2007
July 2007
Sunday 1 July 2007
Sun 1 Jul. Steve Goodell, Director of Exhibitions at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, and Guy Stern, professor at Wayne State University, discuss the creation of this exhibit. 2:00 P.M. Cost: $6. 1021 West Street, Amherst, 01002. Laura Sheppard-Brick, 413-256-4900. National Yiddish Book Center - [email][events]
Sunday 8 July 2007
Sun 8 Jul. Sunday, July 8th - Film (A work in progress) Documentary filmmaker Aviva Kempner looks at the life and career of the creator, writer and star of The Goldbergs, a popular 1930s radio show that became a weekly television program. Kempner will introduce the film and answer questions afterwards. 2 P.M. Cost: $10. 1021 West Street, Amherst, 01002. Laura Sheppard-Brick, 413-256-4900. National Yiddish Book Center - [email][events]
Monday 9 July 2007
Mon 9 Jul. Film and Discussion Set in 1989 during the week the Berlin Wall came down, this is a poignant story about a relationship between a grandfather and his grandson. (2002; 25 min.) Out for Love, Be Back Shortly This autobiographical documentary offers a penetrating portrait of young people in Israel today. (1998; 55 min.) Dan Katzir will introduce his films and answer questions after each screening. 3 P.M. Cost: $10/both films. 1021 West Street, Amherst, 01002. Laura Sheppard-Brick, 413-256-4900. National Yiddish Book Center - [email][events]
Mon 9 Jul. Dan Katzir has created a poignant portrait of Zypora Spaisman, founder of the Folksbiene Yiddish Theatre and an extraordinary woman - tenacious, dramatic and passionate about Yiddish. (2006; 80 min.) 8 P.M. Cost: $10. 1021 West Street, Amherst, 01002. Laura Sheppard-Brick, 413-256-4900. National Yiddish Book Center - [email][events]
Tuesday 10 July 2007
Tue 10 Jul. Benjamin Geissler's documentary records his discovery of Bruno Schulz's murals after they disappeared from Drohobycz and reappeared in Yad Vashem. 3 P.M. Cost: $5. 1021 West Street, Amherst, 01002. Laura Sheppard-Brick, 413-256-4900. National Yiddish Book Center - [email][events]
Tue 10 Jul. Tuesday, July 10th - Performance Scenes from Double Edge Theater's Republic of Dreams: Under the Sign of the Crocodile, based on the letters, drawings, and fiction of the visionary Polish Jewish artist Bruno Schulz (1892-1942). 8 P.M. Cost: $18. 1021 West Street, Amherst, 01002. Laura Sheppard-Brick, 413-256-4900. National Yiddish Book Center - [email][events]
Wednesday 11 July 2007
Wed 11 Jul. Wednesday, July 11th - Talk Joel Berkowitz, author of Shakespeare on the American Yiddish Stage, discusses Yiddish playwrights’ responses to the Holocaust. 3 P.M. Cost: $5. 1021 West Street, Amherst, 01002. Laura Sheppard-Brick, 413-256-4900. National Yiddish Book Center - [email][events]
Wed 11 Jul. Wednesday, July 11th - Talk Stefan Kanfer, author of Groucho: The Life and Times of Julius Henry Marx; Ball of Fire: The Tumultuous Life and Comic Art of Lucille Ball; and Stardust Lost talks about Yiddish theater in America. 8 P.M. Cost: $10. 1021 West Street, Amherst, 01002. Laura Sheppard-Brick, 413-256-4900. National Yiddish Book Center - [email][events]
Thursday 12 July 2007
Thu 12 Jul. Thursday, July 12th - Concert The world-famous Folksbiene Troupe returns with a Yiddish revue (with English translation) featuring classic songs and sketches. 8 P.M. Cost: $18. 1021 West Street, Amherst, 01002. Laura Sheppard-Brick, 413-256-4900. National Yiddish Book Center - [email][events]
Thu 12 Jul. Thursday, July 12th - Talk White Piano from the Shtetl: Ethnic and Cultural Identity of Post-Soviet Jewry Anna Shternshis of the University of Toronto is the author of Soviet and Kosher: Jewish Popular Culture in the Soviet Union, 1923–1939. 3 P.M. Cost: $5. 1021 West Street, Amherst, 01002. Laura Sheppard-Brick, 413-256-4900. National Yiddish Book Center - [email][events]
Sunday 15 July 2007
Sun 15 Jul. Sunday, July 15th - Film Spend an afternoon with “the reel” Fanny Brice. Film historian Bruce Lawton introduces this 1930 talkie. 2 P.M. Cost: $10. 1021 West Street, Amherst, 01002. Laura Sheppard-Brick, 413-256-4900. National Yiddish Book Center - [email][events]
Monday 16 July 2007
Mon 16 Jul. Monday, July 16th - Workshop Veretski Pass offers a workshop about this growing movement. 3 P.M. Cost: $10. 1021 West Street, Amherst, 01002. Laura Sheppard-Brick, 413-256-4900. National Yiddish Book Center - [email][events]
Mon 16 Jul. Monday, July 16th - Concert Veretski Pass features Cookie Segelstein (violin, viola); Joshua Horowitz (tsimbl, chromatic button accordion); and Stuart Brotman (bass, basy, tilinca, baraban). 8 P.M. Cost: $18. 1021 West Street, Amherst, 01002. Laura Sheppard-Brick, 413-256-4900. National Yiddish Book Center - [email][events]
Tuesday 17 July 2007
Tue 17 Jul. Tuesday, July 17th - Film Mexico City is the setting for this comedy about friends and family sitting shiva for a beloved patriarch. The film is based on a story by Ilan Stavans, was produced by John Sayles, and features an original score by the Klezmatics. Director Alejandro Springhall and Ilan Stavans will introduce the film. (2006; 102 min.; Spanish, Hebrew, and Yiddish, w/ English subtitles) 8 P.M. Cost: $10. 1021 West Street, Amherst, 01002. Laura Sheppard-Brick, 413-256-4900. National Yiddish Book Center - [email][events]
Tue 17 Jul. Tuesday, July 17th - Talk Holocaust Photography and the Soviet Yiddish and Russian Press David Shneer of the University of Denver presents never-before-seen photographs from Russia and discusses how Jewish photographers represented the war and the Holocaust. 3 P.M. Cost: $5. 1021 West Street, Amherst, 01002. Laura Sheppard-Brick, 413-256-4900. National Yiddish Book Center - [email][events]
Wednesday 18 July 2007
Wed 18 Jul. Wednesday, July 18th - Concert Pianist Marilyn Lerner composed the music and singer Adrienne Cooper created the libretto for this song cycle based on the poetry of Anna Margolin. 8 P.M. Cost: $18. 1021 West Street, Amherst, 01002. Laura Sheppard-Brick, 413-256-4900. National Yiddish Book Center - [email][events]
Wed 18 Jul. Wednesday, July 18th - Talk A discussion of Anna Margolin’s work with Adrienne Cooper and Marilyn Lerner. 3 P.M. Cost: $5. 1021 West Street, Amherst, 01002. Laura Sheppard-Brick, 413-256-4900. National Yiddish Book Center - [email][events]
Thursday 19 July 2007
Thu 19 Jul. Thursday, July 19th - Workshop One of the most important and influential musicians in new Jewish music , David Krakauer talks about his career using recorded and live examples. 3 P.M. Cost: $5. 1021 West Street, Amherst, 01002. Laura Sheppard-Brick, 413-256-4900. National Yiddish Book Center - [email][events]
Thu 19 Jul. Thursday, July 19th - Concert Clarinetist Krakauer, known mostly for amplified sound, will acoustically perform his own compositions with his quartet. 8 P.M. Cost: $18. 1021 West Street, Amherst, 01002. Laura Sheppard-Brick, 413-256-4900. National Yiddish Book Center - [email][events]
Sunday 22 July 2007
Sun 22 Jul. Sunday, July 22nd - Concert Laura Wetzler – "A World of Jewish Music plus Great Classics of American Song" Singer, songwriter and folklorist Laura Wetzler performs with Robin Burdulis on percussion and Wes Brown on bass. Take a musical journey to Jewish communities in Uganda, Morocco, Tunisia, Poland, Ethiopia, Spain, Yemen, Greece, and Italy in a high-energy celebration of Jewish culture. “Laura is one of the very best,” says Pete Seeger. Reservations suggested. 2 P.M. Cost: $10. 1021 West Street, Amherst, 01002. Laura Sheppard-Brick, 413-256-4900. National Yiddish Book Center - [email][events]
Sunday 29 July 2007
Sun 29 Jul. Sunday, July 29th - Talk In Savage Shorthand: The Life and Death of Isaac Babel, Jerome Charyn traces the arc of Babel’s charmed life and mysterious death. Hailed as the first great Soviet writer, Isaac Babel was at once a product and a victim of violent revolution. 2 P.M. Cost: $6. 1021 West Street, Amherst, 01002. Laura Sheppard-Brick, 413-256-4900. National Yiddish Book Center - [email][events]