2008
August 2008
Sunday 3 August 2008
Sun 3 Aug. Sunday, August 3rd - Drama Using texts of the Yiddish poet Avraham Sutzkever, Israeli artists Lea Mauas and Diego Rotman integrate new media with voices in Yiddish and English. 2 p.m Cost: $10. 1021 West Street, Amherst, 01002. Laura Sheppard-Brick, 413-256-4900. National Yiddish Book Center - [email][events]
Sunday 10 August 2008
Sun 10 Aug. Sunday, August 10th - Concert The Yiddishkeit Klezmer Ensemble, led by Brian Bender, performs traditional Eastern European Jewish folk music including freylekhs, bulgars and Yiddish folksongs. 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 17 August 2008
Sun 17 Aug. Sunday, August 17th - Concert Vira Lozinsky, born in Beltz, Moldova (Bessarabia), is one of the freshest young voices in a new generation of Israeli singers cultivating Yiddish culture. 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 24 August 2008
Sun 24 Aug. Sunday, August 24th - Film This documentary follows 50 children of Holocaust survivors who travel to their parents’ town near Warsaw to rebuild and rededicate the ancient Jewish cemetery. Includes rare archival footage from 1937 Gombin, 18 months before the Nazi occupation. 2 p.m Cost: $6. 1021 West Street, Amherst, 01002. Laura Sheppard-Brick, 413-256-4900. National Yiddish Book Center - [email][events]
Sunday 31 August 2008
Sun 31 Aug. Sunday, August 31st - Film This semi-documentary film features the comedy duo Szymon Dzigan and Israel Shumacher at an orphanage/school near Lodz with Jewish children who had survived the Holocaust. 2 p.m Cost: $6. 1021 West Street, Amherst, 01002. Laura Sheppard-Brick, 413-256-4900. National Yiddish Book Center - [email][events]