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Jacob Perlow Lecture Series

Spring 2009
April 19 - 21
Yom HaShoah Memorial Events

Sunday, April 19
7:30 pm
Davis Auditorium

"Evil: A Psychoanalytic Perspective"

Paul OrnsteinPaul Ornstein
Co-Director of the International Center for the Study of Psychoanalytic Self Psychology, Professor Emeritus of Psychiatry and of Psychoanalysis, University of Cincinnati and Lecturer in Psychiatry, Harvard University

Monday, April 20
8:00 pm
 Tang Gallery

Hawthorne String Quartet

Ronan Lefkowitz and Si-Jing Huang, violins
Mark Ludwig, viola
Sato Knudsen, cello
Joel Brown, guitar

Candle Lighting

Gideon Klein Fantasie a Fuga (Terezín 1943)
Pavel Haas String Quartet No. 3 Opus 15 (1938)
   Allegro moderato
Pavel Novak-Zemek String Quartet No. 6
(2009 Terezín Legacy Commission)
"Bells of Light" - To the Memory of Pavel Haas
Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco Quintet for Guitar & Strings Op. 143
   Andante mesto

Named for New England novelist Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Hawthorne String Quartet includes Boston Symphony Orchestra violinists Ronan Lefkowitz and Si-Jing Huang, violist Mark Ludwig, and cellist Sato Knudsen. Since its inception in 1986, the Hawthorne String Quartet has performed extensively throughout Europe, South America, Japan and the United States, including major festivals such as Tanglewood, Ravinia and Aspen. The Quartet has an expansive repertoire ranging from the classics of the 18th and 19th centuries to contemporary works.

Tuesday, April 21
7:00 pm
Davis Auditorium

Film Screening and Panel Discussion
Film:  Terezín: Resistance and Revival

Terezin FoundationTerezin to the Czechs. Theresienstadt to Germans. It was a Nazi concentration camp where some of the world's greatest  musicians, composers, artists and theatre professionals continued to create despite the near certainty that they would be transported to Auschwitz. Indeed, the Nazis exploited their art as propaganda -- 'evidence,' they said, that refuted emerging allegations of a Holocaust. The long forgotten story of these people and their struggle is being rediscovered - in art museums, concert halls, school auditoriums and on the web. The irony of this revival is that the art, music and theatre that Hitler used to help cover up the Final Solution is, today, a memorial to the very people he despised.

Terezin: Resistance and Revival tells this story, through the experiences of people who were there, both survivors and those who left behind testimony to their experience. The film features appearances by survivor Edgar Krasa, Holocaust music scholar Mark Ludwig and performances by the Hawthorne String Quartet.

Panel Discussion:

  Mark Ludwig, Edgar Krasa, Anna Ornstein

  • Mark Ludwig, Violist, Boston Symphony Orchestra and founding director of the Terezín Chamber Music Foundation
  • Edgar Krasa, Holocaust Survivor, Educator and Terezín Chamber Music Foundation board member
  • Anna Ornstein, Holocaust Survivor, Co-Director of the International Center for the Study of Psychoanalytic Self Psychology, Professor Emerita of Child Psychiatry, University of Cincinnati, Lecturer in Psychiatry, Harvard University


About the Jacob Perlow Lecture Series in Judaic Studies

A generous grant from the estate of Jacob Perlow -- an immigrant to the United States in the 1920's, a successful business man deeply interested in religion and philosophy, and a man who was committed to furthering Jewish education -- supports the annual lectures and presentations to the College and Capital District community on issues broadly related to Jews and Judaism. Sponsored by the Office of the Dean of Special Programs, two Perlow presentations are offered each year, one in the late Spring and another in July.