Stories Survive: The Extraordinary Life of Yaffa Eliach with Smadar Rosensweig
Yaffa Eliach (née Sonenson) was born on May 31, 1935 in Eišiškès, Lithuania. She was just six years old when German soldiers invaded her hometown...
Yuen Ren Chao: A Rare Genius and Versatile Man of Letters
As one of the “Four Great Masters of Tsinghua University” and a versatile genius in many fields, Prof. Yuen Ren Chao is known for having...
Curator Tour of “Boris Lurie: Nothing To Do But To Try”
Join Sara Softness, the Museum’s Curator of Special Projects and Elizabeth Miseo, Collections Manager at the Boris Lurie Foundation for a special...
Good Grief: On Loving Pets, Here and Hereafter
Reading. An unexpected, poignant, and personal account of loving and losing pets, exploring the singular bonds we have with our companion animals,...
Writing Twentieth Century Jews Into Sports History
Journalist Helen Epstein is the daughter of Holocaust survivor and Olympic Swimmer Kurt Epstein. Helen has created a photography exhibit that will be...
Emily Flitter Presents The White Wall: How Big Finance Bankrupts Black America
An explosive and deeply reported look at the systemic racism inside the American financial services industry, from acclaimed New York Times finance...
Buried Beneath the City: An Archaeological History of New York
Book presentation. Bits and pieces of the lives led long before the age of skyscrapers are scattered throughout New York City, found in backyards,...
Sustainable: Moving Beyond ESG to Impact Investing
The global economy is at a crossroads. Can finance fix it? Proponents of environmental, social and governance (ESG) investing say yes. They claim...
The Monumental Undertaking: The Capital Plan of Nanjing
In the wake of the reunification of China, the Nationalist government initiated a comprehensive planning proposal, referred to as “the Capital...
George Washington’s Hair and Forgotten Histories of Memory and Patriotism in Early America
In this lecture, Keith Beutler will discuss how surviving reported locks of George Washington’s hair in the holdings of more than 100 public...
