Spring 2008

**All events sponsored by Center for Jewish Studies held at the CUNY Graduate Center are free and open to the public**

February 10
4:30pm, at The Center for Jewish History, 15 West 16th Street
The Sephardi Film Festival
Operation 'Mural": Rescuing the Moroccan Jewish Children (Casablanca, 1961)
*Co-sponsored by the Institute for Sephardic Studies

February 19
4:30pm, Skylight Room
Jewish Studies Colloquy
A Delightful Compendium of Consolation: A Fabulous Tale of Romance, Adventure and Faith in the Medieval Mediterranean
Book talk by the author, Professor Burton Visotzky of the Jewish Theological Seminary
Commentary by Professor Jane Gerber

February 20
6:15pm, Segal Theatre
Warren L. Miller, Chairman, U.S. Commission for the Preservation of American Heritage Abroad
Memory and Truth: How Holocaust Deniers Distort History and Endanger Us All
*Rosenthal Speaker Series event

March 12
4:30pm, Room 9206
Jewish Studies Colloquy
"The Human Clay": Considerations of Jewish Identity in the School of London Painters
Talk by Emily Braun, Hunter College

March 19
6:15pm, Segal Theatre
Documentary film screening
Eyes of the Holocaust (Produced by Steven Spielberg and the Shoah Foundation)
*Rosenthal Speaker Series event

March 27
12:30-8:00pm
Nora Glickman, Center for Latin American Studies
Second LAJSA N.Y.C Colloquium
*Co-sponsored by the Center for Humanities

March 28
9:30am-3:30pm, Recital Hall
Symposium: Beyond Boundaries: Music & Israel @ 60
Speakers:
Dr. Ronit Seter, Hebrew University, Jerusalem
Dr. Benjamin Brinner, UC Berkeley
Ms. Galeet Dardashti, UT, Austin
Musical Performances:
Continuum (Works by Avni, Olivero and Yusupov)
Divahn (Ethnic and Popular Mizrahi Music)

April 15
4:00pm, Recital Hall
Conference “Re-visiting al-Andalus: Muslims, Christians, and Jews in Medieval Spain”
Presentations by:
William P. Kelly, President CUNY Graduate Center
Jerrilynn Dodds, CUNY Graduate Center
Raymond Scheindlin, Jewish Theological Seminal
Ross Brann, Cornell University
Olivia Remie Constable, University of Notre Dame
David Wasserstein, Vanderbilt University
Emilio Gonzalez Ferrin, Professor of Islamic Studies, University of Seville
Moderator: Jane Gerber, CUNY Graduate Center
*Co-sponsored by Mr. Albert Bildner; CUNY Institute for Sephardic Studies; Tres Culturas Fondacion, Seville

April 23
6:15pm, Segal Theatre
Steven B. Bowman, University of Cincinnati, OH
The Holocaust in Greece
*Rosenthal Speaker Series event

April 29
4:30pm, Skylight Room
Jewish Studies Colloquy
Arguing the Storm: The Rediscovery of the Voices of Yiddish Women Writers
Talk by Rhea Tregebov, the University of British Columbia
Discussant: Dr. Kathryn Hellerstein, University of Pennyslvania Jewish Studies Program
*Co-sponsored by the Feminist Press and the Women's Studies Center
** The Reuben Rifkin Jewish Women Writers Series is a joint project of the Hadassah-Brandeis Institute and the Feminist Press at CUNY

May 21
6:15pm, Segal Theatre
Robert Shapiro, Brooklyn College/CUNY
Individualizing the Holocaust: Diaries from the Lodz Ghetto
*Rosenthal Speaker Series event

Fall 2007

September 19
6:15pm, Segal Theatre
Atina Grossmann, Cooper Union, New York
Jews, Germans, and Allies: Close Encounters in Occupied Germany
*Rosenthal Speaker Series event

October 13
8:00pm, Proshansky Auditorium
A Great Day on Eldridge Street: Celebrating Klezmer World Music with Yale Strom and Friends
*Co-sponsored by the Martin E. Segal Theatre Center

October 17
6:15pm, Segal Theatre
Martin Gittelman, New York University School of Medicine, New York
The Holocaust, Racism, and the Mentally Ill
*Rosenthal Speaker Series event

October 25
6:30pm, Segal Theatre
Joshua Zeitz, Cambridge University, Pembroke
White, Ethnic New York: Jews, Catholics and the Shaping of Post-War Politics
*Co-sponsored by the Gotham Center

October 29
6:30pm, Recital Hall
Synagogues in Germany: A Virtual Reconstruction

November 8-9
Various times, Segal Theatre, Proshansky Auditorium
Conferece: “Rediscovering Erich Auerbach: A Dialogue Between German and American Scholars on the 50th Anniversary of his Death”
*Co-sponsored by the Center for the Humanities

November 28
6:15pm, Segal Theatre
Postwar Japan and the Holocaust: Two documentaries
The Holocaust Education Center of Miyuki and Hana's Suitcase: An Odyssey of Hope
*Rosenthal Speaker Series event

December 4
6:30pm, Recital Hall
Sam Thomas, PhD program in Music, CUNY
Sepharad: New Approaches to a Musical Identity
*Co-sponsored by MEMAC

December 12
6:15pm, Recital Hall
Istvan Deak, Columbia University, New York
The Holocaust in Hungary: A Lecture in Honor of Randolph Braham
*Rosenthal Speaker Series event

December 18
Film Screenings: 2:00pm-6:00pm, Segal Theatre
• A Vilna Legend (Dem Rebns Koyekh, reissue of Tkies Kaf / The Vow,1924)
• The Yiddish King Lear (Der Yidisher Kenig Lir)
• Green Fields (Grine Felder)
• The Singing Blacksmith (Yankl Der Schmid)
Evening program: 6:30pm-8:00pm, Segal Theatre
The Art of Yiddish Drama: Modernity Confronts Tradition
*Co-sponsored by the Martin E. Segal Theatre Center