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Western Mass Yiddish Experience Package includes: 2 DVDs of films by Abraham Ravett AND Yidstock Passes AND Yiddish Book Center Membership!  This package can't be beat for any Yiddish lover!

Abraham Ravett is a 1999 Grantee of the Foundation for Jewish Culture's Lynn and Jules Kroll Fund for Jewish Documentariy Film.  He is a professor of filmmaking and photography at Hampshire College. Abraham Ravett was born in Poland in 1947, raised in Israel, and emigrated to the United States in 1955. He has been an independent filmmaker for the past thirty years. Ravett's films included in this package are Everything's For You and Piyut I-V which are in limited edition and not available on Amazon.

Everything's For You reflects the fimmaker's relationship with his deceased father, a man who survived both the Lodz Ghetto and Auschwitz. The film utilizes a combination of previously shot material (1974-78), family photographs, archival footage, optically printed current footage, cell animation sequences (by Emily Hubley), and computer graphics to create a mosaic, a meditation on filial relationships. Dialogue is in both Yiddish and English. http://faculty.hampshire.edu/aravett/dvds/everythings_for_you.html

Piyut I-V is a DVD compilation of five recently completed films: Notes for a Polish Jew (2012) 8min.silent; From Prague to Poland (2010) 15 min. sound; What my Father Would Have Seen In Poland (2010) 54 min. sound; Non Aryan (2009) 12 min. silent; Trepches (2009) 7 min. silent. http://faculty.hampshire.edu/aravett/dvds/piyut_i_v.html

Yidstock 2013: The Festival of New Yiddish Music (July 18-21) will bring the top names in klezmer and new Yiddish music to the stage at the Yiddish Book Center in Amherst, MA - including the Klezmer Conservatory Band, the Yidstock All-Stars, Steven Bernstein & Frank London, and many more. Don't miss out on what promises to be a great festival of music and related events.

Your Festival Pass includes admission to all concerts, lectures, and workshops.

For a full schedule of events:  www.yiddishbookcenter.org/yidstock

The Yiddish Book Center in Amherst, MA works with energy, imagination and determination to rescue, preserve, translate and disseminate Yiddish books, and help new generations learn Yiddish, explore modern Jewish literature and culture, and better understand who they are and where they come from.

This one year membership to the Yiddish Book Center includes:

• A subscription to Pakn Treger, the Center's English language magazine
• Discounts on programs of the Yiddish Book Center
• Discounts in the Center's on-site and online bookstore