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Chagall's lifelong touchstone was Vitebsk, the Russian village where he was born in 1887. His parents were Yiddish-speaking Hasidim, descended from a culture suspicious of imagery but possessing a long tradition of mysticism and of the spiritual ecstasy that courses through his art. In My Life, the lovely but unreliable memoir that he wrote when he was just 35, Chagall recalls how his family used painted canvases to protect the wooden floors of their house. "My sisters," he observes dryly, "thought pictures were made expressly for that purpose...
...Faculty would have never invited anyone who defames blacks, Hispanics, women, or homosexuals,” wrote Ruth R. Wisse, Peretz professor of Yiddish literature and professor of comparative literature. “Anti-Semitism, on the other hand, is quite the trend...
Omer Bartov, a professor at Brown University and a scholar of Yiddish culture, spoke at Hillel yesterday afternoon after the matinee performance of The Dybbuk, a play showing at the Loeb Experimental Theater this week...
...play is about five Jews who re-enact a Yiddish play, “Dybbuk,” to cope with the suffering in a German ghetto during the Holocaust...
...DYBBUK. The Harvard Radcliffe Dramatic Club presents Julia Pascal’s “The Dybbuk,” a Yiddish folktale adapted to take place in the Holocaust. The play, directed by Graham A. Sack ’03, follows five prisoners in a ghetto while waiting for Nazi death camps, and their reclamation of Jewish culture through folklore at the brink of their destruction. Plays through Friday, May 3, at 7:30 p.m., with special performances on Tuesday, April 29 (Holocaust Remembrance Day). Tickets free, available at the Loeb Box Office (617) 547-8300. Loeb Experimental Theater...