Library-Museum Lecture Series

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he following programs comprise “Representation & Reality:
Lectures on Jewish Art, Pugilism and Music,” our Library-Museum
Lecture Series co-sponsored by the Ivan M. Stettenheim Library
and the Herbert & Eileen Bernard Museum of Judaica.

BARNEY ROSS: CHAMPION BOXER AND MARINE HERO, or HOW A FRUM BOY BECAME “AMERICAN”

Douglas Century, Author and Journalist Wednesday, December 5 6:30 P.M. Leventritt Room (One East 65th Street) Barney Ross, born Dov Ber Rasofsky, grew up in a tough Chicago neighborhood. To survive, he became a petty thief, gambler and errand boy for Al Capone. At 19 he became a professional boxer, joining a generation of Jewish boxers in the 1920s and 30s. When World War II began, Ross enlisted in the marines, becoming a hero of the battle of Guadalcanal. Douglas Century brings to life this fascinating and emblematic figure in American Jewish history. This event is co-sponsored by the Men’s Club.

HOLLYWOOD EXILES: HOW IMMIGRANTS IN THE PERFORMING ARTS TRANSFORMED AMERICAN FILM, THEATER AND MUSIC

Joseph Horowitz, Artistic Consultant and Author Wednesday, May 14 6:30 P.M. Greenwald Hall (One East 65th Street) The “intellectual migration” of the 1930s brought many of Europe’s most eminent practitioners of film, theater and music to southern California. Based on his new book, Artists in Exile, Joseph Horowitz will focus on the California careers of the directors Fritz Lang and Rouben Mamoulian and the composers Arnold Schoenberg and Igor Stravinsky. Using film clips, Horowitz will show how these émigrés from vastly different backgrounds assimilated elements of American culture. Schoenberg’s A Survivor From Warsaw will be used to illuminate his return to Judaism in the United States.

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