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February 15, 2007
Rescheduled due to (more) snow...
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JOIN LEAH GARRETT ON LAMED SHAPIRO: THE CROSS AND OTHER STORIES
Thursday, February 22, 2007 at 7 P.M.
Singer Gallery at the Mizel Center for Arts and Culture
350 S. Dahlia Street, Denver
Lamed Shapiro (1878-1948), who was born in Ukraine and came to the United States in 1905, personifies the struggles of Jewish modernists adrift in a changing culture. In Shapiro's writings, violence is grotesque and horrific. It brings in its wake a moral wastland, and gives rise to a chain of violence. Suffering strips people of their character; similarly, war is portrayed as brutal rather than heroic.
Leah Garrett, an associate professor of English Literature and Judaic Studies at University of Denver, is the editor of a new book from Yale University Press about Shapiro's life and work. She has published extensively on Yiddish, American and Hebrew Jewish literature. Garret will discuss the ways in which the Jewish experience of the violence of war is both unique and universal. Her new book will be available to purchase.
Cost is $5/general admission; $3/students & seniors.
For more information visit www.mizelcenter.org
8th ANNUAL JOHN C. LIVINGSTON MEMORIAL LECTURE...
Join the Rocky Mountain Jewish Historical Society and the Beck Archives for "Making America Harmonious: Jews in the Shaping of the Nation's Music" with Dr. Steve Whitfield. Dr. Whitfield is currently the Max Richter Chair in American Civilization at Brandeis University, where he also chairs the Department of American Studies.
The lecture series honors the life of Dr. John C. Livingston who was active in RMJHS and Beck Archives, serving as mentor, guiding genius, and longtime editor of the Society's Rocky Mountain Jewish Historical Notes. Dr. Livingston influenced every aspect of development of RMJHS and the Beck Archives for nearly a quarter of a century.
Monday, February 26 at 7:00 P.M.
Driscoll Ballroom at the University of Denver
This program is free and open to the public but reservations are required.
Please contact Dr. Jeanne Abrams at 303.871.3016.
A unique one-man theatre experience comes to DU...
"FROM TEL AVIV TO RAMMALAH: A Beatbox Journey"
Thursday, March 8 at 7:30 P.M.
Newman Center for Performing Arts, Gates Hall
One performance only!!
$12 per person (including handling and service charges)
Free for DU ID holders
For tickets, call the Newman Center Box Office at 303.871.7720, visit
www.du.edu/newmancenter or call Ticketmaster at 303.357.ARTS.
Join the Center for Judaic Studies as they bring this unique one-man theatre experience to the University of Denver. From Tel Aviv to Ramallah is a collaboration between a Jewish "human beatbox," and the religion scholar who happens to be his wife, and a Muslim video artist - a genre-smashing, boundary-breaking "hop-hop travelogue to peace."
"Lane's colorful depiction is so real, his characters so well developed, that you can't help but be moved. He uses hip-hop beats to paint a vibrant portrait of life in this area that's both touching and disturbing, inspiring one minute, and utterly heartbreaking the next…" ~The San Francisco Examiner
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| 5th Annual FRED MARCUS MEMEORIAL HOLOCAUST Lecture Moves to DU... |
The Holocaust Awareness Institute is excited to be hosting the 5th Annual Fred Marcus Memorial Holocaust Lecture. This year welcomes Robert Bielsky, whose father and two uncles saved 1200 Jews in the forests of Poland during World War II. Please join us for an absorbing and little known story of resistance and survival.
Sunday, March 18 at 4:00 P.M.
Driscoll Ballroom at the University of Denver
$12.00 per person (includes the lecture and a wine and cheese reception)
Students ages 12-18 are invited to attend free.
To make your reservation please send a check, along with the names of those who will be attending with you (and ages for any students) made out to the Holocaust Awareness Institute at: University of Denver, Center for Judaic Studies, Holocaust Awareness Institute 2000 E. Asbury Ave. Suite 157 Denver, CO 80220.
Please contact us at (303) 871-3013 for more information.
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