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New York Premiere of “Chava Rosenfarb: That Bubble of Being”

Tuesday Aug 4, 2015 6:30pm
Chava Rosenfarb

 

Film Screening & Discussion

Co-presented by the League for Yiddish

Chava Rosenfarb, noted Yiddish writer and major Holocaust literary figure, discusses her life in Lodz before the Holocaust, her years in the Lodz Ghetto, in Auschwitz, in Bergen-Belsen, and her career as a Yiddish writer in Montreal, in an unscripted interview with Yiddish teacher and activist Anna Fishman Gonshor. This is the third in the series Worlds within a World: Conversations with Yiddish Writers produced by the League for Yiddish and directed by noted filmmaker Josh Waletzky.

Yiddish with English subtitles. Followed by a panel discussion.