BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//wp-events-plugin.com//7.2.3.1//EN TZID:America/New_York X-WR-TIMEZONE:America/New_York BEGIN:VEVENT UID:233@tinr.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230927T183000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230927T210000 DTSTAMP:20230824T155515Z URL:https://www.tinr.org/events/movie_screening_vilna/ SUMMARY:Nusakh Vilne Memorial: The Secrets of the Great Synagogue of Vilna DESCRIPTION:Annual Nusakh Vilne Memorial Program: Film Screening &\; Con cert\nat YIVO Institute for Jewish Research (15 West 16th Street\, \;N ew York\, NY 10011)\nCo-sponsored by Nusakh Vilne and the Lithuanian Cultu re Institute\n\n\n\nYIVO’s annual Nusakh Vilne program commemorates the Jewish community of Vilna through poetry and music. This year\, YIVO will feature the American premiere of The Secrets of the Great Synagogue of Vil na\, a new documentary by Loïc Salfati.\n\nComprising many interviews\, t he film follows the 2019 and 2021 excavation campaigns of the Great Synago gue of Vilna day by day. Both an archaeological adventure and a historical investigation\, The Secrets of the Great Synagogue of Vilna highlights th e Lithuanian Jewish community’s intellectual effervescence and the reput ation of Vilnius\, regarded as one of the most important Jewish cultural c enters in Eastern Europe.\n\nJoin YIVO for a screening of this documentary followed by a Q&\;A with director Salfati. As a part of the evening\, Rita Glassman\, Maria Krupoves\, and Zalmen Mlotek will perform a selectio n of music.\n\nThis program is supported\, in part\, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs\, in partnership with the City Council.\n\nAdmission: Free\n\nREGISTER HERE\n\n\n\nAbout the Partic ipants\n\nLoïc Salfati is a French engineer who was born in 1974 and move d to Lithuania in 2002. After working in the lighting sector in France\, h e became a photographer and film director. Loïc Salfati has also worked i n the cultural sector since 2005. He is currently deputy director and cult ural attaché at the French Institute in Lithuania\, where he developed cu ltural relations between France and Lithuania.\n\n \;\n\nCantor Rita G lassman is the Cantor of Temple Israel of New Rochelle in New York. She pr eviously served as Cantor of Congregation Sherith Israel in San Francisco\ , California. In addition to being an ordained Cantor\, she is a composer and a Board Certified Chaplain. She has produced seven CD recordings with original music both liturgical and secular on the themes of healing\, hope and peace (www.RitaGlassman.com). Cantor Glassman is the daughter of Holo caust survivor Isaac Glazman\, z’l\, who daringly escaped from the Vilna Ghetto one day before its liquidation. The details of his escape and surv ival in Vilna were recorded in letters he wrote to a brother in New York w hich were published in the Yiddish Forward newspaper in 1945. Rita travell ed to Vilnius for the first time in the summer of 2019\, arriving at the e xcavation site of the Great Synagogue of Vilna the day the Bima was locate d. Her rendition of the prayer “El Maleh Rachamim” captured in the fil m “The Secrets of the Great Synagogue of Vilna” was from that very mom ent.\n\nDr. Maria Krupoves\, an artist and folklorist\, is internationally acclaimed as a singer and interpreter of the folksongs of Eastern Europe\ , especially those of her native Vilnius with its multicultural heritage. In 2001\, Dr. Krupoves was awarded a Vladimir and Pearl Heyfetz Fellowship at YIVO (Institute for Jewish Research) in New York. While in the United States\, she has lectured and performed at YIVO and various universities. The singer has published seven albums with a multicultural repertory in co llaboration with klezmer\, jazz and classical musicians. Her album Without a Country: Songs of Stateless Peoples got an enthusiastic review in the B illboard Magazine. Recordings from her album Songs of the Vilna Ghetto hav e been used in the numerous documentaries about Vilna’s Jewish history.\ n\nZalmen Mlotek is an internationally recognized authority on Yiddish fol k and theater music as well as creator of new musicals such as \;The G olden Land \;which toured Italy under the sponsorship of Leonard Berns tein and \;Those Were The Days\, nominated for two Tony Awards. As the artistic director of the NYTF for the past twenty years\, Mlotek helped r evive Yiddish classics\, instituted simultaneous English and Russian super titles at performances and brought leading creative artists of television\ , theatre and film\, such as Itzhak Perlman\, Mandy Patinkin\, Sheldon Har nick\, Ron Rifkin and Joel Grey to the Yiddish stage. His vision has prope lled classics\, including NYTF productions of the world premiere of Isaac Bashevis Singer's \;Yentl \;in Yiddish (1998)\, \;Di Yam Gazlo nim \;(The Yiddish \;Pirates of Penzance\, 2006) the 1923 Rumshink y operetta \;The Golden Bride \;(2016)\, and the critically acclai med \;Fidler Afn Dakh \;(Fiddler on the Roof \;in Yiddish\, 20 18). During his tenure at the NYTF\, the theatre company has been nominate d or received over ten Drama Desk Awards and four Lucille Lortel Awards. ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.tinr.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/ Nusakh-Vilne-Memorial-The-Secrets-of-the-Great-Synagogue-of-Vilna-EVENT-20 23.jpg CATEGORIES:Highlights END:VEVENT BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York X-LIC-LOCATION:America/New_York BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20230312T030000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE END:VCALENDAR