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Metropolitan
Playhouse
The American Legacy 220
East
Fourth
Street
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New
York,
New
York
10009
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Special Panel The East Village: Theory and Practice Wednesday, June 22 at 7:30 PM RESERVE HERE! |
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Stephen
Hazan Arnoff graduated
Magna
Cum
Laude
with
a
BA
from
Brandeis
University
(1994) and received
his MA in Midrash as a Wexner Graduate Fellow from
the Jewish Theological Seminary of America (2002) where he is currently
completing a doctorate. He has served as Director of Artists Networks
and Programming at the Makor/Steinhardt Center of the 92nd Street Y
(2002-05), Managing Editor of Zeek:
A
Jewish
Journal
of
Thought
and
Culture (2005-07),
and
has
taught
on Jewish communal issues, education, religion, and the arts at
institutions, conferences, and public programs in North America,
Israel, and Europe. Stephen has written for a variety of academic and
popular publications, and has been awarded
the Rockower Jewish Press Award for Jewish Arts & Criticism
(American Jewish Press Association) and the New Voices Prize (Jewish Family and Life!). Most
recently, he contributed chapters to the books Reading the Boss: Interdisciplinary Approaches to the Works
of Bruce Springsteen (Lexington Books, 2011) and Dylan at Play (Cambridge
Scholars Press, 2012). Since 2007, Stephen has been Executive Director
of the 14th Street Y, overseeing doubling of the size of the Y’s core
programs and membership, a 30% increase in overall operating budget,
major renovations throughout the building, and the founding of LABA:
The National Laboratory for New Jewish Culture. He is married to writer
and theater director Basmat Hazan. They have four children.
Eric Ferrara is founder and executive director of Lower East Side History Project, founder of the East Village Visitors Center and founder of the Museum of the American Gangster. He is also E.4th Street Cultural District historian, a published author, educator at Brooklyn College and sits on a number of local boards including the Tenement Museum's Immigrant Programs Advisory Committee, and the Bowery Alliance of Neighbors. Above all, Eric is a fourth generation, native New Yorker, active community member and passionate researcher who has made it his life mission to document his neighborhood's great history and share it with the world. Frances Goldin has worked in publishing for 63 years, as an agent and as editor-in-chief of a children's publishing company; she founded the Frances Goldin Literary Agency and sold her first book in 1977. Authored by Black anthropologist Betty Lou Valentine and titled Hustling and Other Hard Work, the book continued to receive royalties for 32 years. One of the agency's strengths is that many of its books continue to earn royalties long after publication. Reflecting Goldin's radical politics, the Agency concentrates on literary fiction and serious, controversial, progressive non-fiction. Among her clients are Barbara Kingsolver, who she has represented for all of her 14 books, Mumia Abu-Jamal, Dorothy Allison, Frances Fox Piven, Martin Duberman, Adrienne Rich, Staceyann Chin, Martin Espada, Alix Dobkin, Juan Gonzales, Fred Jerome, Staughton Lynd, iconic feminists including Charlotte Bunch and Esther Newton, and Mike Wallace, co-author with Ted Burroughs of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Gotham. Her newest clients are Norman Finkelstein and Frank Serpico. Believing that "a better world is possible," it is her goal to get books published that will help speed that process. With the rising tide of the right threatening the free exchange of ideas, this agency will continue to provide analysis and clarity, one book at a time. Joyce Ravitz is a retired secondary school teacher who has lived on the Lower East Side for over 40 years. She got to know NYC and the LES from many different angles--as a taxi driver, paramedic, mother, and ever-early on-as a sandal maker. She has been an activist and organizer in each role--with Taxi Rank and File Coalition, as one of NYC's first women paramedics, and more recently as a member of the Lesbian and Gay Teachers Association. Today she is the chairperson of The Cooper Square Committee, the oldest housing organization in NYC the has been fighting to preserve and increase low income housing for over 50 years. Throughout her life, Joyce has worked for peace with justice from Vietnam to Palestine. |