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Performance: Present Music’s “The City Without Jews”
October 29, 2023, 6:00 pm–9:30 pm
Windhover Hall
Extend your experience of the exhibition Art, Life, Legacy: Northern European Paintings in the Collection of Isabel and Alfred Bader with a concert featuring the 1924 silent film Die Stadt ohne Juden (The City Without Jews) by Austrian filmmaker H. K. Breslauer. Premiering the year of Alfred Bader’s birth in Vienna, this satirical film foreshadowed the events of the Holocaust. During this program, the film transports viewers to pre-war Vienna to more greatly understand the environment that the 14-year-old Alfred Bader eventually fled in 1938. This film sets the scene for the hardships Bader endured—leaving Austria in the first Kindertransport and losing his family—which are reflected in the themes presented through his art collection on view in the exhibition Art, Life, Legacy.
Arrive before the performance to attend the preconcert panel moderated by Amy Shapiro, professor emerita of Philosophy and Women’s & Gender Studies at Alverno College. Panelists include Samantha Abramson, executive director of the Holocaust Education Resource Center (HERC), a program of the Milwaukee Jewish Federation; Yaniv Dinur, music director of the New Bedford Symphony Orchestra, former resident conductor of the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra, and winner of the 2019 Sir Georg Solti Conducting Fellow Award; David Luhrssen, film critic at Shepherd Express and author of Hammer of the Gods: Thule Society and the Birth of Nazism; and Lisa Silverman, professor of History and Jewish Studies at UW–Milwaukee and author of Becoming Austrians: Jews and Culture between the World Wars.
Event Lineup
Doors open at 5:30 p.m.
Preconcert panel at 6 p.m.
Performance at 7:30 p.m.
Ticket holders enjoy free admission to the Museum beginning at 10 a.m. the day of the event. Milwaukee Art Museum Members receive $10 off general or preferred seating tickets DIESTADT10.
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Media Sponsor
Programs supported as part of the Dutch Culture USA program by the Consulate General of the Netherlands in New York.
