The Charlotte Jewish News - March 2015 - Page 12
Rosensaft to Speak at Holocaust
Remembrance Day
Please join us for a eommunity
Holoeaust Remembranee Day
Yom Hashoah Program on Sun
day April 12, 6:30-8:30 PM fea
turing Keynote speaker
Menaehem Rosensaft.
Menaehem Rosensaft is Gen
eral Counsel of the World Jewish
Congress. In addition to Cornell
Law Sehool, he also teaehes at
Columbia Law Sehool. He re-
eeived his B.A. degree from The
Johns Hopkins University in
1971, together with an M.A. de
gree from the Writing Seminars.
He reeeived an M.A. degree in
modem European history from
Columbia University in 1975, and
reeeived his J.D. degree from the
Columbia University Sehool of
Law in 1979.
The son of two survivors of the
Nazi eoneentration eamps of
Ausehwitz and Bergen-Belsen, he
was bom in the Displaeed Persons
eamp of Bergen-Belsen in 1948.
He is the Founding Chairman of
the International Network of Chil
dren of Jewish Holoeaust Sur
vivors and was Chairman of the
Editorial Board of the Holo
eaust Survivors’ Memoirs
Projeet, a joint publishing
endeavor with Yad Vashem
in Jemsalem. He is also
Senior Viee President of the
Ameriean Gathering of
Jewish Holoeaust Survivors
and Their Deseendants, a
former National President
of the Labor Zionist Al-
lianee, and Honorary President of
the Park Avenue Synagogue in
Manhattan. He is the editor of
God, Faith and Identity from the
Ashes, Reflections of Children and
Grandchildren of Holocaust Sur
vivors.
Almost ninety ehildren and
grandehildren of Holoeaust sur
vivors—theologians, seholars,
spiritual leaders, authors, artists,
politieal and eommunity leaders,
and media personalities—from
sixteen eountries on six eontinents
refleet on how the memories
transmitted to them have affeeted
their lives. Profoundly personal
stories explore faith, identity, and
legaey in the aftermath of the
Holoeaust as well as our role in
ensuring that future genoeides and
similar atroeities never happen
again.
There have been many books
and studies about ehildren of
Holoeaust survivors—the so-
ealled seeond and third genera
tions—with a psyeho-soeial
foeus. This book is different. It is
intended to refleet what they be
lieve, who they are, and how that
informs what they have done and
are doing with their lives.
For people of all faiths and
baekgrounds, these powerful and
deeply moving statements will
have a profound effeet on the way
our and future generations under
stand and shape their understand
ing of the Holoeaust.
Sponsored by: Levine-Sklut Ju-
daie Library, Sandra and Leon
Levine Jewish Community Cen
ter, Temple Israel, and Temple
Beth El.
6:30-6:50 PM - Margaret and
Lou Sehwartz Butterfly Garden:
Weleome and Memorial Serviee
7- 8 PM - Menaehem Rosensaft
with Question and Answer session
and book signing, Sam Lemer
Center for Cultural Arts
8- 8:30 PM - Breakout Ses
sions: Henry Hirsehmann - Stories
from Trip to Normandy - Wein
berg Senior Center; UNC students
- Stories from Ausehwitz - Sam
Lerner Center for Cultural Arts;
Butterfly Projeet: New Currieu-
lum: Highlighting five loeal area
survivors - Hal and Holly
Levinson Children and
Family Center.
Questions? Contaet
Debby Bloek at 704-944-
6780 or dbloek@shalom-
eharlotte.org. ^
Remerribrance and Hope
Klezmer Dances for
Clarinet, Strings,
Percussion, and Tuba
Charlotte Symphony to Present
“A Night in New York, ” including
Klezmer Music and Gershwin ^s
Rhapsody in Blue
By Gene Kavadlo
As I approaehed my 40th sea
son as prineipal elarinetist with
the Charlotte Symphony, it oe-
eurred to me that I should do
something speeial to mark what
many would eonsider a milestone
year. I suppose I eould streak
aeross the stage during a eoneert,
but that’s already been done by
players more prominent than my
self; and, besides, at my age,
who’d be interested? For many
years. I’ve had an avid interest in
klezmer musie; perhaps there
would be a way to eelebrate the
oeeasion by eombining my love
for playing in the orehestra with
my love for klezmer?
Several years ago, I diseovered
a eolleetion ealled Hassidie Tunes
for Clarinet and Piano, by Lev
Kogan, a eomposer bom in the
USSR. He studied with Aram
Khaehaturian and emigrated to Is
rael in 1973, where he beeame
one of Israel’s prominent eom-
posers. The musie looked interest
ing, so I purehased the eolleetion.
As I read through the ten tunes, I
felt that they had an authentie
klezmer quality to them; some of
them freylekhs (joyous danee
melodies), some nigunim (word
less melodies); all very engaging.
I wondered, in faet, if they were
authentie Hassidie melodies
arranged by the eomposer, or if
Lev Kogan had eomposed the
melodies himself. I wrote to him
and asked him that very question.
He was kind enough to write
baek, and assured me that he had
eomposed all the musie in the eol
leetion. That made it all the more
interesting. I made arrangements
of a few of the pieees for my quar
tet, VIVA KLEZMER! (www.vi-
vaklezmer.eom), and they have
always been a big hit with audi-
enees.
I had eonsidered doing a
klezmer pieee with the orehestra
during my 40th season, but, al
though there are a few pieees in
that genre, I didn’t feel that there
was anything out there that has a
truly “freygish” feel (the mode
eommon to mueh klezmer musie.)
What if I eould have several of the
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