Museum of Jewish Heritage
36 Battery Place, New York, NY, United States
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.
Museum of Jewish Heritage
36 Battery Place, New York, NY, United States
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.
Museum of Jewish Heritage
36 Battery Place, New York, NY, United States
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.
Museum of Jewish Heritage
36 Battery Place, New York, NY, United States
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
Museum of Jewish Heritage
36 Battery Place, New York, NY, United States
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
Museum of Jewish Heritage
36 Battery Place, New York, NY, United States
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.
Museum of Jewish Heritage
36 Battery Place, New York, NY, United States
In honor of Women’s History month, Pearl Gluck will introduce her short film Write Me (2019; 7 mins.) followed by a panel discussion on branding and marking of women’s bodies in the context of trafficking and power. With Rochelle G. Saidel and Carol E. Henderson, Vice Provost for Diversity and Inclusion, Emory University
Museum of Jewish Heritage
36 Battery Place, New York, NY, United States
Pearl Gluck, filmmaker and director of Write Me (2019; 7mins.), a film about Holocaust and human trafficking survivors, will lead a writing workshop in which participants will have the option to share short stories, with an emphasis on personal narratives.
Museum of Jewish Heritage
36 Battery Place, New York, NY, United States
Join poets Deborah Kahan Kolb, who wrote “After Auschwitz” which served as text for the film Write Me; Cornelius Eady,co-founder of Cave Canem Foundation, the Brooklyn-based incubator for African American poetry, and other poets in a workshop to analyze poetry and encourage writing as a source of healing, resistance, and transmitting personal histories.
Museum of Jewish Heritage
36 Battery Place, New York, NY, United States
Write Me (2019; 7 mins.) follows a Holocaust survivor and a survivor of human trafficking regaining power over their bodies by removing physical evidence of “branding.” Write Me is adapted from the poem, “After Auschwitz,” by Deborah Kahan Kolb, and premieres at New York Jewish Film Festival. The preview screening will be followed by a discussion with director Pearl Gluck, poet Deborah Kahan Kolb, composer Lisa Gutkin, Auschwitz survivor Shirley Gottesman, trafficking survivor Barbara Freeman and tattoo artist Virginia Elwood. The free evening is part of a series to engage audiences in conversations on art, social justice, and history. Write Me programs are made possible through a community partnership with the Museum of Jewish Heritage - A Living Memorial to the Holocaust and the Battery Park City Authority.
