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UNIVERSITY NEWS - FEBRUARY 2004
MEDIA CONTACT: Andrew LaPlant
FAU Friends of Yiddish Present the Bisel Film Festival Boca Raton, FL (February 6, 2004) – The Florida Atlantic University Friends of Yiddish present the 2004 Bisel Yiddish Film Festival. The film showings will take place on the Boca Raton campus, 777 Glades Road, at the Education Building, Room 119. Each film will start at 3:30 p.m. and is free and open to the public. The festival movies and dates are:
Wednesday, February 11- “Mizreh un Mayrev/East
and West” will be shown silent with English
and Yiddish inter-titles. In a comedic film about
assimilation and Jewish values, sophisticated New Yorker
Morris Brown travels back to his village to attend his
niece's traditional wedding. There he encounters the
rambunctious Mollie, whose hi-jinks include boxing, and
teaching other young villagers to shimmy. Mollie meets her
match, however, in an engaging young yeshiva scholar who
forsakes tradition and joins the secular world to win her
heart.
Wednesday, February 25 – “Yiddle with His
Fiddle” in Yiddish, with English subtitles.
The classic Yiddish language musical-comedy based on the
story by Konrad Tom. has been called the best Yiddish
motion picture of all time. Molly Picon plays a shtetl girl
who, disguised as a boy, goes off with her father and a
band of traveling musicians into the Polish countryside.
The Friends of Yiddish is a group of
individuals interested in promoting the study of Yiddish
language and culture at FAU. Membership is $10 to support
the purchase of Yiddish books for the Molly Fraiberg
Collection at FAU, student programming in Yiddish and other
events.
For more information, visit: http://www.library.fau.edu/depts/spc/index.htm or e-mail: kulturjm@yahoo.com.
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