The cast of a Purim play staged by the Sephardic Community in New York
Check out Summer Sundays this weekend at the Center.
Source: Yeshiva University Museum, 1936, link
Das Narrenschneiden (Fool Surgery)
This intriguing Purim play was put on in Berlin in 1938. You don’t have to travel nearly as far to get a fun and child-friendly performance, however, thanks to the Summer Sundays Series at the Center.
This weekend at 11:30 am, join Jacob Stein and The Bakery Band Puppets for a hilarious journey through traditional and contemporary Jewish…
Take a class at the Center!
We are proud to announce the first in a series of courses presented in a partnership between the Center for Jewish History and the Brooklyn Institute for Social Research, as part of a shared mission to promote open, rigorous and critical academic study for the general public.
Spinoza and Mendelssohn: Politics of the Sacred and Profane
Wednesdays, beginning…
Refuseniks (отказники)
by Anna Khomina, Research and Special Projects Intern, Center for Jewish History
The refuseniks were Soviet Jews who sought and were denied permission to emigrate out of the USSR in the ‘60s and ’70s, and who organized protests (such as the ones pictured above) to call attention to their plight. Jews in the Soviet Union were systematically discriminated against…