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SUMMARY:Survival and Intimations of Immortality:Artist and Curator Talk
DESCRIPTION:Join curator Ori Z Soltes\, Rabbi Ronnie Cahana\, and Kitra Cahana for a conversation about Survival and Intimations of Immortality: The Art of Alice Lok Cahana\, Rabbi Ronnie Cahana\, and Kitra Cahana. \n\n\n\n\nImage above: Alice Lok Cahana\, 1940-44 Triptych: left panel\, 1984. Collection Ronnie and Michael Cahana\, Inv. 052 \n\n\n\n\nThis unique and powerful exhibition at the Oregon Jewish Museum and Center for Holocaust Education explores the role of art and creativity\, bringing the past into the present by focusing on three generations of artists from the same family. The artists and curatorial team will share their insights about the work in the exhibition\, how the show was made\, and the impact it had\, and share more insight into the remarkable life and work of Holocaust survivor Alice Lok Cahana. \n\nAlice Lok Cahana\, New Day IV\, 1981. Collection Ronnie and Michael Cahana\, Inv. 079 \n\nAlice Lok Cahana\, 1940-44 Triptych: center panel\, 1984. Collection Ronnie and Michael Cahana\, Inv. 051 \n\nKitra Cahana is an acclaimed documentary photographer\, filmmaker\, and TED speaker. She holds a B.A. in philosophy from McGill University and an M.A. in Visual and Media Anthropology from the Freie Universität in Berlin. Her work explores important social\, anthropological\, and spiritual themes\, and she is committed to telling deeply human stories with sensitivity and depth. Her work has appeared in National Geographic Magazine\, The New York Times\, The Washington Post\, ProPublica\, The Intercept etc. \nKitra has received numerous recognitions\, including\, a Peabody Award\, a TED Senior Fellowship\, a DuPont Columbia award\, a World Press Photo award\, the International Center of Photography’s Infinity Award for young photographers\, a World Press Photo Online Video of the Year Nominee\, multiple Canada Council grants for the Visual Arts\, and a year long residency at FABRICA. \nRabbi Ronnie Cahana is a rabbi and poet who had a severe brain-stem stroke in 2011 that left him quadriplegic in a rare condition called locked-in syndrome; paralyzed from the eyes down with a fully cognizant mind. Today\, Rabbi Cahana has regained his capacity to speak\, breathe\, and sing. He works with a scribe who helps him produce his poetry\, psalms\, and Divrei Torah. \n\nKitra Cahana\, Still Man: Transcendence\, 2013. \n\n\n\nKitra Cahana\, The Cult of Maria Lionza: Fire\, 2009 \n\nOri Z Soltes\, PhD teaches at Georgetown University across the disciplines of theology\, art history\, philosophy and politics. Since 1997 he is a Founding Director of the Holocaust Art Restitution Project (HARP) and has spent more than 20 years researching and consulting on the issue of Nazi-plundered art. A former Director of the B’nai B’rit Klutznick National Jewish Museum in Washington DC\, he has extensive experience in developing and executing exhibition concepts. He is the author or editor of 25 books\, including The Ashen Rainbow: The Holocaust and the Arts; Symbols of Faith: How Jewish\, Christian\, and Muslim Art Draw from the Same Source; and Tradition and Transformation: Three Millennia of Jewish Art and Architecture. \nThis program is co-sponsored by the Oregon Jewish Museum and Center for Holocaust Education and the Fritz Ascher Society and presented as part of Survival and Intimations of Immortality: The Art of Alice Lok Cahana\, Rabbi Ronnie Cahana\, and Kitra Cahana\, which is on view until May 25\, 2025. \n\n\n\n\nMORE INFORMATION ABOUT THE EXHIBITION\nPlease donate generously to make programs like this possible. Thank you. \n\nThe Fritz Ascher Society is a not-for-profit 501(c)3 organization. Your donation is fully tax deductible. \nDONATE HERE
URL:https://fritzaschersociety.org/exhibition-event/cahana-panel-discussion/
LOCATION:ONLINE\, VA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events,Lectures,Memory,Past Events
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SUMMARY:Memory\, Empathy and Image: The Art of Luise Schröder (Germany)and Kitra Cahana (Canada)
DESCRIPTION:Discussion with artists\nLuise Schröder (Germany) and\nKitra Cahana (Canada) \nModerated by\nOri Z Soltes\, PHD\nTeaching Professor at Georgetown University in Washington DC\n\nIntroduced by \nRachel Stern\nDirector and CEO of the Fritz Ascher Society in New York NY\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThis program explores the work of two young artists — Kitra Cahana\, from Canada; and Luise Schroeder\, from Germany — whose photography\, documentary filmmaking and other work have been informed by an acute awareness of the myriad complications that have beset diverse individuals and groups within the complexities of the twentieth- and twenty-first-century world. Their inspirational sources range from the Holocaust to the Black Lives Matter movement as\, in similar and yet very different ways\, they focus on and champion under-represented and under-considered subjects who struggle within often callous or oppressed conditions and yet survive and even\, ocassionally\, triumph. \nGenerously sponsored by the Consulate General of the Federal Republic of Germany in New York. \n\nIMAGES (both details):\nLEFT: Luise Schröder\, re-ENVISIONING (Vergegenwärtigen)\, 2004/05\nRIGHT: Kitra Cahana\, Caravane Migrante: The Question of the Future\, 2018 \n\n\n\n\nWEBSITE KITRA CAHANA\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nKitra Cahana is a freelance documentary photographer\, videographer\, a photo/video artist and a TED speaker. She is a contributing photographer to National Geographic Magazine. She has a B.A. in philosophy from McGill University and a M.A. in Visual and Media anthropology from the Freie Universitat in Berlin. Her work ranges from photographic studies of American Teens for National Geographic Magazine to documentaries on the annual life-saving dance competition in a small town in northern Canada. She is renowned for work that consistently reflects a deep sense of empathy with her subjects.\n\n\n\nKitra is the recipient of numerous grants and awards\, including two Canada Council Grants for the Visual Arts\, a 2016 TED Senior Fellowship\, a 2015 Pulitzer Center for Investigative Reporting grant\, a 2014-2015 artist residency at Prim Centre\, the 2013 International Center of Photography’s Infinity Award\, first prize for the 2010 World Press Photo\, a scholarship at FABRICA in Italy and the Thomas Morgan internship at the New York Times. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWEBSITE LUISE SCHROEDER\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLuise Schröder is a visual artist working in France and Germany. She studied Photography and Media Arts at the Academy of Visual Arts in Leipzig\, Germany. Within her artistic practice she is dealing with aspects of “history in the making” from a today’s perspective. She is interested in how cultures of remembrance and commemoration are influenced and formed by political agendas\, media and image production and how this affects identities and communities. In recent years\, Luise Schröder has taken part in numerous single and group exhibitions\, among others at the Rencontres International Paris/Berlin (FRANCE)\, at the Kunsthalle Baden Baden (GER)\, at the Gallery EIGEN+ART (Berlin/Leipzig\, GER)\, and at the 7th Berlin Biennale for Contemporary Art in Berlin. Alongside numerous other distinctions\, the artist got the C/O Talents Preis [C/O Talents Award] in 2012 and the SpallArt Price Salzburg in 2020. Furthermore she held a residency at the Villa Aurora in Los Angeles in 2016 and was awarded a residency at Cité Internationale des Arts in 2018/19 in Paris by the German Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media. Recently she is working on her project: La Barricade – Existing as a promise\, which is supported by the French Ministry of Culture CNAP and Ateliers Médicis.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n RELATED EVENTS: TRAUMA\, MEMORY\, AND ARTDONATE TODAY
URL:https://fritzaschersociety.org/exhibition-event/schroeder-cahana/
LOCATION:1014 – space for ideas\, 1014 5th Avenue\, New York\, New York\, NY\, 10028\, United States
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SUMMARY:Alice Lok Cahana -Beyond 'The Last Days':Familial Continuity\, Creativity\, and ImmortalityWith Michael Berenbaum\, Michael Z Cahana\, Ken Lipper\, Ori Z Soltes
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a discussion about the Hungarian born Holocaust survivor Alice Lok Cahana\, whose life and art are recently recognized in two very different ways: The just remastered\, Academy Award®-winning documentary\, The Last Days\, presented by Steven Spielberg and USC Shoah Foundation and the book Immortality\, Memory\, Creativity\, and Survival: The Arts of Alice Lok Cahana\, Ronnie Cahana\, and Kitra Cahana\, recently published by the Fritz Ascher Society of Persecuted\, Ostracized and Banned Art\, which investigates three generations of the Cahana family and their art in the context of biological and psychological research\, allowing a deep understanding of how trauma and especially the Holocaust experience is remembered. \nThis event investigates the portrayal of Alice Lok Cahana\, her life and art\, in art book and documentary film\, the decisions that went into the production of each\, as well as the strengths and limitations of each medium in capturing Alice and educating a broader audience about her experiences during the Holocaust\, and how they affected her. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPanel discussion featuring\nMichael Berenbaum\nHistorian\, The Last Days; Director of the Sigi Ziering Institute\,\nand Past Executive Director of USC Shoah Foundation\nRabbi Michael Cahana\nCongregation Beth Israel;\nAlice’s son and part of her legacy of multi-valent creativity\nKen Lipper\nAcademy Award®-Winning Producer\, The Last Days;\nChairman of Lipper & Co\nOri Z Soltes\nTeaching Professor\, Georgetown University\, Washington D.C.;\nEditor of Immortality\, Memory\, Creativity\, and Survival: The Arts of Alice Lok Cahana\, Ronnie Cahana\, and Kitra Cahana\nModerated by\nRachel Stern\nDirector & CEO\, Fritz Ascher Society for Persecuted\, Ostracized and Banned Art \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Last Days\, the Academy Award®-winning documentary feature executive produced by Steven Spielberg\, directed by James Moll\, produced by June Beallor and Ken Lipper\, and featuring music by Hans Zimmer\, has been remastered and is streaming worldwide on Netflix in 33 languages. The film was also re-released by Universal Pictures Home Entertainment to own on Blu-ray™\, as part of USC Shoah Foundation’s Stronger Than Hate Initiative. \nThe Last Days traces the compelling experiences of five Hungarian Holocaust survivors who fell victim to Adolf Hitler’s brutal war against the Jews during the final days of World War II. The film shares the remarkable stories of five people – a grandmother\, a teacher\, a businessman\, an artist\, and a U.S. congressman – as they return from the United States to their hometowns\, and to the ghettos and concentration camps that once imprisoned them. Through the eyes of the survivors and other witnesses\, including a former Nazi doctor at Auschwitz\, the film recounts one of the darkest chapters in human history. Above all\, The Last Days is a potent depiction of personal strength and courage\, and a testament to the power of the human spirit. \n\n\n\n\n\n\nImmortality\, Memory\, Creativity\, and Survival: The Arts of Alice Lok Cahana\, Ronni Cahana\, and Kitra Cahana starts with the art of Holocaust survivor Alice Lok Cahana. How have artistic sensibilities\, traumatic memory—and a sense of obligation to improve the world—been expressed through three generations of her family—both in who her children and grandchildren are and in how they express themselves artistically? The book investigates this layered issue from other angles: what have recent biological and psychological investigations offered\, regarding what memory is and how it works\, if and how trauma can be carried in the DNA—and the implications of all of this for understanding the impact of catastrophes like the Holocaust beyond the generation of those who experienced them directly. \nThe book was generously sponsored by the Consulate General of the Federal Republic of Germany in New York. \n\n\n\n\nACCESS THE BOOK HERE\n\n\n  \nMichael Berenbaum is a writer\, lecturer\, and teacher consulting in the conceptual development of museums and the development of historical films. He is director of the Sigi Ziering Institute: Exploring the Ethical and Religious Implications of the Holocaust at the American Jewish University where he is also a Professor of Jewish Studies. He was the Executive Editor of the Second Edition of the Encyclopaedia Judaica.\nFor the past three years\, he was President and Chief Executive Officer of the Survivors of the Shoah Visual History Foundation. From 1988–93 he served as Project Director of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum\, overseeing its creation. He was Deputy Director of the President’s Commission on the Holocaust where he authored its Report to the President.\nBerenbaum is the author and editor of 22 books\, scores of scholarly articles\, and hundreds of journalistic pieces. His work in film has earned multiple awards. He has been the producer\, co-producer\, executive producer\, historical consultant\, writer and interviewer and interviewee on more than two dozen films in multiple languages broadcast throughout the world. \n\n\n\nRabbi Michael Z Cahana is the middle child of Alice Lok Cahana. He also is Senior Rabbi of Congregation Beth Israel in Portland\, Oregon. Born in Houston\, Texas\, Rabbi Cahana comes from multiple generations of rabbis including his late father\, Rabbi Moshe Cahana\, and his older brother\, Rabbi Ronnie Cahana. Rabbi Cahana began with a career in theater\, including acting\, directing\, and theatrical design. In 1994\, he became the first Reform rabbi in his family’s long rabbinic history. Rabbi Cahana integrates his rabbinical training with his theater background to create an environment in which prayer becomes an art form. \nKenneth Lipper is the Academy Award®-winning producer of The Last Days. He wrote the novel and original screenplay for City Hall as well as produced the film\, produced the play & film The Winter Guest\, and was the chief technical advisor of the film and author of the novel Wall Street. He is the co-publisher of the Lipper/Viking Penguin “Penguin Lives” biography series.\nKenneth Lipper is chairman of Lipper & Co\, an investment bank and investment management company. He was the Commissioner of Port Authority of New York and New Jersey\, served as New York City’s Deputy Mayor under Mayor Ed Koch\, and was General Partner of investment banks Lehman Brothers and Salomon Brothers. He was also Adjunct Professor at the School of International and Public Affairs\, Columbia University. \nOri Z Soltes teaches at Georgetown University across the disciplines of theology\, art history\, philosophy and politics. He is the former Director and Curator of the B’nai B’rith Klutznick National Jewish Museum where he curated some 80 exhibitions. He is the author of several hundred articles and catalogue essays\, and the author or editor of 24 books\, including The Ashen Rainbow: The Holocaust and the Arts; Symbols of Faith: How Jewish\, Christian\, and Muslim Art Draw from the Same Source; and Tradition and Transformation: Three Millennia of Jewish Art and Architecture. \n\n\nAlice Lok Cahana\, Detail of Raoul Wallenberg-Schutz Pass\, 93 1/4 x 112 inches\, mixed media on canvas and paper\, 1981. \n\n\n\nEvent Partner \n\n\n\n\n\nDONATE TODAY
URL:https://fritzaschersociety.org/exhibition-event/alice-lok-cahana/
LOCATION:1014 – space for ideas\, 1014 5th Avenue\, New York\, New York\, NY\, 10028\, United States
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SUMMARY:Helene Klodawsky\, Film Director (Canada) and Sabine Rollberg\, Expert of Documentary Film (Germany) discuss"Undying Love." Stories of Romance\, Marriage and Rebirth in Displaced Persons’ Camps
DESCRIPTION:This exclusive program features two award winners: \nHelene Klodawsky\, Independent Filmmaker\, Writer and Director of “Undying Love”\, Montreal (Canada)\nin conversation with\nSabine Rollberg\, Professor of Artistic Television Formats\, Film and Television\, Freiburg (Germany)\nModerated by Rachel Stern\, Director of the Fritz Ascher Society\, New York (USA) \n\n\n\n\n\n\nUndying Love tells the poignant\, enduring\, and miraculous love stories of the survivors of World War II. Against the brutalized landscape of post-war Europe\, this film focuses on how survivors struggled to reconstruct personal identities and forge intimate relationships. Using searing testimonies\, poetic dramatizations\, archives and images of romantic love from the pre- and post-Holocaust era\, Undying Love is a textured retelling of several extraordinary love stories which emerged “out of the ashes.” \n\nA feature documentary written and directed by Helene Klodawsky. Produced by Ina Fichman. With film awards from the US\, Canada\, Poland\, and Israel\, Undying Love has been televised around the world. It is included in the 2017 Réalisatrices Équitables/ Films Fatales 100 Best Canadian Films by Women\, and was featured in DOC 35’s line up at the 2018 Rencontres Internationales du Documentaire in Montreal.\n\n\n\nWATCH THE FILM HERE\n\n\nIndependent filmmaker Helene Klodawsky is a passionate storyteller committed to portraying political and social struggles\, as well as to exploring the documentary art form. Her award winning work\, spanning thirty-five years\, is screened\, and televised around the world in venues as diverse as New York’s Museum of Modern Art and Kenyan refugee camps. \n\n\n\n\nHer work includes Painted Landscapes of the Times (1984)\, Shoot and Cry (1986)\, Motherland (1994)\, What If? (1998) Undying Love (2002) No More Tears Sister (2004) Family Motel (2007) Malls R Us (2009) Come Worry With Us! (2013) Grassroots in Dry Lands (2015) From Janet With Love (2017) and The Invisible Everywhere (2019).  Helene is in pre-production with Intuitive Pictures and The National Film Board of Canada as director/writer of Stolen Time\, a feature documentary on nursing home negligence. \nHelene’s films have received awards and nominations from the Academy of Canadian Cinema\, Hot Docs\, Les Rendez-vous du Cinema Quebecois\, Rencontres Internationales du Documentaire de Montréal\, Warsaw Jewish Film Festival\, The World Press Photo Festival\, the Jerusalem International Film Festival\, The Montréal International Festival of Films on Art\, Columbus Film Festival to name a few. The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation\, PBS\, CTV\, Channel Four\, Canal+\, and The Australian Broadcasting Corporation are among the broadcasters she has collaborated with. Her films appear in university curricula worldwide. \n\nThroughout her career\, Sabine Rollberg has edited\, taught and promoted documentary film. She studied History\, German Language\, Literature and Political Science to doctorate level in Freiburg and Bonn. After training at broadcaster WDR\, she was appointed editor of International Programming\, Culture and Science; reporter for TV programs Weltspiegel\, Auslandsreport and Auslandsstudio\, moderator of Treffpunkt Dritte Welt and talk show Leute for Berlin-based broadcaster SFB. From 1989-94 Sabine Rollberg was ARD’s correspondent in Paris and was ARTE Editor-In-Chief in Strasbourg 1994-97. 1999-2019 she was ARTE representative and ARTE Commissioning Editor for broadcaster WDR\, and 2007-19 Professor of Documentary Film at the Academy of Media Arts Cologne. Among other things\, she was responsible for overseeing numerous important documentary films which won national and international awards\, including the German Film Award\, LOLA\, Grimme Preis\, European Film Awards\, Prix Italia\, Golden Gate Award\, several Human Rights Awards and Journalist Award\, and two Oscar nominations. \nIMAGE: Detail from “Undying Love” Film Poster\, 2002. \n\nSUPPORT US
URL:https://fritzaschersociety.org/exhibition-event/undying-love/
LOCATION:1014 – space for ideas\, 1014 5th Avenue\, New York\, New York\, NY\, 10028\, United States
CATEGORIES:Memory,Past Events
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SUMMARY:Legacy And Creativity:The Filmmaking and Photography of Kitra CahanaIn Conversation with Ori Z Soltes
DESCRIPTION:WATCH THE RECORDING OF THIS EVENT HERE. \nConversation featuring\nKitra Cahana\, Documentary Photographer\, Videographer and Photo/Video Artist\nand\nOri Z Soltes\, Teaching Professor at Georgetown University in Washington DC\nIntroduced by\nRachel Stern\, Executive Director of The Fritz Ascher Society in New York NY \nKitra Cahana’s award winning work ranges from photographic studies of American Teens for National Geographic Magazine to documentaries on the annual life-saving dance competition in a small town in northern Canada. She is renowned for work that consistently reflects a deep sense of empathy with her subjects. Her grandmother was a teen-aged Holocaust survivor who became an intense and powerful painter. Her father\, a rabbi and a poet\, was severely disabled by a stroke at the age of 57\, and Kitra became a key caretaker as he fought his way back to a speaking capability. \nWhat is the range of subjects upon which she has focused and what brought her toward such variety? Is there a theme that connects them all? How was she affected\, growing up\, by her grandmother’s story and its implications for her role in the world? How was her father affected by his mother\, who in turn influenced her early on? How\, more recently\, did her father’s sudden change in condition yield new and further directions for her thinking and her work? How is Kitra’s work and its inimitable style a reflection of the transmission of trauma and memory and how is it simply a function of Kitra as Kitra? \nThis webinar explores Kitra Cahana’s work and its sources in a discussion with Ori Z Soltes. \nKitra Cahana (b. 1987) is a freelance documentary photographer\, videographer\, a photo/video artist and a TED speaker. She is a contributing photographer to National Geographic Magazine. She has a B.A. in philosophy from McGill University and a M.A. in Visual and Media anthropology from the Freie Universitat in Berlin. Kitra is the recipient of numerous grants and awards\, including two Canada Council Grants for the Visual Arts\, a 2016 TED Senior Fellowship\, a 2015 Pulitzer Center for Investigative Reporting grant\, a 2014-2015 artist residency at Prim Centre\, the 2013 International Center of Photography’s Infinity Award\, first prize for the 2010 World Press Photo\, a scholarship at FABRICA in Italy and the Thomas Morgan internship at the New York Times. https://kitracahana.com/home/. \nOri Z Soltes teaches at Georgetown University across the disciplines of theology\, art history\, philosophy and politics. He is the former Director and Curator of the B’nai B’rith Klutznick National Jewish Museum where\, among some 80 exhibitions he curated an exhibited the work of Alice Lok Cahana. He is the author of several hundred articles and catalogue essays\, and the author or editor of 24 books\, including The Ashen Rainbow: The Holocaust and the Arts; Symbols of Faith: How Jewish\, Christian\, and Muslim Art Draw from the Same Source; and Tradition and Transformation: Three Millennia of Jewish Art and Architecture. \nThis event discusses topics which are explored more deeply in the book “Immortality\, Memory\, Creativity\, and Survival: The Arts of Alice Lok Cahana\, Ronnie Cahana and Kitra Cahana\,” which is edited by Ori Z Soltes and will be published in December 2020 by The Fritz Ascher Society. \nGenerously sponsored by the\nConsulate General of the Federal Republic of Germany in New York. \nImage: Kitra Cahana\, The Cult of Maria Lionza: Fire\, 2009.
URL:https://fritzaschersociety.org/exhibition-event/kitra-cahana/
LOCATION:1014 – space for ideas\, 1014 5th Avenue\, New York\, New York\, NY\, 10028\, United States
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SUMMARY:Immortality\, Memory\, Creativity\, and Survival: The Arts of Alice Lok Cahana\, Ronnie Cahana\, and Kitra Cahana Lecture by Ori Z Soltes\, Washington DC
DESCRIPTION:WATCH THE RECORDING OF THIS EVENT HERE. \nLecture featuring\nOri Z Soltes\, Teaching Professor at Georgetown University in Washington DC\nModerated by \nRachel Stern\, Executive Director of the Fritz Ascher Society in New York \nThis lecture explores several interlocking themes. The work of three artists\, each in a different medium—Alice was primarily a painter\, Ronnie is a poet\, and Kitra is a well-recognized photographer and filmmaker—will be presented and explored with regard to both aesthetic and conceptual intentions and outcomes. Since these three artists represent three generations from within one family\, the question of how that familial relationship does or does not impinge on the artistic output will be explored. Inevitably\, the fact that the first of the three was a Holocaust survivor and the second is a survivor of a major stroke—who is slowly re-gaining his ability to speak and to move–will lead to a discussion of the various levels at which one may understand the concept “survival”–physical\, mental\, psychological-spiritual–and how the interwoven layers of that concept may be said to have affected the life and the art of all three generations in this matrix. \nThis talk discusses topics which are explored more deeply in the book with the same title\, which is edited by Ori Z Soltes and is published in December 2020 by The Fritz Ascher Society. \nOri Z Soltes teaches at Georgetown University across the disciplines of theology\, art history\, philosophy and politics. He is the former Director and Curator of the B’nai B’rith Klutznick National Jewish Museum where\, among some 80 exhibitions he curated an exhibited the work of Alice Lok Cahana. He is the author of several hundred articles and catalogue essays\, and the author or editor of 24 books\, including The Ashen Rainbow: The Holocaust and the Arts; Symbols of Faith: How Jewish\, Christian\, and Muslim Art Draw from the Same Source; and Tradition and Transformation: Three Millennia of Jewish Art and Architecture. \nGenerously sponsored by the\nConsulate General of the Federal Republic of Germany in New York. \nImage: Alice Lok Cahana\, Whirlwind\, ca 1980. Acrylic and water color on canvas\, 54 x 62 inches. Courtesy Cahana family archives.
URL:https://fritzaschersociety.org/exhibition-event/cahana-soltes/
LOCATION:1014 – space for ideas\, 1014 5th Avenue\, New York\, New York\, NY\, 10028\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events,Memory,Past Events
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SUMMARY:"Trauma\, Memory and Art" An interdisciplinary virtual conference with Ori Z. Soltes\, Larry R. Squire\, Natan P.F. Kellermann and Eva Fogelman
DESCRIPTION:WATCH THE RECORDING OF THIS EVENT HERE. \nIn this interdisciplinary conference\, four experts discuss the transmission of Holocaust trauma and memory against the backdrop of art. The starting point of the discussion is the art of Holocaust survivor Alice Lok Cahana and how artistic sensibilities\, traumatic memory—and a sense of obligation to improve the world—have been expressed through three generations of her family—both in who her children and grandchildren are and in how they express themselves artistically.\nThe discussion will amplify this layered issue from other angles: what have recent biological and psychological investigations offered\, regarding what memory is and how it works\, if and how trauma can be carried in the DNA—and the implications of all of this for understanding the impact of catastrophes like the Holocaust beyond the generation of those who experienced them directly. \nThis conference discusses topics which are explored more deeply in the book “Immortality\, Memory\, Creativity\, and Survival: The Arts of Alice Lok Cahana\, Ronnie Cahana and Kitra Cahana\,” which is edited by Ori Z. Soltes\, Teaching Professor at Georgetown University\, Washington DC\, and will be published in December 2020 by The Fritz Ascher Society. \nGenerously sponsored by the\nConsulate General of the Federal Republic of Germany in New York. \nGreetings \nHon. David Gill\, Consulate General of the Federal Republic of Germany in New York \nPanelists \nOri Z. Soltes PhD\, Teaching Professor at Georgetown University in Washington D.C.\n“The art of Alice Lok Cahana\, Ronnie Cahana\, and Kitra Cahana” \nLarry R. Squire PhD\, Professor of Psychiatry\, Neurosciences\, and Psychology at the University of California in San Diego CA\n“Remembering” \nNatan P. F. Kellermann PhD\, Psychologist and Psychodramatist in Jerusalem\, Israel\n“Major Variables of Holocaust Trauma Transmission” \nEva Fogelman PhD\, Social Psychologist and Psychotherapist in New York NY\n“Descendants of Holocaust Survivors: Myths and Realities” \nModerator \nRachel Stern\, Executive Director of The Fritz Ascher Society in New York NY \n  \nDr. Ori Z. Soltes teaches at Georgetown University across a range of disciplines\, from art history and theology to philosophy and political history. He is the former Director of the B’nai B’rith Klutznick National Jewish Museum\, and has curated more than 85 exhibitions there and in other venues across the country and overseas. He has authored or edited 21 books and scores of articles and essays. Some of his recent books include Our Sacred Signs: How Jewish\, Christian and Muslim Art Draw from the Same Source; Searching for Oneness: Mysticism in Judaism\, Christianity and Islam; Untangling the Web: Why the Middle East is a Mess and Always Has Been; and Tradition and Transformation: Three Millennia of Jewish Art & Architecture. \nLarry R. Squire\, a Fellow of the American Academy since 1996\, is Research Career Scientist at the Veterans Affairs San Diego Healthcare System and Distinguished Professor of Psychiatry\, Neurosciences\, and Psychology at the University of California\, San Diego. He is the author of Memory and Brain (1987) and Memory: From Mind to Molecules (with Eric Kandel\, 2009)\, and is also an editor of Fundamental Neuroscience (fourth edition\, 2013). \nNatan P. F. Kellerman was born in Sweden\, studied psychology at the University of Stockholm\, and moved to Israel in 1980. After training at the Moreno Institute in New York\, he became a practitioner of psychodrama. For many years\, he worked in Amcha: an Israeli treatment center for Holocaust survivors and their families\, and lectured on Holocaust trauma at the International School for Holocaust Studies in Yad Vashem. He is the author of Holocaust Trauma: Psychological Effects and Treatment (iUniverse\, 2009). \nEva Fogelman is a social psychologist\, psychotherapist\, author and filmmaker. She is in private practice in New York City and was co-founder and co-director of Psychotherapy with Generations of the Holocaust and Related Traumas at Training Institute for Mental Health\, and Jewish Foundation for Christian Rescuers\, ADL (Jewish Foundation for the Righteous)\, currently co-director Child Development Research (includes International Study of Organized Persecution of Children). Dr. Fogelman is co-editor of Children During the Nazi Reign: Psychological Perspective on the Interview Process and Children in the Holocaust and Its Aftermath. She is the writer and co-producer of the award-winning documentary Breaking the Silence: The Generation After the Holocaust(PBS). Dr. Fogelman is a Pulitzer Prize nominee for Conscience and Courage: Rescuers of Jews During the Holocaust.Her hundreds of writings appear in professional as well as popular publications.  Dr. Fogelman is a pioneer in therapeutic interventions for generations of the Holocaust and related historical traumas\, and is a frequent consultant and speaker nationally and internationally.
URL:https://fritzaschersociety.org/exhibition-event/immortality-memory-creativity-survival/
LOCATION:1014 – space for ideas\, 1014 5th Avenue\, New York\, New York\, NY\, 10028\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events,Memory,Past Events
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