Oct

23 2016

Community Open House at the Yiddish Book Center

10:00AM - 4:00PM  

Yiddish Book Center 1021 West Street
Amherst, MA 01002
4132564900

Contact Sarah Bleichfeld
4132564900
sbleichfeld@yiddishbookcenter.org
http://support.yiddishbookcenter.org/site/Calendar?id=7455&view=Detail

Join us for a day of events for the whole family.

Featuring The Sarah Rose Lazarus Family Concert:
Di Shekhter-tekhter: The Schaechter Sisters and Binyumen

All events are free and open to the public.

Schedule

11 a.m. | The Wexler Oral History Project Presents...

studio oral historyScreening and discussion of two short films made by the Center's Wexler Oral History Project: Leonard Nimoy's Mame-loshn: A Yiddish Story and Alter Esselin: Craftsman of Wood and Words

11am & 1pm |Tour the world's first Yiddish museum!

Group TourThis 45-minute tour takes the visitor through the Yiddish Book Center's museum exhibits and allows them to...

DISCOVER the whole of Yiddish literature and its writers
LEARN about Yiddish language
ENCOUNTER the stories of three immigrant families told through words, pictures, and artifacts
EXPERIENCE the world of rural Jews in 1912-1914
GLIMPSE life in the American Jewish home
EXPLORE a Yiddish print shop
WATCH classic Yiddish film clips
LISTEN to vintage Yiddish radio
SEE our visiting exhibits
TOUR the Yiddish Writers Garden, and more

11am-1pm |Demonstrations in the Center’s reproduction Yiddish print shop

Visitors looking at exhibitJoin us for a discussion and demonstration on the Yiddish printing equipment in the Center's exhibit.

1:15 p.m. | Talk: Aaron Lansky

Aaron LanskyThe Yiddish Book Center’s founder and president offers an update on the latest at the Center.

2 p.m. | The Sarah Rose Lazarus Family Concert: Di Shekhter-tekhter: The Schaechter Sisters and Binyumen

Shekhter-TekhterThe Schaechter Sisters—Reyna and Temma—and their father, pianist Binyumen Schaechter, present “Something Old, Something New, Something Yiddish, Something Blue,” a cabaret-style concert of Yiddish songs old and new performed in a contemporary style, interspersed with English verses and translations. The Schaechter family is well-known in Yiddish circles for their great accomplishments in Yiddish culture, not the least of which has been raising several generations of children in Yiddish-speaking-only homes.