Past Events

Past EventsDave2023-01-26T22:09:49-05:00

Live From
Museum of Jewish Heritage
Carolyn Enger’s
Mischlinge Exposé
January 19, 2021 @ 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
Biala (1903-2000):
The Rash Acts of Rescue and Escape
Jason Andrew, New York
January 6, 2021 @ 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
White Shadows:
The Photograms of Anneliese Hager (1904-1997)
Lynette Roth, Harvard Art Museums
December 2, 2020 @ 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Legacy And Creativity:
The Filmmaking and Photography of Kitra Cahana
In Conversation with Ori Z Soltes
November 25, 2020 @ 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Immortality, Memory, Creativity, and Survival:
The Arts of Alice Lok Cahana,
Ronnie Cahana, and Kitra Cahana
Lecture by Ori Z Soltes, Washington DC
November 18, 2020 @ 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
“Trauma, Memory and Art”
An interdisciplinary virtual conference
with Ori Z. Soltes, Larry R. Squire,
Natan P.F. Kellermann and Eva Fogelman
November 9, 2020 @ 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm
John Heartfield (1891-1968)
His Political Engagement and Private Life in London
Rosa von der Schulenburg, Berlin
November 4, 2020 @ 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Twitterview @Ascher_Society
Giora Seeliger
“Ask A Healthcare Clown!”
October 29, 2020 @ 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
“The Hospital Clown: Between Joy and Sadness”
Roundtable featuring
Giora Seeliger, Harry Page, Ed Stephan
Moderated by Elizabeth Berkowitz
October 28, 2020 @ 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Bilder im Gespräch: Bajazzo
Guided Tour through the Exhibition
“The Loner. Clowns in the Art of Fritz Ascher”
by Curator Julia Diekmann, Höxter (Germany)
October 27, 2020 @ 7:30 pm - 8:30 pm
“The Clown on Stage”
Roundtable featuring
Matthew R. Wilson, Ori Z. Soltes, Tricia Manuel / “Pricilla Mooseburger”
Moderated by Elizabeth Berkowitz
October 21, 2020 @ 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Painting as an Act of Resistance.
The artist Felix Nussbaum (1904-1944)
Anne Sibylle Schwetter, Osnabrück
October 7, 2020 @ 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Dance under the Swastika:
Mary Wigman and Gyp Schlicht (1917-2015)
Sabine Rollberg, Freiburg
September 16, 2020 @ 5:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Guided Tour through the Exhibition
“The Loner. Clowns in the Art of Fritz Ascher”
by Curator Julia Diekmann, Höxter (Germany)
September 12, 2020 @ 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Flight or Fight. stories of artists under repression
The difficult case of painter Emil Nolde (1867-1956)
Aya Soika, Berlin
September 2, 2020 @ 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Flight or Fight. stories of artists under repression

Jewish Identity and Communist Belief.
Lea Grundig’s Path from Dresden to Palestine and back to Dresden
Lecture by Eckhart Gillen, Berlin
August 5, 2020 @ 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Zoe Strimpel, British Historian
Rhodes Must Stand: a lightly Jewish perspective on
why we must learn to live with the past, not destroy it
July 15, 2020 @ 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
Flight or Fight. stories of artists under repression

Hans Hofmann:
Coming to America
Lecture by Karen Wilkin, NY
July 1, 2020 @ 5:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Flight or Fight. stories of artists under repression

More Surreal Than Surrealism:
Hedda Sterne’s Emigration
June 3, 2020 @ 5:00 pm - 6:00 pm
OTHERNESS AND HIDING.
Jewish Life in Nazi Germany.
with Celebration of Competition Winners
May 20, 2020 @ 5:00 pm - 6:00 pm