July 29, 2011
Jewish Museum Media Center Exhibitions for Radio & TV, Music
THE BARBARA AND E. ROBERT GOODKIND MEDIA CENTER The Barbara and E. Robert Goodkind Media Centerhttp://www.thejewishmuseum.org/mediacenter features an exhibition space dedicated to video art and new media, and houses a digital library of 100 radio and television programs from The Jewish Museum's National Jewish Archive of Broadcasting (NJAB). Selections include such comedy favorites as "How to Be a Jewish Son," a panel discussion from a 1970 David Susskind Show featuring Mel Brooks; a 1947 radio drama entitled "Operation Nightmare" starring John Garfield and Al Jolson, produced by the United Jewish Appeal to call attention to displaced persons in postwar Europe; contemporary television documentaries on black-Jewish relations, Latino Jews, and klezmer music; interviews with artists such as Marc Chagall, Jacques Lipchitz, Larry Rivers, George Segal and Ben Shahn; and Manischewitz wine commercials produced between 1963 and 1981 featuring Sammy Davis, Jr. and Peter Lawford.Episodes of such classic and contemporary television series such as Bridget Loves Bernie, Northern Exposure, The O.C., Seventh Heaven and Sports Night, as well as clips from The Colbert Report, feature interpretations of Jewish life-cycle events and holidays.
A selection of musical performances includes a Hanukkah-themed video from the Latino-Jewish urban band Hip Hop Hoodios, an appearance by the Hasidic reggae star Matisyahu on The Late Show with David Letterman, a radio broadcast of liturgy composed by modern Zionist composer Marc Lavry, and a documentary on contemporary music featuring Frank London of The Klezmatics, Debbie Friedman, and Pharaoh's Daughter.
October 30, 2009
Fanny Mendelssohn Portrait Exhibited
The Jewish Museum in NYC has a new acquisition: Portrait of Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel, 1842, by 19th century German artist Moritz Daniel Oppenheim, has been added to the "Modernity" section of Culture and Continuity. The subject of this portrait was the sister of famous composer Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, a talented composer and musician in her own right. Fanny Hensel was the wife of a fellow painter, Wilhelm Hensel, whom Oppenheim met in Rome with the Nazarenes. Oppenheim, widely recognized as a portraitist, is known as the first Jewish artist to have benefited from the Emancipation, when new civil rights permitted Jews entry into academies of art for the first time in Europe. Extensively patronized by the Frankfurt branch of the Rothschild family, Oppenheim characterized himself (immodestly) as "a painter to the Rothschilds and the Rothschild of painters."http://www.thejewishmuseum.org/exhibitions/CultureAndContinuity
The Jewish Museum
1109 5th Ave at 92nd St
New York NY 10128
July 10, 2007
Molly Picon: Yiddish Star, American Star
Molly Picon: Yiddish Star, American Star
From June 26, 2007 through September 22, 2007
Vincent Astor Gallery
The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts,
40 Lincoln Center Plaza, New York, NY 10023-7498
Hours: Tues, Wed, Fri & Sat: 12 to 6; Thurs: 12 to 8
Learn more:
http://www.nypl.org/research/calendar/exhib/lpa/lpaexhibdesc.cfm?id=446
Look at the NYPL brochure on Molly Picon (pdf)
http://www.nypl.org/research/calendar/imagesexhib/mollybro.pdf
Molly Picon Exhibit Info:
http://www.nypl.org/research/calendar/exhib/lpa/lpaexhibdesc.cfm?id=446
Please see below for full details on the exhibition
and related public programs.
For years she was the "sweetheart" of New York’s Lower
East Side Yiddish-speaking community. Her shows, her
sheet music, her records, her films, her radio
programs, won her a special place in their hearts.
Then, as she increasingly began appearing in more
English language shows, television programs, and
films, an even larger audience fell in love with her:
the American public. Picon's changing career reflects
the contributions immigrant cultures have made to our
entertainment industry, our city, and our nation.
This exhibition, in cooperation with the Museum of the
City of New York, includes more than two hundred
photos, programs, posters, sheet music, records, radio
scripts, set renderings, costumes and more. Just a
sampling of some of the items on view: photos from
Molly Picon’s 1923 New York Yiddish Theatre debut in
the Jacob Kalich/Joseph Rumshinsky production Yankele;
Picon’s costume from Yankele; photos and selected
sheet music by Abraham Ellstein for the Joseph Green
1936 Yiddish film Yidl mitn fidl (Yidl with a
Fiddle)and the 1938 Yiddish film Mamele; radio scripts
from her 1941 series Nancy from Delancey; memorabilia
from the Jerry Herman/Don Appell 1961 production of
Milk and Honey, her 1960s appearances on the
television show Car 54, Where are You? and the Norman
Jewison film Fiddler on the Roof.
The exhibition is curated by Dr. Diane Cypkin,
Professor of Media and Communication Arts at Pace
University, and herself a performer who has appeared in
many Yiddish and English language productions. The
institutions' look at Yiddish culture in New York
continues at the Museum of the City of New York with
The Jewish Daily Forward: Embracing an Immigrant
Community, April 22, 2007 - September 17, 2007
November 30, 2006
'A Living Legacy' Exhibition at HUC
A LIVING LEGACY: AMERICAN JEWISH LITURGICAL COMPOSERS OF THE 20th & 21st CENTURIES A multi-media exhibition celebrating the creativity and contributions of Samuel Adler, Charles Davidson, Jack Gottlieb, Michael Isaacson, Gershon Kingsley, Stephen Richards, Bonia Shur, Simon Sargon, Ben Steinberg, and Yehudi Wyner and reflecting the enduring inspiration of their mentorsOn View: November 12, 2006 - January 31, 2007
Museum Hours: Mondays-Thursdays, 9 am - 5 pm; Fridays, 9 am - 3 pm;
Also Sunday, December 10, 10 am - 2 pm
Information/Tours: 212-824-2205
Admission: Free, Photo ID required