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| Director, 92nd Street Y Tisch Center for the Arts |
Dr. Hanna Arie-Gaifman, a scholar of music and literature and a pianist, was born in Prague, raised in Israel, and studied in the United States. Dr. Arie-Gaifman (pronounced AH-ree-eh-GAYF-mahn) is responsible for the management and creative direction of the 92nd Street Y's Tisch Center for the Arts, which presents an annual series of classical, jazz, world and Broadway music concerts and, through its Unterberg Poetry Center, a celebrated literary program. A central figure on the Prague music scene for nearly 10 years, Dr. Arie-Gaifman became dean of the Prague Mozart Academy in 1993 and a year later was appointed director of Prague's famous Musica Judaica Festival, one of the first Jewish cultural festivals to be held in the newly opened Eastern Europe. Beginning in 1995, she also served as dean of the Sándor Végh Chamber Music Academy in Prague, and in 1996 took over artistic management and international relations for the Czech Philharmonic. She left Prague for New York in March of 2000 to join the Y as director of the Tisch Center. Dr. Arie-Gaifman is a scholar of comparative literature whose academic appointments have included assistant professor of Slavic and comparative literature at New York University; head of the Program in Czech Language and Literature at the University of California, Berkeley; and assistant professor of semiotics at Israel's Bar Ilan University. Fluent in English, German, Hebrew, French, Czech and Russian, she has received grants and fellowships for the study of literature from the Mellon, Volkswagen and Niedersachsen Foundations, Hebrew and New York Universities and the International Research and Exchange Board. Dr. Arie-Gaifman holds a Ph.D. in literature from The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, an M.A. from the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures at Stanford University and a B.A. from Hebrew University, where she focused on Russian Studies and English Literature. She lives in New York with her family. |
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