Holiday Programs Announced at The Museum Of Jewish Heritage

The Museum of Jewish Heritage - A Living Memorial to the Holocaust announces its Hanukkah programs for families and young professionals, a limited engagement of National Yiddish Theatre Folksbiene's production of "The Sorceress", and schedule of events on December 25 and January 1.

The schedule of holiday activities is as follows:

Light Up the Night
Young Friends of the Museum Hanukkah Gala
December 14
8:00 PM - 12:00 AM
Celebrate the Festival of Lights with a premium open bar, dinner, and dancing. Black tie optional. This event is for people ages 21-39.
http://mjhnyc.org/events/light-up-the-night/

Latkapalooza!
December 10
10:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Get ready for Hanukkah at this family-oriented event featuring food, music, and hands-on activities. Recommended for children ages 3 to 10.
$10, Free for Children and Grandchildren of NYTF/MJH Members. Tickets sold at the door.
Co-sponsored by National Yiddish Theatre Folksbiene and Workmen's Circle
http://mjhnyc.org/events/latkapalooza/

December 25 at the Museum
December 25
10:00 AM to 6:00 PM
Spend the day at the Museum. See the unique Core Exhibition and three special exhibitions. Adult and family-friendly tours are free with Museum admission. Enjoy National Yiddish Theatre Folksbiene's production of "The Sorceress" (separate ticket required). The Museum's restaurant, LOX at Café Bergson, is open during Museum hours.

Exhibition tours are as follows:
11:30 AM: Operation Finale: The Capture & Trial of Adolf Eichmann
11:30 AM: Family-friendly tour of the Core Exhibition
2:30 PM: Core Exhibition
2:30 PM: Family-friendly tour of the Core Exhibition

Museum admission for children 12 and younger is always free. "The Sorceress" requires a separate admission fee for everyone and advance purchase for this show is strongly recommended.

Visit mjhnyc.org for details.

The Sorceress (Di Kishefmakherin)
Presented by National Yiddish Theatre Folksbiene at the Museum of Jewish Heritage
December 25 - January 1
By Avrom Goldfaden, Directed by Motl Didner, Music Direction by Zalmen Mlotek

The Sorceress will be presented as an enhanced reading as part of the Yiddish Theatre Restoration Project. Audiences will have the exclusive opportunity to see this production on stage with costumes, lights, and projections for the first time in over 80 years.

This 1879 operetta by the "father of Yiddish theater" was the first Yiddish theater piece produced in America by Boris Thomashevsky-at the age of 14. A fairy-tale-like story of an innocent young heroine, her wicked stepmother, dashing fiancé, an itinerant peddler, and a local witch is set to a delightful musical score full of memorable tunes. Yiddish with English translation supertitles.

Performances:
MONDAY, DECEMBER 25 | 2 PM
TUESDAY, DECEMBER 26 | 7 PM
WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 27 | 7 PM
FRIDAY, DECEMBER 29 | 12 PM
MONDAY, JANUARY 1 | 2 PM

Tickets are $25 at nytf.org or call 866-811-4111.

January 1 at the Museum
10 AM to 6 PM
Start 2018 at the Museum. See the unique Core Exhibition and three special exhibitions. Enjoy National Yiddish Theatre Folksbiene's production of "The Sorceress" (separate ticket required). The Museum's restaurant, LOX at Café Bergson, is open during Museum hours.

Museum admission for children 12 and younger is always free. "The Sorceress" requires a separate admission fee for everyone and advance purchase for this show is strongly recommended.

Visit mjhnyc.org for details.

General Information
Museum Hours AND LOCATION
Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, 10 AM to 6 PM
Wednesday and Thursday 10 AM to 8 PM
Friday 10 AM to 3 PM, EST / 10 AM to 5 PM DST

The Museum is closed on Saturdays, Jewish holidays, and Thanksgiving.

The Museum is located at 36 Battery Place in Lower Manhattan.

MUSEUM ADMISSION
General Museum admission is $12 for adults, $10 for seniors, $7 for students, free for members and children 12 and younger.

Museum admission is free on Wednesday and Thursday evenings between 4 P.M. and 8 P.M.

A free walk-up tour is offered on Tuesdays at 3 P.M. of the Core Exhibition

Note: Tickets to public programs do not include Museum admission. Public programs may require a separate fee.

ABOUT THE MUSEUM OF JEWISH HERITAGE - A LIVING MEMORIAL TO THE HOLOCAUST
The Museum of Jewish Heritage - A Living Memorial to the Holocaust is New York's contribution to the global responsibility to never forget. The Museum is committed to the crucial mission of educating diverse visitors about Jewish life before, during, and after the Holocaust. Anchoring the southernmost tip of Manhattan, the Museum of Jewish Heritage completes the cultural and educational landscape it shares with the Statue of Liberty and Ellis Island.

Since 1997, the Museum of Jewish Heritage has welcomed more than two million visitors; it maintains a collection of 30,000 artifacts, photographs, documentary films, and survivor testimonies and contains classrooms, a 400-seat theater (Edmond J. Safra Hall), special exhibition galleries, a resource center for educators, and a memorial art installation, Garden of Stones, designed by internationally acclaimed sculptor Andy Goldsworthy.

The Museum receives general operating support from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs and New York State Council on the Arts.

For more information, visit mjhnyc.org.