Los Angeles: Many Yiddishkayt programs April 21-29

Five interesting programs from April 21-29 will take place in Los Angeles, sponsored by Yiddishkayt.

April 21
Billy Wilder Theater, UCLA Hammer Museum
Film critic Kenneth Turan hosts an evening of Jewish silent films accompanied by music. Films include D.W. Griffith's short, A Child of the Ghetto, and East and West with Molly Picon.

April 22
UCLA
"Acting Jewish: Film, TV, Comedy, Music"
Part of Nextbook's Los Angeles Festival of Ideas

April 23
University of Judaism
Panel discussion with filmmaker and experts as part of the Los Angeles Jewish Film Festival. The World Was Ours is a documentary focusing on Vilna, which was called "the Jerusalem of Lithuania." It focuses on inter-war life, narrated by Mandy Patinkin.

The panel includes filmmaker Mira Jedwabnik Van Doren; Vilna Ghetto survivor Reba Leventhal; and Hannah Pollin, who was a 2003 Fulbright Fellow in Lithuania.

April 24
The Fine Arts Theater, Beverly Hills
A book discussion on Arts and Culture editor of The Forward Alana Newhouse's book, A Living Lens: Photographs of Jewish Life From the Pages of The Forward. Photos range from the Lower East Side to Central and Eastern Europe.

April 28-29
UCLA
Yiddishkayt Los Angeles and the National Yiddish Book Center are teaming up to bring Yiddish books to the L.A. Times Festival of Books (booth #704). Special events: 1 p.m. Saturday: Alana Newhouse book signing; 10 a.m. Sunday: book signing with Ellis Weiner and Barbara Davilman, authors of Yiddish with Dick and Jane and Yiddish with George and Laura. Books and CDs will also be on sale.

Check the Yiddishkayt Web site for reservation information.