Evening programmes in the Education & Culture Centre

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June 10

Tuesday 1 June, 6 p.m.: My Long Silence - a presentation of the book by Erika Bezdíčková who survived the Shoa. You may know her from the documentary Seven Lights by Olga Sommerová. Her happy childhood finished at the age of twelve when the Nazis sent her whole family to a concentration camp. Only Erika and her sister survived the murdering hysteria of the Nazis. When the war ended, she did not have anywhere to go and for two years lived on the street. In her book Erika Bezdíčková describes her life before the War, imprisonment in several concentration camps and the events that followed after the War that still have an impact till today. The book will be available for purchase. Small refreshments will be offered

Wednesday 2 June, 6 p.m.: Nigun - Hebrew, Sephardic and Yiddish songs and violin improvisations. Come and listen and sing together! Performing: the deepest contralto in the Czech Republic Věra Nerušilová – vocal, violin virtuoso Alexander Shonert – violin, accompanied by Natalie Shonert – piano. Admission CZK 60

Thursday 3 June, 6 p.m.: Franz Kafka in Illustrations and Visual Arts. On the illustrations of Franz Kafka´s stories and novels and their influence on some artists. The response of Kafka’s work in the Czech visual arts scene in the 1960s and the work of Jarmila Mařanová, a graphic artist and painter. A lecture by Dr. Arno Pařík held for the occasion of the 86^th anniversary of Franz Kafka’s death.

Monday 7 June, 6 p.m.: Aviv sifruti or Literal Spring with Jewish Themes. An author’s reading of prose and poetry with music. Performing: Eva Frantinová, a poet and violinist, Karel Sýs, a poet with a wide range of work, and Vlasta Rut Sidonová, an author of stories about the contemporary life of the Jewish community. Accompanied by Václav Peter, organ play teacher, on the piano.

Tuesday 8 June, 6 p.m.: A Way without Return. A presentation of the book of the same title written by Irena Veverková. She resolved to symbolically approach the everyday life of the Jewish minority in Kladno based on the fates of several individuals. In particular chapters we can find information not only on Kladno´s rabbis and synagogue but also on the life of individuals, Jewish businessmen, students, doctors and lawyers. We will learn about their interests and hobbies. The bilingual insertions of family trees, portraits of selected people and photographs of Jewish houses are also included in the book. The book will be available for purchase.

Wednesday 9 June, 6 p.m.: The Jewish Minority in Slovakia in the 1950s and 1960s: Traumas and Strategies of the Future. A lecture by Dr. Peter Salner from the new series The Jewish Minority in Czechoslovakia in the Years of De-Stalinization and Détente within the Intentions of Reform Communism.

Saturday 12 June, 10.30 p.m. – 1 a.m.: This year the Jewish Museum in Prague will again open the permanent exhibition History of the Jews in Bohemia and Moravia in the Maisel and Spanish Synagogues to visitors within the framework of Prague’s Museum Night. Qualified guides will be available during the night. An accompanying programme for children has been prepared in the Maisel Synagogue: Find answers for Lion Cub Arje. Arje has placed some tricky questions around the Synagogue. However, an attentive visitor to the Synagogue will be able to answer them easily. Whoever is able to find all of the answers will be rewarded by Arje.

Tuesday 15 June, 6 p.m.: An Optimistic Thing: Writing Poetry. Meir Wieseltier, a contemporary Israeli poet who, within almost fifty years of his work, has been ranked into the canon of the modern Hebrew poetry. In the early 1960s, he was a part of the birth of a young poetic generation that had an essential importance for the development of Israeli poetry as they introduced changes in the form of the poetic language and brought a new view on the content of Israeli poetry as well. While the other members of the group were connected with the city of Tel Aviv in a residential sense, Wieseltier was dealing with the description of this city in his texts and this is why we usually speak of him as the poet of Tel Aviv in the real sense of the word. A lecture by Zuzana Hametová is the last one from the series The Paths of Israeli Literature. Hanuš Bor, an actor with the Prague Municipal Theatres, will read extracts from M. Wieseltier’s work.

Wednesday 16 June, 6 p.m.: Forebears Jacob, Rachel and Lea. Another lecture from the series of lectures given by Karol Efraim Sidon, Chief Rabbi of Prague and the Czech Republic, on the Forebears of the People of Israel, the Founders of the Jewish Nation.

Sunday programme for children and their parents

13 June, 2010, 2 p.m.: Lion Cub Arje Goes to Israel

We will visit Israel together with Arje, have a look at some sights, celebrate Yom ha Acmaut (The Independence Day of the State of Israel). We will learn an Israeli dance, their anthem and in the end we will taste a traditional meal of falafel.

Tour: Prague Jewish Town Admission 50 CZK

The individual programmes admission is 30 CZK if not mentioned otherwise. The lecture hall is always open to the public 20 minutes before starting a programme. After the beginning of a concert or 15 minutes after the beginning of other programmes entering the Education and Culture Centre is not allowed.

The exhibitions on the premises of the Centre:

(exhibitions are open to the public Mon–Thurs 10 a.m.–3 p.m., Fri 10 a.m.–12 p.m.)

How They Saw and See the World: the exhibition of the XII year of art competition declared by the Terezín Memorial

Don’t Lose Faith in Mankind... The Protectorate Bohemia and Moravia Through the Eyes of Jewish Children and Neighbours Who Disappeared/Tribute to the Child Holocaust Victims – permanent display of travelling exhibitions.