MISHPACHAH FEST! – A HERITAGE, GENEALOGY, AND IMMIGRANT CELEBRATION

Museum of Jewish Heritage 36 Battery Place, New York, NY, United States

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 

GOOD TROUBLE: A JUNETEENTH TRIBUTE CONCERT

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.

J O B – A SIMPLE MAN

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.

J O B – A SIMPLE MAN

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.

MUSIC IN AUSCHWITZ: A CONCERT SERIES

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

MUSIC IN AUSCHWITZ: A CONCERT SERIES

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

FESTIVAL CHAMBER MUSIC CONCERT

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.

$10

PANEL DISCUSSION: WOMEN’S STUDIES AND ACTIVISM

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

STORYTELLING WORKSHOP: OUR STORIES, OUR SELVES

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.

POETRY WORKSHOP: RECLAIMING PERSONAL HISTORY

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.