2008
December 2008
Thursday 4 December 2008
Thu 4 Dec. A double anniversary concert to benefit Boston Workmen's Circle, celebrating 10 years with A Besere Velt (A Better World), Yiddish Community Chorus of the Workmen's Circle; and twenty years with The Klezmatics, 2006 Grammy Award winner for their innovative recording of long-lost Woody Guthrie songs; with special honorees Nora Guthrie, Mark Erlich and Sylvia Rothchild. NOTE: The Book Center is a co-sponsor of this event, which will take place at the Somerville Theater, 55 Davis Square, Somerville, MA. For ticket information go to www. or call 617-566-6281 or 800 838-3006. 7:30 p.m. 1021 West Street, Amherst, 01002. Laura Sheppard-Brick, 413-256-4900. National Yiddish Book Center - [email][events]
Thu 4 Dec, 7 pm. Thursday, December 4th - Workshop Call it Sleep by Henry Roth Having sold-to-date millions of copies worldwide, Call It Sleep is the magnificent story of David Schearl, the "dangerously imaginative" child coming of age in the slums of New York. Discussion led by Ilan Stavans, Amherst College. 7:00pm Cost: Free Purchase series titles from our bookstore and receive a 20% discount. 1021 West Street, Amherst, 01002. Laura Sheppard-Brick, 413-256-4900. free. National Yiddish Book Center - [email][events]
Sunday 7 December 2008
Sun 7 Dec, 2 pm. Sunday, December 7th - Film During the "Tragic Week" of 1919, Argentinian soldiers and vigilante groups murdered more than 100 striking immigrant workers, including Jewish citizens, in the Buenos Aires neighborhood of Once. Director Herman Szwarcbart's 2007 documentary tries to make sense of this tragic episode. (70 minutes; Spanish & 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]
Sunday 14 December 2008
Sun 14 Dec, 11:30 am. Sunday, December 14th - Artist Talk Mussuto, the creator of “the periodic table after primo levi,” discusses her artistic response to Primo Levi’s memoir. 11:30 a.m. 1021 West Street, Amherst, 01002. Laura Sheppard-Brick, 413-256-4900. National Yiddish Book Center - [email][events]
Sun 14 Dec, 2 pm. Sunday, December 14th - Film Primo Levi, one of the century's greatest writers, was liberated from Auschwitz in 1945. With the war still underway, he embarked on a thousand-mile journey to his home in Turin, Italy. Sixty years later, director Davide Ferrarion weaves a path through a modern Europe that has both changed and remained eerily the same. Narrated by Academy Award-winning actor Chris Cooper. (55 minutes) 2 p.m Cost: $6. 1021 West Street, Amherst, 01002. Laura Sheppard-Brick, 413-256-4900. 6.00. National Yiddish Book Center - [email][events]
Sunday 21 December 2008
Sun 21 Dec, 2 pm. Sunday, December 21st - Storytelling Author and storyteller Mark Binder shares an assortment of original and traditional stories for Chanukah. 2 p.m Cost: $6/adult; $3/child. 1021 West Street, Amherst, 01002. Laura Sheppard-Brick, 413-256-4900. 6.00. National Yiddish Book Center - [email][events]
Thursday 25 December 2008
Thu 25 Dec. Thursday, December 25th Join us for simkhe with something for everyone. - Yale Strom reading from his first children's book, A Wedding That Saved a Town; a holiday sing-along concert; and other surprises. 11 a.m. - 4 p.m. Cost: $5/adult; $3/child; $12/family. 1021 West Street, Amherst, 01002. Laura Sheppard-Brick, 413-256-4900. National Yiddish Book Center - [email][events]
Sunday 28 December 2008
Sun 28 Dec, 2 pm. Sunday, December 28th - Film In Edgar G. Ulmer's last Yiddish movie, Leo Fuchs, known on Second Avenue as "the Yiddish Fred Astaire," plays an elegant and eligible bachelor who can never seem to close the marriage deal. (87 minutes; B&W, Yiddish w/ English subtitles) 2 p.m Cost: $6. 1021 West Street, Amherst, 01002. Laura Sheppard-Brick, 413-256-4900. 6.00. National Yiddish Book Center - [email][events]