Music in the Ghetto: Jewish Musicians and their Music
in Renaissance Italy

Works by Guglielmo Ebreo da Pesaro, Salamone Rossi, and others

Lecture at 4:30 pm and performance at 5:15 pm
The Yale Collegium Musicum
Grant Herreid, Director

Emily Bernard is the author of Black is the Body: Stories from My Grandmother’s Time, My Mother’s Time, and Mine, which was named one of the best books of 2019 by Kirkus Reviews and National Public Radio. Bernard is the winner of the 2020 Los Angeles Times Christopher Isherwood Prize for autobiographical prose.

Center Church on the Green and Beinecke Library welcome all to a special screening of the documentary film “What Could Have Been” about the proposal for America’s first HBCU in New Haven in 1831

The screening will be followed by a conversation and q&a session with film director Tubyez Cropper and narrator Charles Warner, Jr. They are both lifelong New Haveners and graduates of New Haven Public Schools. Cropper is a Community Engagement Program Manager at Beinecke and Warner is Chair of the Connecticut Freedom Trail.

The Beinecke Library and the New Haven Museum join forces again to celebrate Dictionary Day, with displays at the museum, 114 Whitney Avenue on Saturday, October 19, 12 noon-5pm, and the library, 121 Wall Street, Sunday, October 20, 1pm-4pm. This year, we are also joined by colleagues from the Noah Webster House & West Hartford Historical Society, who will be at the Beinecke Library to share items and insights from their Webster collections.

Business owner, abolitionist, service worker, father, community leader: John William Creed embodies the many strands of New Haven Black history in the 19th century.

His photograph, taken in 1863, was recently found in the Beinecke, included in the back of a photo album of the secret society, Skull and Bones, where Creed worked. The pencil inscription reads “Old Creed, janitor.” Since finding the image of Creed, several other photographs of Black custodians have been located in the Yale collections.