2008
October 2008
Sunday 5 October 2008
Sun 5 Oct, 2 pm. Sunday, October 5th - Talk Lucette Lagnado, author of The Man in the White Sharkskin Suit re-creates the majesty and cosmopolitan glamour of Cairo in the years between World War II and Nasser's rise to power. Ilan Stavans is an author, cultural critic and professor at Amherst College. Reservations suggested. 2 p.m Cost: $6. 1021 West Street, Amherst, 01002. Laura Sheppard-Brick, 413-256-4900. 6. National Yiddish Book Center - [email][events]
Sunday 12 October 2008
Sun 12 Oct, 2 pm. Sunday, October 12th - Talk Artist and professor of art at SUNY Purchase, Murray Zimiles, won the 2007 National Jewish Book Award in Visual Arts for his book, the first major study of the secularization of Eastern European Jewish folk art traditions in America. 2 p.m Cost: $6. 1021 West Street, Amherst, 01002. Laura Sheppard-Brick, 413-256-4900. 6. National Yiddish Book Center - [email][events]
Monday 13 October 2008
Mon 13 Oct. Monday, October 13th Spend the day at the Book Center during our community Sweet Harvest Festival, a daylong event for families including art projects, nature walks, author readings and great music. 11:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m Cost: Free for Book Center Members. 1021 West Street, Amherst, 01002. Laura Sheppard-Brick, 413-256-4900. National Yiddish Book Center - [email][events]
Sunday 19 October 2008
Sun 19 Oct, 2 pm. Sunday, October 19th - Film Directed by Emmy award-winning filmmaker Charles Stuart, this sweeping documentary portrait traces the evolution of one of America’s most influential legal minds from his youth in Louisville, Kentucky, through his years as a Boston attorney crusading for progressive reforms, to his controversial appointment to the U.S. Supreme Court by President Woodrow Wilson in 1916. (56 minutes) 2 p.m Cost: $6. 1021 West Street, Amherst, 01002. Laura Sheppard-Brick, 413-256-4900. 6. National Yiddish Book Center - [email][events]
Sunday 26 October 2008
Sun 26 Oct, 2 pm. From its unforgettable opening scene in the darkness of a forgotten cemetery in Buenos Aires, award-winning author Nathan Englander's debut novel The Ministry of Special Cases casts a powerful spell. Ilan Stavans is an author, cultural critic and professor at Amherst College. Reservations suggested. 2 p.m Cost: $6. 1021 West Street, Amherst, 01002. Laura Sheppard-Brick, 413-256-4900. 6. National Yiddish Book Center - [email][events]