Featuring panel discussion with filmmaker and experts. Part of the Los Angeles Jewish Film Festival.  Tickets are $10 (General Admission) and $8 (Students/Seniors/JCC Members).

 

Join us as we present The World Was Ours, a remarkable documentary film focusing on the history of the vibrant Jewish community of Vilna, 'the Jerusalem of Lithuania.' The film depicts the hopes, dreams and remarkable achievements of inter-war life in Vilna (then Poland, now Vilnius, Lithuania), exploring the cultural atmosphere that produced such illustrious figures as Chaim Soutine, Jacques Lipchitz, Jascha Heifetz, Avram Sutzkever, Chaim Grade, Joseph Buloff, and The Vilna Troupe, to name a few. The community's dedication to culture and education was so strong that, during the Holocaust, its people risked their lives to save precious books and documents from destruction. "It's important for the world to know how we lived," says one survivor, "not only how we died."  This film tells their story. Narrated by Mandy Patinkin.

Discussion to follow with a panel including the filmmaker, Mira Jedwabnik Van Doren; Vilna Ghetto survivor, Reba Leventhal; and Fulbright Fellow in Lithuania in 2003, Hannah Pollin.

Click here to purchase tickets in advance.  Check out the full schedule of screenings at the L.A. Jewish Film Festival.

Alana Newhouse is the Arts and Culture editor of the Forward. The Forward, founded in 1897, has been the voice of and for American Jews. Newhouse's book, "A Living Lens: Photographs of Jewish Life From the Pages of the Forward," is a magnificent compilation of pictures that describe and evoke moments in Jewish American history. Newhouse has curated a magnificent range of photos, from life on the Lower East Side to specific cultural icons, to Jews in Central and Eastern Europe. The book spans a century of international Jewish life, and is a most important cultural and historical document. David Mermelstein writes on music and the arts for the Forward, and has also appeared on KUSC and in the pages of The New York Times.  Click here to read more about "A Living Lens."

Alana Newhouse will also be signing copies of "The Living Lens" at the Yiddishkayt Los Angeles booth at the L.A. Times Book Festival April 28th.  Read more below.

We are very excited to announce that Yiddishkayt Los Angeles has teamed up with the National Yiddish Book Center (of Amherst, Massachusetts) to bring Yiddish bikher to the L.A. Times Festival of Books! 

Visit our joint booth (#704) on Saturday at 1:00 pm for a book signing with Alana Newhouse, editor of "The Living Lens: Photographs of Jewish Life from the Pages of the Forward" and on Sunday at 10:00 am for a book signing with Ellis Weiner and Barbara Davilman, authors of "Yiddish with Dick and Jane" and "Yiddish with George and Laura."  And visit our booth anytime to learn about the National Yiddish Book Center, red a bisl Yidish, and peruse our selection of books and CDs for sale.

Help us bring Yiddish to the Festival of Books!  We need volunteers to make it happen.  Contact us at events@yiddishkaytla.org for more information.

JOB DESCRIPTION:

• Assist in producing Yiddishkayt's upcoming week-long festival scheduled for October 2007, by working with artists and assisting in marketing and PR efforts.
• Assist with planning and facilitating events, Road Shows and Summer Camp Program.
• Communicate with members, artists, and community through email, phone, and mail.
• Assist with marketing, PR, fundraising and grant writing activities.
• Maintain library of resources and communicate with citywide Yiddish groups.
• Assist in daily administration of a non-profit arts/culture organization.

EXPERIENCE: We seek an organized, creative, and motivated multi-tasker with excellent written and interpersonal communication skills. Computer knowledge is a must (Mac preferable). Knowledge of Yiddish, the non-profit sector, and the L.A. Jewish community is helpful but not necessary.

DATES: Beginning in June and ending in August, for a 10-week period.

STIPEND: $3,500

ELIGIBILITY: Internship position is limited to currently enrolled undergraduates who reside or attend college in Los Angeles County, and who will have completed at least one semester of college by June 2007 and will not graduate before December 2007.

LOCATION: The Wiltern Office Tower, 3780 Wilshire Blvd, Suite 1000, Los Angeles, CA 90010.

SEND RESUME TO:yiddishkayt@yiddishkaytla.org or by fax to (213) 365-0702.