2009
March 2009
Sunday 8 March 2009
Sun 8 Mar, 2 pm. Sunday, March 8th, 2009 - Concert Singer Betty Klein presents traditional Yiddish folksongs. Klein studied with Martha Schlamme at Mannes College and has performed extensively in Israel and Europe. 2pm Cost: $6. 1021 West Street, Amherst, 01002. Laura Sheppard-Brick, 413-256-4900. 6. National Yiddish Book Center - [email][events]
Wednesday 18 March 2009
Wed 18 Mar. Wednesday, March 18th - Talk Author Ilan Stavans will be interviewed by Gabriel Sanders, senior editor, Nextbook. Stavans raises urgent questions about the role Hebrew plays in Jewish survival and in the origins of the modern State of Israel. Presented by Nextbook's Jewish Encounters Series and held at the Museum of Jewish Heritage, 36 Battery Place, NYC. For tickets visit http://www./ or call 646-437-4202. Co-sponsored by the National Yiddish Book Center. 7:00pm Cost: $5/member; $7/senior/student; $10/adult. 1021 West Street, Amherst, 01002. Laura Sheppard-Brick, 413-256-4900. National Yiddish Book Center - [email][events]
Saturday 21 March 2009
Sat 21 Mar. The Three Yiddish Divas blend their multilingual repertoire and phenomenal talents into a sophisticated, emotionally charged and stunningly powerful concert. Featuring three of the most talented performers on the Yiddish stage, the “divas” personify the rich vitality of Yiddish and perform it in a way that speaks to music lovers of all backgrounds. This event is co-sponsored by the National Yiddish Book Center, and held at the Leventhal-Sidman JCC, 333 Nahanton Street, Newton, MA. For more information or to order tickets, visit www. or call 617-965-5226. Saturday 8:00pm; Sunday 2:00pm Cost: $28 - $24. 1021 West Street, Amherst, 01002. Laura Sheppard-Brick, 413-256-4900. National Yiddish Book Center - [email][events]
Sunday 22 March 2009
Sun 22 Mar. The Three Yiddish Divas blend their multilingual repertoire and phenomenal talents into a sophisticated, emotionally charged and stunningly powerful concert. Featuring three of the most talented performers on the Yiddish stage, the “divas” personify the rich vitality of Yiddish and perform it in a way that speaks to music lovers of all backgrounds. This event is co-sponsored by the National Yiddish Book Center, and held at the Leventhal-Sidman JCC, 333 Nahanton Street, Newton, MA. For more information or to order tickets, visit www. or call 617-965-5226. Saturday 8:00pm; Sunday 2:00pm Cost: $28 - $24. 1021 West Street, Amherst, 01002. Laura Sheppard-Brick, 413-256-4900. National Yiddish Book Center - [email][events]
Sun 22 Mar, 2 pm. Cantor Murray Simon explores the giants of traditional hazanut, the Eastern European cantorial art that enthralled the American-Jewish community during the first half of the 20th century, through the film footage he has researched and restored including Yossele Rosenblatt, Moishe Oysher and Moshe Koussevitsky, among others from his 2 documentaries, Great Cantors of the Golden Age and Great Cantors in Cinema. Co- sponsored by Congregation Sons of Zion, Holyoke, MA. 1021 West Street, Amherst, 01002. Laura Sheppard-Brick, 413-256-4900. 8. National Yiddish Book Center - [email][events]
Tuesday 24 March 2009
Tue 24 Mar. Sholem Aleichem (1859 – 1916), the brilliant Yiddish writer, was born Sholem Rabinovitz in the Russian Pale of Settlement, taking a pseudonym to hide his identity when he began to write in Yiddish, rather than in the “more respectable” Hebrew or Russian. He was concerned not only with the world of the shtetl, which he fictionalized satirically and poignantly, but also the social and political conditions of the time he lived in, a period of profound change. Gabriella Safran, will discuss Sholem Aleichem and his attitude toward Russian literature and culture, posing the question, “What happens when Tevye’s daughters read Russian literature?” Gabriella Safran is an associate professor at Stanford, where she teaches Russian and Yiddish literature and is writi. 1021 West Street, Amherst, 01002. Laura Sheppard-Brick, 413-256-4900. National Yiddish Book Center - [more][email][events]
Sunday 29 March 2009
Sun 29 Mar, 2 pm. Based on the Pulitzer-prize winning novel by Bernard Malamud, this award winning film was inspired by a true story of an unjustly imprisoned Jew in Tsarist Russia. Alan Bates stars as Yakov Bok, a Jewish handyman or "fixer” who is arrested on suspicion of murder, when a Christian boy is killed during Passover. Bates was nominated for an Academy Award for his role. John Clayton, retired professor of English at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and author of Kuperman’s Fire will introduce the film and lead a discussion follow the screening. 1021 West Street, Amherst, 01002. Laura Sheppard-Brick, 413-256-4900. 8. National Yiddish Book Center - [email][events]