Past Events 2014-2015
"Inventing Odessa: Jewish Culture on the Edge of the Russian Empire"
Presented by Prof. Olga Litvak, Clark University
The Toby and Herbert Stolzer Endowed Lecture
Cosponsored by the Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum
A Collaborative Project Sponsored by the Mason Gross School of the Arts, the School of Arts and Sciences, the Center for European Studies, the Bildner Center for the Study of Jewish Life, the Department of Jewish Studies, the Department of Music, the Department of History, and the Department of German, Russian, and East European Languages and Literatures.
This international symposium will present a new, broad overview of Sara Levy (1761–1854), a Jewish salonnière, patron, and performing musician who shaped the cultural ideals of her time. Levy overcame obstacles of religion and gender to transform Berlin’s artistic landscape, acting as a catalyst for the “Bach revival” of the 19th century. The symposium will include a salon-style recital, choral performance, and reading of an Enlightenment play as well as three academic sessions devoted to gender, early modern Prussian history, Jewish history, musicology, and aesthetics.
Monday, September 29, 2014; 7:30 pm
"In Sara Levy’s Salon"
Nicholas Music Center, 85 George Street, New Brunswick
A concert featuring music owned and played by Sara Levy, including works by J.S. Bach, C.P.E. Bach, W.F. Bach, J.N. Forkel, Frederick the Great, and their contemporaries. Entertaining and informative commentary will be offered by Christoph Wolff (Harvard University).
Rebecca Cypess, harpsichord and fortepiano; Steven Zohn, transverse flute; Frederick Urrey, tenor; Yi-heng Yang, fortepiano; Dongmyung Ahn, viola.
Open reception following the concert.
Tuesday, September 30, 2014; 8:30 AM - 5:00 pm
Wednesday, December 10, 2014 at 7:30 p.m.
Dianne Ashton, Rowan University
Douglass Campus Center, 100 George Street, New Brunswick
Supported in part by the Sagner Family Foundation
Wednesday, October 22, 2014 at 7:00 p.m.Douglass Campus Center, 100 George Street, New Brunswick
The Richard D. Heffner Open Mind Lecture in Communications and Human Values
Jonathan Gribetz, Princeton University
Douglass Campus Center, 100 George Street, New Brunswick
The Ruth and Alvin Rockoff Annual Program
Douglass Student Center, 100 George Street, New Brunswick
Douglass Student Center, 100 George Street, New Brunswick
85 George Street, New Brunswick
Cosponsored with the Department of Jewish Studies