Join Jewish Cemeteries and BespokenLive for Preserving Family History Through Storytelling. We will learn from and with Joey the best practices, interview tips, and recording techniques for capturing the precious stories each family has to share and that will bring color and life to the dates, names, and places of genealogy research.
Thank you to our partners at the Jacob Rader Marcus Center of the American Jewish Archives for hosting us, and to BespokenLive, EquaSion, Hamilton County Genealogical Society, Over the Rhine Museum, and the University of Cincinnati Department of Judaic Studies. Kuhn Family photo courtesy of the American Jewish Archives.
Join Jewish Cemeteries and BespokenLive for Preserving Family History Through Storytelling. We will learn from and with Joey the best practices, interview tips, and recording techniques for capturing the precious stories each family has to share and that will bring color and life to the dates, names, and places of genealogy research.
Thank you to our partners at the Jacob Rader Marcus Center of the American Jewish Archives for hosting us, and to BespokenLive, EquaSion, Hamilton County Genealogical Society, Over the Rhine Museum, and the University of Cincinnati Department of Judaic Studies. Kuhn Family photo courtesy of the American Jewish Archives.
Theodore Bikel In the Shoes of Aleichem
March 8th
Schedule:
3:00-4:30pm. Film: Theodore Bikel in the Shoes of Sholom Aleichem
4:30-5:30pm Audience Discussion with special guest Aimee Ginspburg Bikel (Theodore Bikel’s widow)
5:30-6:00pm Reception
About the Film:
‘Portraits of two beloved icons–Sholom Aleichem and Theodore Bikel–are woven together in this enchanting new documentary. The two men have much in common: wit, wisdom and talent, all shot through with deep humanity and Yiddishkeit.
This new film Theodore Bikel: In the Shoes of Sholom Aleichem combines Bikel’s charismatic storytelling and masterful performances with a broader exploration of Aleichem’s remarkable life and work.
Theodore Bikel, the unstoppable performer whose career spanned more than 150 screen roles (including an Oscar-nominated turn in The Defiant Ones) and countless stage and musical productions, was also the foremost interpreter of Sholom Aleichem’s work. Bikel, who passed away in 2015, played Tevye the Milkman on stage more than 2,000 times. Bikel animated Aleichem’s work through his creation of two celebrated musical plays about the great Russian author.
A pioneer of modern Jewish literature who championed and luxuriated in the Yiddish language, Sholom Aleichem created dozens of indelible characters. His Tevye the Milkman, Motl the Cantor’s Son, and Menachem Mendl–“shtetl Jews” for whom humor and pathos were two sides of the same Yiddish coin–remain invaluable windows into pre-war Eastern European Jewish life, real and imagined.’ -Jewishfilm.org
RSVP here
Contact Lisa B. Frankel, Director of Educational Outreach at lfrankel@huc.edu
Theodore Bikel In the Shoes of Aleichem
March 8th
Schedule:
3:00-4:30pm. Film: Theodore Bikel in the Shoes of Sholom Aleichem
4:30-5:30pm Audience Discussion with special guest Aimee Ginspburg Bikel (Theodore Bikel’s widow)
5:30-6:00pm Reception
About the Film:
‘Portraits of two beloved icons–Sholom Aleichem and Theodore Bikel–are woven together in this enchanting new documentary. The two men have much in common: wit, wisdom and talent, all shot through with deep humanity and Yiddishkeit.
This new film Theodore Bikel: In the Shoes of Sholom Aleichem combines Bikel’s charismatic storytelling and masterful performances with a broader exploration of Aleichem’s remarkable life and work.
Theodore Bikel, the unstoppable performer whose career spanned more than 150 screen roles (including an Oscar-nominated turn in The Defiant Ones) and countless stage and musical productions, was also the foremost interpreter of Sholom Aleichem’s work. Bikel, who passed away in 2015, played Tevye the Milkman on stage more than 2,000 times. Bikel animated Aleichem’s work through his creation of two celebrated musical plays about the great Russian author.
A pioneer of modern Jewish literature who championed and luxuriated in the Yiddish language, Sholom Aleichem created dozens of indelible characters. His Tevye the Milkman, Motl the Cantor’s Son, and Menachem Mendl–“shtetl Jews” for whom humor and pathos were two sides of the same Yiddish coin–remain invaluable windows into pre-war Eastern European Jewish life, real and imagined.’ -Jewishfilm.org
RSVP here
Contact Lisa B. Frankel, Director of Educational Outreach at lfrankel@huc.edu
