World's first Yiddish Opera... with composer speaking!

Jared Gimbel '11, current President of the Wesleyan Yiddish Club and a Jewish Renaissance Fellow, sends in:

Solomon Epstein of Agawam, MA is bringing a film version of his Opera, "The Dybbuk", to Wesleyan. It was adapted from a libretto from the St. Petersburg Society for Jewish Folk Music, whose efforts were sundered by the persecutions of Stalin and of Hitler.

Performed first in Israel in 1999, "The Dybbuk" is the world's FIRST Yiddish Opera, and a grand step to bringing Yiddish and that vanished world from oblivion to the 21st century.

The opera will be screened with its original cast on SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 16, 2008 at 8:00, in PAC 001. Sol will be showing the connection between traditional Jewish folk melodies and his opera in a musical demonstration, in addition to answering questions afterwards.

This is a meaningful historic work, and you should NOT miss it.

When: Sunday, Nov. 16 at 8 pm
Where: PAC 001
Why: awesome Yiddish opera, with the dude who made it there in person!

Yiddish Club!

The first meeting of the Wesleyan Yiddish Club will be this Wednesday night at 10pm at the Bayis (157 Church Street, shares a backyard with WesWings). If you come, Jonah will tell you why he doesn't call it the Bayit.

Contact: jboyarin(at)wesleyan.edu