Film: "Sholem Aleichem: A Conversation with Ruth Wisse and David Roskies"
Date and Time
Sunday May 29, 2016
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM EDT
May 29, 2016 , 2:00 PM - 3:30 PM
Location
Yiddish Book Center 1021 West Street Amherst, MA 01002
Fees/Admission
Students: $4 Members: $6 General Admission: $8
Contact Information
413-256-4900
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Description
The premiere of a special film, recorded live last fall at the Yiddish Book Center: on the hundredth anniversary of the death of Sholem Aleichem, two of the world's most engaging Yiddish scholars?Ruth Wisse, recently retired from Harvard, and her brother, David Roskies, of Hebrew University and the Jewish Theological Seminary- retell, discuss, and debate their favorite Sholem Aleichem stories in a lively, freewheeling demonstration. USA, 2015, 80 minutes, color, English. Director: Joseph Dorman.
