Echos of Vilna programs at Wesleyan University, CT

[a bisl yidishkayt <klezmer...>]

I'm forwarding this email of info. re. above which includes a musical
evening with Adrianne Cooper, a lecture, a film, and a play with musical
direction by Franya Berkman, a protege of Hankus Netsky.

Dena


>Echoes of Vilna: Jewish Culture and Resistance in the Vilna Ghetto
>
>A series of lectures, discussions and performances that examine and
>celebrate the vitality and richness of Jewish culture that flourished in
>Vilna, Lithuania before and during the Nazi occupation.  The series will
>culminate with a production of the commanding play Ghetto, which is based
on
>the experiences of members of a Jewish theater company that existed in the
>Vilna ghetto.  The play will be performed by Wesleyan students, and
directed
>by its playwright, renowned Israeli writer and director, Joshua Sobol in
>collaboration with Professor Ron Jenkins, Chair of Wesleyan's Theater
>Department.
>
>All of these events will take place in conjunction with Sobol's
>semester-long residency as the first Visiting Scholar in Jewish Studies, a
>course of study directed by Professor Jeremy Zwelling.  Wesleyan gratefully
>acknowledges the Lupin Foundation, the Zwerling Family, the Frankel Family,
>and the Ashkenas Family for their generous support of the inaugural year of
>the Jewish Studies Visiting Scholar Program.
>
>
>Adrienne Cooper: Music of the Ghetto
>Wednesday, October 4, 8pm, Crowell Concert Hall
>Tickets: $5 -$4
>Cooper is one of the most influential performers of Yiddish vocal music.
Her
>recording for the movie Partisans of Vilna is the only Yiddish recording
>ever nominated for a Grammy award.
>
>Film: Partisans of Vilna
>Thursday, October 19, 8pm, Cinema
>Free to the public.
>Relying primarily on recollections of the survivors, this documentary
>chronicles the largely unsuccessful resistance of Lithuanian Jews to the
>Nazi program of extermination.  Director Joshua Waletzky, producer of the
>highly acclaimed movie Image Before My Eyes, will lead a discussion after
>this screening.
>
>A Play in the Making: Ghetto
>Sunday, October 22, 1:30pm, Russell House
>Free to the public.
>Hear from internationally acclaimed Israeli playwright Joshua Sobol about
>his creative writing process for Ghetto.  Sobol is Wesleyan's first
Visiting
>Israeli Scholar.  Sponsored by the Jewish Studies Forum.
>
>The Night of the Twentieth: A Reading
>Saturday, October 21, 4pm, CFA Theater
>Free to the public.
>A dramatic reading by Wesleyan students of Joshua Sobol's 1970s play based
>on the literary accounts of young, idealist Zionist settlers who came to
>Galilee unprepared for the enormous difficulties that awaited them in
>Palestine in the early 1900s.  Sponsored by the Jewish Studies Forum.
>
>Samuel Kassow: Lecture on Vilna
>Thursday, October 26, 8pm, Russell House
>Free to the public.
>A lecture by Samuel Kassow, a professor of history at Trinity College and
an
>expert on historical Vilna.
>
>Ghetto
>By Joshua Sobol
>Friday, November 10 and Saturday, November 11, 8pm
>Sunday, November 12, 7pm
>CFA Theater
>Tickets: $5-$4
>The American premiere of the Ron Jenkins translation, Ghetto is the 1989
>winner of the London Evening Standard Award for Best Play.  Based on
>historic documents and interviews from the Vilna ghetto and directed by
>Sobol, the play depicts a theater company run by the Jews of Vilna during
>the Nazi occupation of Lithuania in World War II.
>
>For a brochure or to purchase tickets, call the University Box Office at
>(860) 685-3355.
>
>

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