No. 9Summer 2003

The news has been alarming. Reports indicate that two-thirds of the 313 racially motivatedattacks reported in France last year were directed at Jews, while Britain had a 75 percent rise inanti-Semitic incidents. What part of this narrative is new – a manifestation of an abruptlychanged world? Is the backlash against globalization setting fires of intolerance and resentmentand radical nationalism everywhere? What does the revival of anti-Semitism owe to the revival ofanti-Americanism? What does it owe to the new anti-Zionism?

To grapple with these complex questions, the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research asked threeeminent intellectuals – Leon Botstein, Martin Peretz and Leon Wieseltier – to bring together 35of their colleagues from Europe, the United States and Israel, to join them for an exchange ofinformation and ideas. The result was the landmark four-day YIVO international conference, “OldDemons, New Debates: Anti-Semitism in the West,” which took place at the Center for JewishHistory from May 11-14. The conference was co-chaired by Joseph Greenberger and Martin Peretz.

Reflecting the urgency of these crucial issues, journalists from throughout the world settledin at the Center to cover the proceedings for such newspapers as Die Zeit, Le Monde, the LondonTimes and the New York Times, as well as National Public Radio. The house was packed full, withan overflow crowd viewing the sessions via simulcast from an adjacent hall. For the broader audi-ence worldwide, the conference was simultaneously web-streamed on the Center’s site, wheresessions will be available for future viewing.

Some of the core themes became apparent at the opening Plenary Session, at which confer-ence organizer and The New Republic literary editor Leon Wieseltier, Columbia University history

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From the Executive Director’s DeskThe Center is flourishing as amajor New York hub for theexploration and interpretationof Jewish history. There havebeen critically acclaimedexhibits, headliner programsand world-class speakers—allfurthering our mission to pre-serve the Jewish past andbring its treasures to peoplethroughout the world.

We take pride in the part-ners’ well-earned reputationsfor creating new models andstandards of historicalresearch, programming andoutreach. This reputation hasbeen acknowledged manytimes over in recent months.Sixty journalists from theU.S., England, France,Germany and Israel visited theCenter to cover the four-dayYIVO conference that consid-ered the alarming recentupsurge in anti-Semitism inthe West. Earlier, NationalEndowment for theHumanities Chairman BruceCole toured the Center, afterhe appeared as YeshivaUniversity Museum’s guestspeaker at the opening of thecurrent exhibit “A Portion ofthe People: Three HundredYears of Southern JewishLife,” presented at the Centerby Yeshiva University Museum

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Professors Henry Louis Gates, Jr. (left) and Alain Finkielkraut were among the YIVO conference noted participants.

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DIGITIZING THE PAST FOR UNIVERSAL ACCESSWith the support of a $2 mil-lion dollar Federal grant fromthe National HistoricalPublications and RecordsCommission, the Center’sambitious project to comput-erize its vast collections iswell underway. When complet-ed, the Online Public AccessCatalogue (OPAC) will enableusers worldwide to go onlineand search the rich resourcesof the five partner institutions—library holdings as well asarchival and museum collec-tions.

The first stage was thescanning and online structur-ing of the complete Englishlanguage card catalogue ofthe American JewishHistorical Society. Yet, evenwith generous governmentfunding, additional support isrequired to complete the proj-ect by the 2004 target date.The Center is eager to enlistdonors to help finalize thisimpressive project on schedule.

WOMEN IN DAILY LIFEThe five partners of theCenter have combined select-ed holdings to produce a sin-gle integrated bibliography onthe life of Jewish women. Thismulti-media resource, the firstin a series to acquaint patronswith the wealth of materialavailable on frequentlyresearched subjects at theCenter, encompasses all theareas in which Jewish womenhave been active.

The bibliography is seg-mented into Domestic Life,focusing on such traditionalroles as marriage, children,religious life and travel; SocialLife, including such activitiesfor the betterment of societyas volunteer work and artpatronage; ProfessionalOccupations, ranging from artand business to social workand medicine; a section com-prising general bibliographiesand relevant periodicals; anda final section of selectedartifacts and items from thecollections of YeshivaUniversity Museum. This proj-ect was made possible by agrant from the NationalHistorical Publications andRecords Commission. It can beaccessed via the Center web-site, www.cjh.org, under“Research at the Center.”

Archive and Reading RoomTechnology Provides Global ReachResources More Accessible Than Ever

ONLINE WEBCASTS OF MAJOR CENTER EVENTSFriends throughout the worldcan now go online and viewhighlights of the recent YIVOconference on anti-Semitismas well as other outstandingpast programs and events thathave taken place at theCenter. Just log on to theCenter website’s “Video andStreaming Media” section toenjoy any of the followingwebcasts:

• International YIVOConference on Anti-Semitism,5/11-5/14/03

• Interview with Elie Wiesel,3/19/03

• Brazilian singer Fortuna,12/04/02

• Interview with Dr. RuthWestheimer, 12/04/02

• Interview with ShimonPeres, 9/12/02

• Days of Awe: Reflectionsfrom Jewish Chaplains atGround Zero, 9/11/02

• Jews & Justice: AharonBarak, 9/09/02

• Tribute to Cardinal JohnO’Connor, 5/05/01

• Gala Center Opening andAddress by Leon Botstein,10/26/00

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Letter from John Hancock toJewish merchant Aaron Lopezregarding the fate of a goods-bear-ing ship, Boston, Massachusetts,1771. Gift of Sidney and RuthLapidus. American JewishHistorical Society

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professor SimonSchama andFrench philoso-pher AlainFinkielkraut madepresentations.Leon Wieseltierspelled out thelitany of types ofanti-Semitism—anti-Semitism ofthe right inEurope and theU.S. and anti-Semitism of theleft, seen today in the anti-globalization movement, andmost dangerous in his view,anti-Semitism that manifestsitself as anti-Zionism.

France was the focus ofmuch criticism. AlainFinkielkraut asserted thatanti-Semitism in France todaywas of a different ilk than theolder European anti-Semitismof the right wing, which criti-cized Jews for their “other-ness.” Today, he said, even asolder traditional forms ofanti-Semitism are condemned,the new anti-Semitism in hiscountry of seven millionMuslims is anti-nationalistic,anti-Israel and directedagainst the suffering inflictedon Palestinians. As such con-demnations come as well from

the European left, with itsuniversalist and anti-global-ization sympathies, a form ofintellectual anti-Semitismassociated with harsh criti-cism of Israel is clearly evident. And, as such criti-cism evolves into the demo-nization of Zionism, going sofar as to equate Zionism withNazism, it expands to includeJews generally.

Other speakers concurred.“In England, said ProfessorSchama, people more in themainstream of political andintellectual life feel there isno longer any taboo on cross-ing the line between anti-Zionism, criticism of theIsraeli government and anti-Semitism.” It is “a muta-tion of ancient images withinnew contexts,” said another

participant. Speakers from abroad

explained the particularnuances of anti-Semitism intheir countries. Mexican his-torian and author EnriqueKrauze spoke of anti-Semitismof the left that exists in someSouth American countries andreminded the audience of theMuslim terrorist attacksagainst the Jewish communityin Buenos Aires. In someother countries, he said, not-ing Costa Rica, Peru, Uruguayand even Venezuela, “theredoes not seem to be any realreason for alarm.”

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Semitic websitesin the U.S today.But LeonWieseltier painteda somewhat rosierpicture. In spite ofthe hostility inmany quarters tothe Americanmodel of moderni-ty (globalization),to the Americanmodel of democra-cy and capitalism,and to theAmerican policy inthe Middle East,he believes that

the United States “representsa revolution in Jewish history,a country that is in its philo-sophical foundations and inits political practices struc-turally hospitable to us.“

While there were fewanswers to many difficultquestions, the conferenceclearly reached its goal of pro-viding a very broad audienceof scholars, students and thegeneral public with the con-text and analyses necessaryfor interpreting the new anti-Semitism and hopefully deter-mining appropriate actions. ■

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Film Lens on Anti-Semitism

The Center partners’ sharp focus on anti-Semitismduring the spring months included the showing of six documentary and feature films exploring

historical events and narrative themes relating tothis ever-timely subject. Presented under the aegis of the Center’s Monday Night Film Series as “Anti-Semitism: A History of Hatred,” inassociation with the five partners, each screeningwas followed by discussion led by a guest speaker.The series screened films from England, France,Germany, Russia and the U.S., and was curated by Sheba Skirball.

Launching the series was “The Longest Hatred,” anEnglish film that explores the span of anti-Semiticsentiment from the earliest writings to recent decades.

“Get Thee Out,” a Russian film, is based on the stories ofScholem Aleichem and Isaac Babel. “The Dreyfus Affair,” a

French documentary, was followed by “Rosenzweig’sFreedom,” a German feature film set against the

backdrop of actual events past and present thatexplores the ongoing right-wing extremist violencein that country. “To Live with Terror” is awrenching study of the two unsolved bombings of

Jewish facilities in Buenos Aires in the 1990s. Theseries ended with a screening of “Focus,” based on

Arthur Miller’s 1945 novel of the same name. “Lens on French and Belgian Jewry,” a concurrent YIVO

film series curated by Dr. Eric Goldman, explored thedifferent ways that World War II and the Holocaust continueto cast a shadow on contemporary Jewish life. ■

YIVO conference panelists (left to right) Irwin Cotler, Fiamma Nirenstein, David Pryce-Jones andRobert Wistrich.

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JEWISH LIFE IN EASTERN EUROPESome 17,000 evocative images of Jewish lifein Eastern Europe, all from the trove of YIVO’sphoto archives, have been compiled and arenow available online as YIVO’s “People of aThousand Towns.” Portraying daily life in thelarge cities as well as small rural villages, fromthe late 19th century to the early 1940s, thiscollection provides a visual record of thou-sands of pre-World War II Jewish communitiesin Poland, Russia, Lithuania, the Ukraine, Latvia, Estonia, Romania, Hungary and Czechoslovakia.

The online album was made possible by a generous grant from the Charles H. RevsonFoundation, with additional funds from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims AgainstGermany. The site can be accessed at: http://yivo1000towns.cjh.org ■

JEWISH WAR HEROESThe Blavatnik family is funding a newJewish Military Heroes Website Projectwhich, when completed for online view-ing, will feature 100 military heroes andevents in the military history of the Jewsin the 20th century, with a special focuson World War II. The project, which isscheduled for completion in 2004 and willinclude biographical portraits and a com-plete bibliography, will further knowledgeand appreciation of the legacy of heroismpassed on by these Jewish men andwomen.

350 YEARS OF JEWISH LIFE IN AMERICAIn 1654, 23 Jewish refugees fled Braziland the long arm of the PortugueseInquisition and arrived by sea in theDutch port of New Amsterdam. In antici-pation of the September 2004 milestoneanniversary of this event, which markedthe first Jewish settlement in America,the AJHS is developing an online interac-tive timeline that honors the importanceof this date. The timeline is being devel-oped with the participation of all Centerpartners, and will include documents forthe public’s viewing from the various part-ners’ collections, spanning 350 years ofarchival records.

and the American JewishHistorical Society. In June,the Center hosted a panel dis-cussion of Southern Jewishauthors including AlfredUhry, author of Driving MissDaisy, and Tova Mirvis, authorof The Ladies Auxiliary, spon-sored by Yeshiva UniversityMuseum and made possible bythe New York Council on theHumanities.

A different backdrop waspresented to audiences attend-ing the 7th InternationalSephardic Film Festival, spon-sored by Sephardic House, thecultural division of AmericanSephardi Federation, andYeshiva University Museum.Sephardi Chief Rabbi EliyahuBakshi-Doron attended theopening night gala as an hon-ored guest, along withHonorable MohammedBennouna, PermanentRepresentative of Morocco tothe United Nations. And onthese pages you will recog-nize the names of manypopular contemporary Jewishfigures who are frequentCenter visitors, among themlongtime Leo Baeck Institutemember Dr. Ruth Westheimer,who received the Leo BaeckMedal for 2002.

The accomplishments of allour partners were recentlyhighlighted in the Center’sfirst published Annual Report.The Center, through itspreservation efforts, referencecollections, cultural program-ming and educationalinitiatives, is able to enhancethe vitality and visibility ofits partners, while contempo-rizing the lessons of Jewishhistory. With broad support,we are building our historicallegacy every day. ■

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Coming Online Soon Dialogue on the “New Anti-Semitism”

I n February, Fordham University in associa-tion with the Center for Jewish Historyand the American Sephardi Federation

hosted a multi-cultural discussion aimed atinvestigating the historical antecedents of anti-Semitism in Islam and Christianity. “Wewelcome the opportunity to work with as illus-trious an institution as Fordham University tobring these subjects to light,” said CenterExecutive Director Joshua Plaut.

Participants were Ronald C. Kiener, associateprofessor of Religion at Trinity College and an expert on Islamic theology, and John T.Pawlikowski, O.S.M., a leading figure in the Christian-Jewish dialogue, and professor of Social Ethics and Director of the Catholic-Jewish Studies Program at the CatholicTheological Union in Chicago.

Professor Suzanne Last Stone of Benjamin N.Cardozo School of Law moderated the sympo-sium, which encompassed perspectives onIslam’s attitude toward Judaism and the challenges that the Christian community facesin combating anti-Semitism.

Based on the success of the February event,the partners will launch a more formal programwith Fordham University. ■

Your “Key” to the Center

CJH = Center for Jewish HistoryCGI = Center Genealogy InstituteAJHS = American Jewish Historical SocietyASF = American Sephardi Federation

LBI = Leo Baeck InstituteYIVO = YIVO Institute for Jewish ResearchYUM = Yeshiva University Museum

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300 YEARS OF SOUTHERN JEWISH LIFEA groundbreaking travelingexhibition now on view at theYeshiva University Museumtells visitors to the Center theremarkable story of 300 yearsof Jewish life in the AmericanSouth. This rich historybegins with the earliest docu-mented presence of Jews inCharles Town in 1695. By1800 Charleston, SouthCarolina was home to thelargest and wealthiest Jewishcommunity in North America—some 500 Jews, or one-fifth ofall Jews in the nation.

Through more than 200ritual, decorative and domes-tic objects, paintings andphotographs, and documents

and testimony, the exhibit “APortion of the People: ThreeHundred Years of SouthernJewish Life” brings to life thehistory of a still-evolvingJewish culture.

Curator Dale Rosengartenspent years researching thelives of this richly texturedculture and discovered arti-facts and family stories thatprovide intimacy to this story.The exhibition follows the history through World War II

A BOOK LOVER’S COLLECTIONThe exhibit “Not for MyselfAlone: Celebrating Jewish-American Writers,” also onview at the Center for JewishHistory, draws together poetry, fiction, drama, essays,artwork and correspondencefrom 75 men and women whohave enriched American cul-ture over the past 200 years.It is sponsored by theAmerican Jewish HistoricalSociety.

The exhibit features select-ed works from the Leonard L.Milberg Collection of Jewish-American Writers, and is theproduct of years of book col-lecting and loving preserva-tion by Mr. Milberg. It wasoriginally curated byPrinceton University’sFirestone Library to honorHarold T. Shapiro, PrincetonUniversity’s president from1988 until 2001. The exhibi-tion includes Yiddish andEnglish-language writers andembraces both the famous aswell as the less well-known.

Visitors will encounter19th century writer RebeccaGratz, who is reputed to haveserved as the model for thecharacter of Rebecca in SirWalter Scott’s novel Ivanhoe,as well as Emma Lazarus,whose sonnet “The NewColossus,” is engraved on thepedestal of the Statue ofLiberty. Twentieth centurywriters are also well repre-sented—from Arthur Miller

LBI EINSTEIN ITEMS AT MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORYSome time ago curators fromthe American Museum ofNatural History visited theLeo Baeck Institute to reviewholdings in its Albert EinsteinCollection. Since the block-buster “Einstein” exhibitopened in February, thou-sands of visitors to themuseum have seen the twovery personal Einstein house-hold items the curatorsselected to include. These aretwo decorative cups withimages of Albert and his sisterMaja as children, and a guest-book that Einstein kept at hissummer home in Caputh,Germany, with entries by suchvisitors as Chaim Weizmannand the artist HermannStruck, who added a pastelsketch to his greeting. ■

A PAGEANT OF JEWISH COMMUNITIES WORLDWIDEFrom the Amazon to Ethiopia,from Madras to Italy, theexhibition calendar at theCenter has offered a journeythrough Jewish communitiesworldwide. Photographs byWin Robins at the YeshivaUniversity Museum documenttwo faces of the Ethiopian

experience: the struggle tolead a Jewish life in Africaand overcoming considerablecultural obstacles to preserveEthiopian heritage while inte-grating into Israeli culture.

In “Scattered Among theNations,” presented earlierthis year by the AmericanSephardi Federation, BryanSchwartz, Jay Sand and Sandy Carter vividly capturedan unfamiliar world of IncaJews, Zimbabwe Shabbats andsub-Saharan Jewish choirs.The cast of characters pre-sented in the current exhibiton Southern Jewish lifeincludes gentry, religiousreformers and poets, loyalConfederates and radicalReconstructionists, backcountry peddlers and MainStreet merchants. ■continued on page 6 continued on page 6

Children of the Lost Tribe of Dan:Portraits of Ethiopian Jewry. THROUGH AUGUST 3

Photographs of EthiopianJews, taken in Ethiopia andIsrael by New York photogra-pher Win Robins in 2001.Sponsored in part by theNorth American Conferenceon Ethiopian Jewry and theStruggle to Save EthiopianJewry. (Rachel and AbrahamBornstein Arcade)

Gan Eden Hadash—A New ParadiseTHROUGH AUGUST 3

Installation by IlanaLilienthal blends sculptingand painting into an etherealluminous medium for trans-mitting spiritual energies andmaterializing soulful icons.(Second Floor Gallery)

YIVO INSTITUTE FOR JEWISH RESEARCH

Light One Candle: A Child’sDiary of the Holocaust THROUGH SEPTEMBER

This new exhibition is basedon the lost secret diaries ofSolly Ganor, a native ofKovno, Lithuania; his autobi-ography as a survivor afterthe war; and the photographsof George Kadish, chroniclerof the Kovno Ghetto. (TheConstantiner Gallery)

The Kishinev Pogrom of 1903THROUGH OCTOBER

On the occasion of the 100thanniversary of the pogrom,this exhibition explores thefacts of this important eventand its aftermath with origi-nal documents, photographs,leaflets, books and postersfrom that time. All books anddocuments in the exhibit arefrom the YIVO Library andArchives. (The John & GwenSmart Library Gallery)

AMERICAN JEWISH HISTORICAL SOCIETY

Not for Myself Alone THROUGH SEPTEMBER 4

Exhibit showcasing the books,correspondence, photographsand memorabilia of 75celebrated Jewish-Americanwriters from the past twocenturies. Selected from thecollection of Leonard L.Milberg. (Diane and MarkGoldman Gallery and Selma L.Batkin Mezzanine Gallery)

AMERICAN SEPHARDI FEDERATION

An exhibit about the variouscommunities of Greek Jewswill open later this summerand be on view through October.

LEO BAECK INSTITUTE

Nahum Goldmann: Statesman without a StateTHROUGH SEPTEMBER 7

Together with ChaimWeizmann and David Ben-Gurion, Goldmann(1895-1982) helped formulateplans for the establishment ofthe State of Israel but neverthought that a Jewish statewould be the answer for allJews. Rather, he believedthere must be vibrant Jewishorganizations throughout thediaspora and helped found theWorld Jewish Congress andthe Conference of Jewishorganizations. Exhibit spon-sored by the Conference onJewish Material Claims againstGermany, Memorial Foundationfor Jewish Culture, WorldJewish Congress. (Katherineand Clifford H. Goldsmith LeoBaeck Institute Gallery)

YESHIVA UNIVERSITY MUSEUM

A Portion of the People: Three Hundred Years of Southern Jewish Life THROUGH JULY 20

Ground-breaking exhibitionon Jewish life in the South.“A Portion of the People”brings to life 300 years of astill-evolving Jewish culture,through 200 ritual anddomestic objects, paintingsand photographs, documentsand testimony. (RosenbergGallery & Winnick Gallery)

Stage & Page: Jewish Theater and BookDesigns of Emanuele Luzzati THROUGH AUGUST 17

Born in Genoa, Italy, Luzzatiopened a Jewish theater thereand distinguished himself as apainter, ceramicist, cartoonanimator, book illustrator andset and costume designer ofnote. This Yeshiva UniversityMuseum exhibit of some 200original artworks has been co-sponsored by the CentroCulturale Primo Levi in NorthAmerica. (Betty & Walter L.Popper Gallery)

A Memorial to Lost Souls:Threads of Light THROUGH JULY 27

Austrian artist Luise Kloos hastransformed the Museum’soutdoor space into a memorialto lost souls, creating a tran-scendental atmosphere out ofoptic fibers. This installationis sponsored, in part, by theAustrian Cultural Forum, NewYork. (Rosenberg SculptureGarden)

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and concludes with a present-day photo essay by Bill Aron.

“A Portion of the People” isa traveling exhibition, organ-ized and circulated by theMcKissick Museum at theUniversity of South Carolina,in association with the JewishHeritage Collection, College ofCharleston Library, and theJewish Historical Society ofSouth Carolina. It has beenmade possible in part by amajor grant from the NationalEndowment for theHumanities and is presentedin New York by the YeshivaUniversity Museum. ■

and Bernard Malamud toPhilip Roth, Allen Ginsberg,Grace Paley and ArtSpiegelman. Photograph por-traits and eight original cari-catures by David Levinecomplement the publishedworks and letters and manu-scripts in the exhibit. Theopening night, on April 10,featured readings by luminar-ies such as Arthur Miller,Grace Paley, and CynthiaOzick. ■

playwright Arthur Miller andauthors Jorie Graham, CynthiaOzick and Grace Paley present-ed a live reading from theirown works.

BLOOMSDAYThe Jewish Heritage Project incollaboration with the Center,the American SephardiFederation, and the JewishCommunity Center of NewYork presented Bloom, a galatheatrical reading focusing onthe peculiarly endearing char-acter of Leopold Bloom, JamesJoyce’s Jewish protagonist inhis epic novel Ulysses.Theatrical readings by a dis-tinguished cast of Broadwayactors, including actressKathleen Chalfant, star of theOff-Broadway hit “Wit” and“Angels in America”, were pre-sented on Bloomsday, June16, at the Center.

Fall events will explore thevoices of such internationalwriters as Paul Celan andClarice Lispector. The Center is also scheduled to partici-pate in the fall city-wideliterary festival, a collabora-tion of over 30 culturalorganizations. ■

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REDISCOVERING BRUNO SCHULZThe Center and the five part-ner institutions continue topresent engaging and ground-breaking literary programs. Ina milestone event inNovember, the Center com-memorated the 60thanniversary of the death ofPolish-Jewish writer and artistBruno Schulz, who was shot

by the Nazis on the streets of Drohobycz in 1942 at theage of 50.

In recent years, he hasbecome known to a largeraudience as a result of inter-national reports about acontroversy arising from thediscovery in 2001 of portionsof wall paintings he producedunder Nazi duress during theHolocaust, which were hastilyremoved and taken to YadVashem in Jerusalem.

Reflecting the respectgiven to Schulz, several cul-tural organizations joinedwith YIVO and the JewishHeritage Project and theCenter to sponsor a tribute tohim: Goethe-Institute NewYork, the Polish CulturalInstitute, New York, PENInternational Center, and theInstitute for the Humanitiesat New York University.

Readings of Schulz’s sto-ries, moderated by Alan

Adelson, were followed by theworld premiere of “FindingPictures,” a documentary filmabout Schulz by German film-maker Benjamin Geissler.Filmed in six countries withinterviews in various lan-guages, the film is a montagewithout a narrating voice,punctuated with readingsfrom Schulz’s publishedworks. Said the filmmaker,“What is important now isthat people speak of Schulz.”

OTHER LITERARY VOICESSchulz was only one of manyliterary voices heard at recentCenter programs. Among oth-ers was Amos Elon, theacclaimed journalist andsocial critic and recent authorof The Pity of It All: A Historyof the Jews in Germany, 1743-1933, who was the featuredguest at a fall lecture andbook signing sponsored by theLeo Baeck Institute.

The LBI also sponsored areading and panel discussionmarking the publication ofThe Fullness of Time, a newbilingual German-English vol-ume of poems by GershomScholem (1897-1982).Scholem, one of the greatscholars of the 20th century,virtually created the subjectof Kabbalah and Jewish mysti-cism as a serious area ofstudy. Literature also played acritical part in Scholem’s ownlife, and he wrote poetry fromhis teens on—political poemsabout Zionism and assimila-tion, parodies of German andJewish philosophers, religiouslyrics, and poems to otherwriters and friends such asWalter Benjamin, Hans Jonas,and S. Y. Agnon.

ASF showed the diversityof Sephardi culture this springwith two book discussionevents. Jewish Week editor,Gary Rosenblatt, moderated aconversation with the editorsand authors of Jews from the

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Middle East and North Africain Modern Times. This volumedocuments the significant rolethat Jews played in theMiddle East and North Africaover the last 200 years. AsherNaim, former IsraeliAmbassador to Ethiopia, dis-cussed his recent book, Savingthe Lost Tribe, The Rescue andRedemption of the EthiopianJews. Mr. Naim recounted thestory of the incredible rescueof 14,000 Ethiopian Jews in1991. His story was illustratedby a wonderful film about“Operation Solomon” made bythe Israeli Air Force.

Primo Levi was presentedin the spring in the form of acontemporary opera by Israelicomposer Ari Frankel. Thisfirst full reading of the operawas co-presented by AmericaOpera Project, Centro PrimoLevi and the Center for JewishHistory, with the support ofNew York State Council on theArts and Meet the Composer.Other recent events includedthe PEN American CenterTranslators Roundtable, anASF event curated by EstherAllen and dedicated toHebrew texts from the Bibleto modern poetry, and a YIVOprogram featuring the Israeliwriter A.B. Yehoshua. And, onthe occasion of the opening ofthe AJHS exhibit “Not forMyself Alone: CelebratingJewish-American Writers,”

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It has been said that one ofthe distinguishing character-istics of the Jewish diaspora isits ability to assimilateaspects of the dominant cul-ture while maintaining adistinctly Jewish culture andidentity. Jewish music reflectsthe many countries Jews have“passed through”—EasternEurope and the Mediterraneanto the Middle East, WesternEurope and theAmericas.

The SteinbergMusic Series,funded by theJoseph S. andDiane H.SteinbergCharitable Trustand curated bySusan Feldman,has reflected thisdiversity in itsselection ofartists. Interestin Jewish musicis at a peak.Composers andmusicians arestudying Jewishmusic, areinspired by it,and are playingit. Of particularinterest is thenumber of American musi-cians who are exploring thetraditions in depth—fromHasidic prayer to klezmer toSephardi holiday festivals tonew music inspired by person-al experiences of beingJewish. It is hoped that theMusic from the Center pro-grams provide a place for aliving Jewish music tradition,a place where music and reli-gious practice, music and thepast, music and inspirationcan meet.

In three years of program-ming, the Steinberg series hasbrought such artists and pro-grams to the Center’s stage as

Andy Statman, Uri Caine, fin-ger picking champion TimSparks, Marta Sebestyen andMuzsikas. Curator Feldman haspresented special events alsofunded by the SteinbergTrust, such as David Isay’sYiddish Radio Project Live and Aviva Slesin’s moving documentary, “Secret Lives,Hidden Children and theirRescuers during WWII,”

which was preceded by a liveconcert with film composerJohn Zorn and his legendaryMasada band.

HIP HOP AND LATIN KLEZMERThis past spring, an enthusi-astic and youthful audienceattended Solomon andSocalled’s “Hip Hop Khasene,”a performance that achieved acompelling fusion—a freshinterpretation of the tradi-tional klezmer wedding suiteusing the language and toolsof hip hop. DJ Socalled (JoshDolgin) laid down propulsivebeats which were furtherenlivened by the colorful

musical language. Inspired bythe music of their Jewishgrandparents, Lerner andMoguilevsky infuse classicklezmer with soulful elementsfrom a wide range of musicaltraditions, including Argentinefolk, jazz, pop and tango.

The long-term plan of theSteinberg Trust and its curatoris to invite artists to theCenter to work with archivalmaterial in the partners’ col-lections and to create newworks based on their researchand discoveries. ■

Ashkenazi musicof fiddler SophieSolomon andclarinet virtuosoDavid Krakauer.

The series alsopresented Israelicellist MayaBeiser in a col-laboration withpercussionistGlen Velez andMiddle East oud and nay play-er Bassam Saba, and theArgentine program, “Klezmeren Buenos Aires,” presentedby the Lerner MoguilevskyDúo, which has developed itsown spirited and innovative

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NEW CENTER AFFILIATE The new North Americanbranch of the Centro CulturalePrimo Levi joined the Centerfor Jewish History in Juneunder the umbrella of theAmerican Sephardi Federation.Inspired by the writings ofPrimo Levi, the Turin-bornwriter who survivedAuschwitz and was an essen-tial voice of his generation,the Centro was established inGenoa in l989 to explore andpromote interest in Italian-Jewish history. The newbranch strives to create a con-temporary context forItalian-Jewish studies inNorth America.

Announcing the move tothe Center, Dr. Alessandro DiRocco, President of theAmerican branch of theCentro, expressed his pleasureat finding a home at theCenter, a most appropriatesite for an organization repre-senting one of the oldestJewish communities of Europethat interacted for centurieswith the Sephardi and

Ashkenazi worlds. Heexpressed the hope that theCentro will establish ongoingcollaborations with the fivepartners.

2003 CENTER FELLOWSHIPSANNOUNCEDThe Center for Jewish historyhas named six doctoral candi-dates from the U.S. andEurope as recipients ofresearch fellowships for 10months of work at the Centerbeginning in September. Thefellows were selected by acommittee of the CenterAcademic Advisory Council,representing the five partnerorganizations: AmericanJewish Historical Society(AJHS), American SephardiFederation (ASF), Leo BaeckInstitute (LBI), YeshivaUniversity Museum (YUM) andYIVO Institute for JewishResearch (YIVO). “Together,the topics of the 2003 fellow-ships reflect the diversity ofaffiliation and depth of studywhich is at the core of themission of the Center,” saidDr. Diane Spielmann, directorof Center Public Services.

The appointed fellows are:Marcy Brink, StanfordUniversity, who is researchingTurkish-Jewish ideologies oflanguage and kinship, utiliz-ing the resources of YIVO, ASF

and the Center GenealogyInstitute; Maria Ecker,University of Salzburg, who iscomparing the integration ofJewish Holocaust survivorswho emigrated to the U.S.from 1945-1950 withHolocaust survivors in Israel,utilizing the resources of theLBI, YIVO and AJHS; KruegerGenealogy Fellow Noah L.Gelfand, New York University,who is using materials fromthe AJHS and ASF to studySephardi Jewish communitiesand commerce in the 17thand 18th century DutchAtlantic world; PawelMaciejko, Oxford University,who will examine the develop-ment of the religious doctrineof Jacob Frank, usingresources from the LBI andYIVO; Noam F. Pianko, YaleUniversity, who will consultresources at the LBI and YIVOto study Diaspora Jewishnationalism in AmericanJewish thought; and FrederickP. and Sandra P. Rose FellowDavid Ira Snyder, PrincetonUniversity, who will utilizeLBI and YIVO material to

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Sephardi Chief Rabbi Eliyahu Bakshi-Doron with Leon Levy(L), Rabbi Elie Abadie(R), Moroccan-born liturgicalpoet and singer Jo Amar (rear center) and other guests at the ASF Gala in December 2002.

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VISIONS OF JUSTICE“Jews and Justice,” the penetrating series of lectures and dia-logues exploring the Jewish contribution to the developmentand practice of the law and legal institutions, continues toattract broad attention.

In September, an overflow audience of hundreds was onhand as Aharon Barak, President of the Supreme Court of Israel,discussed the necessity of balancing Jewish interests with democratic values and the dilemmas inherent in maintainingthat balance.

The appearance of Barak, a Supreme Court Justice since 1978and its President since 1995, was sponsored by the Center andthe YIVO Institute for Jewish Research as part of the Center’songoing “Jews and Justice” series that is funded by the DavidBerg Foundation. Justice Barak stressed the special tenet ofIsrael’s legal system, articulated in its “Basic Laws” in l992: toestablish the values of both a Jewish and a democratic state.“We are not like all nations, and we are not like all peoples,” he said. “We are a democracy, but we are also a Jewish state.Israel’s society must come to grips with this duality.”

A program on “Jewish Lawyers and Justice” continued theseries in 2003, featuring Alan Dershowitz, Felix FrankfurterProfessor of Law at Harvard Law School, with Bettina B. Plevan,a partner in the law firm of Proskauer Rose LLP, and Samuel J.Levine, associate professor of law at Pepperdine UniversitySchool of Law. The program was presented in association withthe American Jewish Historical Society and explored the chal-lenges of being a committed Jew in today’s embattled legalenvironment and how Judaism’s history and traditions comeinto play.

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research the perceived role of the Jews and the actual impact of the ghetto in Prague and Warsaw on the shaping of the modern city.

FIRST SAMBERG FAMILY HISTORY PROGRAMOn July 7, a diverse group of high school students from theNew York area public and private schools and Jewish dayschools began uncovering their families’ pasts at the Center.These teens, from Sephardi and Ashkenazi backgrounds, andincluding a young immigrant from the former Soviet Union,were enrolled in the Samberg Family History Program. Thisintensive two-week interdisciplinary seminar will taught partic-ipants how to dig through archives and libraries to discovermore about their families and themselves.

The program offered a crash course on immigration to theUnited States, while teaching the students how to use primarysources relating to Jewish immigration and genealogy from theCenter’s archive, library and museum collections.

“Under the mentorship of Center staff, each studentdesigned an independent project reflecting the results of theirdelving into history at the Center,” says project director Dr.Rachel Fisher, who advises readers to watch the Center websitefor the students’ essays about their experience.

The Samberg Family History Program is a partnershipbetween the Center for Jewish History and the American JewishHistorical Society.

CREATING AN ARCHIVE OF LOSSES “The last thing I remember,” recalls a Jew from Benghazi,Libya, “was closing the door to our home with everything inplace – the furniture, carpets, dishes, drapes, no boxes, nopacking or preparation, no transition. But we were not goingfor a walk; we were leaving, never to come back.”

Nearly four decades after this family was forced to leavetheir home, the American Sephardi Federation (ASF) is helpingrefocus the attention of the world Jewish community on thelosses of the Jewish refugees from Arab countries. “Half thepopulation of Israel is made up of Jewish refugees from Arabcountries and their descendants,” says Vivienne Roumani-Denn,ASF Executive Director. “Theirs is an important, little knownstory that needs to be told.” As part of an international effort,ASF has launched a campaign to collect testimonials from Jewsdisplaced from Arab countries. In order to preserve the histori-cal record and document the material losses, all former Jewishrefugees or family members are urged to complete and returnthe Jewish Refugees from Arab Countries claim form, which canbe found on ASF’s website, www.jewishrefugees.org, or can beobtained by calling 212-294-8350.

CENTER COLUMN IN THE FORWARDThe first in a regular series of columns, called “Treasures fromthe Archives,” recently appeared in The Forward newspaper. Thecolumn, scheduled to appear twice a month and generouslyfunded by a friend of the Center, will feature one archivaltreasure preserved at the Center in one of the partners’ collec-tions. The first column told the unique story of the publicationof the Talmud by the U.S. Army for Holocaust survivors inDisplaced Persons camps. ■

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Mike Wallace of CBS News’ 60 Minutes interviewed by Rabbi WilliamBerkowitz for the popular Dialogue Forum Series.

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This season’s “Jews andJustice” series concluded witha panel in June on “TheEthics of Warfare–A JewishPerspective,” presented inassociation with the LeoBaeck Institute. The paneldiscussion was moderated bySuzanne Last Stone, Professorof Law at the Benjamin N.Cardozo School of Law, whocurated the program, and wasco-sponsored by the DavidBerg Foundation and theCardozo Program in JewishLaw and Culture. Joining Ms.

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Stone were panelists Dr.Michael Walzer, Professor ofSocial Science at the Institutefor Advanced Study, PrincetonUniversity; Rabbi SaulBerman, Adjunct Professor ofLaw, Columbia UniversitySchool of Law; and Rabbi J.David Bleich, Herbert andFlorence Tenzer Professor of Jewish Law and Ethics atBenjamin N. Cardozo School of Law.

In conjunction with theCenter’s “Jews and Justice”series, the American

Association of Jewish Lawyers& Jurists and FordhamUniversity School of Lawrecently co-sponsored a seriesof three Continuing LegalEducation (CLE) programs atthe Center. Topics were:“Tradition and Modernity inthe Legal System in MandatedPalestine and Israel,” “AnOverview of IslamicJurisprudence,” and “TheOrigin of HolocaustReparations and an Overviewof Recent Restitution Issues.”

AJHS DIALOGUE FORUM SERIESShimon Peres, Israel’s ForeignMinister, 1994 Nobel Prizewinner and a major figure inthe Israeli government forhalf a century, was the guestof Rabbi William Berkowitz aspart of the Dialogue ForumSeries, presented by theAmerican Jewish HistoricalSociety. Peres spoke on theanniversary of the September11th attacks. He spoke abouthis childhood and his rela-tionship with DavidBen-Gurion, and reflected onthe peace talks between Israeland the Palestinians, thefuture role of Arafat, and therelationship between theAmerican Jewish and Israelicommunities.

Rabbi Berkowitz has beenleading free-wheeling dia-logues with prominent guestsfor 51 years. In theseunscripted interviews, RabbiBerkowitz poses questionsthat have not been seen orreviewed by his guests beforethe event. Other prominentpersonalities participating inrecent dialogues included ElieWiesel and Mike Wallace, actorTony Randall, Dr.RuthWestheimer, Theodore Bikeland Ambassador Alon Pinkas.Many of these interviews arearchived on the Center web-site at www.cjh.org. ■

(Above, left to right) Dr. Arturo Constantine, Prof. Alan Dershowitz andChairman Bruce Slovin at“Jews & Justice” event.

(Above) Shimon Peres,Israel’s ForeignMinister, at theDialogue Forum Series. (left) Aharon Barak,President of theSupreme Court ofIsrael, at the “Jews &Justice” series.

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December 9 was a very specialevening, as many of theCenter’s donors, supportersand members of the partnerorganizations basked in themagnificence of the homethey had helped build. Thelist of guests dining in thePaul S. and Sylvia SteinbergGreat Hall of the Centerincluded many of the individ-uals who shared the earlyvision of BoardChairman BruceSlovin, the drivingforce for the Centersince it was just animposing plan on anarchitect’s drawingboard. For manyguests, the event wastheir first opportunityto meet Centerarchivists and scholarsand experience first-hand the magnitude ofthe Center and the rare collections of its partners. Ondisplay was a rich assortmentof documents, artifacts andritual objects from the Jewishpast—a selection from thetreasures preserved at theCenter that reflect the diversestrands of Jewish history. Forthe occasion, the Brazilianvocal artist Fortuna, a per-former of Ladino music, wasinvited to entertain theguests. ■

Since the Center for Jewish History formally opened threeyears ago, it continues to demonstrate that the past canserve to illuminate the present and enrich our heritage forfuture generations. The impact of the Center—its impressivearchitecture, preservation efforts, reference collections, cul-tural programming and educational initiatives—are allcataloged in the Center’s first Annual Report, titled “OurLegacy.” A highlight of the report is the impressive ongoingwork of each of the partner organizations, which convergeto make the Center a landmark institution for the explo-ration, interpretation and presentation of Jewish historyand culture. For a copy of the Annual Report, call ourDevelopment Office at 212-294-8310.

Center Gala Dinner

Clockwise fromtop left:Richard Scheuerand StanleyBatkin; The GreatHall; Fortuna;AJHS ExecutiveDirector MichaelFeldberg withJoseph Steinberg;Center chairmanBruce Slovin withLBI ExecutiveDirector CarolKahn Strauss;Center ExecutiveDirector Joshua

Plaut and City Councilman DavidWeprin; YIVO Executive DirectorCarl Rheins withYIVO Chief ArchivistFruma Mohrer; LeonLevy, HonoraryPresident of the ASF,and friends.

(Above) Reba Wulkan, YUM Curatorof “Stories Untold: Jewish PioneerWomen 1850-1910; The Art ofAndrea Kalinowski” (right) A vol-ume on display from thecollections.

ALL PHOTOS: MARTY HEITNER

Make a CommitmentThere are many ways to investin the future of the Center forJewish History. The late Dr.Sophie Bookhalter wished toperpetuate her commitmentto Jewish education for thebenefit of future generations.She endowed the SophieBookhalter FellowshipProgram, which already hasenabled six graduate studentsto pursue their studies at theCenter in subjects related toJewish history, literature andthe arts.

The Center’s future rests onthe thoughtfulness of donorslike Dr. Bookhalter. There aremany opportunities for partic-ipation. You may name theCenter as a beneficiary in yourexisting will. You may alsochoose from a variety of nam-ing opportunities, endowmentgifts and planned giving pro-grams, including charitableremainder trusts, charitablegift annuities, charitable leadtrusts and other plans. Pleasecall the Center’s DevelopmentOffice at 212-294-8310 for acopy of the 2002 CenterAnnual Report and to discussyour personal interests.

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Become a Friend of theCenterSupport the Center for JewishHistory with a gift of $36 or more, and you will becomea Friend of the Center and be eligible for the followingbenefits:

TAKE ADVANTAGE OF A 10%DISCOUNT AT THE FANYAHELLER GOTTESFELD BOOKSTORE. The shop reflects themission of the Center with arich collection of scholarlyand popular works on Jewishhistory, culture and language.Come browse for your personalshopping and distinctive giftneeds—books, historicalposters, silver Judaica, CDs,jewelry by innovative Israeliartists, and a selection ofcards and stationery. Manyitems are exclusive to the store.

ENJOY A 10% DISCOUNT IN THECONSTANTINER DATE PALMCAFÉ. Visit the Café for lunchor an afternoon coffeebreak—delicious kosher cui-sine in a lively, yet relaxingenvironment. Meet yourfriends at the Café surroundedby the work of artist MicheleOka Doner.

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And, when making a reserva-tion for a Center event—music, film or lecture—justmention that you are a Friendof the Center and you willreceive a 15% discount off theprice of your ticket.

Please show your support andbecome a Friend of the Center.

Take a SeatThe recent acclaimed YIVOConference on anti-Semitismin the West took place in thebeautiful Leo and JuliaForchheimer Auditorium, thejewel in the crown of theCenter and the setting for theCenter’s extensive program offilms, concerts, theater, lec-tures and meetings. Endowinga seat in the ForchheimerAuditorium as a memorial to aloved one, or a tribute to theCenter, offers an outstandinggift opportunity. For furtherinformation, please contactthe Development Office at 212-294-8310.

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Sharing Our CommitmentThe Center for Jewish History proudly recognizes the followingdonors for their most generous support of its undertaking topreserve the Jewish past and ensure the Jewish future. In addi-tion to many anonymous gifts, this roster includes majorbenefactions received through May 31, 2003. Many significant gift opportunities remain available at the Center, including thenaming of outstanding facilities. Please call our DevelopmentOffice at 212-294-8310.

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CAROL H. AND ROBERT D. KRINSKYHARRIET KUPFERBERGJONATHAN AND MARLENE LEFFELLJOHN LEUBSDORF AND LYNN B. MONTZMAGDA SHENBERG LEUCHTERSUE-ELLEN AND BARDIN LEVAVYHAROLD LEVINEBERNARD LEVY, M.D.RHODA LEWINZANVEL AND SYLVIA LIFFMR. AND MRS. GERALD H. LITWINEVA CHERNOV LOKEYFREDRIC MACKSEYMOUR H. MALAMEDRICHARD L. MAULLINJOE MENDELSOHNJEAN AND MARTIN MENSCHSTANLEY MERJANRONALD I. MESHBESHERRON AND MELISSA MILLERDR. AND MRS. DAVID M. MIRVISFREDERICK M. MOLODELAINE POHL MOOREGERALD AND RENEE MORDFINMALCOLM AND ESTHER NEWMANLARRY S. NUSSBAUMDR. AND MRS. MOSES NUSSBAUMROGER AND JOYCE NUSSBAUMABE AND ANN OSTERJUDITH LAUNER PALKOVITZDAVID J. PELMOTERCHERYL AND LLOYD PINEDR. JOSEPH M. PREMINGEREUGENE PRICEMRS. SHERWIN RADINMELVIN RAUCHMR. AND MRS. STEVEN REISBERGFRED AND RITA RICHMANESTHER LEAH RITZADELE AND AL ROBBINSDENISE AND GARY ROSENBERGJOSEPH B. ROSENBLATTELIZABETH ROSENMANBRUCE ROSSVIVIAN ROUSW. S. ROZAYDR. BRUCE RUBENJOSEPH B. RUBINRABBI REGINA L. SANDLER-PHILLIPSBERTHA SCHACHTERHELEN AND HAROLD SCHWARTZ FOUNDATIONALLEN K. AND BARBARA SCHWARTZCHARLOTTE S. SCHWARTZMR. AND MRS. HERMAN SCHWARZARLENE AND DONALD SHAPIROSTANLEY AND NANCY I. SHERANDR. YURIY SHINKARSTUART H. SHPETNERPHILIP AND HEDVAH SHUCHMANTHE SOFAER FOUNDATIONHELEN AND DANIEL SONENSHINETHE SONKIN FAMILY FOUNDATIONMUNI M. STAUMMARVIN SUSSMANMARK J. TANENBAUMMICHAEL F. TRACHTENBERGALEXANDER J. TURNEYHENRY J. VOREMBERGDAVID S. WALKERMS. JANIS WARRENELLIOTT R. WEIDMANJAMES L. WEINBERGHOWARD WEINTRAUB, M. D.HARVEY WEITZHARRIS K. WESTONISRAEL WILENITZWINTER MANAGEMENT CORP.MICHAEL YANOWITCHMILDRED ZAGELBAUMGEORGE AND FROMA ZEITLINRICHARD AND CAROLYN ZIEGLERLESTER ZIMMERMAN, M. D.LAWRENCE ZIVINSHELDON ZORFAS

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