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Installation of Cantor Jill Abramson as Director, Debbie Friedman School of Sacred Music
Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion, One West Fourth Street, New York, NY 10012
Three Exhibitions – One Opening Night
5:30pm Reception
6:15pm Welcome
World Premiere of they burn, the fires of the night: lamentations from the ashes
OnlineThe Heller Museum and Debbie Friedman School of Sacred Music are honored to partner with The Defiant Requiem Foundation to present composer and HUC-JIR faculty member Gerald Cohen’s world premiere of they burn, the fires of the night: lamentations from the ashes on October 25th at 7 pm at HUC-JIR’s New York Campus.
Coffee and Conversation with Ellie Beth Scott
Join artist Ellie Beth Scott and curatorial consultant Abby Schwartz for coffee and conversation about the artist’s latest fabric installation and its relationship to the Skirball’s collection.
Lunch and Learn: An Insider’s View of the Newly Installed Galleries
Join curatorial consultant Abby Schwartz and preparator and collections manager Sheri Besso for a behind-the-scenes look at the reinstallation of the galleries devoted to Torah, Life Cycle, and Holidays and Festivals. A light lunch will be served.
Publication of Building a City and American Hebraist
Please join us to celebrate the publication of two books memorializing our teacher and colleague Dr. Alan Mintz z"l and dedicated to the Hebrew fiction of Nobel Laureate S.Y. Agnon.
Printing, Praying, and Performing Jewish Identity in Early Modern Italy: Maḥzor kimḥa d’avishuna with Rabbi Joseph A. Skloot, Ph.D.
In 1540, a group of silk weavers from the city of Bologna, who called themselves “the partners” (ha-shutafim), printed a two-volume compendium of the Jewish liturgy for the yearly worship cycle. This maḥzor (prayer book) included both a commentary on the liturgy by R. Yohanan b. Joseph Treves, entitled Kimha d’avishuna (Flour Milled from Roasted Grain), and a commentary on Tractate Avot of the Mishnah (an oft-quoted anthology of rabbinic wisdom) by R. Obadiah b. Jacob Sforno.
A light catered Kosher lunch will be provided.
Hebrew Books and the Global History of Printing
This talk will consider how the long history of Hebrew printing can transform dominant narratives about the history of the book and the origins of modernity.
Launch the Publication of Brighton Beach Bible
The Heller Museum, Jewish Art Salon, Memorial Foundation for Jewish Culture, and Canvas invite you to celebrate the publication of BRIGHTON BEACH BIBLE by Joel Silverstein, essay by Ori Z. Soltes
