Calendar of Events Upcoming events at the Yiddish Book Center - including Yidstock: The Festival of New Yiddish Music (July 12-15, 2018) . Visit, Shop, Calendar CONCERT | Grand Tango, with Ethan Lazarus and Carl Algermissen | Sunday, September 23 @ 2 p.m. The Sarah Rose Lazarus Concert | Known for writing their own original arrangements of tango music, this special performance includes hits mixed along with Tango, Jewish and klezmer music. Click to read more and to purchase tickets. FILM | In A Dark Wood | Sunday, October 7 @ 2 p.m. In A Dark Wood charts the path of composer Mathew Rosenblum’s Lament/Witches’ Sabbath, a highly personal concerto written for world famous clarinetist/composer David Krakauer. Click to read more and purchase tix. Community Open House | Sunday, October 21, 10 a.m. - 4 p.m. A day of events for the whole family, featuring a talk with David Mazower, a Yiddish print shop demonstration, a performance by Litvakus, tours, scavenger hunts, and more. Click for a full schedule of events. AUTHOR TALK | Whitechapel Noise, with Vivi Lachs | Sunday, October 28 @ 2 p.m. Whitechapel Noise tells the story of London’s Yiddish popular culture through an historical lens. Lachs provides a window into Anglo-Jewish history, English socialist aesthetics, and music-hall culture. Click here for more information. Special Screening: FILM | Who Will Write Our Story? with director Q&A | Saturday, November 10 @ 7:30 p.m. In Nov. 1940, days after the Nazis sealed 450,000 Jews in the Warsaw Ghetto, a secret band of journalists, scholars and community leaders decided to fight back - not with guns or fists but with pen and paper. Click to read more and purchase tix. FILM | 1945 | Sunday, November 11 @ 2 p.m. On a summer day in 1945, an Orthodox man and his grown son return to a village in Hungary while the villagers prepare for the wedding of the town clerk’s son. Click here to read more and purchase tickets. FILM | My Mexican Shivah, with Q&A with Ilan Stavans | Sunday, November 18 @ 2 p.m. Set in Polanco, a Jewish quarter of Mexico City, this is a gentle comedy about how the death of a man results in the celebration of his life. Click to read more and purchase tickets. FILM | The Prince and the Dybbuk | Sunday, December 2 @ 2 p.m. The son of a poor Jewish blacksmith from Ukraine, Moshe Walks, aka Prince Michael Waszynski, was known for his cinema hits with Sophia Loren and Claudia Cardinale. However, only one film was his true obsession: The Dybbuk. Click to purchase tix. AUTHOR TALK | Saving Mona Lisa, with Gerri Chanel | Tuesday, December 4 @ 7:30 p.m. Saving Mona Lisa tells the compelling true story of art, intrigue, and remarkable courage in the face of one of the most fearful enemies in history. Click to read more and purchase tickets. FILM | Der dibuk (The Dybbuk), Newly restored! | Sunday, December 9 @ 2 p.m. Filmed on location in Poland in 1937, it brought together the best talents of Polish Jewry—script writers, composers, choreographers, set designers, and actors. Click to read more and purchase tickets. FILM | Dreaming of a Jewish Christmas | Sunday, December 23 @ 2 p.m. Dreaming of a Jewish Christmas is 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. SHORT FILMS | Joe's Violin and Mandala Beats | Sunday, January 6 @ 2 p.m. Joe’s Violin shows how the power of music can bring light in the darkest of times. In Mandala Beats, an Israeli bassist encounters a world of Jewish music in India. Click to read more and to purchase tickets. FILM | Itzhak | Sunday, January 20 @ 2 p.m. As charming and entrancing as the famous violinist himself, Itzhak is a portrait of musical virtuosity seamlessly enclosed in warmth, humor, and above all, love. Click to read more and to purchase tickets. FILM | Angel Wagenstein: Art Is A Weapon | Sunday, February 3 @ 2 p.m. As a teenager in wartime Bulgaria, Angel Wagenstein commanded a daredevil Jewish partisan brigade. At 94, he is a passionate witness to history and an influential voice in the debate on Europe’s rocky future. Click to read more and purchase tix. AUTHOR TALK | Famous Father Girl, with Jamie Bernstein | Thursday, February 7 @ 7 p.m. - Takes place at the Springfield JCC The oldest daughter of revered composer/conductor Leonard Bernstein offers a rare look at her father on the centennial of his birth in a deeply intimate and broadly evocative memoir.Click to read more. FILM | Stefan Zweig | Sunday, February 17 @ 2 p.m. As a Jewish intellectual, Stefan Zweig struggles to find the right stance towards the events in Nazi Germany, while searching for a home in the new world. Click to read more and purchase tickets. FILM | GI Jews, with director Q&A | Sunday, March 3 @ 2 p.m. Through the eyes of the servicemen and women, the film brings to life the little-known story of Jews in World War II – as active participants in the fight against Hitler, bigotry and intolerance. Click to read more and to purchase tickets. FILM | Bombshell: The Hedy Lamarr Story | Sunday, March 17 @ 2 p.m. What do the most ravishingly beautiful actress of the 1930s and 40s and the inventor whose concepts were the basis of cell phone and bluetooth technology have in common? They are both Hedy Lamarr. Click to read more and to purchase tickets.
