special event: claude lanzmann's shoah january 17 - 18, 1997 photo: a scene from SHOAH

calendar "(SHOAH) is an enormous fact, a 563-minute howl of pain and anger in the face of genocide. It is one of the noblest films ever made....It is not a documentary, not journalism, not propaganda, not political. It is an act of witness. In it, Claude Lanzmann celebrates the priceless gift that sets man apart from animals and makes us human, and gives us hope: the ability for one generation to tell the next what it has learned." -- Roger Ebert. Shoah is a Hebrew word meaning chaos or annihilation, and in this remarkable documentary, Lanzmann chronicles, through interviews, the memories of those who participated--as victims and executioners--in moral chaos and unthinkable genocide: Jewish survivors, slave laborers, railroad workers, technicians, bureaucrats, and ordinary onlookers. program notes and  times SHOAH in cooperation with Sephardic House and Yeshiva University Museum Part One: 273 minutes Saturday, December 21: 6:30 pm Monday, December 23: 12:30 & 6:15 pm Part Two: 290 minutes Sunday, December 22: 4 pm Tuesday, December 24: 12:30 & 6:15 pm