2008
September 2008
Sunday 7 September 2008
Sun 7 Sep, 2 pm. Marjorie Agosin is an award winning poet, human rights activist and professor of Spanish at Wellesley College. Her new book, “A Sea of Voices-Women Poets in Israel" is a unique anthology that brings together the voices of fifty-one women poets, each writing in their native language and living in Israel. 1021 West Street, Amherst, 01002. Laura Sheppard-Brick, 413-256-4900. 6. National Yiddish Book Center - [email][events]
Sunday 14 September 2008
Sun 14 Sep, 2 pm. Sunday, September 14th - Concert Rarely heard folksongs sung by Rebecca Kaplan and accompanied by tsimblist Pete Rushefsky, along with a variety of old and new klezmer tunes and Yiddish songs composed by Kaplan, Rushefsky, and others. Reservations suggested. 2 p.m Cost: $10. 1021 West Street, Amherst, 01002. Laura Sheppard-Brick, 413-256-4900. 10. National Yiddish Book Center - [email][events]
Saturday 20 September 2008
Sat 20 Sep, 8 pm. Saturday, September 20th - Performance Double Edge Theatre's newest work, The Disappearance, based on Ilan Stavans’ novella, follows the real-life story of a Holocaust survivor-turned theatre star in Belgium, living in the throes of a perceived renewal of anti-Semitism, who stages his own disappearance to awaken his community to a wave of neo-fascism. Reservations suggested. 8 P.M. Cost: $18. 1021 West Street, Amherst, 01002. Laura Sheppard-Brick, 413-256-4900. 18. National Yiddish Book Center - [email][events]
Sunday 21 September 2008
Sun 21 Sep. Sunday, September 21st - Performance Double Edge Theatre's newest work, The Disappearance, based on Ilan Stavans’ novella, follows the real-life story of a Holocaust survivor-turned theatre star in Belgium, living in the throes of a perceived renewal of anti-Semitism, who stages his own disappearance to awaken his community to a wave of neo-fascism. Reservations suggested. 8 P.M. Cost: $18. 1021 West Street, Amherst, 01002. Laura Sheppard-Brick, 413-256-4900. National Yiddish Book Center - [email][events]
Sunday 28 September 2008
Sun 28 Sep, 2 pm. Sunday, September 28th - Talk Manseau’s new novel is the story of two lives which merge unexpectedly at the end of the 20th century: a nonagenarian Russian immigrant who is the last Yiddish poet in America; and his 21-year-old American translator, who learns Yiddish and passes as a Jew to win the love of a co-worker. 2 p.m Cost: $6. 1021 West Street, Amherst, 01002. Laura Sheppard-Brick, 413-256-4900. 6. National Yiddish Book Center - [email][events]