2008
March 2008
Sunday 2 March 2008
Sun 2 Mar. Sunday, March 2nd - Concert The Wholesale Klezmer Band performs Yiddish songs, Hebrew liturgical music, Jewish wedding dance music, and original compositions. Reservations suggested. 2 p.m. Cost: $8. 1021 West Street, Amherst, 01002. Laura Sheppard-Brick, 413-256-4900. National Yiddish Book Center - [email][events]
Sunday 9 March 2008
Sun 9 Mar. Sunday, March 9th - Concert FleytMuzik, with Pete Rushefsky on cimbalom, Jake Shulman-Ment on violin, and Brian Glassman on bass, is led by Adrianne Greenbaum on klezmer flute. This concert includes traditional tunes and new compositions. Reservations suggested. 2 p.m. Cost: $8. 1021 West Street, Amherst, 01002. Laura Sheppard-Brick, 413-256-4900. National Yiddish Book Center - [email][events]
Sun 9 Mar. Sunday, March 9th - Talk A celebration of “the other Singers,” Israel Joshua and Esther Kreitman, the siblings of Nobel Laureate Isaac Bashevis Singer. Scholars Janet Hadda and Anita Norwich discuss the Singers’ lives and their writings. Funded in part by The Stanley R. Epstein Fund; 12 Eldridge Street, NYC. For reservations call 212 219-0888. 3 p.m. Cost: $12 adults/$10 students and seniors. 1021 West Street, Amherst, 01002. Laura Sheppard-Brick, 413-256-4900. National Yiddish Book Center - [email][events]
Sunday 16 March 2008
Sun 16 Mar. Sunday, March 16th - Film and Discussion Brundibar was written as an anti-Nazi statement of spiritual resistance in Prague in 1938 and performed by children in Theresienstadt. Rabbi Robert Sternberg, executive director of Hatikvah Holocaust Education Center, will discuss the history of the play and screen the Nazi propaganda film The Fuhrer Gives a City to the Jews. Purchase the storybook from our bookstore. 11:30 a.m. Cost: $5. 1021 West Street, Amherst, 01002. Laura Sheppard-Brick, 413-256-4900. National Yiddish Book Center - [email][events]
Sunday 23 March 2008
Sun 23 Mar. Sunday, March 23rd Film historian Eve Sicular explores the lesbian and gay subtext in Yiddish cinema through clips from selected films and period home movies. Reservations suggested 2:00 P.M. Cost: $8. 1021 West Street, Amherst, 01002. Laura Sheppard-Brick, 413-256-4900. National Yiddish Book Center - [email][events]
Sunday 30 March 2008
Sun 30 Mar. Sunday, March 30th - Film Actor Mandy Patinkin narrates this film about Vilna, Poland, known before the war as The Jerusalem of Lithuania. A conversation between scholar Justin Cammy and the filmmaker, Mira Jedwabnik Van Doren, follows the screening. (2006; 58 min.) 2 p.m. Cost: $8. 1021 West Street, Amherst, 01002. Laura Sheppard-Brick, 413-256-4900. National Yiddish Book Center - [email][events]