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Award winning filmmaker Samuel Lucas Allen talks about their new short film CUT. We talk about how the film came together as a project, the extraordinary cinematography, on working with their father, Richard James Allen (who has been on the show several times to talk about his own work), and the father-son relationship in general, Judaism, guilt, toxic masculinity, the acting team (including a well-behaved chicken), the film score by composer Sam Weiss, what's exciting them right now and lots more. Samuel's website: https://www.samuellucasallen.com/ Sydney premiere of CUT at JIFF: https://www.jiff.com.au/films/2023-shorts# Stills (including the one we talked about at the Sydney Jewish Museum) and other worldwide showings of CUT: http://physicaltv.com.au/cut-2023/ Compulsive Reader review: https://mubi.com/en/au/films/cut-2023-samuel-lucas-allen
Artificial Intelligence allows museum visitors to interact with the stories of Holocaust survivors
Meet Louise Glaser, who shares her story as a volunteer guide at the Sydney Jewish Museum
Best known for his bold modernist work, Sidney Nolan elevated the mythology of the Australian bush to global prominence and earned himself a place among the most significant artists of the 20th century. Yet his deeply expressive response to the Holocaust of the 2nd World War, where around 6 and a half million Jews were systematically murdered by the Nazis, has until now remained pretty much unseen and unknown. An exhibition of the works at the Sydney Jewish Museum uncovers an important chapter in his life and work: a series of images painted with great intensity during 1961, as the Adolf Eichmann trial came to a close and as Nolan prepared to visit Auschwitz. Museum curator Roslyn Sugarman discusses the exhibition, the preparation, and the chance meeting that uncovered this otherwise unseen body of Sidney Nolan's work. A transcript of this interview is available for download HERE. The transcriptions are made possible by the support from the Australian Arts Channel.
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Renowned photographer, Ella Dreyfus, has made a film: Dreyfus.Drei. about 3 generations of her family and, given their Holocaust experiences, their complex relationship with Germany. The 3 are her uncle George, herself and her much younger cousin, Jonathan, who calls Berlin home. The film goes live in Berlin this Friday night 29 October and stays online for 72 hours. The film will be shown in December at the Goethe Institut and The Sydney Jewish Museum. Booking for both venues are now open. Below are the relevant links: Berlin and live streaming international event: 29/30 October at the Delphi Theatre, Berlin https://theater-im-delphi.de/en/programm/?prod=118 Sydney Event: 2 December at the Goethe-Institut, Woollahra https://www.goethe.de/ins/au/en/ver.cfm?event_id=22429041 Sydney Event: 5 December at the Sydney Jewish Museum, Darlinghurst https://sydneyjewishmuseum.com.au/shop/events/film/film-screening-dreyfus-drei/ Dreyfus Drei trailer https://vimeo.com/635293716 Dreyfus Drei website www.dreyfus3.com
Eddie Jaku was a German Jew who survived the horrors of Nazi Germany. He moved to Australia in 1950 and in the 90s he helped establish the Sydney Jewish Museum where he dedicated his life to sharing the message of tolerance and hope.
SBS Yiddish report with Alex Dafner. The Australian Jewish community commemorated ANZAC Day on the 25th April and a special event was held at the Sydney Jewish Museum to honour the more than 7,000 Jewish servicemen and women who served in the Australian forces over the past 120 years.The Jewish military historian Peter Allen is on a mission to correct the inscriptions on the graves of some of the Australian Jewish combatants whose service he has researched and whose headstones record an incorrect name or religion. A Perth antiques auction house auctioned off some personal belongings, purported to have belonged to Adolf Hitler, which raised objections from two Jewish men who were escorted from the premises and revived calls to ban the sale of Nazi era memorabilia in Australia.
A Special tribute to former SBS Yiddish broadcaster, Ruth Leiser Z"L, a Child Holocaust survivor who passed away recently.Ruth was a Child Holocaust survivor, a brave and intelligent lady who left her impact on our Yiddish listeners around Australia. Our listeners loved her and appreciated her talent and her beautiful programs. She retired from SBS at the age of 70.Her contribution to preserve the Yiddish culture and language was extremely valuable. She also dedicated her life to educate the public about the Holocaust and to combat anti-Semitism by telling her miraculous powerful survival story to the students and visitors at the Sydney Jewish Museum. When she was just six years old Ruth, her parents and her younger brother fled their home in Lithuania after Nazi Germany invaded. Ruth's parents insisted on the four of them staying together, and they spent the next four years hiding from the Gestapo. The farmers who helped them put their own safety at extreme risk by hiding the family.I am privileged to have met Ruth and work with her for many years.Today as a tribute to Ruth, and her memory, we will hear her voice again talking about her family’s survivor. I conducted this interview with her in 2004
Eddie Jaku is a German Jew who has lived a glorious 100 years and is still going strong. Born in 1920, by the time Eddie was 18, his homeland was a very different country than when he was born. On November 10th 1938 Eddie Jaku was arrested, beaten, and taken to a concentration camp before eventually being taken to Auschwitz, the deadliest camp of the Holocaust. By virtue of some miracles, Eddie managed to survive and escape, before getting married and moving to Australia where he has lived out many prosperous years with his family. Eddie has written a memoir titled "The Happiest Man on Earth", and with a book title like that, David and I knew we had to talk to him. We are joined in the real and virtual studios by Jess Fruend and Luke from the Blind Insights Family. If you wish to know more about the Holocaust and Jewish History in Australia, visit the Sydney Jewish Museum website or make the trip to see the extensive collection. The Piano Piece in this clip is Nocturne in C Sharp Minor, a piece composed by Chopin and famously played by Polish Pianist Władysław Szpilman, as featured in the 2002 Polanski film The Pianist. Playing this piece to the audience of an SS officer, Captain Wilm Hosenfield, saved Szpilman's life in 1944, as Hosenfield not only let Szpilman go but provided him with food and warmth over several occassions. If you have any thoughts, questions, or want to present your argument, contact us and send us an audio clip at timwhiffen@auscastnetwork.com See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Eddie Jaku is a German Jew who has lived a glorious 100 years and is still going strong. Born in 1920, by the time Eddie was 18, his homeland was a very different country than when he was born. On November 10th 1938 Eddie Jaku was arrested, beaten, and taken to a concentration camp before eventually being taken to Auschwitz, the deadliest camp of the Holocaust. By virtue of some miracles, Eddie managed to survive and escape, before getting married and moving to Australia where he has lived out many prosperous years with his family. Eddie has written a memoir titled "The Happiest Man on Earth", and with a book title like that, David and I knew we had to talk to him. We are joined in the real and virtual studios by Jess Fruend and Luke from the Blind Insights Family. If you wish to know more about the Holocaust and Jewish History in Australia, visit the Sydney Jewish Museum website or make the trip to see the extensive collection. The Piano Piece in this clip is Nocturne in C Sharp Minor, a piece composed by Chopin and famously played by Polish Pianist Władysław Szpilman, as featured in the 2002 Polanski film The Pianist. Playing this piece to the audience of an SS officer, Captain Wilm Hosenfield, saved Szpilman's life in 1944, as Hosenfield not only let Szpilman go but provided him with food and warmth over several occassions. If you have any thoughts, questions, or want to present your argument, contact us and send us an audio clip at timwhiffen@auscastnetwork.com Support the show: https://auscast-network.myshopify.com/collections/blind-insights See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
The Sydney Jewish Museum is re-opening on July 1 with the launch of a new exhibition titled ‘Jews from Islamic Lands’. - تم التبرع بجميع القطع المعروضة من قبل الجالية اليهودية من أصول عربية.
From piyyutim to zemirot to Yeshiva acapella groups in the United States, the use of music in the Jewish faith is numerous and varied. In this interview, Breann Fallon of the Sydney Jewish Museum chats to Dr Ruth Illman of Åbo Akademi University and Uppsala Universityi n about her research on the role of music as an agent of change within the progressive Jewish community in London that appears in her most recent monograph Music and Religious Change among Progressive Jews in London: Being Liberal and Doing Traditional. In particular, Dr Illman discusses the power of music to fuse the traditional and the liberal in a forward movement of progressive Judaism.
On this episode of Glam City, we’re discussing trigger warnings in our cultural institutions with Breann Fallon, Holocaust Educator at the Sydney Jewish Museum.Further Reading:American Association of University Professors Statement on Trigger WarningsThe Unseen Untold exhibition is on at The Sydney Jewish Museum until OctoberReigning Men exhibition at The Powerhouse MuseumIf you have a GLAM idea for something that should be on the show- get in touch: GLAMcity@2ser.com.
It started with Yvonne Engleman noticing her school friends had started to treat her 'like she was invisible'. But the growing scourge of antisemitism soon gave way to far worse as Jews were legislated against, 'selected' for enforced labour and transported to camps. Yvonne, 15, found herself alone in Auschwitz and marked for death by sadistic camp physician Dr Joseph Mengele. Yvonne made her way to Australia after the war and now volunteers at the Sydney Jewish Museum. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
The Sydney Jewish Museum will be hosting a book launch for When Freedom Beckons; The Hungarian Revolution of 1956 and the Jewish Journey to Australia by Vasilios Vasilas. - When Freedom Beckons; The Hungarian Revolution of 1956 and the Jewish Journey to Australia, Szabadság születik, a Magyar forradalom és a zsidóság utazása Ausztráliába, - ez a címe egy Ausztráliában megjelent új könyvnek.
Who are the Four philanthropic Jewish families in Sydney that have pledged $10m for the Sydney Jewish and Holocaust Museums? Find out the latest about the Australian Jewish community, with AJN senior journalist, Evan Zlatkis, talking to Nitza Lowenstein.
The first Jewish people to come to Australia arrived on the First Fleet on 26 January 1788. Among the 827 convicts on the English First Fleet were at least 8 and possibly up to 14 or 15 British convicts who were Jewish. On board was Esther Abrahams. Esther would go on to become the First Lady of the Colony of New South Wales and an important landholder and farmer in her own right. Over the past few hundred years there have been several waves of Jewish migration to Australia. More recently after the Second World War Australia accepted significant numbers of Jewish refugees from war ravaged Europe. For this episode I recommend the excellent Australian history podcast Last Stop to Nowhere hosted by Michael Sloan and Kyle Sherer. You can download it from ITunes. Check out the Sydney Jewish Museum’s website: www.sydneyjewishmuseum.com.au Also have a listen to Renee Geyer singing Heading in the Right Direction – such a beautiful voice: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KjYfkswK_yssp Finally, read the Australian Geographic article on the discovery of an 18th Century Chinese coin found on Elcho Island off the coast of Arnhem Land, Northern Territory: http://www.australiangeographic.com.au/news/2014/08/18th-century-chinese-coin-found-in-arnhem-land Email me at: jamesdampier.awp@gmail.com Music courtesy of Dan-O at: http://www.danosongs.com/ Thanks to Ken Dampier for post-production.