Yeshiva University Museum and Center for Jewish History present:
Sunday, April 11 at 2:00pm Blessed is the Match
Film Narrated by Joan Allen, this is the first documentary feature about Hannah Senesh, the World War II-era poet and diarist who became a paratrooper, resistance fighter and modern-day Joan of Arc. Blessed is the Match retraces the perilous mission of Hannah and 31 other Jewish-Palestinian parachutists and looks back on the life of a uniquely talented and complex girl who came of age in a world descending into madness. 2008, 85 minutes.
Center for Jewish History, 15 West 16th Street, between 5th and 6th Avenues, New York, New York 10011
Free with Museum admission, RSVP to programs@yum.cjh.org or 212-294-8330 x. 8816.
From israelfm.org: Onili burst onto the local scene in 2006 having returned from a prolonged exile in Paris, set up her studio somewhere in the Carmel Mountains, and just started shooting everywhere. Throughout the next 2 years she not only collaborated with Israel’s top urban & underground talents, but burnt Tel-Aviv’s hottest stages and venues with her pink-pink-assed-out show, steadily building a fanbase verging on cult following. Her Paris years, whilst alluding to a past somewhat shady, have also included Film Studies at the
Sorbonne, and lending her vocal arrangement and performance skills for ‘Superman Lovers’ 2001 summer-smash hit, Starlight.
Straight from the stages of SXSW she’s stopping in NYC for 3 shows:
March 27, 7:00pm @ Littlefield, 622 Degraw Street between 3rd and 4th Avenue in the Gowanus.
Also March 24, 4:00pm @ Best Buy – Union Square & March 25, 12:00am @ Nublu
NEW YORK, NY.- Sotheby’s will offer a unique grouping of works by the ‘Society of Independent Artists,’ or ‘Odessan Parisians,’ as one critic called them—an avant-garde group of Ukrainian artists who painted in the early years of the twentieth century. Eighty-six works will be offered as a single lot in the Russian Art auction on 22 April 2010 in New York. The collection was compiled by Yakov Pereman, a patron of the arts in Southern Ukraine (then Russia) who moved to Palestine in 1919, taking his art with him. After a series highly publicized exhibitions in the 1920s and a memorial exhibition in 1960-61, the collection was not seen again in public for over 40 years, when select works were exhibited at the Tel Aviv Museum of Art in 2002. The paintings have not been seen in Ukraine since Pereman left. The collection is estimated to fetch $1.5/2 million. read more
Франция. В мировой прокат вышла французская картина La Rafle («Ограбление»), посвященная событиям Второй мировой мировой войны и Холокосту. В статье также говорится: “…Долгое время высылка и уничтожение французских евреев не являлись предметом общественной дискуссии в стране. Считалось, что вся Франция пострадала в годы войны одинаково, и нет необходимости специально выделять еврейских жертв. До недавнего времени, посетив мемориал двумстам тысячам жертв нацистской оккупации во Франции, открытый в 60-х годах, невозможно было узнать, что большинство жертв — евреи. Лишь несколько лет назад у входа в мемориал была установлена табличка, сообщающая, что более половины жертв были евреями. Для Франции, как для страны с давними секулярными традициями, было нелегко признать, что люди преследовались на основании этнической принадлежности, сексуальной ориентации или политических взглядов, а от оккупации не все слои населения пострадали в равной степени.
Недавно неподалеку от мемориала жертв оккупации был построен музей Холокоста. Там собран крупнейший в Европе архив документов той эпохи. Во внутреннем дворе вывешены табличками с именами 76 тысяч французских евреев — жертв Катастрофы. Улица неподалеку переименована в Аллею Праведников — в память о французах, несмотря ни на что, спасавших евреев….”
Pop song with many Jewish words, I don’t know what some of them mean, but I figure you might
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