MENDELE PERSONAL NOTICES & ANNOUNCEMENTS Feb. 9, 2016
To minimize wear and tear on the untershames, three requests: 1. Send time-sensitive notices well in advance. 2. Send material as plain text to victor.bers at yale.edu as plain text (no HTML, other coding, or attachments) and write MENDELE PERSONALS in the subject line. 3. Correspond directly with the person who or organization which has posted the notice, *not* with your ever-beleaguered untershames. _______________________________________ From: Lisa Rivo <[email protected]> Date: Feb. 9, 2016 The National Center for Jewish Film film screening at the Washington Jewish Film Festival "THE LIGHT AHEAD" Tue, March 1, 6:15 pm at the Washington DC JCC Special Event 1939 Yiddish Film Classic Restored by The National Center for Jewish Film Post Film Q&A with Sharon Pucker Rivo & Lisa Rivo, NCJF co-directors Lovers Fishke and Hodel dream of life in the big city of Odessa, free from the poverty and old-world prejudices of the shtetl. The benevolent bookseller Mendele helps them, turning small-town superstitions to their advantage. Based on Mendele Mokher Seforim's story, this luminous allegory of escape marries Edgar Ulmer's masterful direction with superb acting by members of New York's The Artef and Yiddish Art Theater. Made on the eve of World War II, The Light Ahead is at once romantic, expressionist, and conscious of the danger about to engulf European Jews. (USA, 1939, 94 min, Yiddish with new English subtitles, Produced & Directed by Edgar G. Ulmer) "A riveting performance by Helen Beverley...Beverley and Opatoshu are perhaps the most beautiful couple in the history of Yiddish cinema, and their scenes have a touching erotic chemistry." --J. Hoberman, Bridge of Light "A gem radiating warmth and honesty." --Jewish Weekly "Astonishing...equal parts vaudeville schtick, Talmudic exegesis, and ghetto melodrama." --Village Voice More info on the film: www.jewishfilm.org/Catalogue/films/lightahead.htm ______________________________________________ Please do not use the "reply" key when writing to Mendele. Instead, direct your mail as follows: Material for Mendele Personal Notices & Announcements, i.e. announcements of events, commercial publications, requests to which responses should be sent exclusively to the request's author, etc., always in plain text (no HTML or the like). Material for postings to Mendele Yiddish literature and language, i.e. inquiries and comments of a non-commercial or publicity nature: mendele at mailman.yale.edu IMPORTANT: Please include your full name as you would like it to appear in your posting. No posting will appear without its author's name. Submissions to regular Mendele should not include personal email addresses, as responses will be posted for all to read. They must also include the author's name as you would like it to appear. In order to spare the shamosim time and effort, we request that contributors adhere, when applicable, as closely as possible to standard English punctuation, grammar, etc. and to the YIVO rules of transliteration into Latin letters. A guide to Romanization can be found at this site: https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__www.yivoinstitute.org_about_index.php-3Ftid-3D57-26aid-3D275&d=AwIFaQ&c=-dg2m7zWuuDZ0MUcV7Sdqw&r=D8C0VFGQIMfNsn7w8b0vfE3r3ePhWQ7ssdhDNAOIA7Y&m=i6OcOKQ3Y-dhocgtTbH6EgLZXR8Fm0SrlKQV_-7t2F8&s=5k_1G7ZAw1bKPhg69xsN2IRMOQRw-h8_bqZzGe0jlw0&e= All other messages should be sent to the shamosim at this address: mendele at mailman.yale.edu Mendele on the web [interim address]: https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__ _______________________________________________ Mendele mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.yale.edu/mailman/listinfo/mendele
