UWM Libraries & co-sponsored by the Stahl Center. 4th Floor ... Talkback with Carl Bogner. September 6 â January 1
F all 2012 “Breath in a Ram’s Horn: The Jewish Spirit in Classical Music” A concert and discussion with composer Daniel Asia Saturday, September 15, 8:30pm
Helene Zelazo Center for the Performing Arts, 2419 E. Kenwood Ave., Milwaukee
exhibition & films
Grete Marks: When Modern Was Degenerate
Special Collections, 4th floor, Golda Meir Library, UWM
Daniel M. Soref Learning Commons, Golda Meir Library, & Hillel Milwaukee
Festival of Films in French
Bringing award-winning cinema to Milwaukee for 16 years!
Saturday & Sunday, February 9 & 10, Union Theatre, UWM Les hommes libres (Free Men): Feb. 9, 9pm • Feb. 10, 7pm
August 15 – November 9
Younes agrees to serve as a spy for the police to avoid prison time for peddling on the black market. But when he enters the mosque where Muslim agents are providing North African Jews with false identification papers, he is inspired by those he meets and becomes a freedom fighter. Talkbacks with Ellen Amster. Moi, petite fille (As a Young Girl of 13): Feb. 9, 7pm • Feb. 10, 5pm In the documentary we meet Simone Lagrange, who was only 13 when her family was involved in the resistance. Her courage saved her life in Auschwitz, and her sharp memory helped bring brutal Nazi war criminal Klaus Barbie to justice years later. Talkbacks with Rachel Baum.
The Klezmaticscoinncert
Films shown on Thursdays, MAM, purchase 6:15pm, Lubar Hall, MAM by exchange. October 4: Eyewitness (1999) Photo: John R. Glembin Academy Award-nominated short film documenting the hidden art and lives of artists in Nazi concentration camps. Talkback with co-producer Marcia Specks and UWM’s Ruth Schwertfeger.
Photo: Chicago Sinai Archives
Sunday, November 4, 6 pm Helen Bader Concert Hall, Helene Zelazo Center for the Performing Arts, UWM Since their emergence more than 25 years ago, the Klezmatics have raised the bar for Eastern European Jewish music and helped change the face of contemporary Yiddish culture. The band has collaborated with such artists as Itzhak Perlman, Tony Kushner, Natalie Merchant, and Chava Alberstein. In addition to the concert, the band will stay an extra day to give a free presentation on composing and performing Jewish music. Tickets: $30; ages 13-18 $15; ages 12 & under $5; free to students with UWM ID
Jewish Artists and the Book
September 1–December 28, organized by the
UWM Libraries & co-sponsored by the Stahl Center 4th Floor Exhibition Gallery of the Golda Meir Library
View materials from the Middle Ages to contemporary times, drawn primarily from Special Collections at the UWM Libraries.
Congregation Beth Israel, 6880 N. Green Bay Ave., Glendale This presentation explores the role of Jews in studio photography in Britain, with a glance at the U.S. In Britain, Jews pioneered commercial practices and new technology. One figure to be discussed, H. W. Barnett, boosted his fortunes in London with well-publicized excursions to St. Louis and Milwaukee, making use of a network of Jews in photography— resulting in new ideas and approaches going back to the Old World. Talkback moderated by Lisa Silverman.
Photo: Lloyd Wolf
Samir El-Youssef, “Writing for Peace” Photo: Judah Passow
Thursday, October 11, 7:30pm
Wednesday, February 20, 7:30pm Congregation Sinai, 8223 N. Port Washington Rd., Fox Point
November 1: The Rape of Europa (2006) Documentary about Nazi Germany’s plundering of Europe’s great works of art, and Allied efforts to minimize the damage. Talkback with Winson Chu.
Michael Berkowitz (University College London) “ Jews and Studio Photography in Britain and Beyond: Between Intimacy and Commercialism”
Tobias Brinkmann (Penn State University) “Queen Isabella’s Statue: Chicago Reform Jews and the 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition”
exhibition
Photo courtesy of George Eastman House, International Museum of Photography & Film
Shiviti Fabric of Prayer: New Works by Barbara Kohl-Spiro
Film Movement
Grete Marks, Teapot, ca. 1930,
December 6: The Train (1964) In 1944, a German colonel loads a train with French art treasures to send to Germany. The Resistance must stop it without damaging the cargo. Talkback with Carl Bogner.
Nahum Ellan Luboshez (American, b. Russia, 1869-1925), Luboshez Family Portrait with Pets, ca. 1912
Barbara Kohl-Spiro “Shiviti: The Journey of an Artist”
Wednesday, November 14, 7pm
Boswell Book Company, 2559 N. Downer Ave., Milwaukee In cases like the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, is it possible to find a middle ground—neither choosing a side nor claiming neutrality—in a new area called the politics of peace? Samir El-Youssef is the author of A Treaty of Love, The Illusion of Return, and Gaza Blues, co-authored with Etgar Keret. Born in a Palestinian refugee camp in Lebanon, he has lived in London since 1990. A contributor to many publications, including The Guardian, the Arabic Al-Hayat, and the Jewish Chronicle, El-Youssef won the 2005 Swedish PEN Tucholsky Award for promoting peace and freedom of speech in the Middle East.
Photo courtesy of Yelena Lembersky
Milwaukee Art Museum
exhibition
Wisconsin artist Barbara KohlSpiro’s gallery talk accompanies an exhibition of her work at two locations on the UWM campus. These large-scale paintings on handmade paper are inspired by traditional fabrics often hung in synagogues as contemplative reminders of God’s presence, and reflecting the spirit of women’s expression in quilts, tapestries, and amulets.
Photo: Steven Meckler
In conjunction with the first American exhibition of the works of German-born ceramic artist Grete Marks, the Stahl Center and MAM present films on the role of art during World War II, followed by talkbacks with UWM faculty.
talk
Tuesday, October 16, 7pm
Composer Daniel Asia, whose work has been performed by orchestras and chamber groups worldwide, leads an interactive concert experience on themes appropriate to the High Holy Days: spirituality, introspection and prayer, and atonement and forgiveness. Music to be performed by UWM’s Chamber Music Milwaukee.
September 6 – January 1, 2013
Winter/Spring 2013
Barbara Kohl-Spiro (American, b.1940) Adoration, mixed media
The 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition symbolized the rebirth of Chicago after the disastrous 1871 fire that had destroyed large parts of the city. Tobias Brinkmann, author of the recent book Sundays at Sinai, will address the involvement of Chicago’s established Jewish community in the exposition, and explore questions of Jewish-Christian relations, aesthetic debates, and Reform Judaism’s treatment of women.
exhibition & Panel
Felix Lembersky: Soviet Forms, Jewish Context Thursday, March 14 – June 16
with 7pm Gallery Talk on March 14 Jewish Museum Milwaukee, 1360 N. Prospect Ave. Free with admission to the museum
The art of Felix Lembersky (1913-1970) grew out of the Soviet avant-garde and Socialist Realism movements, but subtly explored Jewish themes.
Accompanying this exhibit of some 30 of his paintings of people and places, a panel of scholars on the exhibit’s opening night will help illuminate the painter’s life and times: Joel Berkowitz, exhibit cocurator; Christine Evans (UWM), historian of Soviet popular culture; and Yelena Lembersky, the painter’s granddaughter and curator of his work.
Felix Lembersky (1913-1970) Building after Gun Fire, Leningrad, 1959
Jill Dolan (Princeton) “What Makes a Jewish Theatre Artist? Gesture, Voice, and Ethics in American Performance” (Faye Sigman “Woman of Valor” Lecture)
Thursday, May 9, 7:30pm
Golda Meir Library Conference Center, UWM This talk ruminates on the characteristics that make a Jewish theatre artist remarkable in contemporary America. Many theatre artists identify as Jewish in some way, but what are the qualities by which we characterize someone as a “Jewish” playwright, performer, or performance artist?
A scene from the HBO miniseries Angels in America, adapted from Tony Kushner’s play
Photo courtesy of Home Box Office
Admission to all events is free unless otherwise indicated.
College of Letters & Science
The series coincides with the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee’s Year of the Arts, which is a celebration of Milwaukee’s vibrant arts scene enriched by the UWM’s Peck School of the Arts and other partners.
Fall 2012 Winter/Spring 2013
the 2012 - 2013 academic year.
Sam & Helen Stahl Center for Jewish Studies P.O. Box 413 Milwaukee, WI 53201-0413
series with a focus on the arts for
Roots & Restlessness
continues its successful “Roots and Restlessness”
Design: Susan Duehl, www.dualitycmyk.com
The Sam and Helen Stahl Center for Jewish Studies
Roots & Restlessness
Legacy Heritage Jewish Studies Project
This series of programs was made possible by the Legacy Heritage Jewish Studies Project, directed by the Association for Jewish Studies (AJS).
Support for the Legacy Heritage Jewish Studies Project is generously provided by the Legacy Heritage Fund Limited.
All events in the series are co-sponsored by UWM’s College of Letters & Science, Comparative Ethnic Studies Program, Cultures and Communities Program, Department of History, and the Peck School of the Arts, as well as the Coalition for Jewish Learning and Hillel Milwaukee.
For further details and updates, visit the Stahl Center website,
www.uwm.edu/cjs
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