Dear Friends,
It’s been an extraordinary time for all New Yorkers, doing what possible to help someone else come through the devastating aftermath of the storm. We wish to thank all RACC’s members who volunteered in South Brooklyn, helping Russian-speaking elderly people who had been stranded in their homes and apartments.
We are appealing to Russian-speaking volunteers – please join People’s Medical Dispatch, medical professionals who are canvassing Brighton Beach area to make sure that medical needs are addressed. Russian speakers can go directly to the site 2828 Neptune Avenue, where they can get in touch with Becca and Shawn. Alternatively, if they do not have access to a car, they can come to the distribution site in Sunset Park, at Jacobi Church on the corner of 4th Avenue and 54th Street. From St. Jacobi they will be dispatched to the Coney Island/Brighton Beach site in cars full of volunteers.
646.470.7256, http://interoccupy.net/occupysandy/
We are happy to announce:
The Israeli Russian Film Festival had been rescheduled for Sunday, December 16th.
All tickets and vouchers are valid!
We hope this would be a good time to celebrate full recovery from superstorm Sandy in a
Festive Spirit of the Holiday Season. www.russianamericanculture.com
2010 Festival
2011 Festival
For more information please call: 646-831-0554
or email: RussCulture@aol.com
Slava Tsukerman via SNOB.ru– Israeli-Russian Festival in New York (in Russian)
Friday, November 16, 5:40 – 8:40PM
Free Admission with RSVP
Part I: The Official Portrait of Power: Isaac Brodsky, Dmitry Nalbandian
Part II: The Taming of Talent: Nathan Altman, Lazar Khidekel
Hunter College, Auditorium 510 Hunter North, Manhattan
Discussants: Dr. Regina Khidekel, curator, member of International Association of Art Critics, Founding Director of the Russian American Cultural Center (RACC); Dr. Emil Draitser, Professor of Russian, Russian Division, Hunter College.
Alexander Borovsky, Svetlana Domogatskaya, Irina Karasik, Natalia Kozyreva, Regina Khidekel, Lyudmila Martz and Natalia Semenova are among art historians and museum directors interviewed in these films.
Free of charge. All interested to attend should register at RussCulture@aol.com no later than November 14 in order to excess the Auditorium.
LITERARY PROGRAM
New book presentation by Emil Draitser
Tuesday, November 20, 6:30 PM
Russian Bookstore No.21
174 Fifth Ave (between 22nd and 23rd St), Manhattan
“На кудыкину гору: Одесский роман | From Here to Wherever: An Odessa novel”
This tragicomic novel is set in the late 1970s, at the time of mass emigration of Jews from the former Soviet Union. A diverse set of characters – luckless simple folks, expelled dissidents, victims of ethnic discrimination, and black-marketers escaping state prosecution – bid farewell to their beloved city and head for the West via Vienna and Rome. Their attempts at en-route adjustment to the world of personal (and sexual) freedom are often painful and amusing at the same time… In this resourcefully structured novel, the characters’ background stories, hilarious and wrenching, are skillfully woven into the texture of chapters alternately written by the author and one of the book heroes.
Born in Odessa, award-winning author of ten volumes of artistic and scholarly prose and professor of Russian at Hunter College in NYC, Emil Draitser immigrated to the USA in 1975. Among his most recent books are Shush! Growing up Jewish under Stalin and Stalin’s Romeo Spy: The Remarkable Rise and Fall of the KGB’s Most Daring Operative, both earning high critical acclaim.
For more info, visit: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emil_Draitser
Alexander Militarev
New translations into Russian of Emily Dickinson’s poems and Shakespeare’s sonnets and the original verse (in Russian)
Tuesday, November 27, 7:00 PM
Russian Bookstore No.21
174 Fifth Ave (between 22nd and 23rd St), Manhattan
Alexander Militarev – the poet and translator, linguist and cultural anthropologist in Jewish, Biblical, Semitic, Near Eastern and African studies, world civilization, comparative religion, Russian language, literature and culture.
Author of over 120 publications, among them:
Semitic Etymological Dictionary. Vol. I (2000) and II (2005). Ugarit-Verlag. Moenster
Myth Materialized (The “Jewish Idea” in Civilization). Мoscow, 2003 (in Russian)
The Jewish Conundrum in World History, coming out in the Academic Studies Press (Brighton, MA)
The Compass Translation Award-2012 (The Tsvetaeva Contest) more info
The Compass Award-2012 Ceremony and Reading will take place on
Saturday, January 12, 2013, 2:00-4:00 PM
Poets House | Elizabeth Kray Hall
10 River Terrace, New York, NY 10282
1st prize (“Compass” and $300) – The Poem of the End
Alyssa Gillespie, Associate professor of Russian Language and Literature; University of Notre Dame, Indiana, USA
(Alyssa is also the 2nd place winner in Compass Award-2011, the Gumilyov contest)
2nd prize ($150) – Upon a Red Steed
Brian Droitcour, Graduate Student, Department of Comparative Literature, New York University, USA
3rd prize ($100) – An Attempt at Jealousy
Leah Goldberger (a Russian-Arabic-English interpreter in Cairo, Egypt. ) and Eugene Serebryany (biology Ph.D. student in Cambridge, Massachusetts)
With questions concerning the event, please contact the Committee at compass@stosvet.net
The use of the space at Poets House was made possible through the Literary Partners Space Sharing Program.
INTERNATIONAL HEADLINES:
In eve of the 15th Anniversary of RACC and almost 20th of Regina Khidekel’s curatorial work in the USA, Dr. Regina Khidekel delivered a paper about her exhibitions and publication projects of the period at the conference Russian Culture Abroad. 1990-1910 at St. Petersburg University, Russia in May 2012.
In October 2012 in St. Petersburg, the Lazar Khidekel Award for the Best Work of Young Architect was established.
The exhibitions of Lazar Khidekel’s works took place in Zurich (January-March 2012)
and in Moscow (May-June 2012).
646-831-0554, russculture@aol.com; www.russianamericanculture.com
