Cultural Program in December 2013

Program accompanying the special exhibition "A Time for Everything. Rituals Against Forgetting"

3 December

"Christmas and other Stories and Methods of Recording Time / Calendars"

Talk by Rabbi Daniel Katz

Christmas and Hanukkah have neither anything essential nor theological in common. Christians celebrate the consecration of a time (the birth of Jesus) and the Jews the consecration of a place (the Temple). Rabbi Daniel Katz talks about consecrated days and consecrated people, about the ritual processes of festivals and how they have changed over time. He wonders how it would be if Christians celebrated Yom Kippur and if the birthday of other "celebrities" established our era – and turns time and again and not least back to the central question of what religion has in common with football.

Location: Old Building, ground floor, Auditorium

Time: 7 pm

Admission: free

Academy Programs of Migration and Diversity of the Jewish Museum Berlin

5 December and 6 December

"Social Exclusion and Politics of Anti-Discrimination and Minority Empowerment in Europe and the U.S."

Conference in English

The aim of the two-day conference is the exchange of best practice on a transatlantic level. The conference will examine the implications of anti-discrimination policies and potential inclusion policies with a focus on the agency and empowerment of racial, ethnic, and religious minorities.

In cooperation with the Heinrich Böll Stiftung and the British Council.

Location: Academy Hall

Admission: The workshops are not public and address an expert audience.

5 December

Talk in English with German translation

"The Challenge of Interpreting Race in American Museums", Lonnie Bunch, Director, National Museum of African American History and Culture, Washington D.C.

In his talk, founding director of the National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington D.C., Professor Lonnie Bunch, considers how an appropriate depiction of Black History in the U.S. museum landscape might look. A subsequent panel discussion explores the challenges of representing minorities in cultural institutions from the American and the German perspective.

Chair: Mekonnen Mesghena, Heinrich Böll Foundation.

Discussion with Cilly Kugelmann, Program Director, Jewish Museum Berlin, and Philippa Ebené, Director Werkstatt der Kulturen, Berlin.

This evening event is part of the conference "Social Exclusion and Politics of Anti-Discrimination and Minority Empowerment in Europe and the United States", which is a cooperation with the Heinrich Böll Foundation and the British Council.

Location: Academy Hall

Time: 7.30 pm

Admission: free

6 December

Panel Discussion in English

"Coalition Building for an Inclusive Society"

What active role do minority organizations play in the fight against discrimination and social exclusion? How can these organizations be reinforced in their work? American, British, and German representatives of NGOs from the field of anti-discrimination work will discuss their experiences of co-operating with other minority communities and the conditions necessary for successful social coalitions.

Discussants:

Hazeen Ashby
National Urban League, Washington, D.C.

Julian Teixeira
National Council of La Raza, Washington, D.C.

Nazak Ramadan
Migrant Voice, London

Lydia Nofal
Network against Discrimination of Muslims, Berlin.

Chair:

Bilgin Ayata
Freie Universität Berlin.

This evening event is part of the conference "Social Exclusion and Politics of Anti-Discrimination and Minority Empowerment in Europe and the United States", which is a cooperation with the Heinrich Böll Foundation and the British Council

Location: Academy Hall

Time: 6 pm

Admission: free

Film

10 December

"Shadows in Paradise. Hitler’s Exiles in Hollywood"

Film Showing and Award Ceremony

The film has been awarded the German Record Critics’ Prize, which will be presented after the showing. The production tells the story of German and Austrian composers and literati, among them Hans Eisler, Arnold Schoenberg, Kurt Weill, Bertolt Brecht, Lion Feuchtwanger, and Thomas Mann. Having fled the Nazi regime, they all end up in Los Angeles. The film mixes black and white documents from the 40s with colored sequences from the present. Schoenberg’s "Fantasy for Violin and Piano" or Eisler’s Quintet "Fourteen Ways of Describing Rain" provide rich counterpoints to the screened images.

Location: Old Building, second level, Great Hall

Time: 5 pm

Admission: free

Online Project

Until 31 December 2013

"1933. The Beginning of the End of German Jewry"

How did the disenfranchisement and persecution begin? Until the end of the year at our online project, you will find historical documents that bear witness to what German Jews experienced day after day.

http://www.jmberlin.de/1933/en