Events in March 2012
Press Invitation
Press Release, Wed 22 Feb 2012
We cordially invite you to these cultural events in March:
Program Accompanying the Special Exhibition "Berlin Transit"
Museum – Science – Family Memory. Perspectives of an Unknown History of Migration
Symposium
To mark the opening of the exhibition "Berlin Transit. Jewish Migrants from Eastern Europe in the 1920s" (23 March to 15 July 2012), a one-day symposium will explore selected themes from the exhibition and the interaction between museum work, academic research, and family memories. The symposium – based on the most recent research – spans an arc between migrants’ experiences of violence and the pogrom during the Russian Civil War through Berlin’s significance as a unique meeting and contact place between East and West, to memories of Berlin as the Eastern Jewish migration center to USA and Israel.
A symposium organized by the research project "Charlottengrad and Scheunenviertel. Eastern European Jewish Migrants in Berlin of the 1920/30s" at the Free University of Berlin in cooperation with the Jewish Museum Berlin
When: 24 March 2012, 9 am to 5.30 pm
Where: Old Building, second level, Great Hall
Admission: free
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"A Capella Musicians"
Concert by Jascha Nemtsov and Tehila Nini Goldstein
To conclude the symposium, the pianist Jascha Nemtsov and the singer Tehila Nini Goldstein invite you to discover a largely unknown facet of the 1920s’ Berlin music scene. They will perform works by Russian-Jewish composers promoted by Berlin’s Jewish music publisher "Jibneh." The historical template for the concert is that of "New Hebrew Music" organized by "Jibneh" with pieces by Joseph Achron, Moshe Milner, Michail Gnesin, and Alexander Krein held in Berlin’s Beethoven Hall on 1 November 1923.
When: 24 March 2012, 7.30 pm
Where: Old Building, second level, Great Hall
Admission: 8 €, reduced rate 5 €. Ticket bookings (for non-journalists) on tel. +49 (0)30 25993 488 or reservierung@jmberlin.de
Cultural Program
"Welchen der Steine du hebst" (Which of the stones you lift)
Cinematic Commemorations of the Holocaust
Book Presentation with the Editors Claudia Bruns, Asal Dardan, and Anette Dietrich
Public commemoration of the Holocaust occurs through film media more today than ever before. The anthology "Which of the stones you lift" deals extensively with cinematic commemorations of the Holocaust from the beginnings to the present day. The contributions are concerned with examples of film that throw a critical light on iconographic patterns, that include commemorative politics, and that raise questions about the possibilities and limits of commemoration: How has the cinematic commemoration of persecution and Nazi mass murders changed in the course of over 60 years? Alongside European Jews, the anthology also considers other victim groups such as Sinti and Roma (gypsy groups), blacks, and homosexuals.
Introduction by the cultural scientist Thomas Macho on the representation of violence. Including film clips, analyses, and concluded by a reception.
The project was sponsored by the Remembrance, Responsibility, and Future Foundation.
When: 5 March 2012, 7.30 pm
Where: Old Building, ground level, Auditorium
Admission: free
Zeruya Shalev: "Für den Rest des Lebens" (For the rest of our lives)
Book Presentation with the Author and the Actress Maria Schrader
The bestseller author Zeruya Shalev tells in her new novel of our fateful connection to place, time, and above all the family into which we are born. The greater the centrifugal forces of anger, disappointment and grief, the more we are drawn to them. The novel’s protagonist hopes to adopt a child and start anew. But her dream threatens to blast exactly what it is supposed to save – her family.
In cooperation with the Literaturhandlung.
When: 19 March 2012, 7.30 pm
Where: Old Building, second level, Great Hall
Cost: 9 €, reduced rate 7 euros
Ticket reservation (for non-journalists) at the Literaturhandlung on tel. +49 (0)30 8824 250
