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Stutchkoff's Yiddish radio scripts, with a musical performance by Benjy Fox-Rosen, Bronx, NY, 20 December 2009

Benjy Fox-RosenStutchkoff's Yiddish radio scripts, with a musical
performance by Benjy Fox-Rosen

PROGRAM IN YIDDISH

Sholem Aleichem Cultural Center
3301 Bainbridge Avenue, corner 208th St.
(near Montefiore Hospital), Bronx, NY
Take the #4 train to Mosholu Parkway or the D train to 205th St.

Please come to hear a Yiddish lecture and reading "The Treasures of Nahum Stutchkoff" given by Amanda (Miryem-Khaye) Seigel with excerpts from funny commercials to heart-wrenching dramas - all from the collection of Nahum Stutchkoff's typescripts in the Jewish Division at The New York Public Library.

Nahum Stutchkoff (Nukhem Stutshkov) was not just a Yiddish linguist, but also a prolific playwright, translator, actor and lyricist who worked with Yiddish composers such as Rumshinsky, Ellstein, Secunda, and Perlmutter.

ADMISSION: $ 3.50. Members and students: free.
Refreshments served.
http://shul21.org/

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