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He had smuggled himself illegally into Germany as a teenager to study classical music and rose to prominence as the director of the Deutsches Opernhaus in Berlin from 1912-23. He also served as a visiting conductor for major institutions from the National Opera in Riga to the New York State Symphony. In New York he joined forces with leading figures in the Harlem Renaissance including James Weldon Johnson, Judge James S. Watson, orchestra manager Leviticus Lyon and conductor A. Jack Thomas to form \u201cThe Negro Symphony Orchestra.\u201d Waghalter composed a choral work with lyrics by Judge Watson called \u201cAmerica, Our Shining Light,\u201d addressing themes of bigotry, racism, anti-immigrant sentiment, and the hope of America. When the orchestra collapsed after the outbreak of World War II, Waghalter was working on a composition specifically for this orchestra, called the \u201cNew World Suite.\u201d This presentation will discuss what archives at Yale and in New York reveal about the orchestra and Waghalter\u2019s collaboration with it.\r\n\r\nAbout David A. Goldfarb\r\nDavid A. Goldfarb is an independent scholar of Polish literature and literary theory, and a literary translator from Polish to English. He produces and hosts the monthly video series \u201cEncounters with Polish and Ukrainian Literature,\u201d supported by the Polish Cultural Institute New York, now entering its sixth year, and is a writer for a documentary film about Polish-Jewish composer Ignatz Waghalter and the Negro Symphony Orchestra in Harlem. His main current translation project is Agata Tuszy\u0144ska\u2019s \u201cThe Black Handbag\u201d and he has a residency from the Polish Book Institute to work on Tuszy\u0144ska\u2019s novel about Bruno Schulz\u2019s fianc\u00e9e, J\u00f3zefina Szeli\u0144ska, in Warsaw this summer. From mid-2010 to the end of 2013, he was Curator of Literature and Humanities Programming at the Polish Cultural Institute in New York, a diplomatic mission of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Poland. Prior to that he was an Assistant Professor of Slavic Literatures and Comparative Literature at Barnard College, Columbia University.\r\nHe holds a doctorate in Comparative Literature from the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. He has published articles on Bruno Schulz, Zbigniew Herbert, Stanis\u0142aw Ignacy Witkiewicz, Mikhail Lermontov, and East European cinema in such journals as \u201cEast European Politics and Societies,\u201d \u201cIndiana Slavic Studies,\u201d \u201cPhilosophy and Literature,\u201d \u201cProoftexts,\u201d \u201cThe Polish Review,\u201d \u201cSlavic and East European Performance,\u201d and \u201cJewish Quarterly,\u201d and he has published book chapters on Jozef Wittlin, Witold Gombrowicz, and Nikolai Gogol and Giuseppe Arcimboldo. 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