The Museum of Jewish Heritage – A Living Memorial to the Holocaust will host the following programs:

Sunday, Oct. 25, 7 p.m.
A live concert featuring Frank London’s Klezmer Brass Allstars, actor and Yiddish singer Eleanor Reissa and percussionist Deep Singh. Broadcast from Edmond J. Safra Hall, the event will stream live to a virtual audience via the Museum’s website. 

The Klezmer Brass Allstars, Eleanor Reissa and Deep Singh will perform songs about love, protest, political commentary, the Holocaust, and liberation, drawing on their previous collaborations “Vilde mekhaye-Wild Ecstacy” and “Mir geyen nisht tsurik/No Looking Back.”

Sir Frank London is a Grammy award-winning trumpeter-composer, co-founder of The Klezmatics and founder of the Klezmer Brass Allstars. He was knighted for his work celebrating multi-cultural Jewish music and honoring those killed in the Holocaust in Hungary. He has worked with many renowned artists across a variety of genres and musical traditions, and has recorded over 500 CDs. His latest release is the poetry/music extravaganza Salomé: Woman of Valor, with Adeena Karasick.

Suggested donation: $20. For more information or to purchase tickets, visit mjhnyc.org.

Tuesday, Oct. 27, 7 p.m.,
A book talk on Ruth Ben-Ghiat’s Strongmen: Mussolini to the Present

Moderated by Jason Stanley, author of How Fascism Works. 

Ruth Ben-Ghiat, American historian and cultural critic, is the expert on the “strongman” playbook employed by authoritarian demagogues from Mussolini to Putin – enabling her to predict with uncanny accuracy the recent experience in America. In her new book, she lays bare the blueprint these leaders have followed over the past 100 years and empowers us to recognize, resist, and prevent their disastrous rule in the future. This program will be The program has a suggested donation of $10 but can be accessed for free.