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Conférence en français
« Trois femmes écrivent sur le judaïsme  »

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10:00 A.M.
The Jewish Genealogical Society of Montreal
Sunday Morning Family Tree Workshops

7:30 P.M.
(More than a) book launch of 

“Rabbis and Their Community” by Ira Robinson

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“A Dream of Birds” – Word Sonnets by Seymour Mayne and B. Glen Rotchin, Illustrations by Sharon Katz

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7:30 P.M.
An Evening with Andy Borowitz presented by the Miriam Schachter Vineberg Foundation
The Borowitz Report

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7:30 P.M.
Legacy for Learning presents a lecture with Prof. Paul Yachnin
Going Public, Becoming Human: Shakespeare and Shylock”

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7:30 P.M.
(More than a) Book Launch with author Gila Lustiger
“The Inventory”

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Library Closed

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1:00 P.M. and 7:00 P.M.
Legacy for Learning Series presents:
“Conversations” – A Jewish Women’s Literary Circle

7:00 P.M.
The Jewish Genealogical Society of Montreal
Three JGS members present their genealogy research

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Description of Events

Conférence en français
« Trois femmes écrivent sur le judaïsme  »
MERCREDI, 2 AVRIL 2008 À 19 H 30

« Exils et diasporas modernes »

Perla Serfaty-Garzon tente de répondre aux questions suivantes : Les migrations et la vie diasporique ont toujours existé. Quelles formes prennent-elles de nos jours ? Avec quelles conséquences au niveau de l'expérience intime et singulière de

l'exil ?

Perla Serfaty-Garzon, sociologue et psychosociologue, a mené, dans le cadre de sa carrière universitaire, des travaux originaux sur la maison et l'habiter. Elle est notamment l'auteure de Chez soi ; Les territoires de l'intimité; de Enfin chez soi ? Récits féminins de vie et de migration et de Un chez-soi chez les autres.

« Judas »

Tassia Trifiatis présente son roman, un conte cruel et passionnel qui explore le possible et l'impossible entre Nefelli, de père grec, et Yehouda, jeune hassid. Quand s'ouvre entre eux le Judas de la chair, les irrécon­ciliables différences culturelles et même spirituelles s'effacent devant des douleurs insondables.

Née à Montréal, Tassia Trifiatis a 27 ans. Judas est un premier roman qui annonce une oeuvre prometteuse.

« Poétiques du Messie »

Anne-Élaine Cliche est romancière et professeure au Département d’études littéraires de l’Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM). Son livre s’intéresse à la place de certains textes dans l’Histoire et à leur rencontre avec la tentation messianique (Inquisition, psychose, délire, etc.). Les Poétiques du Messie seraient des réponses littéraires ou mystiques à ces folies psychiques, politiques ou religieuses qui convoquent sur le mode du déni, de la méconnaissance, du détournement, de l’usurpation ou de la haine, l’origine juive de la figure. Ces poétiques seraient des étincelles ou des éclats de temps qui surgissent comme des moments d’interprétation, de reconnaissance, de responsabilité au coeur de la nuit totalitaire des faux Messies. (Cervantès, Aboulafia, Freud, Lacan, Le Talmud, Céline, Perec, A.M Klein).

Conférence présentée par Sophie Jama, Présidente du comité franco­phone de la BPJ. Livres et dédicaces disponibles. En collaboration avec l’Alliance Israélite Universelle.

Bibliothèque publique juive, 5151, chemin de la Côte Ste-Catherine (Métro Côte Ste-Catherine)

5$ membres et étudiants / $10 autres

Info : (514) 345-2617, poste 3017

Réception

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The popular Sunday Morning Family Tree workshops (formerly Scholar-in-Residence) are an opportunity for beginners to get ‘one-on-one’ help with family history questions. Jewish family history does not have to be a mystery. We all leave a paper trail that can unravel the story of our families for many generations, across the ocean and into the smallest of ‘shtetls’– Join with other Montrealers in the fascinating quest for your roots.

Visit the JGS website at www.jgs-montreal.org. For further information, please call: Stanley Diamond, President (514) 484-0100; Merle Kastner, Programming (514) 735-4739; Jerry Zell, Membership (514) 486-2171.

Jewish Public Library

5151 Côte Ste-Catherine

Admission: Free

Info: JGS of Montreal Hotline (514) 484-0969

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The Jewish Public Library in collaboration with the Concordia Institute for Canadian Jewish Studies present (More than a) book launch of 

“Rabbis and Their Community” by Ira Robinson

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“A Dream of Birds” – Word Sonnets by Seymour Mayne and B. Glen Rotchin, Illustrations by Sharon Katz

SUNDAY, APRIL 6, 2008 AT 7:30 P.M.

What the Shohtim Did in Their Spare Time

Ira Robinson, Professor of Judaic Studies in the Department of Religion, Concordia University, who has published extensively in the area of Jewish Studies, will talk about early 20^th-century Montreal’s Shohtim, men who also often displayed literary and artistic talent. Even with their inherently difficult job of slaughtering cattle for Montreal’s kosher meat industry, they had ample time to pursue other occupations and avocations, including Torah and Jewish philosophy scholarship, journalism and music. In doing so, they contributed significantly to Jewish Montreal’s intellectual atmosphere.

Introduced by Prof. Dr. Norman Ravvin, Chair of the Concordia Institute for Canadian Jewish Studies.

A Dream of Birds

Seymour Mayne, author, editor or translator of more than 50 books, and B. Glen Rotchin, author of fiction and poetry, will launch their joint work of poetry that developed from their casual, back-and-forth dialogue as friends. The resulting literary collaboration came as a surprise even to them, like a flock of grounded birds suddenly exploding into flight. Its theme is birds; the reader might sense the push and pull of wing force in the cadences that cross its pages. The poems are responsive, sometimes playing off one another, at other times dueling.

The book also features a flip-book animated sequence of drawings by artist/film-maker Sharon Katz that is visible when its pages are turned. It also includes illustrations from Slide, her short animated film, which will also be screened at the launching.

The authors will introduce each other.

Books and autographs available. Reception sponsored by the Tauben Family Foundation of the JPL.

Jewish Public Library, 5151 Côte Ste-Catherine

$5 JPL members/students, $10 non-members

Info: (514) 345-2627 ext. 3017

Reception

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An Evening with Andy Borowitz presented by the Miriam Schachter Vineberg Foundation
The Borowitz Report
TUESDAY, APRIL 8, 2008 AT 7:30 P.M.

Legacy for Learning presents a lecture with Prof. Paul Yachnin

“Going Public, Becoming Human: Shakespeare and Shylock”

MONDAY, APRIL 14, 2008 AT 7:30 P.M.

Is Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice anti-Semitic? In this presentation, Paul Yachnin says that it is – even that the play sees Shylock as a dog – but he argues that the play’s hatred of Jews is less important than its dramatization of how “the dog Jew” (as Solanio calls him) begins to put on his humanness by wrestling his way into what Hannah Arendt characterizes as the properly human sphere of speech and action.

Paul Yachnin is Tomlinson Professor of Shakespeare Studies and Chair of the English Department at McGill University. He is co-director of the Shakespeare and Performance Research Team and director of the Making Publics Project.

Introduced by Esther Frank, Faculty Lecturer, Department of Jewish Studies, McGill University.

Sponsored by the Helen Bassell Endowment.

Jewish Public Library, 5151 Côte Ste-Catherine

$5 JPL members/students, $10 non-members

Info: (514) 345-2627 ext. 3017

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(More than a) Book Launch with author Gila Lustiger

“The Inventory”
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 16, 2008 AT 7:30 P.M.

Gila Lustiger will talk about her own family secrets, about blank spaces in biographies, and the attempt to stride over and away from horrors with a laugh. Using autobiographical material, Gila transforms it into a novel, a game of fiction and into an extraordinary and unforgettable novel.

Gila Lustiger was born in Frankfurt/Main (Germany) and educated at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. She has translated, among others, the Israeli poet T. Carmi and Asher Reich from Hebrew into German. Gila Lustiger lives with her family in Paris.

Her first novel, Bestandsaufnahme / The Inventory (1995) was chosen by the German Academy in Darmstadt as Book of the Month. Her story Aus einer schönen Welt (1997) was nominated for the Ingeborg Bachmann Award. Her novel So sind wir (2005) appeared in French under the title “Nous sommes”.

Introduced by Trudis Goldsmith-Reber, retired Professor, Department of German Studies, McGill University.

Books and autographs available.

Co-sponsored by the Goethe-Institut Montreal and the Consulate General of the Federal Republic of Germany.

Jewish Public Library, 5151 Côte Ste-Catherine

$5 JPL members / students, $10 non-members

Info: (514) 345-2627 ext. 3017

Reception

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Legacy for Learning Series presents:

“Conversations” – A Jewish Women’s Literary Circle
MONDAYS, APRIL 28 AND JUNE 2, 2008 FROM 1:00 TO 3:00 P.M. AND 7:00 TO 9:00 P.M.

In co-operation with Hadassah Brandeis Institute

“Conversations” is a book group featuring live interaction with the authors.

April 28:            Ten Green Bottles with Vivian Kaplan   

June 2:              Leaving Leningrad with Ludmila Shtern

Each book will be discussed in intimate gatherings at local homes, in either afternoon or evening sessions. Each will provide an opportunity for participants to explore – through thought and feeling – who we are as Jewish women.

Books are currently on sale at the Library.

Private residences

Admission for both sessions: $100.

Must be a member of the JPL in order to participate.

Pre-registration: (514) 345-2627 ext. 3042

Spaces are limited

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The Jewish Genealogical Society of Montreal
Three JGS members present their genealogy research
MONDAY, APRIL 28, 2008 AT 7:30 P.M.

 Jewish Public Library, 5151 Côte Ste-Catherine

Admission: Free

Info: JGS of Montreal Hotline (514) 484-0969

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