Museum of Jewish Heritage

The Museum's website is now offering podcasts — a media file that can be automatically played on a computer or iPod. This technology allows visitors to re-live the exciting sold-out program or to experience it for the first time.

Note: A plug-in such as QuickTime is Windows Media Player is required for audio files.

*New: Hear world famous pianist Vladimir Feltsman's acclaimed version of Mussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition. Click here.

***Watch a video about the Museum before your visit. Click here to view.

Watch Museum Chairman Robert M. Morgenthau and Museum Trustees Ring in the Opening Bell of the New York Stock

Exchange. Click here to view.

Photo by Mel Nudelman

65th Anniversary of Babi Yar Commemorated with Yevtushenko Reading and Shostakovich World Premiere

Sixty-five years after the massacre in Kiev, Yevgeny Yevtushenko read his famous poem, Babi Yar, to commemorate the event at Babi Yar Remembered: Yevtushenko and Shostakovich in Word and Song at the Museum on Wednesday, September 27, 2006.

Following the reading was the world premiere of the two-piano version of the first movement of Dmitri Shostakovich’s Symphony No. 13, based on Yevtushenko’s powerful poem. The work was performed by internationally acclaimed pianists Misha and Cipa Dichter, bass soloist Valentin Peytchinov, and a male chorus led by Patrick Gardner, made up of the Riverside Choral Society, Rutgers University Kirkpatrick Choir, and Rutgers University Glee Club. Artistic Producer Stephen Vann.

Dramatic reading of "Babi Yar" by Yevtushenko

"Babi Yar" reading followed by the Shostakovich symphony performance

English text translation of Yevtushenko's poem, "Babi Yar"

Event press release

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Museum of Jewish Heritage
A Living Memorial to the Holocaust
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New York, NY 10280

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