In the past two days, almost 500 people attended one of our three screenings of her lovely film Camera Obscura either at Northbrook Public Library, Skokie Public Library, or Harold Washington Library Center (Chicago Loop).

Click HERE for more information on how to purchase Camera Obscura (for home use) or rent Camera Obscura (for public exhibition) from the National Center for Jewish Film at Brandeis University.

Click HERE to purchase The House of Memory: Stories by Jewish Women Writers of Latin America, a collection edited by poet Marjorie Agosin which contains Angelica Gorodischer’s original short story.

Click HERE for the words of the lovely poem by Eliahu Toker (set to music by Marcelo Moguilevsky).

Click HERE for the Wikipedia page explaining the camera obscura phenomenon (“one of the inventions that led to photography”), seen in film when Jean-Baptiste notices that the image of Gertrudis drawing water from the well has been projected on the back wall of his room.

We also send our appreciation to our library partners for their terrific onsite support, & to NCJF for making this wonderful film available to Kol Yisrael. Finally we thank all the audience members who participated in the three lively Q&A sessions after each screening.

All Chicago YIVO “Summer Festival of Yiddish Culture” programs are FREE & open to the public

Where: Wheeling Public Library

Bibi Marcell presents a solo concert with guitar.

Time: 12:15 pm

Location: Skokie Public Library

Petty Auditorium

5215 Oakton Street

Skokie, IL

Some Jews who escaped the Holocaust managed to get into Argentina. However, immigrant families had arrived much earlier, to escape the Russian pogroms. They settled in rural Argentina and became farmers and ranchers. Here, a French photographer comes to take pictures of such a family.

Click HERE to read mini-review in the JUF News.
Click HERE to order DVD from NCJF website.

Film includes poem (in Yiddish) by Eliahu Toker:

Libe, helf mikh ibershprayzn
di fintsternish vos loyert in mir.
Azá umendlikhe nakht vos mikh vart
un kh’guefín nisht kayn kholem in zij.

(Set to music by Marcelo Moguilevsky)

Love, Help me cross the darkness that arises in me.
An endless night ahead and me without dreams.

(Translation by YIVO member Joan Levin)

Photos courtesy of the National Center for Jewish Film at Brandeis University.

Time: 6:00 pm

Where: Harold Washington Library Center

Cindy Pritzker Auditorium

400 South State Street; Chicago Loop

Some Jews who escaped the Holocaust managed to get into Argentina. However, immigrant families had arrived much earlier, to escape the Russian pogroms. They settled in rural Argentina and became farmers and ranchers. Here, a French photographer comes to take pictures of such a family.

Click HERE to read mini-review in the JUF News.
Click HERE to order DVD from NCJF website.

Film includes poem (in Yiddish) by Eliahu Toker:

Libe, helf mikh ibershprayzn
di fintsternish vos loyert in mir.
Azá umendlikhe nakht vos mikh vart
un kh’guefín nisht kayn kholem in zij.

(Set to music by Marcelo Moguilevsky)

Love, Help me cross the darkness that arises in me.
An endless night ahead and me without dreams.

(Translation by YIVO member Joan Levin)

Photos courtesy of the National Center for Jewish Film at Brandeis University.

Where: Wheeling Public Library

The sextet explores the intersection of Roma (ethnic Gypsy), Jewish klezmer and Balkan folk music.

Date: August 14 (Tuesday)

Time: 12:15 pm

Where: Northbrook Public Library

Some Jews who escaped the Holocaust managed to get into Argentina. However, immigrant families had arrived much earlier, to escape the Russian pogroms. They settled in rural Argentina and became farmers and ranchers. Here, a French photographer comes to take pictures of such a family.

Where: Wilmette Public Library

Bibi Marcell, vocalist, and Gail Mangurten, pianist, offer a program of nostalgic Yiddish songs in the Herschel & Rivche Goldfarb Memorial Concert.

Lecture #1: Tues Aug 7 at 12:15 PM at Northbrook Public Library

NPL = 1201 Cedar Lane; Northbrook, IL (Auditorium)

Lecture #2: Tues Aug 7 at 6 PM at Harold Washington Library Center

HWLC = 400 South State Street at Congress Parkway (Ground Floor “Multi-Purpose Room”)

When: Wednesday, July 25 at 12:15 PM

Where: Wilmette Public Library.

Reyna and Temma Schaechter, accompanied by their Musical Director and father, Binyumen Schaechter, recreate the youth of our grand- parents in Eastern Europe and in America.