The Sam and Helen Stahl Center for Jewish Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee will present three events in March as part of its series “Art & Conflict: Ashkenaz and Beyond.”
On Thursday, March 6, 7:30 p.m., at Congregation Sinai, 8223 N. Port Washington Rd., the CJS will present Jonathan Freedman of the University of Michigan.
He will discuss “Transformations of a Jewish Princess: ‘Salome’ and the Remaking of the Jewish Female Body.” The talk will focus on Oscar Wilde’s notorious play “Salome” and the Jewish women who played the Jewish title role.
On Thursday, March 27, 7:30 p.m., at the Golda Meir Library at UWM, the CJS will host “Yiddish Theatre in the Digital Age: An Interactive Round Table.”
This event will be the first public appearance of the Digital Yiddish Theatre Project, an international group of scholars devoted to the study and preservation of Yiddish theater.
In this open-to-the-public event of a three-day workshop, participants will present five-minute lectures, to be followed by discussion and audience questions.
On Saturday, March 29, 8 p.m., at the UWM Arts Lecture Hall, klezmer revival musician Hankus Netsky and his band Hebrew National Salvage will present “A Musical Journey Through the Yiddish Theatre.”
Netsky is founder of the Klezmer Conservatory Band, one of the early klezmer revival groups, and a longtime instructor at the New England Conservatory of Music.
For more information about these events, contact the CJS, 414-229-6121 or cjsuwm@uwm.edu.
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