Auschwitz I camp. Led by conductor Oriol Sans, a University of Michigan orchestra will perform pieces interspersed with lines spoken by the singers, from testimonies of the Auschwitz I men’s orchestra after the war.
Registration is required.
Presented by the Museum of Jewish Heritage – A Living Memorial to the Holocaust in partnership with Battery Park City Authority
Join the University of Michigan School of Music, Theatre, & Dance for Music in Auschwitz. Featuring pieces arranged by Polish political prisoners who were members of the men’s orchestra in the Auschwitz I camp. Led by conductor Oriol Sans, a University of Michigan orchestra will perform pieces interspersed with lines spoken by the singers, from testimonies of the Auschwitz I men’s orchestra after the war.
Registration is required.
Presented by the Museum of Jewish Heritage – A Living Memorial to the Holocaust in partnership with Battery Park City Authority
Presented in conjunction with the Museum’s exhibition Auschwitz. Not Long Ago. Not Far Away, hear music by four composers including two who perished, one who survived the Holocaust and enjoyed a long, creative life and one who composes in honor of survivors. Performed by Festival Chamber Music director and cellist Ruth Sommers, Philip Edward Fisher, piano; Anna Elashvili, violin, Calvin Wiersma, viola, Gary Louie, saxophone, and Maureen McKay, soprano.
