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Between Two World and Talk-back
Monday, April 30, 2012 , 4:30 pm - 7:00 pm
Weis Cinema
Between Two Worlds and Talk-back with the film-makers Deborah Kaufman and Alan Snitow
Co-sponsored by the J Street U, the JSO and the Jewish Studies Program
San Francisco filmakers Deborah Kaufman and Alan Snitow depict passionate debates over identity and generational change in American Jewish culture wars particularly in regards to the State of Israel. Many questions are asked such as is it acceptable to show My Name Is Rachel Corrie at the San Francisco Jewish Film Festival? Whose voices are allowed within the Jewish tent?
Adio Kerida: A film by Ruth Behar
Tuesday, April 17, 2012 , 5:00 pm
Hegemen 102
Bard College invites the entire Jewish community to see this compelling film about the Sephardic Jewish community in Cuba!
Learn more about the film at http://www.ruthbehar.com/AKAboutEnglish.htm
The Cuban Sephardic community, both on and off the island, offers so rare a mix of cultural traditions--Spanish, Turkish, African, Jewish, Cuban, and American--that it remains a mystery and has not yet been portrayed in any depth in literature, art, or film.Ruth Behar’s film gives voice to the Afro-Cuban children who affirm their Sephardic heritage, adult men and women who were hidden Jews and have returned to their faith through conversion, and elderly Jews who explore the fine line between forgetting and remembering.
The cinematography and the narrative are juxtaposed with Afro-Cuban drumming, Jewish liturgical music, Sephardic love songs, tangos, Cuban salsa, and American jazz. Song, music, and dance emerge as a vital necessity in the lives of the Sephardic Jews of Cuba.
The Jewish and Black Diasporas
Wednesday, March 28, 2012 , 6:00 pm
Weis Cinema
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Jonathan Schorsch
Columbia UniversityThe involuntary Diasporas of Jews and Blacks comprised two of the most prominent consequences of European colonialism. Each minority developed multifaceted responses to its oppression, which included taking on elements of the dominant culture. One sign of this "mestizo mind" appears in the complicated ways Judeoconversos and Afroiberians perceived one another and interacted, often through the lens of White Christian perspectives. By discussing episodes from places such as Mexico City and Cartagena de las Indias we will open up illuminating avenues for more global considerations.
Jonathan Schorsch is Associate Professor of Religion at Columbia Univeristy. His first book. Jews and Blacks in the Early Modern World (2004), won the Salo Wittmayer Baron Book Prize from the American Academy for Jewish Research. He is also the author of Swimming the Christian Atlantic: Judeoconversos, Afroiberians and Amerindians in the Seventeenth-Century (2009). His articles include “Jewish Ghosts in Germany” and “Disappearing Origins: Sephardic Autobiography Today.”
Justus Rosenberg
Friday, March 2, 2012
10:10 a.m.
Olin 202
Justus Rosenberg, who has been on the Bard faculty since 1962, will be the guest lecturer in Ken Stern’s class "JS 320: Antisemitism." Prof. Rosenberg will talk not only about the ideology of Nazism and the mechanism of the Holocaust, but also about his experiences growing up in Europe (when his schoolmates starting wearing Hitler Youth uniforms), his imprisonment and escape, his work in the underground, and his experience with the Varian Fry group, which helped many artists and intellectuals escape Vichy France (including Marc Chagall and Hannah Arendt). Dr. Rosenberg is the last surviving member of this group.
Justus Rosenberg
Friday, March 2, 2012
A video of the talk:
www.bard.edu/media/rosenberg
The Dybbuk
Monday, November 15, 2010 , 8:00 pm
Olin Language Center, Room 115
An expressionist masterpiece, The Dybbuk is based on the celebrated play by S. Ansky, written during the turbulent years of 1912-1917. Boundaries separating the natural from the supernatural dissolve as ill-fated pledges, unfulfilled passions and untimely deaths ensnare two families in a tragic labyrinth of spiritual possession. The film brought together the best talents of Polish Jewry, scriptwriters, composers, choreographers, set designers, and actors. The film's exquisite musical and dance interludes evoke the cultural richness of both shtetl communities and Polish Jewry on the eve of WWII.