Yiddish Book Center
Yiddish Book Center, Talk
Yiddish Book Center 1021 West Street, Amherst, MAThe Wedding Jester with John Feffer Join us in person on Sunday, February 9, 2025 @ 2:00 p.m., at the Yiddish Book Center Purchase tickets for "The Wedding Jester" In 1970, in a small village somewhere in Croatia, a stand-up comedian confronts the director of Fiddler on the Roof over errors in the film’s script. In a former life,…
Yiddish Book Center, Talk
Yiddish Book Center 1021 West Street, Amherst, MAVer Vet Blaybn? Who Will Remain? LIVE, IN-PERSON SCREENING Tuesday, February 11, 2025 at 7pm This screening is co-sponsored by the Yiddish Book Center, Amherst, MA Ver Vet Blaybn?(Who Will Remain?) tells the story of Hadas Kalderon, Avrom Sutzkever’s granddaughter, as she attempts to better understand her grandfather. Kalderon, an Israeli actress, travels to Lithuania, using…
Yiddish Book Center, Talk
Yiddish Book Center 1021 West Street, Amherst, MALitvaks in Love, a conversation with Prof. David G. Roskies Join us on Zoom | Thursday, February 20, 2025 @ 7:00 p.m. Register for a talk with Dr. David Roskies In David Roskies’s memoir, Yiddishlands, a son acts as his mother’s medium as they conjure up Vilna, the Jerusalem of Lithuania. Armed with his mother’s stories…
Yiddish Book Center, Talk
Yiddish Book Center 1021 West Street, Amherst, MAThe Chief Rabbi's Funeral, with Scott D. Seligman Join us on Zoom | Thursday, March 27, 2025 @ 7:00 p.m. ET Register for a talk with Scott D. Seligman On July 30, 1902, tens of thousands of mourners lined the streets of New York’s Lower East Side to bid farewell to the city’s chief rabbi,…
Yiddish Book Center, Celebrating Passover
Yiddish Book Center 1021 West Street, Amherst, MAWhen Martin Broder’s family moved from Brooklyn to Detroit, his family began embarking on annual family trips back to Brooklyn each Passover. It was the one time of year everyone got together—and in this oral history excerpt, Martin provides extraordinary snapshots of the members of his family he’d see around the Seder table every year.…
Yiddish Book Center, Yidstock
Yiddish Book Center 1021 West Street, Amherst, MAYidstock: The Festival of New Yiddish Music is back! Now in its twelfth year, Yidstock brings the best in klezmer and new Yiddish music to the Yiddish Book Center in Amherst, Massachusetts. From July 10 to 13, this four-day festival will include musicians and performers at the forefront of the Yiddish music scene. In addition…