2008
July 2008
Sunday 6 July 2008
Sun 6 Jul. Sunday, July 6th - Film Silent film accompanist Ben Model and film historian Bruce Lawton return to the Book Center with a newly found print of the Max Davidson comedy “Feed Em and Weep” along with "Jewish Prudence", and "Long Fliv the King". 2:00 P.M. Cost: $10. 1021 West Street, Amherst, 01002. Laura Sheppard-Brick, 413-256-4900. National Yiddish Book Center - [email][events]
Monday 7 July 2008
Mon 7 Jul. Monday, July 7th - Talk Paul Buhle, Senior Lecturer in History and American Civilization at Brown University, will speak and lead a discussion about the participation of Jewish Americans in the various phases of comic art, from the Progressive Era Yiddish-language publication to the "art comics" of the twenty-first century. Purchase Jews and American Comics: An Illustrated History of an American Art Form from our bookstore. 3:00 P.M. Cost: $6. 1021 West Street, Amherst, 01002. Laura Sheppard-Brick, 413-256-4900. National Yiddish Book Center - [email][events]
Mon 7 Jul. Monday, July 7th - Film Enjoy two episodes of this 1950s television situation comedy broadcast starring Gertrude Berg. Made possible by a gift from the family of Eli Mintz. 10:30 A.M. Cost: $5. 1021 West Street, Amherst, 01002. Laura Sheppard-Brick, 413-256-4900. National Yiddish Book Center - [email][events]
Mon 7 Jul. Monday, July 7th - Film Eisner tells his story in his own words through interviews with Michael Chabon, Art Spiegelman, Jules Feiffer and Kurt Vonnegut. Arist, businessman, innovator and visual storyteller, Eisner enjoyed a career that encompassed comic books from their early beginnings in the 1930’s to their development as graphic novels in the 1990’s. Producer/director Jon Cooke and producer Andrew Cooke will attend. Purchase Will Eisner from our bookstore. 8:00 P.M. Cost: $10. 1021 West Street, Amherst, 01002. Laura Sheppard-Brick, 413-256-4900. National Yiddish Book Center - [email][events]
Tuesday 8 July 2008
Tue 8 Jul. Tuesday, July 8th - Concert Join Tony Award Nominee Eleanor Reissa for a celebration of Yiddish music and humor - folk songs, classics of the Second Avenue theater, and stirring tunes of love, piety, and protest. A Lazarus Family Concert. Reservations suggested 8:00 P.M. Cost: $18. 1021 West Street, Amherst, 01002. Laura Sheppard-Brick, 413-256-4900. National Yiddish Book Center - [email][events]
Tue 8 Jul. Tuesday, July 8th - Talk Jeffrey Shandler, Associate Professor of Jewish studies at Rutgers University and author of Adventures in Yiddishland explains how everyday objects – coffee mugs, refrigerator magnets and lapel pins – embody the transmigrations of Yiddish language and culture since World War II. Purchase Adventures in Yiddishland: Postvernacular Language & Culture from our bookstore. 1021 West Street, Amherst, 01002. Laura Sheppard-Brick, 413-256-4900. National Yiddish Book Center - [email][events]
Tue 8 Jul. Tuesday, July 8th - Workshop Would you like to learn how to archive letters, postcards and photographs? Bring them this summer and we will show you how to safely protect them for future generations. 10:30 A.M. Cost: $5. 1021 West Street, Amherst, 01002. Laura Sheppard-Brick, 413-256-4900. National Yiddish Book Center - [email][events]
Tue 8 Jul. Tuesday, July 8th - Workshop Would you like to find out what a family letter, postcard, journal entry or recipe says in Yiddish? Bring it to our Yiddish translators and we'll open the door to your family history. 12:00 P.M. Cost: Free. 1021 West Street, Amherst, 01002. Laura Sheppard-Brick, 413-256-4900. National Yiddish Book Center - [email][events]
Wednesday 9 July 2008
Wed 9 Jul. Wednesday, July 9th - Talk Shandler explores the reality behind the Goldbergs - the most popular Jewish family in 1950s America and pioneers in television's character-based domestic sitcom format. Shandler is a joint author with J. Hoberman of Entertaining America: Jews, Movies, and Broadcasting 3:00 P.M. Cost: $6. 1021 West Street, Amherst, 01002. Laura Sheppard-Brick, 413-256-4900. National Yiddish Book Center - [email][events]
Wed 9 Jul. Wednesday, July 9th - Film This laugh-out-loud film portrays six legendary American Jewish women comics - Molly Picon, Fanny Brice, Sophie Tucker, Joan Rivers, Wendy Wasserstein, and Gilda Randner - who defied cultural expectations and changed the rules. 8:00 P.M. Cost: $10. 1021 West Street, Amherst, 01002. Laura Sheppard-Brick, 413-256-4900. National Yiddish Book Center - [email][events]
Wed 9 Jul. Wednesday, July 9th - Film Enjoy two episodes of this 1950s television situation comedy broadcast starring Gertrude Berg. Made possible by a gift from the family of Eli Mintz. 10:30 A.M. Cost: $5. 1021 West Street, Amherst, 01002. Laura Sheppard-Brick, 413-256-4900. National Yiddish Book Center - [email][events]
Thursday 10 July 2008
Thu 10 Jul. Thursday, July 10th - Talk Novelist, translator and lecturer Michael Wex explores strange Yiddish expressions and how they got that way. Purchase Miachel Wex from our bookstore. 8:00 P.M. Cost: $10. 1021 West Street, Amherst, 01002. Laura Sheppard-Brick, 413-256-4900. National Yiddish Book Center - [email][events]
Thu 10 Jul. Thursday, July 10th - Workshop Daytsh af tselakhis: German to Spite the Germans Author Michael Wex explains why Yiddish was never German. Purchase Miachel Wex from our bookstore. 3:00 P.M. Cost: $6. 1021 West Street, Amherst, 01002. Laura Sheppard-Brick, 413-256-4900. National Yiddish Book Center - [email][events]
Thu 10 Jul. Thursday, July 10th - Film Enjoy two episodes of this 1950s television situation comedy broadcast starring Gertrude Berg. Made possible by a gift from the family of Eli Mintz. 10:30 A.M. Cost: $5. 1021 West Street, Amherst, 01002. Laura Sheppard-Brick, 413-256-4900. National Yiddish Book Center - [email][events]
Sunday 13 July 2008
Sun 13 Jul. Sunday, July 13th - Concert Michael Alpert, Hankus Netsky, and outstanding instrumentalists from the former Soviet Union bring old world klezmer music to life. Purchase Klezmer Madness from our bookstore. 2:00 P.M. Cost: $10. 1021 West Street, Amherst, 01002. Laura Sheppard-Brick, 413-256-4900. National Yiddish Book Center - [email][events]
Sun 13 Jul. Sunday, July 13th Bring your dancing shoes, and learn to dance the freylekhs, the sher, the bulgar, and more - to live music - with Michael Alpert and friends. (Munson Memorial Library S. Amherst) Purchase Songs My Bubbe Should Have Taught Me Volume One: Passover from our bookstore. 7:30 P.M. Cost: $5. 1021 West Street, Amherst, 01002. Laura Sheppard-Brick, 413-256-4900. National Yiddish Book Center - [email][events]
Monday 14 July 2008
Mon 14 Jul. Monday, July 14th - Film Leo Fuchs, the "Yiddish Fred Astaire," stars in this musical comedy as Nat Silver, a debonair and fabulously wealthy Jewish-American businessman whose recent engagement (his eighth) goes awry. Purchase American Matchmaker from our bookstore. 10:30 A.M. Cost: $5. 1021 West Street, Amherst, 01002. Laura Sheppard-Brick, 413-256-4900. National Yiddish Book Center - [email][events]
Mon 14 Jul. Monday, July 14th - Concert In the 1930s and 1940s bluesy, comedic, swing musicians like Louie Jordan and Cab Calloway made great music that still sounds fresh today. Paul Shapiro and his band members celebrate the interplay of hipster swing and Yiddish. Reservations suggested Purchase It's in the Twilight from our bookstore. 8:00 P.M. Cost: $18. 1021 West Street, Amherst, 01002. Laura Sheppard-Brick, 413-256-4900. National Yiddish Book Center - [email][events]
Mon 14 Jul. Monday, July 14th - Workshop Musician and composer Paul Shapiro explores the cross-pollination of Yiddish and jazz in early 20th century America. Purchase Midnight Minyan from our bookstore. 3:00 P.M. Cost: $6. 1021 West Street, Amherst, 01002. Laura Sheppard-Brick, 413-256-4900. National Yiddish Book Center - [email][events]
Tuesday 15 July 2008
Tue 15 Jul. Tuesday, July 15th - Concert Henry "Hank" Sapoznik, Marlene "Cookie" Segelstein and Vince Giordano, offer an intimate, exciting salon of old time Yiddish music: hot fiddle tunes, forgotten ballads, introspective instrumentals and snappy Second Avenue vaudeville songs. Reservations suggested. Purchase Yiddish Radio Project Music from our bookstore. 8:00 P.M. Cost: $18. 1021 West Street, Amherst, 01002. Laura Sheppard-Brick, 413-256-4900. National Yiddish Book Center - [email][events]
Tue 15 Jul. Tuesday, July 15th - Workshop Would you like to learn how to archive letters, postcards and photographs? Bring them this summer and we will show you how to safely protect them for future generations. 10:30 A.M. Cost: $5. 1021 West Street, Amherst, 01002. Laura Sheppard-Brick, 413-256-4900. National Yiddish Book Center - [email][events]
Tue 15 Jul. Tuesday, July 15th - Workshop Would you like to find out what a family letter, postcard, journal entry or recipe says in Yiddish? Bring it to our Yiddish translators and we'll open the door to your family history. 12:00 P.M. Cost: Free. 1021 West Street, Amherst, 01002. Laura Sheppard-Brick, 413-256-4900. National Yiddish Book Center - [email][events]
Tue 15 Jul. Tuesday, July 15th - Workshop Stations of the Nation: Yiddish Radio in America 1925-1955 Record producer, composer, author, and musician Henry Sapoznik discusses the broadcasts of the "golden age" of Yiddish. Purchase Klezmer.: Jewish Music from Old World to Our World with CD from our bookstore. 3:00 P.M. Cost: $6. 1021 West Street, Amherst, 01002. Laura Sheppard-Brick, 413-256-4900. National Yiddish Book Center - [email][events]
Wednesday 16 July 2008
Wed 16 Jul. Wednesday, July 16th - Concert Musician, photographer, magician and writer Socalled brings his one of a kind sound that mixes klezmer with jazz and hip hop back to the festival. Reservations suggested. Purchase SoCalled Seder: A Hip Hop Haggadah from our bookstore. 8:00 P.M. Cost: $18. 1021 West Street, Amherst, 01002. Laura Sheppard-Brick, 413-256-4900. National Yiddish Book Center - [email][events]
Wed 16 Jul. Wednesday, July 16th - Workshop Socalled (Joseph Dolgin) explores the process of sampling and the impact it has had on the rediscovery and vitality of the Yiddish repertoire and continuity. Purchase SoCalled Seder: A Hip Hop Haggadah from our bookstore. 3:00 P.M. Cost: $6. 1021 West Street, Amherst, 01002. Laura Sheppard-Brick, 413-256-4900. National Yiddish Book Center - [email][events]
Wed 16 Jul. Wednesday, July 16th - Film The Singing Blacksmith is the film version of "Yankl der Schmid," a classic 1906 drama that was one of the first Yiddish plays to offer a psychological study of physical passion. Purchase The Singing Blacksmith from our bookstore. 10:30 A.M. Cost: $5. 1021 West Street, Amherst, 01002. Laura Sheppard-Brick, 413-256-4900. National Yiddish Book Center - [email][events]
Thursday 17 July 2008
Thu 17 Jul. Thursday, July 17th - Workshop Klezmer Bluegrass: a lecture/demonstration on klezmer and American music Learn about the history of klezmer music in America and its intersection with other kinds of American music. 3:00 P.M. Cost: $6. 1021 West Street, Amherst, 01002. Laura Sheppard-Brick, 413-256-4900. National Yiddish Book Center - [email][events]
Thu 17 Jul. Thursday, July 17th - Concert Appalachian and southern fiddle tunes by Bill Monroe meet klezmer melodies from pre-war Russia and Eastern Europe. Reservations suggested. Purchase Margot Leverett and the Klezmer Mountain Boys from our bookstore. 8:00 P.M. Cost: $15. 1021 West Street, Amherst, 01002. Laura Sheppard-Brick, 413-256-4900. National Yiddish Book Center - [email][events]
Thu 17 Jul. Thursday, July 17th - Film Director Joseph Green returned to his native Poland from America to produce this, the most commercially successful musical in the history of the Yiddish cinema. Purchase Yiddle With His Fiddle from our bookstore. 10:30 A.M. Cost: $5. 1021 West Street, Amherst, 01002. Laura Sheppard-Brick, 413-256-4900. National Yiddish Book Center - [email][events]
Sunday 20 July 2008
Sun 20 Jul. Sunday, July 20th Enjoy a rollicking afternoon on singer-songwriter Laura Wetzler's critically acclaimed orginal songs, worldbeat Jewish music from Uganada, Turkey, Morocco, Djerba, the shtetlekh and Brooklyn, and great classics of American song. Reservations suggested 2:00 P.M. Cost: $10. 1021 West Street, Amherst, 01002. Laura Sheppard-Brick, 413-256-4900. National Yiddish Book Center - [email][events]
Sunday 27 July 2008
Sun 27 Jul. Sunday, July 27th - Lecture Art historian Maya Benton explores the life and work of photographer Roman Vishniac and presents some of his unpublished photographs as well as never-before-seen contact sheets. Benton serves as collection manager for Vishniac’s estate and is curating a major retrospective of his work. Purchase Children of a Vanished World from our bookstore. 1021 West Street, Amherst, 01002. Laura Sheppard-Brick, 413-256-4900. National Yiddish Book Center - [email][events]