2009
May 2009
Sunday 3 May 2009
Sun 3 May. Sunday, May 3rd - Presentation Dedication and Ribbon Cutting for the Kaplen Family Building 1:30p.m. 1021 West Street, Amherst, 01002. Laura Sheppard-Brick, 413-256-4900. National Yiddish Book Center - [email][events]
Sun 3 May, 2 pm. Melinda Rosenblatt Lecture: Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett - Creating A Polish Jewish Museum Scholar Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett leads the exhibition development team for the Museum of the History of Polish Jews on the site of the former Warsaw Ghetto. Her books include Image before My Eyes: A Photographic History of Jewish Life in Poland, 1864–1939. 1021 West Street, Amherst, 01002. Laura Sheppard-Brick, 413-256-4900. free. National Yiddish Book Center - [email][events]
Tuesday 5 May 2009
Tue 5 May, 7:30 pm. In the twentieth century, avant-garde poets, many of them women, were influenced by international literary trends and wrote in Europe and the United States. Yael Chaver, professor of Yiddish at UC Berkeley, will survey Yiddish literature from its origins to modern times. This event is co-sponsored by the National Yiddish Book Center, and held at the Bureau of Jewish Education, Jewish Community Library, 1835 Ellis Street, San Francisco, California 94115. For more information, visit www. or call Rose Katz at 415-567-3327 ext 703. 1021 West Street, Amherst, 01002. Laura Sheppard-Brick, 413-256-4900. free. National Yiddish Book Center - [email][events]
Sunday 10 May 2009
Sun 10 May, 2 pm. Sunday, May 10th - Concert Israeli-born Amit Arieli has won many awards and competitions during his career as a clarinetist, composer and arranger. Reservations suggested. 1021 West Street, Amherst, 01002. Laura Sheppard-Brick, 413-256-4900. 10. National Yiddish Book Center - [email][events]
Sunday 17 May 2009
Sun 17 May, 2 pm. Sunday, May 17th - Film and Discussion Based on the novel by Jonathan Safran Foer, the film follows a young man's quest to find the woman who saved his grandfather in a small Ukrainian town. Ilan Stavans introduces the film and leads a discussion following the screening. (2005; 106 min.). 1021 West Street, Amherst, 01002. Laura Sheppard-Brick, 413-256-4900. 6. National Yiddish Book Center - [email][events]
Sun 17 May, 7 pm. With only a yellowing photograph in hand, a young man - also named Jonathan Safran Foer - sets out to find the woman who might or might not have saved his grandfather from the Nazis. Accompanied by an old man haunted by memories of the war, an amorous dog named Sammy Davis, Junior, Junior, and the unforgettable Alex, a young Ukrainian translator who speaks in a sublimely butchered English, Jonathan is led on a quixotic journey over a devastated landscape and into an unexpected past. Discussion led by Ilan Stavans, Amherst College. 1021 West Street, Amherst, 01002. Laura Sheppard-Brick, 413-256-4900. free. National Yiddish Book Center - [email][events]
Sunday 24 May 2009
Sun 24 May, 2 pm. This 1948 film was the first to portray the Holocaust from a Jewish perspective. Shot on location in U.S.-occupied Germany, it follows a Polish Jew and his family from prewar Warsaw, through Auschwitz, to the frustrations and instability of refugee life in the DP camps. (Yiddish, German, and Polish w/ new English subtitles; 77 min.). 1021 West Street, Amherst, 01002. Laura Sheppard-Brick, 413-256-4900. 6. National Yiddish Book Center - [email][events]
Sunday 31 May 2009
Sun 31 May, 2 pm. Norwegian artist Bente Kahan presents her family’s story - sung in Yiddish, Ladino and Hebrew – from thirteenth-century Spain through Europe to Norway. Reservations suggested. 1021 West Street, Amherst, 01002. Laura Sheppard-Brick, 413-256-4900. 10. National Yiddish Book Center - [email][events]