40 The Queens Courier • october 27, 2016 FOR BREAKING NEWS VISIT www.qns.com CENTER FOR JEWISH STUDIES AT QUEENS COLLEGE CULTURE & ARTS FALL 2016 ANNUAL KRISTALLNACHT COMMEMORATION Annual Commemoration of Kristallnacht and Recommitment to Combating Anti-Semitism and Hatred Annette Insdorf, an internationally renowned educator and author, is a professor in the Graduate Film Program of Columbia University’s School of the Arts. She served as Director of Undergraduate Film Studies for 27 years. From 1990 to 1995, she was Chair of the Graduate Film Division, and is the recipient of the 2008 Award for Excellence in Teaching from Columbia’s School of General Studies. She taught film history and criticism at Yale University from 1975 to 1988. Dr. Insdorf is the author of Double Lives, Second Chances: The Cinema of Krzysztof Kieslowski; Francois Truffaut, a study of the French director’s work; and the landmark study, Indelible Shadows: Film and the Holocaust (with a foreword by the late Elie Wiesel). For the updated third edition she received the National Board of Review’s William K. Everson Award in Film History in 2003. Her most recent book is Philip Kaufman, which film critic Leonard Maltin called “a thoughtful, scholarly study of one of America’s most underrated filmmakers.” Prof. Insdorf has served as a juror at international film festivals, including Berlin, Galway, Locarno, and Jerusalem, and is the panel moderator at the annual Telluride Film Festival in Colorado. In her popular “Reel Pieces” series at the Manhattan 92nd Street Y, she has interviewed over 200 film celebrities. Her commentaries on prominent filmmakers can be heard on DVD. She was born in Paris to Holocaust Survivors and is an alumna of Queens College, where she earned her BA; she later received her PhD from Yale University as a Danforth Fellow. The program will include a candle-lighting ceremony with Holocaust survivors and subsequent generations, including the Center for Ethnic, Racial & Religious Understanding, who will carry the torch for remembrance and commitment to combat Anti- Semitism and Hatred. In addition there will be a multicultural invocation and musical interludes. Presented by the Resnick Family and Sinai Chapels, Fresh Meadows, Queens, NY. The Holocaust In American Film With Film Clips from the Speaker PROFESSOR ANNETTE INSDORF | Keynote Speaker Columbia University November 6, Sunday, 3–5 pm | Goldstein Theatre Free and open to the public For additional information on this series or other programs sponsored by the Center for Jewish Studies, please call 718-997-5730 or 718-997-4530, or visit www.qc.cuny.edu/centerforjewishstudies. For Goldstein Theatre, there is free parking in Lot 15 on Reeves Avenue (behind the Music Building). Walk east to the corner of Kissena Boulevard and the Long Island Expressway to enter the campus for the Goldstein Theatre. Organized by Queens College’s Center for Jewish Studies and the Center for Ethnic, Racial & Religious Understanding, the Queens Jewish Community Council, Kupferberg Holocaust Research Center and Archives at Queensborough Community College, and others.
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