Chgo YIVO: Aug ’13

Now live on JUF Online: Preview of Coming Attractions for my Aug 13/Aug 15 Lecture: “Who is ‘the Fiddler’… and how did he get on the roof? I started asking myself these two questions over thirteen years ago, in May 2000, on a trip to the Marc Chagall Biblical Message Museum in Nice. Now, after a decade of devotion to all things Fiddler, I have some answers I would like to share with you as I prepare a new lecture for the Chicago YIVO Society’s Summer Festival of Yiddish Culture…” CLICK HERE FOR JUF POST.

Chicago Shout-Out: I’m on my way to Chicago soon for three programs sponsored by the Chicago YIVO Society.

Aug 13 (Tues) & Aug 15 (Thurs), I will give a new lecture on Fiddler on the Roof. This will be the 5th lecture in my annual series celebrating Fiddler’s Broadway premiere on 9/22/64. This year’s lecture, called “The Fiddler: From Rozhanka to Broadway,” will explore significant differences between the stage version directed by Jerome Robbins (in 1964) and the screen version directed by Norman Jewison (in 1971).

All programs in the Chicago YIVO Society’s

Summer Festival of Yiddish Culture

are free & open to the public!

Aug 13: 6 PM on Tues evening, I will be downtown at the Harold Washington Library Center.

Aug 14: 2 PM on Weds afternoon, I will be at Skokie Public Library to lead a Q&A after a screening of the acclaimed documentary film Sholem Aleichem: Laughter in the Darkness.

Aug 15: 2 PM on Thurs afternoon, I will repeat my Robbins/Jewison lecture at Evanston Public Library .

All programs in the Chicago YIVO Society’s

Summer Festival of Yiddish Culture are free & open to the public!

For the complete Chicago YIVO Society calendar, visit: http://www.ChicagoYivo.org.

Top Photo Credit:  Jerome Robbins cavorts on the West Side Story film set © Mirisch7Arts/UnitedArtistsAlbum/NewsCom (Circa 1960)

So come learn more about Rozhanka & find out why you should care 🙂