2009
October 2009
Thursday 15 October 2009
Thu 15 Oct, 7 pm. Thursday, October 15th - Reading Community Book Group Discussion led by Madeleine Blais, University of Massachusetts. 7 PM Cost: Free. 1021 West Street, Amherst, 01002. Laura Sheppard-Brick, 413-256-4900. free. National Yiddish Book Center - [email][events]
Sunday 18 October 2009
Sun 18 Oct, 2 pm. Sunday, October 18th - Talk Jay Neugeboren is the author of 17 books, including two prize winning novels (The Stolen Jew and Before My Life Began), two prize-winning non-fiction books (Imagining Robert and Transforming Madness), and three collections of award-winning stories. Madeleine Blais is an award-winning author and professor at the University of Massachusetts. 2 PM Cost: $6. 1021 West Street, Amherst, 01002. Laura Sheppard-Brick, 413-256-4900. 6. National Yiddish Book Center - [email][events]
Sunday 25 October 2009
Sun 25 Oct, 2 pm. Sunday, October 25th - Film During the late 1920s, many Jews searching for a better life made their way to Birobidzhan, the Soviet Jewish Autonomous Region on the Chinese border. This 1934 Russian melodrama portrays the experiences of a family on a collective farm in Birobidzhan. (84 min.; Russian w/ English subtitles; restored by the National Center for Jewish Film at Brandeis University) 2 PM Cost: $6. 1021 West Street, Amherst, 01002. Laura Sheppard-Brick, 413-256-4900. 6. National Yiddish Book Center - [email][events]
Wednesday 28 October 2009
Wed 28 Oct, 7:30 pm. Wednesday, October 28th - Lecture A lecture by Prof. Cecile Kuznitz (Bard College Co-sponsors: Dept. of Jewish Studies (Smith College), German and Scandinavian Studies, Dept. of Judaic and Near Eastern Studies (UMass Amherst) 7:30pm Cost: Free. 1021 West Street, Amherst, 01002. Laura Sheppard-Brick, 413-256-4900. free. National Yiddish Book Center - [email][events]