Jan 21, 2004 -- Film historian and critic Dr. Eric A. Goldman will present “Looking at Ourselves: The American Jewish Experience on Film” at the 2004 Morris Epstein Forum on the Arts lecture Tuesday, February 10, at Yeshiva University. The public lecture will take place at 7:30 pm at YU’s Geraldine Schottenstein Cultural Center, 239 East 34th Street (between 2nd and 3rd Avenues) in Manhattan. Through film clips and discussion, Dr. Goldman will explore how filmmakers created and packaged their own unique concepts of the Jew. An expert and lecturer on Yiddish, Israeli, and Jewish film, Dr. Goldman is founder and president of Ergo Media, a New Jersey-based video publishing company specializing in Jewish and Israeli video. He is author of Visions, Images, and Dreams: Yiddish Film Past and Present. Dr. Goldman is former director of the Jewish Media Service, which was a national clearinghouse on film and television for the North American Jewish community. He was curator of film for the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research and moderates the film program for YIVO at the Center for Jewish History in New York. Dr. Goldman received a PhD in cinema studies from New York University and was a fellow of the Max Weinreich Center for Advanced Jewish Studies. He holds graduate degrees in contemporary Jewish studies and theater from Brandeis University. Dr. Goldman has also produced and directed for radio, television, film, and video. The Morris Epstein Forum on the Arts is sponsored by Yeshiva University’s Stern College for Women. It honors the longtime Stern College English professor who died in 1973. Professor Epstein authored several children’s books and edited World Over magazine, published by the New York Board of Jewish Education. He was also a drama and book critic for WEVD radio in New York.