THE SEGAL CENTRE
FOR PERFORMING ARTS
in partnership with the City of Montreal
IS PROUD TO PRESENT
THE MONTREAL INTERNATIONAL YIDDISH THEATRE FESTIVAL
SYMPOSIUM JUNE 18-19 09
Presented by The Aaron & Wally Fish Family Foundation
THE SEGAL CENTRE, IN PARTNERSHIP WITH McGILL UNIVERSITY'S
JEWISH STUDIES DEPARTMENT, PRESENTS A WORLD CLASS
SYMPOSIUM FEATURING THE FINEST SCHOLARS OF YIDDISH THEATRE.
FASCINATING TOPICS PRESENTED BY BRILLIANT MINDS.
LANGUAGE of the SYMPOSIUM: English
LOCATION: The Studio at the Segal Centre for Performing Arts
JUNE 18 7PM
KEYNOTE ADDRESS
SETH WOLITZ holds the Gale Chair of Jewish Studies and is a Professor of French, Slavic and Comparative Literature at the University of Texas, Austin.
Title: Yiddish Theatre and the Jewish National Ideal
JUNE 19
| SESSION ONE: THE PILLARS OF YIDDISH THEATRE | 9AM-10:30 AM |
ALYSSA QUINT is a lecturer at Columbia University and is currently at work on a book about Avrom Goldfaden and the modern Yiddish theatre. Title: Avrom Goldfaden Reconsidered
NAHMA SANDROW is author of Vagabond Stars: A World History of Yiddish Theater and
'God, Man, and Devil': Yiddish Plays in Translation. She has written two award-winning plays.
Topic: Jacob Gordin
MICHAEL STEINLAUF is the theatre editor of the YIVO Encyclopedia of Jews in Eastern Europe and editor of Polin, v. 16, dedicated to Jewish popular culture in Poland.
Title: Shlepn dem golus: Ida Kaminska and Polish Yiddish Theatre
| SESSION TWO: THEMES IN YIDDISH THEATRE | 10:45 AM- 12:00 PM |
JOEL BERKOWITZ, Chair of the Judaic Studies Department at SUNY Albany and editor of Yiddish Theatre: New Approaches.
Title: Messianic Renegades in Yiddish Drama
DOV BER KERLER is the Yiddish Studies Chair at Indiana University, Bloomington. He has published four collections of Yiddish poetry, including one with his father, the poet Josef Kerler.
Topic: Purimshpiel (The Purim Play)
ALLAN L. NADLER is the Director of the Jewish Studies Program at Drew University in Madison, New Jersey.
Title: Dramatizing Jewish Heresy: Uriel D'Acosta and Baruch Spinoza as Stars of the Yiddish Theatre
| SESSION THREE: WORLD YIDDISH STAGE | 1:30- 3PM |
JEAN-MARC LARRUE is a professor of the theatre history and theory at the Université de Montréal. He is the author of Yiddish Theatre in Montreal.
Topic: The Dora Wasserman Yiddish Theatre
EDWARD PORTNOY teaches Yiddish language and literature at Rutgers University. He writes on Yiddish popular culture.
Title: Mit a hant untern kleydl: Yiddish puppet theatre in the 1920s and 1930s
JEFFREY VEIDLINGER is the Director of the Jewish Studies Program at Indiana University. He is the author of The Moscow State Yiddish Theater: Jewish Culture on the Soviet Stage.
Topic: Revolutionary Art and the Moscow State Yiddish Theatre
| ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSION: YIDDISH THEATRE TODAY | 3:15-4:30 PM |
Joining the Roundtable is SARAH SONIA LIPSYC, author of «Salomon Mikhoëls ou le testament d'un acteur juif» and an actress and a theatre director.
| CLOSING REMARKS | 4:30-5:00 PM |
EUGENE ORNSTEIN Associate Professor, Jewish Studies Department of McGill University
Symposium Committee of McGill University's Jewish Studies Department
Chairperson, Anna Gonshor
Eric Caplan, Esther Frank, Eugene Orenstein
For more information: 514-739-2301 yiddishtheatrefestival@segalcentre.org