#WeRemember | #nycReadsNight
SUNDAY, JANUARY 29, 3 P.M.- 8 P.M.
AN INTERNATIONAL TRIBUTE TO ELIE WIESEL:
A COMMUNITY READING OF NIGHT
Produced by National Yiddish Theatre Folksbiene and the Museum of Jewish Heritage - A Living Memorial to the Holocaust
Featuring Elisha Wiesel, Andre Aciman, Ambassador Dani Dayan - Consul General of Israel in New York, French Ambassador François Delattre, Tovah Feldshuh, Joel Grey, Sheldon Harnick, Jessica Hecht, Fanya Gottesfeld Heller, David Hyde Pierce, Bill T. Jones, Daniel and Nina Libeskind, Sheila Nevins, Itzhak Perlman, Ron Rifkin, Geraldo Rivera, Daryl Roth, Consul General of Germany Brita Wagener, Dr. Ruth Westheimer, and many others.
Luminaries, friends, and community leaders pay tribute to Elie Wiesel in a community reading of Wiesel’s seminal work, Night.
READERS
In order of appearance
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Welcome Remarks |
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Rabbi Irving (Yitz) Greenberg, Rabbi and Author David Hyde Pierce, Emmy and Tony-Award Winning Film, Television and Broadway Actor and Director Alice Greenwald, President & CEO, 9/11 Memorial & Museum Samuel Norich, President & Chief Executive Officer, the Forward David S. Ferriero, 10th Archivist of the United States Ambassador Katalin Bogyay, Permanent Representative of Hungary to the United Nations Nachum Segal, Host of JM in the AM and President of NSN Network Tovah Feldshuh, Award-Winning Actor, Singer, Director, and Playwright Commissioner James O’Neill, New York City Police Department Sheldon Harnick, Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award-Winning Playwright/Lyricist Ambassador François Delattre, Permanent Representative of France to the United Nations Jacqueline Murekatete, Founder,Genocide Survivors Foundation Ilia Salita, President and CEO, Genesis Philanthropy Group Fanya Gottesfeld Heller, Author, Educator, and Holocaust Survivor Shari Hyman, President & COO, Battery Park City Authority Gary Rosenblatt, Editor and Publisher, The Jewish Week Aqsa Naz, Student Chancellor Carmen Farina, New York City Department of Education Commissioner Joshua Laird, National Parks of New York Harbor Morris Vogel, President, Lower East Side Tenement Museum Blu Greenberg, Author Joel Grey,Tony, Oscar, and Golden Globe Award-Winning Actor Sheila Nevins, President, HBO Documentary Films Eugenie Mukeshimana, Founder & Executive Director, Genocide Survivors Support Network Dr. Elena Procario-Foley, Driscoll Professor of Jewish-Catholic Studies, Iona College Ann Curry, Television Journalist Elmore James, Broadway Actor, Star of National Yiddish Theatre Folksbiene’s Soul to Soul Dr. Mary Boys, Professor and Dean, Union Theological Seminary/ Columbia University Shira Averbuch, Actor, Singer, and Songwriter Joseph M. Mace, Actor, National Yiddish Theatre’s production of The Golden Bride Aaron Lansky, Founder and President, Yiddish Book Center Brita Wagener, Consul General of Germany |
Edward Rothstein, Critic at Large, The Wall Street Journal Josh Morrison, Student Michael Baran, Holocaust Survivor Jeanette Friedman-Sieradski, Holocaust/Human Rights Educator and Writer Shira Averbuch, Actor, Singer, and Songwriter Stephanie Simon, Arts Reporter, NY1 Muhammed Drammeh, Student Eliot Spitzer, Former Governor of New York Jessica Hecht, Tony Award-Nominated Broadway and Television Actor Dr. Ruth Westheimer, Holocaust Survivor, and Sex Therapist, Media Personality, and Author Ambassador Dani Dayan, Consul General of Israel in New York Itzhak Perlman, Preeminent Violinist Bruce Ratner, Chairman, Museum of Jewish Heritage – A Living Memorial to the Holocaust Letty Cottin Pogrebin, Founding Editor of Ms. Magazine, Writer, Lecturer, and Social Justice Activist Adam Gopnik, Journalist, New Yorker Architect Daniel Libeskind and Nina Libeskind Pia Lindstrom, Television and Radio Journalist Matthew Lazar, Founder and Director, Zamir Choral Foundation Joseph Berger, Author and Award-Winning Journalist at The New York Times André Aciman, Author and Professor, CUNY Graduate Center Yuh-Line Niou, New York State Assembly Member, 65th District Susanne Kaplowitz, Holocaust Survivor Dr. Eva Fogelman, Pulitzer Prize Nominated Author Bronia Brandman, Holocaust Survivor and Author Joseph M. Mace, Actor, National Yiddish Theatre’s production of The Golden Bride Bill T Jones, Artistic Director/Co-Founder/Choreographer of New York Live Arts and Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Zalmen Mlotek, Artistic Director, National Yiddish Theatre Folksbiene Leah Klapholz, Holocaust Survivor Consolee Nishimwe, Author and Rawandan Genocide Survivor Georgette Bennett, President and Founder, Tanenbaum Center for Interreligious Understanding Ellen Burstyn, Oscar, Tony, and Emmy Award-Winning Actor Jane Eisner, Editor-in-Chief, Forward Ron Rifkin, Emmy and Tony Winning Television and Broadway Actor Closing Remarks |
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