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Paper Bridge Arts Festival

The Yiddish Book Center will host its 7th Annual Paper Bridge Arts Festival, July 10-14, 2011. This five day Arts Festival includes concerts, theater, workshops, author lectures, and Yiddish film.

 

This year’s programs include the internationally known Klezmer Conservatory Band, indie songstress Clare Burson, a silent film classic with live accompaniment by Paul Shapiro and band, and Yiddish theater with some of today’s best Yiddish theater stars.

 

A full schedule can be viewed at: www.yiddishbookcenter.org/paperbridge.

The Wicked Son: Anti-Semitism, Self-Hatred, and the Jews by David Mamet

The Wicked Son is, in fact, a challenge thrown down to those Mamet believes to have already made the wrong decision, a subset of the Jewish world he classifies alongside the renegade Passover child, his message being that their only salvation is to belong.