Mon, Jan 27

12:15 – 1:15 PM

Gallery Tour

Edith Halpert and the Rise of American Art

45-minute tour of the exhibition Edith Halpert and the Rise of American Art.

Tour

2 – 4:30 PM

Performance

A Shayna Maidel

On International Holocaust Remembrance Day, join us for a special performative reading of A Shayna Maidel, Barbara Lebow’s moving 1984 play about two Jewish, Polish-born sisters who reunite after WWII after being separated as children.

Performances

2:15 – 3:15 PM

Gallery Tour

Scenes from the Collection

45-minute tour of the exhibition Scenes from the Collection

Tour

3:15 – 4:15 PM

Gallery Tour

Rachel Feinstein: Maiden, Mother, Crone

45-minute tour of the exhibition Rachel Feinstein: Maiden, Mother, Crone.

Tour

3:15 – 5 PM

The Garden of the Finzi-Continis

New York Jewish Film Festival

Presented for its 50th anniversary, this classic, Oscar-winning Italian drama is set amid the rise of Fascism in the 1930s. The wealthy, intellectual Finzi-Contini family’s estate serves as a gathering place for the local Jewish community that tries to remain sheltered from the country’s growing anti-Semitism.

Film

6 – 7:45 PM

Dolce Fine Giornata

New York Jewish Film Festival

After a terrorist attack in Rome leads to anti-immigrant hysteria, a freethinking Jewish Nobel Prize–winner living in Tuscany boldly speaks out against the European perspective, and her comments wreak unexpected havoc.

Film

9 – 11:15 PM

An Impossible Love

New York Jewish Film Festival

A young office clerk meets a charismatic man from a bourgeois family, and amid their whirlwind romance a daughter is born. Over the next 50 years, mother and daughter attempt to preserve their love, despite an absent and abusive father.

Film