The Museum of Jewish Heritage – A Living Memorial to the Holocaust has announced its 2021 Winter Season highlights. The Museum will offer a dynamic array of virtual programs and events to safely engage audiences unable to visit in person through the remainder of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Programs include the Museum’s streaming concert series, “Live from Edmond J. Safra Hall,” conversations with luminaries like architect Daniel Libeskind, author Isabel Wilkerson and filmmaker Sal Litvak, as well as “Stories Survive,” a monthly series of first-person testimonies from Holocaust survivors.
The Museum will also present a special event narrated by Liev Schreiber, “18 Voices: A Liberation Day Reading of Young Writers’ Diaries From the Holocaust,” to commemorate International Holocaust Remembrance Day on January 27.
Additional winter highlights include:
- Extremism: What You Need to Know, featuring the Western States Center’s Eric Ward, journalist Talia Lavin, ADL’s Oren Segal, and Rabbi Joseph Potasnik. (January 14)
- The Rise and Fall of the Jewish New York Accent with author EJ White (You Talkin’ To Me?), filmmaker Heather Quinlan (If These Knishes Could Talk and O Brooklyn! My Brooklyn!), and Queens College linguistics professor Michael Newman. (February 4)
- Legacies: Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla, who has overseen the development of the world’s first safe and effective COVID-19 vaccine, will discuss his experience as the son of Holocaust survivors and how his upbringing informed his accomplished career. He will be joined in conversation by Robert Krulwich, science and technology journalist and longtime host of the double Peabody Award-winning show Radiolab. (February 18)
Admission to most virtual programs is complimentary with a suggested donation, except where prices are noted. For more details on these and additional Winter 2021 programs and events, visit mjhnyc.org/current-events/.
“The 2020 year was not without hardship and challenges, but it presented our institution, like so many others, an incredible opportunity to expand our reach through the virtual realm,” said Jack Kliger, president and CEO of the Museum. “We remain steadfast in our commitment to Holocaust education and remembrance and to celebrating the full breadth of Jewish heritage, culture and scholarship. We were thrilled to reopen our doors to visitors in the fall of 2020 while continuing to present online programming that reached nearly 150,000 additional audience members. We are excited to grow that audience further in 2021.”
