Public
Programs
Sunday,
January 25, 2:00-4:00 PM Recital Hall, Performing
Arts Center Panel Discussion. Dr. Stephen Feinstein, Acting Director, Center
for Holocaust and Genocide Studies, University of Minnesota and guest curator
of the exhibition Witness and Legacy: Contemporary Art About the Holocaust. Panelists:
Exhibiting artists Susan Erony, Kitty Klaidman, Gabrielle Rossmer and Debbie Teicholz
and Judaic Studies Department members Dr. Judith Baskin (department chair) and
Dr. Mark Raider. Sunday, January 25, 4:00-7:00 PM
University Art Museum Opening Reception for
the exhibits. The reception is co-sponsored by the United Jewish Federation of
Northeastern New York and the University Auxiliary Services at Albany. Witness
& Legacy: Contemporary Art About the Holocaust (Main Gallery) Resistance
and Rescue: Denmarks Response to the Holocaust (West Gallery) Sunday,
February 1, 3:00 PM Recital Hall, Performing Arts
Center Concert: Entartete Musik (Degenerate Music). New York Citys acclaimed
North/South Consonance Ensemble performs music inspired by the Holocaust including
Olivier Messiaens Quartet for the End of Times and Max Lifchitzs Of
Bondage and Freedom. Tuesday, February 3, 4:00 PM
Recital Hall, Performing Arts Center Dialogue: George Segal, noted American
artist and photographer Judy Ellis Glickman. Ms. Glickmans exhibition, Resistance
and Rescue: Denmarks Response to the Holocaust is on view in the museums
West Gallery. Additional Participants: Dr. Judith Goldstein and Dr. Roberta Bernstein
(Chair, Art Department). Dr. Bernstein will give a brief overview of the work
of George Segal before the panel discussion. Tuesday,
February 24, 7:30 PM (Snow date: Thursday, February
26) Lecture Center #24, University at Albany Lecture: Max Knowler, Living
with the Memory of the Holocaust. Max Knowler discusses how he comes to terms
with the memory of surviving the Holocaust and staying one step ahead of the Germans.
Included will be topics of Righteous Gentiles and Resistance. Sponsored by
RZA/TAGAR. The lecture is a U/A Student Association (SA) funded event. Sunday,
March 1, Noon 4:00 PM Recital Hall, Performing Arts Center Film: Architecture of Doom
followed by a dialogue between Susan Erony (exhibiting artist and visiting faculty)
and U/A Anthropology Department faculty member Dr. Walter Zenner, author of Minorities
in the Middle: A Cross-Cultural Analysis, SUNY Press (1991) and co-editor of Jews
Among Muslims, New York University Press (1996). Refreshments will be served. Thursday,
March 5, 4:00 PM Recital Hall, Performing Arts Center
Visiting Second Generation Holocaust Writers and Critic. Professor Alan L.
Berger, one of the leading critics on Holocaust literature, in a dialogue with
Julie Salamon, Melvin Bukiet and Thane Rosenbaum, who are leading Second Generation
Holocaust writers.SUNY Press will exhibit books on the subject of the Holocaust
outside the Recital Hall on March 5. Thursday, March
5, 8:00 PM Recital Hall, Performing Arts Center
Introductions by Professor Alan L. Berger, Second Generation Holocaust authority.
Readings: Julie Salamon, Melvin Bukiet and Thane Rosenbaum, Second Generation
Holocaust writers. Events of March 5th are sponsored by the New York State
Writers Institute in conjunction with the English Department and Professor Sarah
Blacher Cohen. Sunday, March 8, 2:00 PM
Recital Hall, Performing Arts Center Concert: The Music of Mourning and Remembrance.
Violinist Yoseph Yankelev and Cantor Sandra Sherry Pilatsky. March 8th
program sponsored by the Yiddish and Jewish American Cultural Fund, University
at Albany and organized by Professor Sarah Blacher Cohen. |