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Windows of Understanding 2019

Windows of Understanding: We See Through HATE  2019 Bildner Center’s Windows Starbucks - 391 George Street, New Brunswick  American Hungarian Foundation - 300 Somerset Street, New Brunswick Artwork on left by Rachel Asarnow (Starbucks)Artwork on right by Amee Pollack (American Hungarian Foundation)  A public art project that ran all of February 2019 on more than 40 storefronts in New Brunswick and Highland Park rooted in social justice. Artists paired with non-profit organizations interpret the question "How do we see through hate?" and transform local businesses into windows of understanding. #WeSeeThroughHatePresented by the New Brunswick Community Arts Council, Rutgers' Mason Gross School of the Arts, and the Highland Park Arts Commission. www.windowsofunderstanding.org Read an article about this public art project in the New Jersey Jewish News. Click here.

Upcoming Fall 2010 Events

• • • Save the dates • • • Rutgers New Jersey Jewish Film Festival November 3 - 14, 2010 More on the Film Festival When We Were Partners: The Historical Foundations of Israel – Iran RelationsOctober 10, 2010, 7:30 pm See Fall 2010 Public Events

Shimon Attie

Born in Los Angeles in 1957, Shimon Attie is an internationally renowned visual artist. Attie’s artistic practice includes creating immersive multiple channel hd video installations for museums and galleries, photographs, large and small-scale site-specific installations in public places, and new media works. For two decades, Attie has made art that allows us to reflect on the relationship between place, memory and identity. In many of his projects, he engages local communities in finding new ways of representing their history, memory, and potential futures, and explores how contemporary media may be used to re-imagine new relationships between space, time, place and identity. He is particularly concerned with issues of loss, communal trauma and the potential for regeneration. In earlier works, Attie has used contemporary media to re-animate architectural and public sites with images of their lost histories, and how histories of marginalized and forgotten communities may be visually introduced into the physical landscape of the present. These works ranged from on-location slide projections in Berlin’s former Jewish quarter, to underwater light boxes in Copenhagen’s Borsgraven Canal, to sophisticated laser projections illuminating the immigrant experience on tenement buildings on New York’s Lower East Side, Attie has described these works, in part, as “a kind of peeling back of the wallpaper of today to reveal the histories buried underneath.” In more recent years, Attie has created a number of multiple-channel immersive HD video installations. These have included a commission by the BBC and the Arts Council of Wales to create a 5-channel video installation on the occasion of the 40 year anniversary since the Aberfan disaster, when the village became ‘famous’ after having lost nearly all of its children in a manmade avalanche that buried Aberan’s only elementary school. Attie also created Racing Clocks Run Slow: Archaeology of a Racetrack, a piece inspired by the former Bridgehampton Auto Racetrack in Bridgehampton, Long Island. He has also recently completed a commission from San Francisco’s de Young Museum to create a new work of art. The result was a 3-channel video installation, Sightings: The Ecology of an Art Museum, which deals with the heightened moment of mutual encounter between art viewer and art object. Attie is currently working on MetroPAL.IS., an 8-channel video installation in-the-round for the Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum that involves members of the Israeli and Palestinian communities living in New York City. MetroPAL.IS will be on view from Jan. 30-May 30, 2011. Attie’s work has been shown in group and solo exhibitions in museums and galleries around the world, including at The Museum of Modern Art, New York; the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.; Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris; and The Miami Art Museum, among many others. A mid-career retrospective was organized by Boston’s Institute of Contemporary Art. Four books have been been published on Shimon Attie’s work: The Attraction of Onlookers: Aberfan – An Anatomy of a Welsh Village; The Writing on the Wall: Projections in Berlin’s Jewish Quarter; Sites Unseen: Shimon Attie’s European Projectsj; and The History of Another. In addition, several films have been made on Attie’s work, and have aired on PBS, the BBC, and ARD. Mr. Attie has received 9 yearlong visual artist fellowships, including from the John S. Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, the American Academy in Rome (The Rome Prize), The National Endowment for the Arts, The Pollock-Krasner Foundation, The Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University, and Kunstfonds (Germany’s NEA equivalent). Shimon Attie received his MFA degree in 1991. Since that time, Attie has received more than 20 commissions to create new works of art in more than ten countries around the world. Attie recently won a competition and commission from the city of San Francisco, and its Arts Commission, to create a large scale artwork that memorializes San Francisco Police Officers who have fallen in the line of duty.

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Rutgers Jewish Film Festival/Bildner Center Rutgers University 12 College Avenue New Brunswick, NJ 08901 This policy covers Rutgers Jewish Film Festival/Bildner Center treatment of personally identifiable information that Rutgers Jewish Film Festival collects when you are on the Rutgers Jewish Film Festival/Bildner Center web site (http://bildnercenter.rutgers.edu). Information Collection and Use Rutgers Jewish Film Festival/Bildner Center collects personally identifiable information including name, address, email address, phone number, ticket type, and event information when you register for an account or purchase products or services. Rutgers Jewish Film Festival/Bildner Center uses the above collected information for general purposes such as allowing you to add film tickets to your shopping cart and ensuring that the site continues to operate properly with commonly used operating systems and browsers. The Bildner Center also uses this information to send you information from Rutgers Jewish Film Festival and the Bildner Center. If you choose to visit sites of other parties by clicking on the links we provide, this policy does not cover the treatment of personally identifiable information that may be collected by those web sites ("Third-Party Sites"). The Rutgers Jewish Film Festival/Bildner Center site has security measures in place to protect the information under our control. We use secure socket layer (SSL) technology to protect the security of commerce transactions. We encrypt your personal and financial information as it travels over the Internet. For the protection of our consumers, we do not store any credit card information. Your financial information is used for the sole purpose processing the transactions which take place on the Rutgers Jewish Film Festival/Bildner Center system. By making a purchase, or engaging in any other kind of activity that uses financial information, you consent to our providing your financial information to third parties including the credit card companies and banking institutions used to process the transaction. Children under the age of 13 are prohibited from submitting personal information to Rutgers Jewish Film Festival. Federal Law prohibits web sites from collecting and/or distributing personal information from children without parental consent. At this time, Rutgers Jewish Film Festival/Bildner Center has no effective means to obtain and track parental consent. Therefore, Rutgers Jewish Film Festival/Bildner Center must prohibit the submission of personal information from children under the age of 13. Rutgers Jewish Film Festival/Bildner Center does not share, sell or rent any of your information with parties other than Contracted Clients. Cancellation If an event is cancelled, ticket buyers should contact the Rutgers Jewish Film Festival (rujff@rci.rutgers.edu) or visit its website (http://bildnercenter.rutgers.edu) for information about how your ticket will be refunded or exchanged. All service fees, convenience fees, credit card fees, and fulfillment fees are NOT REFUNDABLE in the event of a cancellation. Other than the event being cancelled, ALL SALES ARE FINAL, NO REFUNDS, NO EXCHANGES.

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Behind the Douglass Student Center, 100 George St, New Brunswick, NJ 08901 Garden State Parkway Southbound Turn off at Exit 129 for the New Jersey Turnpike and head south. Turn off the Turnpike at Exit 9, bear right after the tollbooths and follow signs for "Route 18 North -- New Brunswick." Stay to the left to continue on Route 18 North. At the s econd light after Paulus Blvd. make a left onto Commercial Avenue. At the sec ond light, make a left onto George Street. Continue on George Street to the first traffic light. The Douglass Campus Center will be on the right at the corner of George Street and Nichol Avenue . Parking is available by making a right at that light onto Nichol Avenue and then the first left onto Lipman Drive and a left into the parking area. Garden State Parkway Northbound Turn off at Exit 105 and follow signs for Route 18 North. After approximately 24 miles, you will pass the entrance for the New Jersey Turnpike. St ay to the left to continue on Route 18 North. Proceed along Route18 North. At the second light after Paulus Blvd., make a left onto Commercial Avenue. At the second light, make a left onto George Street. Continue on George Street to the first traffic light. The Douglass Campus Ce nter will be on the right at the corner of George Street and Nichol Avenue. Parking is availabl e by making a right at th at light onto Nichol Avenue and then the first left onto Lipman Drive and a left into the parking area. New Jersey Turnpike Turn off at Exit 9, bear right after the toll booths and follow signs for "Route 18 North -- New Brunswick." Stay to the left to continue on Route 18 North. Proceed along Route 18 North. At the second light after Paulus Blvd. make a left onto Commercial Avenue. At the second light, make a left onto George Street. Continue on George Street to the first traffic light. The Douglass Campus Center will be on the righ t at the corner of George Street a nd Nichol Avenue. Parking is available by making a right at that li ght onto Nichol Avenue and then the first left onto Lipman Drive and a left into the parking area. Route 1 Turn off Route 1 at exit marked "Route 18 -- New Brunswick." Proceed along Route 18 North. Stay to the left to continue on Route 18 North. Proceed along Route 18 North. At the second light after Paulus blvd. make a left onto Commercial Avenue. At the second light, make a left onto George Street. Continue on George Street to the first traffic light. The Douglass Campus Center will be on the right at the corner of George Street and Nichol Avenue. Parking is available by making a right at that light onto Nichol Avenue and then the first left onto Lipman Drive and a left into the parking area. Route 287 Turn off at Exit 9 "River Road, Bound Brook, Highland Park." Proceed East on River Road toward Highland Park. Make a right onto Route 18 South (exit after the traffic light at Landing Lane). Cross the Raritan River on the John Lynch Memorial Bridge. Continue on Route 18 South. Follow signs for the New Brunswick exits, and make a right at the Commercial Avenue exit. Proceed to the second light, and make a left onto George Street. Continue on George Street to the first traffic light. The Douglass Campus Center will be on the right at the corner of George Street and Nichol Avenue. Parking is available by making a right at that light onto Nichol Avenue and then the first left onto Lipman Drive and a left into the parking area.  

New Bildner Center Leadership

I am thrilled to step into the role of the new academic director of the Allen and Joan Bildner Center for the Study of Jewish Life. As a faculty member at Rutgers in the departments of Jewish Studies and History for twenty years, I have been excited to be a part of the Bildner Center’s development into a world-class center of learning, an essential part of the School of Arts and Sciences, and an invaluable public resource at the local, national, and international levels. These are uncertain times in the Jewish landscape in both the United States and Israel—the two great centers of post–World War II Jewish life. Circumstances have changed dramatically since the Center’s founding in 1996. The identities of young Americans are more polarized than ever; so, too, are those of Jews, as reported in studies by the Pew Research Center and other research organizations. While some question the value of the humanities, the Bildner Center affirms its strong conviction that the study of the humanities can help us to overcome the critical challenges of our time. Indeed, in my view, the humanities are more important than ever. Those of us who research and teach in the humanities strengthen the broad liberal arts mission of the university. We engage students in critical thinking, guide them in open-minded discussion, and expose them to literature, film, history, philosophy, art, languages, ancient texts, and music, among other fields. We help them become more articulate in their writing as well as more poised and confident in public speaking. Rutgers’ greatest and most distinctive asset among the top-tier public research universities is its ethnic, socioeconomic, religious, and cultural diversity. In this context, Jewish studies is more important than ever, and the Bildner Center plays a signal role in enhancing the cultural diversity of the Rutgers community and presenting it to the public. The Center supports the Department of Jewish Studies, engages the public with dynamic programs on Jewish life and culture, and deepens the expertise of middle and secondary school teachers in Holocaust studies. Our public programs, visiting scholars, faculty seminars, and support for undergraduate research and study-abroad programs all sustain the humanistic cosmopolitanism that is the hallmark of a tolerant civic society. Building on the impressive record established by my colleague and friend Yael Zerubavel, whose professionalism, intelligence, and commitment to Rutgers will be sorely missed, I am delighted to guide the Bildner Center as it moves into its next stage of prominence and relevance. Nancy Sinkoff, Academic DirectorThe Allen and Joan Bildner Centerfor the Study of Jewish Life More about Nancy Sinkoff Announcement of Appointment as Academic Director of Bildner Center Faculty page  

School Film Screening

2019 Holocaust Education Screening for Students Witness Theater: The FilmDirector: Oren Rudavsky Click image to view film trailer. Thursday, November 14, 2019Guest Speaker: Sally Shatzkes, Drama Therapist, and several students in film This documentary follows a unique encounter between Holocaust survivors and high school students in Brooklyn over the course of a year. Their intergenerational journey culminates in a dramatic staging of the survivors’ stories of resolve and survival. A free matinee screening for middle and high school students in collaboration with the Littman Holocaust Resource Center. Read about last year's school screening - Click to read Interviews with Teachers Karen Titus Freehold Township High School   Beth Passner North Brunswick Township High School Photos Past Screenings 2018 & 2017 - A Bag of Marbles 2016 - Fanny's Journey

Openings for Visiting Scholars

Academic Year 2022-2023 Reitman Visiting Scholar Position in Jewish Studies The Allen and Joan Bildner Center for the Study of Jewish Life at Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, invites applications for the position of Reitman Visiting Scholar for the spring 2023 semester of the current academic year. The Norman and Syril Reitman Visiting Scholar for spring 2023 is a one-semester appointment for a scholar with a record of publication and experience teaching in the field of modern Jewish history, dated from c. 1500 until the present. The visiting scholar will pursue research, teach, and be engaged with the activities of the Bildner Center. The Reitman scholar’s responsibilities include teaching the in-person one-semester survey, “Modern Jewish History,” a core course for majors and minors in the department of Jewish Studies that is cross-listed with the department of History, and to give either a faculty seminar based on their scholarship or an online mini-course for the public. It is desirable that the Reitman scholar be in residence in the university area in order to participate in the intellectual life and outreach programs of the Bildner Center and the Jewish Studies Department. The Reitman Visiting Scholar must have a PhD in hand by the start of the spring semester and demonstrate teaching experience in the field of modern Jewish history. The stipend for the position is $40K without benefits. Applicants should apply through the Rutgers University job portal at https://jobs.rutgers.edu/postings/180057. The cover letter should be addressed to Professor Nancy Sinkoff and uploaded, with supplementary materials, to the portal. The supplementary materials include a curriculum vitae, a statement of areas of research interest, a syllabus for “Modern Jewish History,” as well as the names and emails of two academic references. Materials need to be submitted by November 1, 2022. A decision will be finalized by December 2022.   Apply Now

Bildner Center Statement on Addressing Antisemitism

The recent surge in violence against Jews—both at Rutgers and across America—has been a source of great concern at the Bildner Center. As a major hub of Jewish life and learning on campus and in the larger community, we are in communication with the Rutgers administration to help ensure that this rise in virulent antisemitic attacks is recognized and combatted at the highest levels. The Bildner Center’s mission makes it ideally suited to this challenging moment. As an academic center of a state university, the Bildner Center is dedicated to educating a broad public on the complexity of Jewish civilization, as well as enhancing cultural diversity and reducing prejudice. The Center offers dynamic and timely educational programs for the public about Jewish history, society, and culture through its mini-courses, lectures, and films. On campus and in the community, it explores the broad spectrum of the Jewish experience as well as the manifestations and consequences of antisemitism. The Center strives to create a safe intellectual environment for the entire Rutgers community as well as for its diverse public. Our Littman Families Holocaust Resource Center (HRC) and Master Teacher Institute in Holocaust Education work with educators in New Jersey and beyond to bring the history and legacy of the Holocaust into their classrooms. These efforts have an impact on thousands of students, providing the educational tools and resources that will enable future generations to navigate the complexities of antisemitism. Rutgers University is distinguished from its peer institutions by its ethnic, socioeconomic, religious, and cultural diversity. In this context, Jewish studies is more important than ever. The Bildner Center is committed to working with the Rutgers administration to fight bigotry and hatred in all its forms, and to ensure that the Jewish community is an integral part of the university’s ongoing conversation about diversity, equity, and cultural inclusivity.

Student Programs

Student Support and Programs The Bildner Center hosts various extracurricular programs for Jewish Studies students and enriches Jewish Studies classes through the support of class trips and in-class guest speakers. The Center sponsors special lectures, educational programs, and cultural events for Rutgers students, and supports various programs offered by Rutgers Hillel and other student organizations on campus. The Center has been instrumental in raising funds for awards for Jewish Studies majors and minors. These competitive awards are distributed by the Department of Jewish Studies in an annual ceremony to which the students’ families, faculty and donors are invited. Awards are also offered to students who want to pursue academic study or research in Israel.   See pictures from the End of Year Celebrations where students are presented with their awards.This link will take you to the Department of Jewish Studies website. Click to View Images

Testimonies of Holocaust Survivors

USC Shoah Foundation, Visual History Archive Online Established by Steven Spielberg in 1994, the USC Shoah Foundation has recorded more than 54,000 video interviews with Holocaust survivors and other witnesses. USC Shoah Foundation’s mission is to overcome prejudice, intolerance, and bigotry-and the suffering they cause-through the educational use of its visual history testimonies. These testimonies have been digitized and indexed and are now accessible to educators, students, and researchers all over the world. Rutgers provides access through its libraries to the full range of testimonies housed in the archive. Currently, eighty-eight testimonies that were given in New Jersey are publicly available. Click the name to view testimonies of New Jersey residents who were survivors of the Holocaust. Please note that you cannot navigate from the individual pages. You will receive an error message.   Interviewee Name Date of Birth Country of Birth Interview City Arthur Adler 3/18/1926 Germany Bergenfield David Adler 7/28/1928 Hungary Westwood Erna Anolik 12/15/1923 Czechoslovakia Cherry Hill Mila Bachner 3/15/1927 Poland Passaic Claire Beim 3/7/1926 Germany Morristown Salomon Birenbaum 11/16/1926 Poland Oradell Ernest Bokor 8/21/1920 Czechoslovakia Edison Adam Boren 11/15/1929 Poland Rumson Claire Boren 7/8/1938 Poland Rumson Randolph Braham 12/20/1922 Romania Forest Hills Leon Burzynski 4/14/1925 Poland Woodbridge Alex Chevion 7/21/1924 Poland Livingston Esther Clifford 12/5/1920 Germany Cranbury Henry Dressler 10/22/1919 Germany Monmouth Beach Demetrius Dvoichenko-Markov 7/10/1921 Greece Long Branch Rosa Feiler 3/12/1916 Russia Elmwood Park Eva Foti 10/25/1930 Hungary Union Irene Frank 5/2/1927 Germany New Milford Henry Frankel 6/16/1924 Poland North Bergen Eugene Fried 8/18/1926 Czechoslovakia Cranbury Lola Fuchs 2/4/1928 Poland Ocean Maria Glickman 12/31/1924 Poland Springfield Erika Gold 1/4/1928 Germany Leonia Fanya Gonsky 3/15/1928 Poland Englishtown Barry Gourary 2/10/1923 Union of Soviet Socialist Republics Montclair Dorothy Grinims 2/16/1925 Poland Jersey City Mark Grinims 1/1/1921 Poland Jersey City Joseph Grossman 3/12/1933 Poland Colts Neck Johan Grun 3/7/1921 Denmark Alpine Hana Gruna 6/18/1919 Czechoslovakia Hackettstown Irena Guadagno 9/26/1923 Poland Trenton Enid Henson 5/2/1927 Poland Alpine Joseph Horn 11/15/1926 Poland Glen Rock Helena Horowitz 6/13/1926 Poland Teaneck Benjamin Hurewitz 1/14/1914 Russia Fairlawn Abraham Jachzel 11/17/1923 Poland Fair Lawn Bernard Jacoud 5/30/1918 Russia Union David Jordan 3/17/1915 Austria-Hungary Haworth Paul Katz 3/15/1930 Poland East Brunswick Eva Kimel 6/19/1931 Poland Teaneck Ruth Kissinger 10/26/1929 Germany Teaneck Eda Klepfisz 11/8/1921 Poland Glen Rock Aplonia Koedam 12/26/1915 Netherlands Wycoff Laure Kolb 5/11/1925 Germany Panamas Sharon Kopyt 11/15/1927 Poland Vineland Clara Kramer 4/9/1927 Poland Elizabeth Leslie Lefkovic 5/21/1920 Czechoslovakia Cranford Elsbeth Lewin 7/4/1924 Germany Princeton Abraham Melezin 6/29/1910 Russia Teaneck Bernard Meller 5/5/1922 Poland South Amboy Edward Mosberg 1/6/1926 Poland Morris Plains Murray Pantirer 6/15/1925 Poland Hillside Therese Plawker 12/9/1935 Belgium Englewood Cliff Jack Pomerantz 5/5/1918 Poland Short Hills Esther Raab 6/11/1922 Poland Vineland Irving Raab 1/10/1918 Russia Vineland Matys Rosengarten 12/24/1919 Poland Dumont Helena Jonas Rosenzweig 4/25/1925 Poland Colts Neck Sulia Rubin 5/22/1924 Poland Saddle River Eva Safferman 4/15/1928 Poland Fairlawn Solomon Salat 6/11/1926 Poland Elizabeth Norman Salsitz 5/6/1920 Poland Springfield Klara Samuels 10/26/1927 Poland West Orange Cela Sarna 11/22/1924 Poland Englewood Rose Schachter 12/15/1921 Russia Teaneck Erna Schenkein-Trocola 3/21/1921 Germany Hillsdale Richard Schoen 7/28/1914 Austria-Hungary Manalapan Ida Schwarz 12/2/1921 Poland Plainfield Barbara Simon 2/15/1924 Hungary Manalapan Sonia Sklaver 1/5/1925 Poland Fair Lawn Eli Sommer 4/2/1919 Poland Fairlawn Edward Spett 6/2/1928 Poland Wyckoff Fred Spiegel 4/21/1932 Germany Howell Louis Stepak 1/1/1915 Russia Vineland Paula Tencer 3/14/1925 Poland Fort Lee Sigmund Tobias 11/26/1932 Germany Teaneck George Topas 11/3/1924 Poland Lakewood Yehoshua Trigor 7/1/1921 Lithuania Deal Sol Urbach 10/25/1925 Poland Flemington Lucette Valensi 6/10/1936 Tunisia Princeton Judith Velencei 2/26/1932 Hungary Dover Robert Wagemann 5/23/1937 Germany Fairfield Miriam Weiss 5/12/1927 Poland Long Branch Walter Weiss 2/23/1923 Poland Fair Lawn Leon Wells 3/10/1925 Poland Closter Edith Wertheim 9/4/1916 Austria-Hungary Fort Lee Albin White 8/25/1914 Russia Englewood Cliffs Paul Zell 12/14/1924 Austria East Brunswick

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