[Mendele] Mendele Personal Notices & Announcements--SHOLEM ALEICHEM YIDDISH MEMORIAL at JCC of Greater Washington, May 22

[Victor Bers]

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May 15, 2011

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Date: Fri, 6 May 2011 14:31:06 -0400 (EDT)
From: CassBlum at aol.com
Subject: SHOLEM ALEICHEM YIDDISH MEMORIAL

WHAT:  SHOLEM ALEICHEM YIDDISH MEMORIAL

  WHEN:  Sunday, May 22, 2011, 7:30 p.m.

WHERE:  Jewish Community Center of Greater Washington, 6125 Montrose Rd., 
Rockville, MD


SPONSOR:  Yiddish of Greater Washington


ADMISSION:  Tickets at the door.  $8 general public, $5 for members of 
JCCGW, YGW, Arbeter Ring.


MORE INFO:  301-348-3864

Sunday, May 22, at 7:30 p.m. at the Jewish Community Center in Rockville, 
the 95th anniversary of the great Yiddish writer's death will be marked by 
a program of humor and learning.


Washington cultural treasure Murray Horwitz will read from Beryl Isaac,one 
of Sholem Aleichem~@~Ys funniest stories.

George Washington University professor Max Ticktin will discuss the 
writer's work.  The Yiddish-fluent and the Yiddish-challenged alike are 
welcome.


Horwitz has won three Peabody awards and many others in a career that 
includes performing, directing, script writing, and managing cultural 
programs at NPR,National Endowment for the Arts, and the Silver Spring 
American Film Institute.  His one-man show on Sholem Aleichem at the New 
York Shakespeare was widely acclaimed.

Professor Ticktin is Associate Director of the Judaic Studies Program at 
George Washington University.  He has taught Hebrew, Yiddish and Judaic 
studies to generations of students in the DC area.

The program will conclude with a reading of Sholem Aleichem's will, one of 
the great "ethical" wills in history, in both Yiddish and English, and a 
performance by Natalie Wexler of his haunting lullaby, "Shlof, Mayn Kind."
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