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Calendar
To reserve space at any event or for more information, please contact the Center for Judaic and Holocaust Studies at 330-941-1604 or at judaic@ysu.edu
September 30, 2009
Sukkah Building Party
3pm
In front of Debartolo Hall
Join Dr. Sinnreich and the Jewish Student Organization as they hold a Sukkah building party.
September 30, 2009
Studying the Jewish and Islamic Traditions: The Concept of Justice
7pm
James Gallery Room, Kilcawley Center
Please join Dr. Sinnreich and Dr. Mir as they discuss the concept of Justice in the Jewish and Islamic Traditions.
Sunday, October 18 - Wednesday, October 28, 2009: Youngstown Area Jewish Film Festival
Sunday, October 18, 2009, 7:00pm
Film Screening
Yoo-Hoo, Mrs. Goldberg
USA Cinema, Great East Plaza, Niles, OH
She’s the most famous woman in America you’ve never heard of. The amazing story of Gertrude Berg is told with humor and insight in this sparkling film biography. Berg was the Oprah of her day—radio and television creator; Emmy award–winning actress; celebrity guest on variety shows; Tony award winner on Broadway; and originator and star of America’s first sitcom, The Goldbergs. Writer of 12,000 scripts for the number one CBS show, she combined comedy and social commentary while introducing endearing Jewish characters to middle America, particularly Molly Goldberg, the family matriarch. In a battle to save the career of her co-star, union organizer Philip Loeb, Berg took on the McCarthy blacklist. That tragic witch hunt (memorialized in the 1976 film The Front) parallels other dramatic changes in television history: The tight-knit Goldberg family—first seen yelling across airshafts, baking bread in a steamy kitchen, playing chess and discussing Freud—moves from the Bronx to the suburbs. Then the show itself is cancelled--only to be replaced by the thoroughly modern I Love Lucy. Yoo-Hoo, Mrs. Goldberg combines rare scenes from The Goldbergs, interviews with fans including Norman Lear, Susan Stamberg and Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, and movie clips featuring the Marx Brothers and Zero Mostel. Filmmaker Kempner has created a star-studded social history of an American trailblazer. For more on the film, see: http://www.mollygoldbergfilm.org/home.php
Thursday, October 22, 2009,7:00pm
Film Screening
Walk on Water
USA Cinema, Great East Plaza, Niles, OH
A new generation of Jews and Germans must come to terms with the past in this complex and compelling drama. Walk on Water challenges our beliefs about sexuality, vengeance, and the morality of assassination. Eyal, an emotionally fragile Mossad hitman, is assigned to shadow Axel, a young German whose grandfather is a notorious Nazi war criminal that has eluded justice. Posing as an Israeli tour guide, Eyal shepherds Axel around when he comes to visit his kibbutznik sister Lia. Although Eyal at first resists what he considers a boring assignment, he soon warms up to Axel’s bright enthusiasm and intellect, even overcoming his own homophobia when he realizes Axel is gay. When the action shifts to Berlin and to the prospect of discovering Axel’s grandfather, the film becomes a taut emotional thriller.
Sunday, October 25, 2009, 1:00pm
Double Feature Film Screening
The Butler Institute of American Art
Blessed is the Match
Narrated by three-time Academy Award nominee Joan Allen, Blessed Is the Match is the first documentary feature about Hannah Senesh, the World War II-era poet and diarist who became a paratrooper, resistance fighter and modern-day Joan of Arc. Safe in Palestine in 1944, Hannah joined a mission to rescue Hungary’s Jews. Shockingly, it was the only outside rescue mission for Jews during the Holocaust. Hannah parachuted behind enemy lines, was captured, tortured and ultimately executed by the Nazis. Incredibly, her mother Catherine witnessed the entire ordeal, first as a prisoner with Hannah and later as her advocate, braving the bombed-out streets of Budapest in a desperate attempt to save her daughter. With unprecedented access to the Senesh family archive, this powerful story unfolds through the writings and photographs of Hannah and Catherine Senesh. Blessed is the Match becomes more that a canonizing tribute to a fallen heroine. In the end it becomes a moving mother-daughter story.
In Search of the Bee Israel
In Search of the Bene Israel documents director Sadia Shepard's journey to understand her ancestry and the future of the 3,500 Bene Israel who remain in and around Bombay. Returning to her Jewish grandmother’s birthplace in India, Shepard discovers the story of Bene Israel, a tiny Jewish community in Bombay. Her colorful documentary is a journey to reconnect with a group of Jews who believe they are descended from one of the lost tribes of Israel, shipwrecked in India 2,000 years ago. This moving portrait of a community in transition introduces us to individuals and families - from a Jewish Indian filmmaker working in Bollywood to a couple on the eve of marriage, to a family that takes care of a rural synagogue - struggling with the decision to stay in India or move to Israel.
Wednesday, October 28, 2009, 7:00pm
Film Screening
The Secrets
USA Cinema, Great East Plaza, Niles, OH
The Secrets is the story of a gifted and pious daughter of an Orthodox rabbi and her rebellious quest for individuality. Wary of marriage in an insular community, Naomi convinces her father to send her to an all-female Jewish seminary in Safed, an ancient center of Kabbalistic study, or mystical Judaism. There she befriends another free-spirited student, Michelle, and the two encounter a mysterious, ailing foreigner (the iconic French actress Fanny Ardant) with a disturbing past. Attempting to purge the woman's sins through kabbalistic rituals, Naomi and Michelle embark on a risky journey into forbidden realms.
Sunday, November 8, 2009
Bus Trip to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Leaving YSU at 5:00am and returning at 11:00pm
A reservation form will be made available in the near future.
Monday, November 9, 2009
Opening of Kitty Weicherz Exhibition
7pm
Chestnut Room, Kilca
Cantor Moshe Taube, a Holocaust survivor, was saved by Oskar Schindler.
Wednesday, November 18, 2009
Studying the Jewish and Islamic Traditions: History
7pm, McKay Auditorium, Beeghley College of Education
Co-sponsored by History Club.
Please join Dr. Sinnreich and Dr. Mir as they discuss the concept of History in the Jewish and Islamic Traditions.
Wednesday, February 10, 2009
Studying the Jewish and Islamic Traditions: Women
7pm, Jones Room, Kilcawley
Co-sponsored by the Center for Women's Studies.
Please join Dr. Sinnreich and Dr. Mir as they discuss Women in the Jewish and Islamic Traditions.
March 7-9, 2010
The Jewish Woman and Her Body: An International Conference
April 8, 2010
Opening of Holocaust Exhibition
Arms Museum
April 14, 2010
Studying the Jewish and Islamic Traditions: Free Will
7 pm, Gallery Room, Kilcawley Center
Please join Dr. Sinnreich and Dr. Mir as they discuss the concept of free will in the Jewish and Islamic Traditions..
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