2011
August 2011
Monday 1 August 2011
Mon 1 Aug to Fri 30 Sep. Exploring Jewish Life in the Deep South Photographs by Bill Aron Exhibit | Brechner Gallery Exploring Jewish life in Arkansas, Louisiana and Mississippi echoes the theme of journey that has been a part of Jewish life for centuries. Jews have journeyed to escape oppression, to seek opportunity, and to preserve their heritage. The journey continues today as the southern Jewish population shift from small towns to metropolitan centers. The southern Jewish experience is about their work places and sacred places, the people that live in the communities, and how their Jewish lives are changing. Each of these areas is explored in the Jewish photographic road trip. On loan from the Museum of the Southern Jewish Experience. Henrietta Levine and chopped liver Photo. 1021 West Street, Amherst, 01002. Laura Sheppard-Brick, 413-256-4900. National Yiddish Book Center - [email][events]
Sunday 7 August 2011
Sun 7 Aug, 12:30-1:30 pm. The repository tour takes the visitor through the evolution of Yiddish literature and examines common themes and ongoing questions that Yiddish authors address, simply because they are writing in Yiddish: Where do the boundaries of Jewish culture lie? How do Jews enter the modern world without losing their distinct Jewish identity? How do Jews respond to oppression? How does one generation respond to the next? Repository tours are offered on Sundays at 12:30 PM in the Great Hall. Date: Sunday, August 7, 2011 Time: 12:30 PM - 1:30 PM Repeat on the first Sunday of the month until 12/18/2011 This event does not require an RSVP. 1021 West Street, Amherst, 01002. Laura Sheppard-Brick, 413-256-4900. National Yiddish Book Center - [email][events]
Sun 7 Aug, 2-3:30 pm. Applebaum-Driker Theater From Billy Graham to the Baal Shem Tov: A Jewish Boy’s Flight from the South in the Time of Sputnik Benjamin Feldman, New York City historian, author, raconteur, and "New York Wanderer" blogmaster delights the mind’s eye of history, riding the tall-tale bus with stories of growing up Jewish in a small Southern city in the time of Sputnik. Immersed among foot-washing Baptist neighbors and their revival-tent summers, Benjamin Feldman found his Yiddishkayt by fleeing to New York, first with his nose in a book of Damon Runyon, then off at age 17 to Jewish Gotham for the next 40 years. His love of Yiddish and stories of growing up down South are filled with delicious idioms and elegiac endings -- tartly observing the treasures of life. 1021 West Street, Amherst, 01002. Laura Sheppard-Brick, 413-256-4900. National Yiddish Book Center - [email][events]
Friday 12 August 2011
Fri 12 Aug, 3-5 pm. Kligerman-Greenspun Performance Hall New Worlds Theatre Project Kligerman-Greenspun Performance Hall OPEN Rehearsal New Worlds Theatre Project will be in residence at the Yiddish Book Center August 11-14 and will present an open rehearsal of Sholem Asch's With the Current. Even more provocative and controversial than his ‘God of Vengeance’, whose entire cast was arrested on obscenity charges when the play opened in New York in 1923, Sholem Asch dares to question the existence of God in ‘With the Current’, his 1904 play translated and adapted into English for the first time. As the ice begins to thaw, an uncontrollable river of passion and desire sweeps everyone up with the current… Directed by Stephen Fried English Translation by Mark Altman & Ellen Perec. 1021 West Street, Amherst, 01002. Laura Sheppard-Brick, 413-256-4900. National Yiddish Book Center - [email][events]
Sunday 14 August 2011
Sun 14 Aug, 12:30 pm. The repository tour takes the visitor through the evolution of Yiddish literature and examines common themes and ongoing questions that Yiddish authors address, simply because they are writing in Yiddish: Where do the boundaries of Jewish culture lie? How do Jews enter the modern world without losing their distinct Jewish identity? How do Jews respond to oppression? How does one generation respond to the next? Repository tours are offered on Sundays at 12:30 PM in the Great Hall. 1021 West Street, Amherst, 01002. Laura Sheppard-Brick, 413-256-4900. National Yiddish Book Center - [email][events]
Sun 14 Aug, 2-3:30 pm. New Worlds Theatre Project Kligerman-Greenspun Performance Hall Even more provocative and controversial than his ‘God of Vengeance’, whose entire cast was arrested on obscenity charges when the play opened in New York in 1923, Sholem Asch dares to question the existence of God in ‘With the Current’, his 1904 play translated and adapted into English for the first time. Dovid decides to leave his young wife and child to search for a new religion. “I’m suffocating” he says. “The holy books …are all shackles around my neck. passes it on to son and then that son passes it on to his… As soon as our baby opened his eyes, we shackled him. There’s no sunshine in his life. No laughter. No life beyond our windows. We keep him ignorant – just so he’ll stay here. And. 1021 West Street, Amherst, 01002. Laura Sheppard-Brick, 413-256-4900. National Yiddish Book Center - [more][email][events]
Sunday 21 August 2011
Sun 21 Aug, 12:30 pm. The repository tour takes the visitor through the evolution of Yiddish literature and examines common themes and ongoing questions that Yiddish authors address, simply because they are writing in Yiddish: Where do the boundaries of Jewish culture lie? How do Jews enter the modern world without losing their distinct Jewish identity? How do Jews respond to oppression? How does one generation respond to the next? Repository tours are offered on Sundays at 12:30 PM in the Great Hall. 1021 West Street, Amherst, 01002. Laura Sheppard-Brick, 413-256-4900. National Yiddish Book Center - [email][events]
Sun 21 Aug, 2-3:30 pm. Applebaum-Driker Theater FILM Billed as the “first Jewish musical comedy talking picture,” His Wife’s Lover (Zayn vaybs lubovnik) stars popular Yiddish theatrer comedian Ludwig Satz in his only film performance. Written by a female author—Sheyne Rokhl Simkoff under the pen name Shin Ra-Chell—about whom little is known, the film explores issues of role reversals and love triangles 80 minutes | Yiddish w/ith new English subtitles | USA| 1931 Provided by the National Center for Jewish Film at Brandeis University Cost: $8/member; $10/non-member; $5/student Date: Sunday, August 21, 2011 Time: 2:00 PM - 3:30 PM. 1021 West Street, Amherst, 01002. Laura Sheppard-Brick, 413-256-4900. National Yiddish Book Center - [email][events]
Sunday 28 August 2011
Sun 28 Aug, 12:30 pm. The repository tour takes the visitor through the evolution of Yiddish literature and examines common themes and ongoing questions that Yiddish authors address, simply because they are writing in Yiddish: Where do the boundaries of Jewish culture lie? How do Jews enter the modern world without losing their distinct Jewish identity? How do Jews respond to oppression? How does one generation respond to the next? Repository tours are offered on Sundays at 12:30 PM in the Great Hall. 1021 West Street, Amherst, 01002. Laura Sheppard-Brick, 413-256-4900. National Yiddish Book Center - [email][events]