April in Amherst, MA Yiddiosh Jewish Film Festival

 

"Letting Jews Be Jews" - Spring Film Weekend Led by Los Angeles Times film critic Kenneth Turan April 16 - 18 Registration is now open for our Spring Film Weekend! Join us for this exploration of the diverse ways cinema has depicted Jews -- from the silent era of the 1920s to contemporary films. Featuring: Silent film star Max Davidson, with live musical accompaniment Maurice Schwartz's Uncle Moses Barry Levinson's Avalon & Liberty Heights The Coen Brothers' A Serious Man Kenneth Turan is the film critic for the Los Angeles Times and NPR's Morning Edition, as well as the director of the Los Angeles Times Book Prizes. He is the author or co-author of 9 books including: Never Coming to a Theater Near You: A Celebration of a Certain Kind of Movie; Now in Theaters Everywhere; and Free for All: Joe Papp, the Public, and the Greatest Story Ever Told. Turan teaches nonfiction writing and film criticism at the University of Southern California, has been a staff writer for the Washington Post and TV Guide, and has served as the Times' book review editor. Cost: $350 per person includes tuition and meals. Please make your own hotel reservations. (Book by March 16 to take advantage of group hotel rates.) For more information or to reserve your spot at the conference, call us at 413-256-4900 ext 124 or email programs@bikher.org.

The National Yiddish Book Center Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Building · 1021 West Street · Amherst, MA 01002 Phone: 413-256-4900 · Fax: 413-256-4700