Calendar of Events Upcoming events at the Yiddish Book Center AUTHOR TALK | Ilan Stavans | Sunday, December 8 @ 2 p.m. Ilan Stavans shares about The Seventh Heaven: Travels Through Jewish Latin America and The Return of Carvajal: A Mystery. Click to read more. FILM | Dreaming of a Jewish Christmas | Sunday, December 22 @ 2 p.m. An offbeat, irreverent musical documentary telling the story of a group of Jewish songwriters who wrote the soundtrack to Christianity’s most musical holiday. Click to read more and purchase tickets. FILM | Beyond the Bolex | Sunday, January 12 @ 2 p.m. Alyssa Bolsey pieces together the fragments of a forgotten family archive to reveal the epic story of her great-grandfather, the immigrant inventor of the Bolex, a motion picture camera for the masses. Click for more information and purchase tix. FILMS | Make Me a Match and A Thousand Kisses | Sunday, February 2 @ 2 p.m. Make Me a Match captures the passion of Jewish singles looking for a match in 2000s America. A Thousand Kisses presents a love story tainted by the harsh historical context of its time. Click to read more and purchase tix. FILM | The Burning Child | Sunday, February 16 @ 2 p.m. The Burning Child creates a psychic mapping of Vienna through an exploration of its architectural interiors, set against the backdrop of Austria's troubled past. Click here to read more and purchase tickets. AUTHOR TALK | How Yiddish Changed America and How America Changed Yiddish, with Ilan Stavans and Josh Lambert | Sunday, March 1 @ 2 p.m. A stunning and rich multi-genre anthology of the interplay of Yiddish and American culture, drawing from 40 years of Pakn Treger and edited by award-winning authors and scholars Ilan Stavans and Josh Lambert. Click to read more. AUTHOR TALK | The 100 Most Jewish Foods, with Alana Newhouse | Thursday, March 5 @ 7 p.m. Tablet’s list of The 100 Most Jewish Foods is not about the most popular Jewish foods, or the tastiest, or even the most enduring. Click to read more and purchase tickets. FILM | Monsieur Mayonnaise | Sunday, March 22 @ 2 p.m. Monsieur Mayonnaise is an artist’s epic adventure into his family’s secret past, starring real life heroes, Nazi villains … and baguettes with lashings of tasty French mayonnaise! Click for more information and to purchase tickets. Pioneer Valley Jewish Film Festival | The Adventures of Saul Bellow, sneak peek, with director Q&A | Saturday, March 28 @ 7:30 p.m. PVJFF | The Adventures of Saul Bellow is the first-ever documentary film on the man described by James Wood as the 'greatest of American prose stylists in the 20th century'. Click to read more and purchase tickets. Pioneer Valley Jewish Film Festival | Fiddler: A Miracle of Miracles | Thursday, April 2 @ 7 p.m. PVJFF | The origin story behind one of Broadway's most beloved musicals and its creative roots when "tradition" was on the wane as gender roles, sexuality, race relations and religion were evolving. Click to read more and purchase tix. Yidstock 2020: July 9-12 The ninth annual Yidstock will take place at the Yiddish Book Center on July 9-12, 2020.
