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Calendar of EventsUnless otherwise noted, all events will take place at the National Yiddish Book Center, on the campus of Hampshire College, Route 116, Amherst, Massachusetts. You don't need to know Yiddish to enjoy our programs! Tickets for Sunday events are available online until Friday at 3:30 pm. Tickets for evening events are available online until 1 hour before showtime. Space is limited, and all programs are filled on a strictly first-come, first-served basis. For additional information, or reservations, please phone us at 413-256-4900.  Sunday, November 23rd - TalkRabbi Harvey Rides Again Jewish folktales are creatively retold and let loose in the Wild West in the graphic novels The Adventures of Rabbi Harvey and Rabbi Harvey Rides Again. Author Steve Sheinkin talks about the origin of Rabbi Harvey stories and illustrates the step-by-step process he uses to turn traditional tales of Jewish ethics into comics set in the Wild West. 2p.m. Cost: $6 Thursday, November 27th Closed for Thanksgiving Friday, November 28th Closed for Thanksgiving  Sunday, November 30th - FilmMothers of Today This 1939 shund film includes the sole motion picture performance of radio star Esther Field, who was well-known on the airwaves of the 1930s as the "Yidishe Mama." Here Field plays a mother coping with her children's troubles as they stray from Jewish tradition. (85 min.; Yiddish w/ English subtitles) 2p.m. Cost: $6 Fall Reading/Discussion Series Thursday, December 4th - WorkshopCall 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 SPECIAL BOSTON EVENT: Stand Up, Sing Out! 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.circleboston.org or call 617-566-6281 or 800 838-3006. 7:30 p.m.  Sunday, December 7th - FilmBuenos Aires' Pogrom 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 min.; Spanish & Yiddish w/ English subtitles) 2p.m. Cost: $6  Sunday, December 14th - Artist TalkClaudine Mussuto Mussuto, the creator of “the periodic table after primo levi,” discusses her artistic response to Primo Levi’s memoir. 11:30 a.m.  Sunday, December 14th - FilmPrimo Levi's Journey 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 min.) 2:00pm Cost: $6  Sunday, December 21st - StorytellingMark Binder - Chanukah in Chelm Author and storyteller Mark Binder shares an assortment of original and traditional stories for Chanukah. 2 p.m Cost: $6/adult; $3/child  Thursday, December 25thCelebrate the Winter Solstice! 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  Sunday, December 28th - FilmAmerican Matchmaker (Amerikaner shadkhn) 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 min.; B&W, Yiddish w/ English subtitles) 2 p.m Cost: $6  Sunday, January 4th, 2009 - Talk“Make Me Bitter”: French Jewish Memory Of the 76,000 Jews rounded up during World War II by French authorities and deported to Auschwitz, fewer than 3,000 returned. How can we reconcile France’s reputation as a haven for refugees, its glorious heritage of liberalism and human rights, with the decades of silence surrounding these events? Author and French historian Lisa Lieberman explores the dilemma of being Jewish in France. 2pm Cost: $5  Sunday, January 11th, 2009 - ConcertBarbez - “Force of Light” Composer/musician Dan Kaufman pays homage to poet Paul Celan, considered one of the greatest poets of the 20th century. These musical reflections mix the sounds of guitar, theremin, clarinet, and marimba with fragments of Celan’s poetry. Reservations suggested. 2pm Cost: $10  Sunday, January 18th, 2009 - FilmThe Rules of the Game Widely regarded as one of the greatest films ever made, Jean Renoir’s masterpiece is a scathing critique of corrupt and racist French society cloaked in a comedy of manners. (1939; 106 min.; French w/ English subtitles) 2pm Cost: $6  Sunday, January 25th, 2009 - FilmLacombe, Lucien One of the first French films to address the issue of collaboration during the German Occupation, Louis Malle’s film traces a young peasant’s journey from would-be Resistance member to Milice recruit. (1974; 138 min.; French w/ English subtitles) 2pm Cost: $6  Sunday, February 1st, 2009 - FilmTerrorists in Retirement A controversial documentary about the crucial but forgotten role of a group of Yiddish-speaking tailors in the French Resistance, who were often recruited for missions considered too dangerous by other members. Seven of the surviving partisans recall their exploits in this film, narrated by Simone Signoret. (2001; 83 min.) 2pm Cost: $6  Sunday, February 8th, 2009 - FilmIf the Walls Could Speak (Les Voix de la Muette) This award-winning documentary is a portrait of La Muette, a building in the Paris suburb of Drancy. Today it is a run-down subsidized apartment complex, but during World War II, 67,000 Jews were interned there on their way to the death camps. Director Daniela Zanzotto will be in attendance. (1998; 52 min.; French w/ English subtitles) 2pm Cost: $6  Sunday, February 15th, 2009 - FilmHate (La Haine) This gritty and explosive look at the racial and cultural volatility in modern-day France explores the relationships between a Jew, an African, and an Arab — giving human faces to France’s immigrant populations. Their resentment of their social marginalization simmers until it reaches a climactic boiling point. (1995; 97 min.; French w/ English subtitles) CAUTION: Strong language and violence. 2pm Cost: $6  Sunday, February 22nd, 2009 - TalkHow Strange It Seems Michael Hoberman, author of How Strange it Seems, tells the personal stories of Jews living in rural New England from the late 1800s through contemporary times. 2pm Cost: $5  Sunday, March 8th, 2009 - ConcertBetty Klein 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 |
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