Click Here to Read: 20 Feet From Stardom: The “most incredible artists you’ve never heard of” By James Brewer on the World Socialist Web Site on July 18, 2013.
Category: Music
Jim Hall: Live, Now and Then
Toshi Seeger, Wife of Folk-Singing Legend, Dies at 91
Two Good Men by Woody Guthrie
Photos from the Stay, Illusion! The Hamlet Doctrine Reading
Czech legendary star killed by Nazis was honored at Library of Congress Oct. 10
Martin Bookspan at Kultur Festival 2013
Martin Bookspan had life-long friendships with two great classical music geniuses, Leonard Bernstein and Aaron Copland.
As the voice of the PBS television series Live from Lincoln Center from 1976 to 2006, Martin Bookspan riveted audiences with his eloquently distinctive voice and extensive knowledge of classical music. The N.Y. Times (May 24, 2006) described Bookspan as “One half erudite informer, the other half grandfatherly guide, [who kept audiences] tuned in Continue reading Martin Bookspan at Kultur Festival 2013
Lonely Thinking: Hannah Arendt on Film
This Sunday at YIVO
SUNDAY 30 JUNE 2013 | 1:00pm
Annual Mordkhe Schaechter Memorial Program
Co-sponsored by the League for Yiddish
MEMORIAL PROGRAM
Admission: Free; RSVP Required: www.yivo.org/reservations
Most of this program will be held in Yiddish.
Dr. Samuel Kassow (Professor of History, Trinity College)
“A Historian in the Ghetto: Emanuel Ringelblum and the Oyneg-Shabes Archive”
Emanuel Ringelblum
Between 1940 and 1943 Emanuel Ringelblum organized and directed the Oyneg Shabes Archive in the Warsaw Ghetto. Of the 60 people who worked in the Continue reading This Sunday at YIVO
