90-minute walking tour that takes you on a winding journey to unravel the darker past of the South Street Seaport Historic District and Lower Manhattan. This entertaining tour tells the scandalous, dubious, and sinister tales lurking in the cobblestone streets, historic buildings, and waterfront.
The final concert of the fall PIPES series highlights the significant role Trinity’s new organ will serve for the church’s choirs and congregation for years to come. The talented musicians of Trinity Youth Chorus sing their own adaptations of two masses: Gabriel Fauré’s Messe basse, originally scored for upper voices, and Maurice Duruflé’s Messe Cum […]
The field of contemporary Holocaust studies is increasingly international in perspective. These approaches do not detach themselves from European history; rather, they incorporate perspectives and voices not always considered in more traditional Holocaust studies. The new book Global Approaches to the Holocaust asks: What happens when scholars shift their focus from an exclusively European perspective […]
This lecture from artist and writer Richard McBee will explore of the work of eleven contemporary Jewish artists.
Two insiders explain why the Israeli–Palestinian peace process failed, and anticipate what lies ahead.
Book reading and signing by Andrew Klavan, author of After That, the Dark.
Dr. Camilla Townsend discusses the book On the Turtle’s Back: Stories the Lenape Told Their Grandchildren she co-authored with Nicky Kay Michael. The Lenape tribe, also known as the Delaware Nation, inhabited the region now comprising eastern Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Delaware, and parts of New York, Connecticut, and Maryland for centuries. However, America’s independence from […]
Book reading and signing by Alissa Lee, author of With Friends Like These.
Author Cynthia Zarin presents her novel Estate, in conversation with Jonathan Galassi.
Maximilian Schell and George Gizzard starred on Broadway in the powerful stage version of an Academy Award winning film. Ernest Janning, one of the most influential German legal minds of the pre war era, and other influential Nazis face a military tribunal in the second wave of post war trials at Nuremberg. Issues at the […]
Join this group of fiber art crafters for a fun afternoon of creativity and camaraderie. Bring your projects, which can include—but are not limited to—knitting, crocheting, embroidery and small-loom weaving.