Isaac Babel Festival

[Robert A. Rothstein]

A three-day Isaac Babel festival (December 9-11, 2004) will be hosted on
the Amherst College, Smith College, and UMass Amherst campuses in
conjunction with the Smith College Theatre Department's December 8-12
staging of Isaac Babel's Marya, directed by Veniamin Smekhov.  In
addition to the play there will be a recital of Russian and Jewish
music, showings of the films "Bezhin Meadow" and "Jewish Luck,"
lectures, talks, performances and panels.  Participants include Leonard
Berkman, Patricia Blake, Olga Gershenson, Yakov Gubanov, Patricia
Herlihy, Boris Kogan, Judith Kornblatt, Andrei Malaev-Babel, Mimi
Rabson, Robert Rothstein, Sofia Shainskaia, Veniamin Smekhov and Janneke
van de Stadt.

The complete program is available at
http://www.fivecolleges.edu/sites/reees/.

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