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. Days later, the Vice Squad of the…
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 challenges and cultural changes….
Burning Words: A History Play by Peter Wortsman will be presented at the Center for Jewish History on April 3rd: 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 to burn Jewish books. Magda Teter (Fordham University)…
Tuesday, February 23rd, Free, Reservation required: http://cjh.org/event/2766 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. This talk will…