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Film about folklorist
Beyle Schaechter Gottesman
To Be Shown
At June Sholom Aleichem Club MeetingFolklorist, writer, singer and artist Beyle Schaechter Gottesman has become a major contributor to Yiddish culture. The film, Song of Autumn, which features an interview with her. will be shown at the Sholom Aleichem Club meeting on Sunday, June 8 at Gratz College, 7605 Old York Road, Melrose Park at 2:30 P.M. The meeting is open to the public. Guest admission is $7 for adults and $2 for students. The interview is in Yiddish, with English subtitles.
She came from Czernowitz, Romania. Romania became independent in 1918 and became part of the Soviet Union in 1940. Forced by war to leave her home, Mrs. Gottesman came to the US in 1951. Since then she has published collections, children’s books, and songs recorded by herself and with other artists. One of these songs, Harpsleid has become a classic among modern Yiddish folksongs and has been sung at the Club’s Holiday programs. In 2005, the National Endowment for the Arts awarded Beyle a National Heritage Fellowship, the nation’s top honor for folk arts.
The film has received rave reviews with Theodore Bikel saying, “This film is a welcome glimpse into the life of one of the few living Yiddish poets and songwriters. Beyle...speaks of things both small and earth shattering. Her words come directly from the heart, without guile and without adornment. I love this film.”
She is Yiddish entertainer Ben Schaechter’s aunt and the mother of Itzik Gottesman, who is the associate editor of the Yiddish Forward.
For more information on the meeting or the Club, call 215-233-2668 or e-mail meetinginfo@sholomaleichemclub.org.
2007-2008 Sholom Aleichem Club General Meetings
September: Kehillah of Secular Jewish Organizations of Greater Philadelphia Observance
of High Holidays: Rosh Hashanah (September 13), Yom Kippur (September 22)
October 14: Dr. Walter Tsou, former President of the American Public Health Association
and Health Commissioner of Philadelphia
National and State Perspectives for Health Care Reform in Light of Recent Developments
November 11:Dr. Craig Eisendrath, Ph.D., Chair of the Project for Nuclear Awareness
Peace In The Middle East: Is It Still Possible?
January: No meeting
February:No meeting
March 9: Sholom Aleichem Club members present
A Union for Shabbos: Readings of Max Rosenfeld’s Translations from Yiddish Literature
April 13: Seder
May 4: Dr. Irene Reiter, Former English teacher in Philadelphia public schools
Reviews The Invisible Wall by 97-year old Harry Bernstein
June 8: Film, Song of Autumn
About Yiddish Folklorist, writer, singer and artist Beyle Schaechter Gottesman
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