Museum at Eldridge Street

Recorded: Tuesday, October 1, 2024 Visit https://www.eldridgestreet.org/events for all upcoming Museum at Eldridge Street programming. From May 16, 2024 through November 10, 2024, the Museum at Eldridge Street featured the exhibition "Memory and Inheritance: Paintings and Ceremonial Objects by Tobi Kahn," showcasing Kahn’s luminous paintings and his singular Judaica in our historic synagogue home, inviting reflection and meditation. How can material objects enhance the spiritual experience? Although Judaism has emphasized words and interpretation, Kahn has found the visual elements of the tradition, namely Judaica, equally illuminating. For him, spirituality is integrally bound up with the beauty of the created world. Join us on Zoom with Tobi Kahn for a look at some of his Judaica objects that are on display at Eldridge Street as part of "Memory and Inheritance," and get an insider perspective on the artist's inspiration and process. Judaica discussed in this program include a shofar (ram's horn) holder and an apple and honey set in the shape of a dancer. About the Artist Tobi Kahn is a painter and sculptor whose art has been shown in over 70 solo museum exhibitions. Works by Kahn are in major museum collections globally, including the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, The Phillips Collection, and The Houston Museum of Fine Arts. To learn more about Tobi Kahn, please visit https://www.tobikahn.com/.

Recorded: Wednesday, September 18, 2024 Visit https://www.eldridgestreet.org/events for all upcoming Museum at Eldridge Street programming. From May 16, 2024 through November 10, 2024, the Museum at Eldridge Street featured the exhibition "Memory and Inheritance: Paintings and Ceremonial Objects by Tobi Kahn," showcasing Kahn’s luminous paintings and his singular Judaica in our historic synagogue home, inviting reflection and meditation. In recent years, Kahn has been making paintings, sculptures, and spaces for communities that seek both contemplation and commemoration, offering a respite from our daily lives, and an interlude of healing. Join us virtually with Tobi Kahn for a deep dive into these meditative spaces, along with the meanings and motivations behind them. In his art, Kahn strives to connect to the spirituality in each of us, regardless of faith. The spaces discussed in this program will include the HealthCare Chaplaincy Meditative Space in New York City. Commissioned after 9/11, this environment was created by Kahn in 2002 as a haven for clergy of all faiths to find a peaceful moment, and still exists today as a sanctuary for chaplains visiting hospital patients. About the Artist Tobi Kahn is a painter and sculptor whose art has been shown in over 70 solo museum exhibitions. Works by Kahn are in major museum collections globally, including the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, The Phillips Collection, and The Houston Museum of Fine Arts. To learn more about Tobi Kahn, please visit https://www.tobikahn.com/.

Recorded: Tuesday, November 19, 2024 Visit https://www.eldridgestreet.org/events for all upcoming Museum at Eldridge Street programming. Explore the historical Jewish doctor's approach to medicine, and how the traditional Jewish doctor has evolved. Early Jewish physicians viewed their work as being a joint venture with God, and containing a set of ethics based strongly in their steadfast Jewish values. During the Middle Ages, many gentiles recognized a certain mystique for which Jewish doctors either were revered or reviled. Even in modern times, Jewish tradition can provide a moral perspective beyond purely scientific matters. In this virtual talk, Dr. Nevins will attempt to fill a black hole in our collective consciousness about what characterizes a distinctive Jewish approach to medical care and why that matters. Dr. Michael Nevins Throughout his career, Dr. Michael Nevins has enjoyed studying and writing about Jewish medical history. In his books about this subject, the now retired Dr. Nevins developed a theory that there was something distinctive about how Jewish physicians have gone about their work. Dr. Nevins is a retired internist-cardiologist who practiced for nearly four decades in Northern New Jersey. He grew up in the Bronx, graduated from Dartmouth College and Tufts Medical School and was active in bioethics, geriatrics, and medical education. He served as Governor of New Jersey’s chapter of the American College of Physicians and was president of the Medical History Society of New Jersey. Dr. Nevins has published fourteen books mostly related to medical history, four of them Jewish medical history. Image Credit Maimonides depiction over autograph responsum of Maimonides discovered in the Cairo Geniza, British Museum.

Recorded: Tuesday, September 24, 2024 Find all Museum at Eldridge Street programming, both virtual and in-person, at https://www.eldridgestreet.org/events. Enjoy this book talk with award-winning author Dan Slater. Prior to World War I, the Lower East Side was a vice-filled ghetto—that is, until some wealthy Jewish uptowners formed a rogue vice squad to wage war on the underworld and secure the future of Jews in America. In selecting "The Incorruptibles" (Little, Brown and Company, 2024) as an editors' pick, "The New York Times" wrote: "Pitting colorful mobsters against earnest reformers in a battle of wits and gunfire, Slater’s diverting narrative of New York City’s Jewish gangland in the early 1900s doubles as a slyly sophisticated primer on an overlooked chapter of American crime history." Join Dan as he presents his newest publication, "The Incorruptibles: A true story of Kingpins, Crime Busters, and the birth of the American Underworld" in this virtual book talk with the Museum at Eldridge Street. Dan Slater is the author of "Wolf Boys," which was a Chicago Public Library best book of the year, "Love in the Time of Algorithms," and "The Officer & the Entrepreneur." A graduate of Colgate University, New York Film Academy, and Brooklyn Law School, he has written for more than a dozen publications, including "The Wall Street Journal," "The Washington Post," "The New York Times," "New York Magazine," "The Boston Globe," "The Atlantic," "Texas Monthly," "The New Yorker" online, and "GQ." Raised in Minnesota, Slater lives in New England with his wife and their two sons.

Recorded: Sunday, March 3, 2024 Find all upcoming Museum at Eldridge Street programming at https://www.eldridgestreet.org/events In honor of Women's History Month, the Museum at Eldridge Street hosted a panel discussion about the infamous Triangle Shirtwaist Factory disaster, the monumental change it inspired, and the women that led the charge. We were also joined by The New York City Labor Chorus, who both opened and closed this program with their powerful voices and united message of solidarity. About this Panel Discussion: From December 3, 2023 through May 5, 2024 the Museum at Eldridge Street featured our exhibition "On the Lower East Side: Twenty-Eight Remarkable Women…and One Scoundrel," showcasing the work of artist Adrienne Ottenberg. Portraits printed on silk or cotton included a tableau of street maps depicting the Lower East Side places where these women worked and lived. In conjunction with Ottenberg's show, the Museum hosted a panel discussion moderated by Remember the Triangle Fire Coalition Vice President Rose Imperato, with historians and Coalition members Andi Sosin and Kevin Baker. Adrienne Ottenberg will join these esteemed speakers, and together we will mark 113 years since the March 1911 Fire.

Recorded: Sunday, June 30, 2024 Find all upcoming Museum at Eldridge Street programming at https://www.eldridgestreet.org/events Join "New York Times" best-selling author Daniel Schulman and learn about the incredible saga of the German-Jewish immigrants—with now familiar names like Goldman and Sachs, Kuhn and Loeb, Warburg and Schiff, Lehman and Seligman—who profoundly influenced the rise of modern finance and shaped modern America. "The Money Kings" (Knopf, November 14, 2023) unspools a sweeping narrative that traces the interconnected origin stories of these financial dynasties. Schulman chronicles their paths to Wall Street dominance, as they navigated the deeply antisemitic upper class of the Gilded Age, and the complexities of the Civil War, World War I, and the Zionist movement that tested both their burgeoning empires and their identities as Americans, Germans, and Jews. Joseph Seligman arrived in the United States in 1837, with the equivalent of $100 sewn into the lining of his pants. Then came the Lehman brothers, who would open a general store in Montgomery, Alabama. Not far behind were Solomon Loeb and Marcus Goldman, among the “Forty-Eighters” fleeing a Germany that had relegated Jews to an underclass. These industrious immigrants would soon go from peddling trinkets and buying up shopkeepers’ IOUs to forming what would become some of the largest investment banks in the world—Goldman Sachs, Kuhn Loeb, Lehman Brothers, J. & W. Seligman & Co. They would clash and collaborate with J. P. Morgan, E. H. Harriman, Jay Gould, and other famed tycoons of the era. Their firms would help to transform the United States from a debtor nation into a financial superpower, capitalizing American industry and underwriting some of the twentieth century’s quintessential companies, like General Motors, Macy’s, and Sears. Along the way, they would help shape the destiny of the millions of Eastern European Jews who spilled off steamships in New York Harbor in the early 1900s, including Daniel Schulman’s paternal grandparents. About the Author: Daniel Schulman is "The New York Times" best-selling author of "Sons of Wichita," a biography of the Koch family that was a finalist for the 2014 "Financial Times" and "McKinsey Business" Book of the Year Award. The deputy Washington bureau chief of "Mother Jones," he lives in Massachusetts, with his wife and sons.