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Innovative Theater Troupe to Appear in NYC for Jewish Music and Heritage Festival. Thu, 18 Aug 2005 16:27

Photo: Adina Tal.

On September 15th at 8:00 PM, an incredible troupe of 12 deaf-blind actors will take the stage at Lincoln Center/Rose Hall. Their performance showcases talent, imagination, and courage. Audiences will not only lose themselves in the riveting experience, but they will also be moved to tears by the overall vision this group brings to the stage and beyond.  For these performers, their world is one of total silence and darkness -- and yet, they've come together under the guidance of a remarkable woman named Adina Tal to create a one-hour show titled Light is Heard in Zig Zag. The actors suffer from Usher Syndrome, which begins with congenital deafness and tunnel vision and develops over the years, progressively restricting the visual field until total blindness occurs. Without sight or hearing, these men and women rely solely on their sense of touch to communicate with one another: hence the name of their non-profit troupe, Nalaga'at, which means "Do Touch" in Hebrew.  Adina Tal will be available for interviews beginning September 5th, and the rest of the group arrives on September 10th. Attached, you will find a press release about the performance and a PDF of the event flyer. Photography and DVDs are also available upon request. More information about the troupe can also be found at http://www.nalagaat.org.il/.  Contact: Elizabeth Baxter or Liz Lane 212.845.4212 or 212.845.4236 elizabeth.baxter@eurorscg.com  or  liz.lane@eurorscg.com . To contact the group: info@nalagaat.org.il

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

First and Only Deaf-Blind Theater Troupe from Israel  Makes Rare U.S. Appearance

 

A Theater Performance That Transcends Sight and Sound Will Inspire All To Believe In Their Dreams

 

Photo: Adina Tal's production.

How do you communicate with others when you live in a world of complete silence and darkness? You touch. On September 15, 2005, a Lincoln Center audience will experience the extraordinary world of 12 deaf-blind actors who comprise the Nalaga’at (Hebrew for “Do Touch”) Theater Troupe. Their richly emotional production of “Light is Heard in Zig Zag” has enchanted audiences since the first ground-breaking performance in 2003. Fresh off 10 sold-out shows in Switzerland, Nalaga’at is staging a rare U.S. appearance as part of the second annual New York Jewish Music and Heritage Festival. “Light is Heard in Zig Zag” has won acclaim as “the most surprising hit of Israeli theater” and “the most unique social breakthrough in the world.”  Each actor is accompanied onstage by an interpreter, who helps with timing and costume changes and taps the actors’ knees to communicate applause. Audiences around the world have been moved to tears. The group met in a drama class, and founder and director Adina Tal “recognized the potential of the group and fell in love with the people.” The production was created through a long process involving work on motion skills and improvisation, allowing the actors to transcend their own limitations. In Israel today, there are more than 1,000 deaf-blind people who live in silence, darkness, and solitude. Most deaf-blind people suffer from Usher Syndrome, which begins with congenital deafness and tunnel vision that develops over the years, progressively restricting the visual field until total blindness takes over. The non-profit organization Nalaga’at, established in December 2002, has raised the curtain for 12 deaf-blind people, allowing them to enjoy the most basic of rights: to give. The 2005 New York Jewish Music and Heritage Festival offers Nalaga’at the unique  opportunity to reach a broad audience – young, old, religious, unaffiliated – and will facilitate a shared connection through the universal language of music. The 2005 festival will run for 10 days and includes over 60 concerts in prestigious concert halls, venues, and synagogues.

 

Nalaga’at Organization Directors: Adina Tal: Born in Switzerland, Adina came to Israel at the age of 20 and for many years has been active in the world of theater as a director and actress. Adina sought a new path to break through human boundaries. Within just a few years she built, together with a group of deaf-blind people, the performance “Light is Heard in Zig Zag.” Since then, her life has changed. Eran Gur: An Israeli-born businessman with some 20 years experience in the security field in Israel and abroad, Eran was invited by Adina to one of the first performances and since then has not been idle. Eran decided to change the course of his life, sold his business, joined Adina, and together, they wove a shared vision.

 

The Vision of the Organization: To establish an experimental and entertainment Center in Israel, the first of its kind in the world, in which deaf-blind people will be employed in a theater and a restaurant. The Center will offer unique theater productions as well as fine dining in complete darkness.  The Center will serve as a model that enables disabled people to function in society while at the same time operate as an entertainment center for the general public, as well as an educational center and experimental meeting place for youngsters together with creative deaf-blind, able to contribute to and become part of society.

 

 

About the Downtown Arts Development: Downtown Arts Development, Inc. (D.A.D.), a non-profit organization as recognized by the IRS 501c3, was created in the Fall of 2004 to produce the inaugural New York Jewish Music & Heritage Festival, as part of the 350th anniversary celebration of the first Jews in America. The festival was a huge success reaching over one million people through strong media impressions and had 25,000 attendees during the 10-day event. This laid the groundwork for creating the organization’s purpose: to create, develop, and produce unique and compelling Jewish artistic programming that appeals to wide demographic audience. By leveraging the universal power of music, the organization is able to reach a large secular Jewish audience who might not otherwise recognize the artistic connection to Jewish culture. D.A.D.’s current strategy is to produce the New York Jewish Music & Heritage Festival and the Downtown Seder as annual events, along with a few ongoing music and art programs.

 

Details:

New York Jewish Music Festival: “Light is Heard in Zig Zag”. Date: September 15, 2005 at 8:00 PM. Location: Lincoln Center's Frederick P. Rose Hall. Tickets: Phone: Call 212.608.0555 for tickets.

Running time: 75 minutes. Stage production and directions: Adina Tal. Group Manager: Eran Gur. Producer: Michael Dorf. ose Theater: The Rose Theater is located on the 5th floor of the Time Warner Center at Broadway and 60th Street. Information: The box office is located in The Shops at Columbus Circle inside the Broadway at 60th Street entrance. Directions: By subway: Take the A, B, C, D, #1 or #9 trains to 59th Street/Columbus Circle. By bus: The M5, M7, M10, M11 and M104 bus lines all stop within one block of Jazz at Lincoln Center.

 

 

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ART IN ODD PLACES 2005. Presented by Power Trip Productions and the HOWL! Festival. August 21st through August 28th, 2005. At various locations in the East Village.

28 Local Artists Examine the Role of Public Art in 50 Unexpected Locations in the East Village Ranging from a Laundromat and Gumball Machine to a Dumpling Shop and Local Public Gardens. In Art In Odd Places, twenty-eight artists examine the role of art in public space at fifty locations throughout the East Village during the HOWL! Festival August 21-28, 2005.  Artists present art in non- traditional odd places including a dumpling shop, a laundromat, a gumball machine and a third story apartment window.   New Yorkers are invited to participate by viewing a map to locate each of fifty different sites.   Artists work in a wide variety of media including: painting, sound, video, conceptual, performance, and landscape, and will explore the meaning of ‘public’. In Listening With Dumplings, artist Hong-Kai Wang uses sounds elements from the restaurant, Mr. Dumpling at 100 Saint Marks Place, to create her soundscape on listen at this popular East Village restaurant. Artist George places Block Busting a standard gumball machine that dispenses sculpture for fifty cents in Spin City, a 24-hour laundromat on Avenue B. A passerby may wonder upon Trail III by artist Oscar Alzate at one of the five garden locations to discover a tour of displaced African Hippos in the Columbian Amazon.  Heading to work one might happen onto Peter Adamski’s, Medium of the Message, post-it note installations on street furniture throughout the East Village.

Nan GoldinPhoto: Nan Goldin.

SCOPE:  28 Local Artists Examine the Role of Public Art in 50 Unexpected Locations in the East Village Ranging from a Laundromat and Gumball Machine to a dumpling Shop and Local Public Gardens. CONTACT: Ed Woodham (212) 780-0800 ext. 241 or 347-350-4242,  info@artinoddplaces.org , www.artinoddplaces.org , www.howlfestival.org . MAPS: Maps are available 24 hours daily at Spin City, 180 Avenue B; at Enchantment, Inc, 341 East 9th Street: M-Sat 1-9pm, Sun 1-8pm; at Mr. Dumpling, 100 Saint Marks Place: Noon-Midnight; and at all Art In Odd Places locations. For a map with a list of all fifty locations and a complete schedule please go to www.artinoddplaces.org .

Photo: Suzanne Vega.

Art In Odd Places is an independent artists’ project presented by Power Trip Productions under the direction of artist, Ed Woodham. Art In Odd Places is a collaboration between Power Trip Productions and the Federation of East Village Artists (FEVA) for the 3rd annual HOWL! Festival which celebrates the rich history of the countercultural movement of the East Village. HOWL! 2005 is made possible by the generous support of The L Magazine, Manhattan Beer Distributors, Two Boots Pizza, and Gibson Guitar, as well as council members Margarita Lopez and Alan Gerson, and Manhattan Borough President C. Virginia Fields, and the citizens and businesses of the Lower East Side. For an updated list of participating and sponsoring organizations, as well as a complete schedule of events, visit www.howlfestival.com .

 

 

Luis GuzmánPhoto: Luis Guzman.

The week-long annual HOWL! Festival, produced every August by the Federation of East Village Artists, celebrates the neighborhood's role as the cradle of counterculture. It brings to the bars, clubs, galleries, parks, streets, and theaters of the Lower East Side an explosion of dance, film, food, music, performance, painting, poetry, sculpture, and theater. The festival attracts more than 200,000 people to hundreds of events and many venues throughout the neighborhood, truly a metropolitan county fair. Luminaries like Boy George, Steve Buscemi, Steve Earle, Karen Finley, Nan Goldin, Luis Guzman, Jim Jarmusch, Moby, Lou Reed, Ed Sanders, and Suzanne Vega draw the festival's crowds but its real stars are the hardworking independent artists and writers who continue to invigorate the neighborhood with their inconoclastic spirit. The Federation of East Village Artists, 619 East 6th Street, New York, NY 10009. 212-505-2225 phone 212-656-1961 fax. General Info: info@howlfestival.com . HOWL! Staff
Stacy Horne, Festival Producer
Mia Juhng, Vending Coordinator
Hiro Takenaga, Japanese Festival Coordinator
Jon Greene, Program Coordinator
Graceann Barrett, Art Around the Park Coordinator
Greg Burgett, Operations Assistant


HOWL! offers many opportunities for businesses, foundations, and individuals to join our cause and engage with the community. If you would like to make a gift or become a sponsor please call Greg Fuchs, Program Director, at (212) 505-2225 or e-mail gregfuchs@howlfestival.com

 

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TWO NEW PRESS SCREENINGS SCHEDULED

 FOR CAMPFIRE (MEDURAT HASHEVET)

Tuesday, Aug. 23 at 1 pm and Thursday, Aug. 25 at 7:30 pm.

Due to demand, Film Movement has added two press screenings of the hit Israeli film Campfire (Medurat Hashevet), directed by Joseph Cedar. The film opens in New York on September 9, 2005 at the Village East Cinemas (as well as at Kew Gardens in Queens, Malverne in Long Island and at the Manhattan JCC for a special limited engagement).

 

 

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THE FILM:CAMPFIRE (Medurat Hashevet), Israel, 2004 – Joseph Cedar, director. 96 minutes; In Hebrew, with subtitles. Israel’s Selection for Best Foreign Film, 2005 Academy Awards Winner, Five Israeli Academy Awards, incl. Best Picture, Director and Screenplay Winner, FIPRESCI Prize, 2004 Chicago International Film FestivalWinner, Don Quixote Awards, 2004 Berlin Film Festival SYNOPSIS: It is 1981. One year after her husband’s death, Rachel is desperate for acceptance. She tries to join the founding members of a religious settlement in the West Bank, but is told she won’t likely be considered unless she remarries. When one of her daughters is accused of seducing some local boys, Rachel is forced to weigh her allegiances between her family and her standing in the community. Yossi, her suitor, shows her that being an outcast is not as bad as it seems. THE PRESS SCREENINGS: TUESDAY, AUG. 23, 2005 at 1 pm at SOHO House (29-35 9th Ave. @ 13th St.). THURSDAY, AUG. 25, 2005 at 7:30 pm at the Makor Center (35 West 67th St.) To reserve: to press@filmmovement.com. Contact: Josh Levin, Film Movement, 375 West Broadway, 2nd Flr., New York, NY 10012, Phone: 212. 941.7744 ext.  213E-mail:    josh@filmmovement.com

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The exhibition “Sur le Fil” has been postponed to the month of October. The opening will be on October 6th at 7pm and the exhibition will last until November 6th.

Installations, interactive and evolutionary artworks, live paintings,
photography, digital prints and interactive design.

SUR LE FIL

Opening on Thursday, October 6th, 2005 at 7 pm

Exhibition Oct 6th – Nov 6th, 2005.

Curated by numeriscausa

Biche de Bere Gallery 1506 Manhattan Avenue, Union City, New Jersey 07087. Tuesday through Saturday from 12 pm to 6 pm. Private transportation will be available

Syg Drunk Jean Charles Blais
Nuage Fractal, Miguel Chevalier & Emmanuel Berriet
Suite, Marion Duclos
La Disparition, Thomas Lannes
Floccus, Golan Levin
Tubulae 999, Monsieur QQ
Linea, Music2eye
Le Pixel Blanc, Antoine Schmitt
 

Photo: Suite 2004, by Marion Duclos.

This is about being Sur le fil, or "on the line", stuck between vertigo and an actual fall. This is an instable and fragile situation, which echoes the uneasy position digital arts has in art today. Sur le fil is an image that conjures both an emerging confidence and an obvious ambition for recognition. It is in order , to engage these themes, that Biche de Bere, the French prêt-a-porter and jewelry company and numeriscausa, a French producer of digital art exhibitions, have become partners in a series of exhibitions to be held in 2005-2006, in Paris, New York and Shanghai. This project has a dual ambition: to help artists produce their artwork and diffuse them to the art market worldwide, but also to create a place of reference and discovery in each of these cultural capitals. After exhibiting in Paris at the Biche de Bere's Gallery, Sur le fil will unite nine artists and designers around the themes of the string, the line and the pixel, thus assembling the fundamental components of digital art. In accepting these themes as the foundation of digital expression, each of the presented installations plays with notions of fragility, tension and motion subtly recalling other artistic references, located everywhere between kinetics and minimalism. Interactive artworks (Miguel Chevalier & Emannuel Berriet, Music2eye), generative painting (Jean-Charles Blais, Golan Levin, Antoine Schmitt), optical and luminous installations (Marion Duclos, Thomas Lannes), monumental sculpture (monsieur QQ) and photographic prints : This choice may seem strange because of the perhaps unlikely bringing together of artists using mixed mediums next to others who are exclusively digital artists. However, there is definite confrontation and interconnection within this exchange. From interactive artwork to the digital representation through analog representation, we witness an alteration of the digital process: from its creative inception to the last moment of photographic printing . Originally set within an atypical exhibition space (the Biche of Bere Gallery) Sur le fil occupies space like a territorial marker, operating on the structure and its components in order to create hybridization between the artworks and the architecture. Thus, Sur le fil manifests numeriscausa 's desire to seamlessly merge digital artwork with a exhibiting space and the all too important participation of the spectators.

Golan Levin is an artist, composer and designer interested in developing artifacts and experiences which explore supple new modes of audiovisual expression. His work has focused on the design of systems for the creation and performance of simultaneous image and sound, as part of a more general examination of communications protocols for individual engagement and non-verbal dialogue. Most recently, Levin presented Dialtones: A Telesymphony (2001), an audiovisual concert whose sounds are wholly performed through the carefully-choreographed ringing of the audience's own mobile phones. Levin was granted an Award of Distinction in the Prix Ars Electronica for his Audiovisual Environment Suite (2000) interactive software and its accompanying audiovisual performance, Scribble (2000). Levin received undergraduate and graduate degrees from the MIT Media Laboratory, where he studied with John Maeda in the Aesthetics and Computation Group. Prior to this, he worked as an interaction designer and research scientist at Interval Research Corporation for four years. He currently resides in New York City.

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Golan Levin
Audiovisual Enviroment Suite, 2000
Interactive installation

Floo/Floccus

 

 

 

 

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‘Greetings from Home’:
350 Years of American Jewish Life

On view at the Center for Jewish History from May 17 to September 30, 2005
Presented by the American Jewish Historical Society in cooperation with Yeshiva University Museum and the American Sephardi Federation with Sephardic House.

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‘Greetings from Home’: 350 Years of Jewish Life in America, is an exciting exhibition that tells the story of a people’s signal achievement in this nation. After centuries of persecution in Europe and elsewhere, the United States offered its Jews a home that promised equal rights, economic opportunity and religious liberty. While they felt increasingly “at home” in America over time, the Jewish people of the United States never lost touch with their sense of connection to family and community in the lands they left behind. By the second half of the twentieth century, in the wake of the Holocaust and with the founding of Israel, American Jewry became the guarantors of Jewish survival throughout the world.

Featuring more than 200 rare and remarkable items, many of which are displayed for the first time, ‘Greetings from Home’ tells the story of the American Jewish experience by organizing it around two inherent tensions in American Jewish life. First, American Jews face the challenge of maintaining a distinct Jewish religious and cultural identity while participating fully in the broader American civil community. Secondly, they must balance their sense of being “at home” in America while maintaining connections to the “old country” and (in more recent times) the international Jewish community, especially Israel. When the first group of Dutch Jews landed in New Amsterdam in 1654 with the intention of settling permanently, Governor-general Pieter Stuyvesant tried to expel them. The New Amsterdam Jews wrote to their brethren in Amsterdam, asking them to intervene so they could remain. The Dutch West India Company consented, and American Jewry became established. With each generation, they increasingly thrived.

By the second half of the twentieth century, Jews hold leading positions in the arts and culture, government and politics, science and medicine, business and popular culture. The rest of world Jewry – and many other oppressed groups – looks to the Jews of the United States to guarantee their safety and religious freedom.

‘Greetings from Home’ captures the amazing transformation of American Jewry from a small outpost of fewer than two thousand souls at the time of the American Revolution to the world’s largest and most influential Jewish community outside of Israel. Drawing on the voluminous holdings of the American Jewish Historical Society and major research institutions such as the Library of Congress, the National Archives, the Jacob Rader Marcus Center of Hebrew Union College, YIVO, the Leo Baeck Institute, the American Sephardi Federation and the Yeshiva University Museum, ‘Greetings from Home’ tracks the pioneering efforts of Jewish individuals and groups to define religious liberty for every American. The exhibition illustrates the many ways in which Jewish immigrants in every generation were transformed by American culture and, in turn, helped to transform that very culture. Above all, ‘Greetings from Home’ explores the ongoing ties that have bound American Jewry to Jewish communities around the world for 350 years. It brings into poignant view the lives of the Sephardic, German, Yiddish-speaking, Mizrachi and former Soviet Jewish immigrants who have come in successive waves to these shores, and highlights the ways those immigrants and their descendants, once at home in America, maintained their ties and sense of connection to the places from which they came. For More Information: Contact Mark Seal at 212-294-6160, ext. 6118, or by email at mseal@ajhs.cjh.org.

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A fascinating exploration into the world of Talmud study, this exhibit illustrates how technological advances - the invention of the printing press more than 500 years ago and the impact of computers in recent decades - have transformed the ancient discipline of Talmud study into an accessible pursuit available to all.

 

EARLY MANUSCRIPTS AND PRINTED BOOKS DISPLAYED WITH HISTORIC MOSAIC FLOOR @ YESHIVA UNIVERSITY MUSEUM
Through, August 28, 2005. Admission: $6.00/$4.00 for students and seniors. Hours- Sunday -Thursday: 11:00 am-5:00 pm

Printing the Talmud: From Bomberg to Schottenstein From the Sixth Century to the Present

Early Manuscripts & Printed Books displayed with Historic Mosaic Floor from Ancient Israeli Synagogue Video Installation Illustrates the contemporary worldwide fascination with the ancient discipline of Talmud Study A major exhibition at the Yeshiva University Museum at the Center for Jewish History, Printing the Talmud: From Bomberg to Schottenstein, will open on Tuesday, April 12, 2005, documenting the evolution of the 2,000 year-old Talmud from the sixth century to the computer age of the twenty-first century. The Yeshiva University Museum at the Center for Jewish History is located at 15 West 16th Street, New York, New York 10011. Offering a rare glimpse into and a fascinating exploration of the Talmud (the Hebrew for “study” or “learning”), Printing the Talmud will illustrate how technological advances – the invention of the printing press and the impact of computer technology in the past decade – have transformed the ancient discipline of Talmud study into an accessible pursuit. Following Johann Gutenberg’s printing of the first edition of the “Bible,” many non-Jewish as well as Jewish printers moved quickly to print books on Judaism. A centerpiece of the exhibition will be a rare, six volume complete edition of the Bomberg Talmud from 16th century Venice, surviving in its original binding for over four centuries. All 73 volumes of the recently completed Schottenstein Talmud will also be on display. Printing the Talmud: From Bomberg to Schottenstein will display other outstanding examples of early manuscripts and printed books on loan from world famous collections (a list of significant objects from the exhibition is attached). Other highlights of the exhibition and programming include: • An ancient synagogue mosaic floor, 11’ x 14’, from a sixth century synagogue in the Beth Shean valley in Israel, is making its maiden voyage outside of Israel to the United States for this exhibition. The Rehov Mosaic Floor contains a 29-line inscription about Jewish agriculture laws in the Talmud; it is the earliest surviving rabbinic text, and was considered a directive to Jewish farmers in the congregation. • Sixty-one paintings illustrating Talmudic issues, by Eliyahu Sidi of Ein Karem, Israel, will appeal to younger audiences with enchanting folk-like images. • The Infinite Sea, a 12-minute video installation capturing the excitement and energy of Talmud study with live footage from five continents, including countries from Iran to Peru and from Moscow to Glasgow. In planning the exhibition, a central goal of the curators was to offer visitors an opportunity to examine the history of Judeo-Christian relations, censorship and intellectual property issues, and how the Talmud influenced hundreds of years of international Jewish cooperation and communication.

About Yeshiva University Museum: Since its founding in 1973, Yeshiva University Museum's changing contemporary art and historical exhibits have celebrated the culturally diverse intellectual and artistic achievements of over 3,000 years of Jewish experience. In 2000, Yeshiva University Museum moved to the Center for Jewish History, 15 West 16th Street, New York City, where it occupies four spacious galleries, a children's workshop center, and an outdoor sculpture garden. Visit www.yumuseum.org for more information about Yeshiva University Museum.

About the Center for Jewish History: In 2000, the Center for Jewish History, located in the heart of the historic Chelsea district, became the home of five distinguished partner institutions-the American Jewish Historical Society, the American Sephardi Federation, the Leo Baeck Institute, Yeshiva University Museum, and the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research. Sharing a common vision of preserving and presenting Jewish culture and history, the five partner institutions in coming together, have created a meeting place where intellectual inquiries are exchanged and freely explored, and where the general public can find cultural programs devoted to a wide variety of themes and concerns. The combined holdings of the Center’s partners include over 100 million documents, books, art, artifact, photos, and other materials, making the Center the largest repository of Jewish history and culture outside the State of Israel. Other features of the building include a 250-seat auditorium, a gift shop, and the glatt kosher Date Palm Café.

 

 

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MAIMONIDES BY DR. ILIL ARBEL

 

"One of the 10 best books of the year." World Jewish News Agency.

"Comprehensive, authoritative, fun and most needed. A great addition to the world Judaica history and literature.". MDL, International Herald Daily News

  • Hardcover: 192 pages

  • Publisher: Crossroad 8th Avenue (September 25, 2001)

  • Language: English

  • ISBN: 0824523598

  • Product Dimensions: 8.5 x 5.6 x 0.8 inches

  • Price: 19.95 

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STARTING OVER: THE EXPERIENCE OF GERMAN JEWS IN AMERICA, 1830-1945
Through, November 15, 2005 in Celebration of the 50th Anniversary of the Leo Baeck Institute

“…one institution has taken on the task of preserving the existence of this [German] remarkable Jewish community…the Leo Baeck Institute in New York.” John V.H. Dippel, author of “Bound Upon a Wheel of Fire”

This year marks the 50th anniversary of the Leo Baeck Institute at the Center for Jewish History, a landmark year that coincides with a milestone in American history: the 350th anniversary of the arrival of the first Jews to America which will be celebrated in a major exhibition sponsored by the American Jewish Historical Society at the Center for Jewish History, located at 15 West 16th Street, New York City. Opening on May 17, 2005, Starting Over: The Experience of German Jews in America, 1830-1945, will contribute to this broader theme with photos, letters, documents, sketches, paintings, maps, medals and other rare artifacts of German-Jews who settled across the United States. Many of the approximately 150 documents and objects on display will be on view for the first time. Carol Kahn Strauss, Executive Director, Leo Baeck Institute remarked on the significance of LBI’s exhibit in context of the larger anniversary year of the 350th Anniversary of the first Jewish settlers in America. “Many immigrants [German Jews] played a significant role in shaping a wide array of contemporary issues in the arts or in professional careers …assuming an American identity that was enhanced by its German Jewish influence, much as the American culture was enhanced by the sensibilities of the newcomers. They became active in Hollywood, on Broadway, in the arts, in publishing and in religion, especially in the Reform and Conservative movements. German Jews also established organizations such as: Hadassah, B’nai B’rith, the National Council of Jewish Women, and the National Jewish Welfare Board that continue to flourish. Given the wealth of documents in the LBI archives on the German Jewish immigration to the United States, Ms. Strauss explains the sequence and background of how the exhibition is organized; “The émigré experience can be divided into pre-Nazi immigration of those taking risks to seek better opportunities and the Hitler-era arrival of disenfranchised Central Europeans fleeing for their lives.” The material on view is displayed in four sections: Leaving Home surveys the restrictive decrees and quotas that prompted thousands of Jews throughout German-speaking countries to leave their families and countries in search of a better life in America. New Horizons looks at the journey of 19th century émigrés, some rising from peddlers to tycoons, while most simply took advantage of new opportunities to create comfortable and secure lives. The Nazi Years explores the wave of immigrants from Central Europe rushing onto American shores. Many settled in New York, arriving with impressive artistic, cultural and intellectual credentials. Some prominent intellectual writers, and musicians were able to blend into American culture immediately, but most newcomers struggled with low-paying jobs, while trying to learn English or earn an American degree. Self-reliant and determined, many of the refugees fared extremely well.

To Preserve and to Remember tells the history of the Leo Baeck Institute. Its library, archives, art and photo collections have become the foremost repository for the collective history of the German-Jewish experience. Founded in 1955, the Institute was named in honor of Rabbi Leo Baeck, who was the last leader of the German Jewish community under the Nazi regime and the Institute’s first president, LBI maintains an archive in the Jewish Museum Berlin. To commemorate the 50th Anniversary milestone, which recalls German history as well as Jewish and American dimensions, the Leo Baeck Institute will hold its first dinner in Berlin at the new Akademie der Kunste Am Pariserplatz on Tuesday, June 21, 2005. Contact Tamara Moscowitz, Public Relations Director, 212-294-8303, or, email tmoscowitz@cjh.org

 

Fun and Unusual Shows  this Saturday and Next Saturday. The Fabulous Romashka Will Be There!

August 20th, Saturday - 10:30 pm, Galapagos, part of the WilliB SummArts Fest: Saturday, August 20th. Set against the backdrop of an urban  landscape-turned-canvas, Willi B* SummArts brings  together hip-hop, world and electronic artists from  New York City's hottest parties for one sizzling experience in Williamsburg, the new capital of hip. Music: Prince Paul • Si*Se • Dub Trio • Dr Israel • Scott  Kettner's Nation Beat/Maracatu NYC • Romashka • DJ   Chris Annibell • Haale • Ge-ology • GlobeSonic •  Outernational • Jugoe • DJ Jeannie Hopper •  Ertal Dawg • Swingsett • The East Coast Boogiemen •  and many more in the street and in clubs from 3 p.m. to 4 a.m .  The street party starts at 3 p.m. where N.6th Street  turns into one big party. Zablozki's (107 N.6th) hosts  an acoustic stage, Academy Records (96th N.6th)  showcases live in-store DJ's and at the end of the  street, the Main Stage bangs out beats all day until  sunset.  http://www.willib.org. THE MAIN EVENT:  Starting at 8 pm, single-ticket access allows the  audience to enjoy a smoking hot line-up at Northsix  and Galapagos until 4 AM. Local artists Samantha Bard  and Judy Wu transform Galapagos and Northsix as well  as the entire block party into a life-size art  exhibit, while Brooklyn urban artist, Skriblz adds to the exploration of Brooklyn visual arts culture with  live painting. Live dance performances come alive  throughout both venues with many styles from dancers  with flaming headdresses to a B-Boy competition   sponsored by Puma. http://www.cdbaby.com/romashka  $15 /Advance - $20 / Door. Advance tickets available:  Academy Records, 96 N. 6th St. (718) 218-8200. Other Music, 15 E. 4th St. (212) 477-8150. Fat Beats, 406 6th Ave. (212) 673-3883.

  

ROMASHKA in concert. One of the best Russian & Romanian Gypsy Muzica ensembles in the nation. Attend their shows and you will have the best time of your life. They are out of this world. Romashka explodes with life, musical magic, delightful madness, memories, joy, implosion and explosion of uplifting and intoxicatingly mesmerizing music. In brief, they are a pure delight. A world-class ensemble. Do not miss their shows.

innaPhoto: Inna Barmash and the virtuoso Joey Weisenberg: Two magnificent entertainers.

Romashka plays Gypsy music from Russia, Romania, and beyond. The musicians are a wild bunch of virtuoso rhythm-throttling chop-splitting Brooklyn-dwelling world music aficionados, who have gigged around the world in various Gypsy, Klezmer, Balkan, jazz, funk, ska and rock ensembles. Whether playing for wedding guests, experienced folk dancers or twenty-something hipsters, the band channels their raw musical energy to create an infectious intense Eastern European gypsy dance party experience. Romashka, the NYC Gypsy Dance Party Band was born in fits and torrents in the fall of 2003. Roaming from cafes and all-night jams, to apartment parties and subway stops, the band quickly catapulted to pulsating clubs and underground parties, drawing a loyal - and swiftly growing - following from downtown party revellers and outer-borough-dwelling ethnic communities alike. Contact: Inna at info@romashka.net  201.739.3931. Romashka musicians are unique and colorful. Inna Barmash (vocals) immigrated to the States from Lithuania, where she first started singing in Yiddish and Russian. She co-founded the Princeton-based band Klez Dispensers, and has performed with numerous other klezmer groups in the tri-state area. Her explorations of the repertoire of Russian and Romanian gypsies led to her co-founding of Romashka. Ron Caswell (tuba) Born a pauper in the municipality of Trenton, NJ, Ron Caswell escaped his cultural abyss to attend the Mannes College of Music. He's performed on tuba with The New York City Opera, Little Orchestra Society, Our State Fair (Broadway), Flying Karamazov Brothers, Orchestra of St. Lukes, Frank London's Klezmer Brass All-Stars and too many more to mention. Ron has also co-produced salsa records with Martin Arroyo and has performed with numerous Latin bands playing trumpet and tuba. He plays bass in numerous rock projects including the underground East Village rock sensation Janet Vodka. Ben Holmes (trumpet)Trumpeter, composer, and arranger Ben Holmes moved to NYC in 2001 and quickly became an in-demand performer in the Jazz, Klezmer, and Balkan music scenes.

Photo: Ben Holmes.

The Klez Dispensers' album "New Jersey Freylekhs", featuring several of Ben's compositions and arrangements, was released in early 2004. Ben also recorded for the soundtrack of the movie "School of Rock" and appeared on HBO's "Sex & the City" as a member of the Klezmatics. Ben currently performs with the Klez Dispensers, the Zagnut Cirkus Orkestar, Romashka, the Village Klezmer Quintet, and King Django's Roots & Culture Band, as well as his own and other people's jazz groups. Stevhen Iancu (accordian, vocals, fire) the Japanese Romanian British immigrant, perhaps the only fire-breathing accordionist with a cooking show in Brooklyn has slung fish, chicken and muzik together and created a back drop for demented stories of the kitchen, murderers, mental patients, drunken crazies, transvestites and others that have fallen into the Dolomites' stew. Stevhen supported the "SMeLL the Muzik!" campaign on five National Dolomites' Tours filling and entertaining the bellies of the starving audiences at colleges, bars, clubs and theaters. He has also worked with the likes of Boston's tent revivalists Reverend Glasseye and His Wooden Legs as well as scored muzik for several different Puppet Theaters in Portland, Detroit and L.A. , and muzik for Will Vinton Studios (creators of the infamous California Raisins). Stevhen's fourth release for the Dolomites, "DaRumanian Chophouse" fuses Japanese Pop , Romanian , gypsy, and folk with songs about food and philosophy. Jeff Perlman (clarinet, bass clarinet, alto saxophone) has been charming audiences with klezmer music since starting his first band in 1995, while still a high school student. He was an integral part of the Yale Klezmer Band for four years (1997-2001) as well as a founding member of the Wandering Jews Traveling Klezmer Band with whom he toured across North America on the Big Schlepp tour in the Summer of 2001. Lately, Jeff has been focusing his attention on learning the living musical traditions of Eastern Europe, particularly from Moldova, Romania and Ukraine.

Photo: Virtuoso Joey Weisenberg.

He has traveled extensively throughout Eastern Europe (and the Eastern European parts of NYC) collecting and recording traditional music in its native context, and he twice participated in Klezfest Ukraine. Today Jeff lives in Brooklyn and can be seen performing regularly with the Village Klezmer Quintet, Romashka Gypsy Collective, Klez Que C'est?, KlezSka, and others. Jake Shulman-Ment (violin) is proficient in many styles, including klezmer, Rom, Greek, Celtic, classical and jazz. Jake has studied klezmer violin with Alicia Svigals, the violinist from The Klezmatics, since 1997. He has studied classical violin with internationally renowned concert artist Gerald Beal, and currently studies with acclaimed teacher Joey Corpus. Jake was the founder and musical director of the professional teenage group the Klezminors, as well as co-founder of the Village Klezmer Quintet, and Romashka. Along with his extensive performances in the New York metropolitan area, Jake has traveled throughout Greece collecting and documenting traditional folk music. He currently resides in Manhattan, where he studies at New York University. Joey Weisenberg (mandolinist/guitarist) is a versatile musician who has worked in many different musical settings and genres, including klezmer, swing, blues, flamenco, choro, classical, and contemporary composition. At the age of twelve, he began performing as a harmonica player and guitarist in blues bars in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Besides Romashka, Joey also plays mandolin and guitar in the Village Klezmer Quintet. In addition, he is the musical director for the 12-piece Columbia Klezmer Band, of Columbia University, where he is completing his B.A. with a major in music. Joey is also a talented accompanist, backing up Lithuanian singer Marija Krupoves, as well as his father, flamenco guitarist Bob Weisenberg. He has studied and learned from teachers such as Barry Mitterhoff, Andy Statman, Mike Rupsch, Jeff Warschauer, and Howard Alden. Joey enjoys teaching Jewish music at the Tikvah Program, a Hebrew school for developmentally disabled children, as well as teaching private lessons on the guitar and mandolin to students of all ages.

 

Inna Barmash sings Yiddish

Photos from L to R: #1. Inna Barmash (CLICK ON PHOTO TO HEAR INNA).

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Romashka: You won’t be able to sit still once Romashka starts playing their wildly infectious gypsy dance party music. Come experience the raw musical energy of this band as they bring their blend of gypsy, klezmer, Balkan, jazz, funk, ska and rock to the Upper West Side. Romashka will transport you to Eastern Europe for an evening of ethnic tunes that anyone can groove to...Read the full article

Warm-up party: Friday, August 19th. The Willi B* Warm Up Party! Friday August 19th @ Miss Williamsburg, 206 Kent St. (Metropolitan & S. 2nd St.)  $5 cover - drink specials.  Ertal Dawg (a.k.a. Amon et al.) • Live Dub and Breaks w/ Middle Eastern and West African influence. w/ Special Guests:  Mona Lili Kayhan & and Zaid Shukri . Jugoe (Bastard Jazz)   • Funky Breaks, and broken beatz,  Distinctive Dub-Blz (J-Biggz, Dwight G, & Carsone) • House music for the soul  DRM • Dub, Roots Reggae & Dancehall.  

August 27th, Saturday - 9 pm - Mehanata, Bulgarian Bar,  8:45 pm - 10:15 pm.  The Romashka set & stay for the after-hours party with DJ Joro-Boro! At  416 Broadway, at Canal street (a couple of doors South of Canal st, on the East side of the Broadway) Subway: J, M, Z, N, Q, R, W, 6 to Canal St. ...prep your gut for some harsh Bulgarian rakiya (brandy) and head downtown for some wild gypsy music ruckus!!!

September 3rd, at 11:30 pm. At long last: Reverend Glasseye - At  Galapagos, North 6th St, Williamsburg Brooklyn (L Train to Bedford, short walk from there).

September 16th , at 6:30 pm. Solar Festival at Stuyvesant Cove Park - Stuyvesant Cove Park is located along the East River between 18th and 23rd Streets.
CONTACT:
Inna Barmash ibarmash@gmail.com

 

KLEZMER FESTIVAL REVIVING JEWISH TRADITIONS IN UKRAINE

NEW YORK- The sixth annual International Klezmer Festival, popularly known as "Klezfest," and the largest to date, will be held from August 21 to 26 in Kiev, Ukraine. The festival is being organized by the Center for Jewish Education and sponsored by the Jewish Community Development Fund of American Jewish World Service (JCDF), UJA-Federation of New York and other local sponsors. Organizers are calling this year's Klezfest the largest and most diverse in the festival's six-year history of revitalizing Jewish life in the region by reviving Jewish culture and traditions. This year's collection of performances, lectures and master classes will feature a variety of klezmer styles from the traditional to the avant-garde, with 64 performers and teachers from 13 countries ranging in age from 9 to 85. Its high point will be a gala concert at Kiev's "Dom Khudozhnika" hall on August 25.m "In