Public programming at the YIVO Institute of Jewish Research. Note important program changes tonight

[Reyzl Kalifowicz-Waletzky <reyzl...>]

When I posted on YiddishNet info about tonight's event at YIVO, Seth Rogovoy 
wrote me a letter asking more info about this film.   In case, more of you are 
not aware of it, I thought I would cross-post the information on this list. 
   The first part below is info from the Montreal Jewish Film Festival's web 
site where it played last spring.  This new film also played at the Toronto 
Jewish Film Festivals and a few others this year.   Below that is information 
about tonight's event.   Director David Kaufman will be on hand.


Reyzl Kalifowicz-Waletzky



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THE NEW KLEZMORIM Voices Inside the Revival of Yiddish Music
Canada, 2000,
Video,
65 min,
English, Yiddish,

Director: David Kaufman

Filmed at KlezKanada in 1998, this entertaining documentary
investigates the origins of the klezmer revival and the popularity
of the music among young people around the world. Highlights include
stellar performances and insightful interviews featuring some of the
leading exponents of Yiddish music today: Michael Alpert, Alan Bern,
Kurt Bjorling and Stuart Brotman (Brave Old World); Hankus Netsky
(Klezmer Conservatory Band); Bruce Adler; Adrienne Cooper; Deborah
Strauss; Jeff Warschauer and Josh Waletzky.

Infor taken from:
http://www.mjff.qc.ca/film_description.cfm?MovieID=29&Title=THE%20NEW%20KLEZ  
MORIM%20Voices%20Inside%20the%20Revival%20of%20Yid

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From:  Reyzl Kalifowicz-Waletzky [SMTP:reyzl (at) flash(dot)net]
Sent:  Tuesday, December 19, 2000 12:33 AM
To:  'YiddishNet'
Subject:  3.542:Public programming at the YIVO Institute of Jewish Research. 
 Note important program changes

YiddishNet - the Yiddish News and Announcements List
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December 18, 2000
Volume 3.542


Subject:   Public programming at the YIVO Institute of Jewish Research,
               December and January.


Please note that there has been a change in the programming since the
original announcements.  Speakers Josh Waletzky and Lorin Sklamberg
have switched assignments with each other.  Below is the correct
program schedule.
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PUBLIC PROGRAMMING AT THE


YIVO INSTITUTE OF JEWISH RESEARCH



Wednesday, December 20, 7:30 p.m.

     Film & Discussion

     The New Klezmorim: Voices Inside the Revival of Yiddish Music
     (2000, 70 minutes, Video. Director: David Kaufman)

     A penetrating look behind the scenes of the klezmer revival
     that examines the roots of the genre, its modern-day performers,
     and the audiences who flock to hear the music.
     Featuring thoughtful interviews with and stunning performances
     by leading klezmer performers and bands, including Michael
     Alpert and Alan Bern (Brave Old World), Hankus Netsky (Klezmer
     Conservatory Band), Josh Waletzky, and Adrienne Cooper.

     Speakers:
     David Kaufman, Director
     Josh Waletzky, Filmmaker and Composer.  Josh and his new
     compositions are featured in the film.


Tuesday, January 9, 7:00 p.m.

     Marc Caplan (New York University)

     Education and Initiation in the Novels of the Yiddish Haskole
     and Muslim Negritude Movements: A Study in Comparative Modernisms

     The Vivian Lefsky Hort Lecture.


Thursday, January 11, 7:30 p.m.

     Film & Discussion

     Too Early to be Quiet, Too Late to Sing
     (1995, 53 minutes, Video. Director: Nadav Levitan)

     Singer and songwriter Chava Alberstein's moving cinematic
     tribute to the small, surviving circle of Yiddish poets in Israel.
     Binem Heller, Rokhl Boimvil, Ziama Telesin, and other poets
     read examples of their work and are interviewed. Alberstein
     draws upon their poems to create new Yiddish songs, several
     of which she performs in the film.

     Speaker:
     Lorin Sklamberg, YIVO Sound Archivist and founding member
     of the Klezmatics


Monday, January 29, 7:30 p.m.

     Three films from Israel Educational Television

     All About People: Hannah Szenes
     (2000, 25 minutes, Video. Director: Rina Papish)

     All About People: Haika Grosman
     (2000, 25 minutes, Video. Director: Rina Papish)

     Transnistria: The Hell
     (1996, 41 minutes, Video. Director: Zoltan Terner)

     The first two films, from the series, "All About People,"
     examine the lives of two extraordinary women. Hannah
     Szenes (1921-1944) was a Hebrew poet who parachuted into
     her native Hungary on a mission for the Allied Forces in 1943
     and was captured and executed. Hannah Szenes focuses on
     the ways in which she explored her Hungarian-Jewish-Israeli
     identity in her life and work.

     Haika Grosman (1919-1996) was a member of the Jewish
     resistance in Bialystok, Poland, who survived the war and
     emigrated to Israel, where she eventually served as a member
     of Knesset (Parliament). Haika Grosman documents her
     heroism during the Holocaust and her long career of political
     activism.

     Transnistria: The Hell chronicles the tragic fate of 300,000
     Jews from Romania, Bessarabia, and Bukovina who were
     deported to the southern Ukrainian region of Transnistria
     during WWII. Interviewees include prize-winning novelist
     Aharon Appelfeld, a child survivor of Transnistria.

     Speaker: David Engel, Professor of Hebrew and Judaic
     Studies, New York University

     A joint program of YIVO and The Office of Cultural Affairs in
     the U.S.A., Consulate General of Israel in New York.


Tuesday, January 30, 7:00 p.m.

     Beatrice Lang-Caplan (New York University)

     "In gayst fun toyre umesoyre": Orthodox Yiddish Literature
     in Poland between the World Wars

     The Natalie and Mendel Racolin Memorial Lecture.



All public programs are free and open to the public and will be held at:

                 YIVO Institute for Jewish Research
                 Center for Jewish History
                 15 West 16th Street
                 New York, NY 10011-6301


The Center for Jewish History is located between 5th Avenue and the
Avenue of the Americas. Nearby subway stops include: Union Square
(L, N, R, 4, 5, 6), 14th Street and 6th Avenue (F, L), 18th Street
(1, 9), 14th Street and 7th Avenue (1, 2, 3, 9), and 14th Street and
8th Avenue (A, C). The Center can also be reached by bus on the M2,
M3, M5, M6, and M7 lines.

Phone/Fax/Email:
General information number: (212) 246-6080
Fax: (212) 292-1892
Email: yivomail (at) yivo(dot)cjh(dot)org

Parking

The Center has arranged discounted parking rates for visitors at three
parking garages:
     Creative Parking
     16 West 16th Street (Entrances on 16th & 15th Streets)
     $15.00 tax included (5-hour maximum)

     Universal Parking
     55 West 14th Street (Entrances on 14th & 15th Streets)
     $13.00 tax included (5-hour maximum)

     44 West 15th Street (Entrance on 15th Street)
     $10.00 tax included (5-hour maximum)

Visitors must have their parking tickets validated by the security
desk at the Center.


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