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: Denmark’s Response to the Holocaust (West Gallery)

Sunday, February 1, 3:00 PM
Recital Hall, Performing Arts Center
Concert: Entartete Musik (Degenerate Music). New York City’s acclaimed North/South Consonance Ensemble performs music inspired by the Holocaust including Olivier Messiaen’s Quartet for the End of Times and Max Lifchitz’s 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. Glickman’s exhibition, Resistance and Rescue: Denmark’s Response to the Holocaust is on view in the museum’s 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.


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