The American Jewish Historical Society (AJHS) today announced the opening of Holy Trash: My Genizah, a groundbreaking, new interactive exhibit by fine arts and performance artist Rachel Libeskind created especially for AJHS and crafted with texts and objects belonging to the AJHS collections.
The American Jewish Historical Society (AJHS) today announced the opening of Holy Trash: My Genizah, a groundbreaking, new interactive exhibit by fine arts and performance artist Rachel Libeskind created especially for AJHS and crafted with texts and objects belonging to the AJHS collections. The exhibition at AJHS (15 West 16th Street), which explores a contemporary interpretation of the traditional Genizah - a storage area for worn-out Hebrew language holy books and papers - will open September 22 and run through December 2016.
The American Jewish Historical Society (AJHS) today announced the opening of Holy Trash: My Genizah, a groundbreaking, new interactive exhibit by fine arts and performance artist Rachel Libeskind created especially for AJHS and crafted with texts and objects belonging to the AJHS collections.
In its tenth anniversary season, THE CROSSING -- the extraordinary chamber choir from Philadelphia, dedicated to new music and conducted by Donald Nally -- has commissioned seven of the world's foremost composers to compose fifteen-minute musical responses to Dietrich Buxtehude's Membra Jesu Nostri (translated as 'The Limbs of our Jesus'), a monumental seven-part cantata cycle composed in 1680 and known as the first Lutheran oratorio.
The Public Theater and International Rescue Committee announced additional casting today for the special free one-night-only Public Forum event, WELCOME HOME: A CELEBRATION OF WORLD REFUGEE DAY on Monday, June 20 at the Delacorte Theater in Central Park. Free Public Forum tickets will be distributed, two per person (age 5+), at the Delacorte Theater beginning at 12:00 p.m. on the day of the Forum.
The Public Theater and International Rescue Committee announced today that a special free one-night-only Public Forum event, WELCOME HOME: A CELEBRATION OF WORLD REFUGEE DAY, will take place on Monday, June 20 at the Delacorte Theater in Central Park. Free Public Forum tickets will be distributed, two per person (age 5+), at the Delacorte Theater beginning at 12:00 p.m. on the day of the Forum.
In its tenth anniversary season, THE CROSSING -- the extraordinary chamber choir from Philadelphia, dedicated to new music and conducted by Donald Nally -- has commissioned seven of the world's foremost composers to compose fifteen-minute musical responses to Dietrich Buxtehude's Membra Jesu Nostri (translated as 'The Limbs of our Jesus'), a monumental seven-part cantata cycle composed in 1680 and known as the first Lutheran oratorio.
Irving Berlin's 1949 musical about the model who posed for the Statue of Liberty is rarely done.
The American Jewish Historical Society will pay tribute to Ambassador John L. Loeb, Jr. with its 2015 Emma Lazarus Statue of Liberty Award on November 11, 2015, at the Roosevelt Hotel in New York City.
Could you make the decision to bid farewell to your family and homeland with the prospect of a better life in the New World? Not knowing if or when you would see them again? That is the tough choice millions of immigrants to America faced from 1840-1924 during the golden age of immigration to America. Steerage Song created by Peter Rothstein and Dan Chouinard of Theater Latte Da gorgeously tells of the struggles European immigrants to America during this time faced.
Donny Stew's city song 'Mother Of Exile'for New York City for the 4 TH of July reopening of the Statue of Liberty after the Super Storm Sandy debacle.
On Monday, June 11, at 7 p.m., the Museum of Jewish Heritage - A Living Memorial to the Holocaust welcomes the Knickerbocker Chamber Orchestra and special guest soloist, Marin Mazzie, for a musical event - Music for the Tempest-Tost: A Tribute to Emma Lazarus, inspired by the Museum's exhibit Emma Lazarus: Poet of Exiles.
The New-York Historical Society has announced the following events for March.
On Wednesday, January 25 at 7 p.m., the Museum of Jewish Heritage - A Living Memorial to the Holocaust will present the New York premiere of The Chosen, a staged reading of the play based on the 1967 novel by Chaim Potok.
The New-York Historical Society has announced the following events for March.
On Wednesday, January 25 at 7 p.m., the Museum of Jewish Heritage - A Living Memorial to the Holocaust will present the New York premiere of The Chosen, a staged reading of the play based on the 1967 novel by Chaim Potok.
On November 7, at 7 p.m., the Museum of Jewish Heritage-A Living Memorial to the Holocaust and the Centro Primo Levi present the English premiere of The Mark of the Chemist, a staged reading starring John Turturro (O Brother, Where Art Thou) as Primo Levi and featuring New Yorker critic Joan Acocella and a soundscape by composer and guitar virtuoso Marco Cappelli (Art Spiegelman's In the Shadow of No Towers).
On November 7, at 7 p.m., the Museum of Jewish Heritage-A Living Memorial to the Holocaust and the Centro Primo Levi present the English premiere of The Mark of the Chemist, a staged reading starring John Turturro (O Brother, Where Art Thou) as Primo Levi and featuring New Yorker critic Joan Acocella and a soundscape by composer and guitar virtuoso Marco Cappelli (Art Spiegelman's In the Shadow of No Towers).
The upcoming Off-Broadway production LIBERTY: A Monumental New Musical will celebrate Lady Liberty's 124th Birthday aboard World Yacht on Thursday, October 28, 2010.
The upcoming Off-Broadway production LIBERTY: A Monumental New Musical will celebrate Lady Liberty's 124th Birthday aboard World Yacht on Thursday, October 28, 2010.
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