Film: "Sholem Aleichem: A Conversation with Ruth Wisse and David Roskies"

Event Details

Time: May 29, 2016 from 2pm to 3:30pm
Location: Yiddish Book Center
Street: 1021 West Street
City/Town: Amherst
Website or Map: http://support.yiddishbookcen…
Phone: 413-256-4900
Event Type: film
Organized By: Yiddish Book Center
Latest Activity: Mar 18, 2016

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Event 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.

Students: $4

Members: $6

General Admission: $8