Yiddish - Language
Sun 22 Mar 2009
2009
March 2009
Sunday 22 March 2009
Sun 22 Mar, 2 pm. 1021 West Street, Amherst, 01002. Laura Sheppard-Brick, 413-256-4900. 8. National Yiddish Book Center - [email][events]
Cantor Murray Simon explores the giants of traditional hazanut, the Eastern European cantorial art that enthralled the American-Jewish community during the first half of the 20th century, through the film footage he has researched and restored including Yossele Rosenblatt, Moishe Oysher and Moshe Koussevitsky, among others from his 2 documentaries, Great Cantors of the Golden Age and Great Cantors in Cinema. Co- sponsored by Congregation Sons of Zion, Holyoke, MA.