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Isaac
Babel, a writer of historic impact through his works in theater,
film, music and stories, will be celebrated during a three-day
festival at Smith, Amherst College and the University of Massachusetts,
from Thursday through Saturday, December 9–11. The festival
features a performance at Smith of Babel's play Marya on each
of the three festival nights, at 8 p.m. in Theatre 14 at the
Mendenhall Center for the Performing Arts.
Isaac Babel
Festival
December 9–11
Schedule
Keynote address “Other as Self:Isaac
Babel’s Wandering Russian Jew.” Judith Kornblatt,
University of Wisconsin-Madison. Reception follows. 4–6
p.m., Center for Russian Culture, Amherst College
Theatre Marya, by Isaac Babel. Veniamin
Smekhov, director. 8 p.m., Mendenhall Center for the Performing
Arts, Smith College
Panel on Marya with Stephen F. Jones,
Russian studies, Mount Holyoke College; Leonard Berkman, theatre,
Smith; and Smekhov. 10:30 a.m.–12:30 p.m., Mendenhall
CPA, Smith College
Recital of Russian and Jewish music. Boris
Kogan, cello, Sofya Shainskaia, piano. 4:30 p.m., Bezanson
Recital Hall, UMass
Presentation “Trading Places: Perevod,
‘Miss Harriet,’ and ‘Guy de Maupassant.’”
2:30–3:30 p.m., Center for Russian Culture, Amherst
College
Theatre Marya. 8 p.m., Mendenhall CPA,
Smith College
Performance "How It Was Done in Odessa,"
by Andrei Malaev-Babel, Isaac Babel’s grandson and artistic
director of the Stanislavsky Theater, Washington, D.C. Performance
based on stories by Isaac Babel. 8 p.m., Cole Assembly
Room, Converse Hall, Amherst College
Screening of Bezhin Meadow and lecture,
“The Tragedy of Bezhin Meadow,” by Patricia
Blake. 11 a.m.–noon, Earle Recital Hall, Sage,
Smith College
Presentation “How It Was Done in Tel
Aviv: Gesher Theatre Stages Odessa Stories.” Olga Gershenson,
UMass. 12:15–1 p.m., Earle Recital Hall, Sage, Smith
College
Panel on Odessa with Robert Rothstein,
UMass, and Patricia Herlihy, Brown University. 2–3:15
p.m., Earle Recital Hall, Sage, Smith College
Film screening of Jewish Luck. Yakov
Gubanov, piano, Mimi Rabson, violin. 3:30–6 p.m.,
Earle Recital Hall, Sage, Smith College
Theatre Marya. 8 p.m., Mendenhall CPA,
Smith College
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