2008
November 2008
Sunday 2 November 2008
Sun 2 Nov, 2 pm. Sunday, November 2nd - Talk From the Bible to Broadway – 3000 years of Jewish Music Historian and archivist, Barry Serota, explores the development of Jewish song using audio and video clips, anecdotes and humor. 2 p.m Cost: $6. 1021 West Street, Amherst, 01002. Laura Sheppard-Brick, 413-256-4900. 6. National Yiddish Book Center - [email][events]
Sunday 9 November 2008
Sun 9 Nov, 2 pm. Sunday, November 9th - Talk Amherst College professor Ilan Stavans is the author of, among other books, On Borrowed Words: A Memoir of Language, Dictionary Days: A Defining Passion and the editor of the three-volume set, Isaac Bashevis Singer: Collected Stories. His new book, Resurrecting Hebrew, explores the life and legacy of Zionist lexicographer Eliezer ben Yehuda, credited for making Hebrew modern. 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 23 November 2008
Sun 23 Nov, 2 pm. Jewish folktales are creatively retold and let loose in the Wild West in the graphic novels The Adventures of Rabbi Harvey and Rabbi Harvey Rides Again. Author Steve Sheinkin talks about the origin of Rabbi Harvey stories and illustrates the step-by-step process he uses to turn traditional tales of Jewish ethics into comics set in the Wild West. 1021 West Street, Amherst, 01002. Laura Sheppard-Brick, 413-256-4900. 6.00. National Yiddish Book Center - [email][events]
Sunday 30 November 2008
Sun 30 Nov, 2 pm. Sunday, November 30th - Film This 1939 shund film includes the sole motion picture performance of radio star Esther Field, who was well-known on the airwaves of the 1930s as the "Yidishe Mama." Here Field plays a mother coping with her children's troubles as they stray from Jewish tradition. (85 minutes; Yiddish w/ English subtitles) 2p.m. Cost: $6. 1021 West Street, Amherst, 01002. Laura Sheppard-Brick, 413-256-4900. 6.00. National Yiddish Book Center - [email][events]