From our friends at the Museum of the City of New York.
“From God of Vengeance to Indecent”
Tuesday, April 19 at 7:00 pm at the Museum of the City of New York
On
February 19, 1923, theatergoers witnessed Broadway’s first lesbian kiss at the
English-language premiere of the God of Vengeance, a play by the
Polish-born, Yiddish writer Sholem Asch….
The People and the Book – The World We Make with Words
April 5th, 2016 6:00 PM
Lecture
Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks,
a global religious leader, philosopher and bestselling author, will
explore how words and texts have powerfully shaped 4,000 years of Jewish
history and how Jews have gone about interpreting, treasuring, and
adding to texts through times of political…
In one of the first debates of the
print era, Johannes Reuchlin, a humanist Christian jurist, clashed with
Christian convert from Judaism Johannes Pfefferkorn, who was a willing tool of
the Dominican Order in their quest…
Burning Words is an exploration of the 16th-century debate carried out through the relatively new medium of printed books over whether Jewish books should be confiscated and burned. Extremely rare original volumes from the Leo Baeck Institute library including works by Martin Luther, Johannes Pfefferkorn and Johannes Reuchlin are the center of the exhibit….