1

2

3

4

5

6

7

8

9

10

2:00 P.M.
Movie Presentation, Silent with English intertitles
“Jewish Luck” (USSR 1925) - Introduced by Naomi Tencer

11

12

13

14

8:00 P.M.
Yiddish Café
“Love is a Ring of Fire”

15

16

17

2:00 P.M.
Lecture in English with Anna Shternshis
White Piano from the Shtetl: East European Jewish Culture in post-Soviet Imagination”

18

19

20

21

22

23

27

Description of Events

Movie Presentation, Silent with English intertitles, 95 minutes

“Jewish Luck” (USSR 1925) - Introduced by Naomi Tencer

SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 2008 AT 2:00 P.M.

Sponsored by the Miriam Blacher Glasrot and Josef Glasrot Endowment Fund.

Jewish Public Library

5151 Côte Ste-Catherine

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

Info: (514) 345-2627 ext. 3006

Refreshments will be served

Click here to view the flyer

Back to the top

Yiddish Café

“Love is a Ring of Fire”

THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 2008 AT 8:00 P.M.

Love songs and poems. Montreal talent shines.

Sponsored by the Augenfeld Family Endowment.

Jewish Public Library

5151 Côte Ste-Catherine

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

Info: (514) 345-2627 ext. 3006

Refreshments will be served

Click here to view the flyer

Back to the top

Lecture in English with Anna Shternshis

“White Piano from the Shtetl: East European Jewish Culture in post-Soviet Imagination”

SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 2008 AT 2:00 P.M.

How do post-Soviet Jews imagine their roots? What aspects of East European Jewish nostalgia do they cherish? What does it mean for our understanding of secular Jewish identity? Anna Shternshis offers examples from post-Soviet films, Jewish restaurant menus, musical performances and Russian-language blogs in order to analyze the trends of contemporary Russian Jewish culture. 

Anna Shternshis holds a D.Phil. in Modern Languages and Literatures from Oxford University and currently teaches at the University of Toronto. She is the author of Soviet and Kosher: Jewish Popular Culture in the Soviet Union, 1923 – 1939 (Indiana University Press, 2006).

Jewish Public Library

5151 Côte Ste-Catherine

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

Info: (514) 345-2627 ext. 3006

Refreshments will be served

Click here to view the flyer

Back to the top