San Francisco Yom HaShoah at the Contemporary Jewish Museum

Notice Posted by Melanie Nathan, April 16, 2012

San Francisco – The Contemporary Jewish Museum (CJM) invites you to observe Yom HaShoah (Holocaust Remembrance Day) on Thursday, April 19. Open from 1-8pm, the Museum offers several meaningful activities throughout the day and evening to observe, remember, and ponder, including:

Gallery Talks: Artistic Responses to the Holocaust | on the half hour beginning at 1:30pm

Curators and Docents discuss artistic responses to the Holocaust found in two of the Museum’s exhibitions: Do Not Destroy: Trees, Art, and Jewish Thought and California Dreaming: Jewish Life in the Bay Area from the Gold Rush to the Present. Each gallery talk focuses on one artist and artwork and last approximately fifteen minutes. All tours meet upstairs in front of Jacques Lipschitz’s statue, Hagar in the Desert.
Free with Museum admission; Arrive early as space is limited

Gallery Talks Schedule
1:30pm · CJM Docent and Community Jewish Educator Malka Scheinok speaks about artist Marcel Odenbach’s work, You Can’t See the Forest for the Trees, 2003.

2:30pm · CJM Docent Norma Zippin speaks about Jason Lazurus’s work The top of the tree gazed on by Anne Frank while hiding (Amsterdam, 2008).

3:30pm · CJM Assistant Curator Colleen Stockmann discusses artists Marcel Odenbach and Yoshitomo Saito.

4:30pm · CJM Curatorial Assistant Claire Frost discusses artists Jason Lazarus and Ursula Von Rydingsvard.

5:30 and 6:30pm · Do Not Destroy Invitational artist Lisa Kokin reflects on remembrance in her work, Fauxliage: No Birds Sing. Watch an artist profile on Kokin.

7:30pm · CJM Writer-in-Residence Dan Schifrin discusses historical photographs and contemporary art selections in the exhibition California Dreaming.

FILM SCREENING: MENECHAM AND FRED | 6-7:30pm

Two Jewish brothers from a small German town are separated during the war. Sixty years later, after finding letters that their parents wrote from a concentration camp, the brothers reunite in Europe and commence an emotional tour with surprising twists. Co-presented with the San Francisco Jewish Film Festival.
Free with Museum admission