Events in May 2011
Press Invitation
Press Release, Wed 20 Apr 2011
We cordially invite you to these cultural events in May:
Program Surrounding the Special Exhibition "Radical Jewish Culture"
New Voices in Jewish Music
A Series of Concerts Curated by Greg Cohen
New Voices: Mycale Meets Bester!
Compositions and Interpretations
The Bester Quartet (Krakow), one of the strongest voices of Jewish music in Europe, presents high-caliber improvisation coupled with rousing compositions and transcriptions of traditional melodies. Led by Jarosław Bester, this band is renowned for its passionate performances.
Mycale (New York) unites four of the world’s most creative female voices. The singers meet here in the intimate framework of interpreting a capella John Zorn’s "Book of Angels" featuring texts in Hebrew, Yiddish, Ladino, French, and Arabic from works by Rumi, Fernando Pessoa, and the Hebrew Bible among others.
Bester Quartet: Jarosław Bester (accordion) / Jarosław Tyrała (violin) / Oleg Dyyak (accordion, clarinet, percussion), Maciej Adamczak (double bass)
Mycale: Basya Schechter, Ayelet Rose Gottlieb, Malika Zarra, Sofia Rei
When: 4 May 2011, 8 pm
Where: Glass Courtyard, ground level
Admission: 15 €, 10 € reduced rate. Ticket reservation (for non-journalists) on tel. +49 (0)30 25993 488 or reservierung@jmberlin.de
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Monday Movies
Sabbath in Paradise
Documentary about the Radical Jewish Culture scene by Claudia Heuermann (US 1998, 85 min, English original version)
When: 23 May 2011, 7.30 pm
Where: Old Building, ground level, Auditorium
Admission: free with seat ticket only (available at the cash desk). Ticket reservation (for non-journalists) on tel. +49 (0)30 25993 488 or reservierung@jmberlin.de
Cultural Program
Jews in Germany – Germany in Jews
Book Presentation with the Editors Y. Michal Bodemann and Micha Brumlik
The book unfolds a panorama of Jewish life in Germany at the beginning of the 21st century. The multitude of voices – both journalistic and belletristic – reveal a profound shift in Jewish life in Germany since the end of the Cold War. It is no longer about traditional German Jewry, nor about the plight of a community consisting mainly of survivors. Now it is about immigrants primarily from the Soviet Union and their children who are shaping a new Jewish community. The colorful, almost confusing diversity is presented by the editors and a row of the volume’s renowned authors in a reading and discussion.
When: 9 May 2011, 7.30 pm
Where: Old Building, second level, Great Hall
Admission: free
Sayed Kashua: "Zweite Person Singular" (Second person singular)
Book Presentation with the Author and the Actor Burghart Klaußner
In his new novel, the Israeli author Sayed Kashua tells the skilfully woven story of two Arab Israelis whose burning desire is to be part of Jewish Israel. They do everything in their power to lose not only their foreignness, but also their Arab culture which they see as backward. They seek their salvation in the promises of pop culture and Western individualism that make everything seem possible. But it is this that dooms them to failure.
In cooperation with the Literaturhandlung.
When: 16 May 2011, 7.30 pm
Where: Old Building, ground level, Auditorium
Admission: 9 €, reduced rate 7 €. Ticket reservation (for non-journalists) at the Literaturhandlung on tel. +49 (0)30 8824 250
Not just Education, not just Citizens: Jews in Pop Culture
Conference
The link between Jews and pop culture has so far received little attention in German-speaking countries. Research has focused on middle-class Jews and has thus not facilitated an exploration of mass and pop-cultural forms of expression. This international conference "Jews in Pop Culture" aims to capture attention for this topic. Cultural scientists will provide insights into their work on various aspects of pop culture in Jewish contexts – film, literature, music, and theater.
In cooperation with the Academic Consortium of the Leo Baeck Institute, the Center for Jewish Studies, Graz, and the Institute for German-Jewish History, Hamburg.
When: 29 and 30 May 2011, 10 am to 6 pm
Where: Old Building, second level, Great Hall
Admission: free
Stefan Meining: Eine Moschee in Deutschland (A mosque in Germany)
Book Presentation with the Author
The editor Stefan Meining researched an incredible story: Veteran Nazi bureaucrats, expelled functionaries, secret agents, and other Cold War warriors prop up the nucleus of political Islam in the West in Munich of the 1950s. Muslims who fought with the Nazis against the Soviet Union in WWII are now to cause unrest in the Islamic Soviet republics. But the Munich Muslims do not have the Cold War in mind. They become the most important branch of the Muslim brotherhood in the West and the control center of a global network. The Islamic world is long since aware of the significance of the mosque in Munich. Stefan Meining introduces the topic with US-Army film footage.
In cooperation with the Literaturhandlung.
When: 30 May 2011, 7.30 pm
Where: Old Building, ground level, Auditorium
Admission: 9 €, reduced rate 7 €. Ticket reservation (for non-journalists) at the Literaturhandlung on tel. +49 (0)30 8824 250
