02/26/2010 - 12:00pm to 02/26/2010 - 1:30pm

Location:
Harold Schnitzer Family Program in Judaic Studies at PSU
TBA
Portland State University
1825 SW Broadway
Portland, OR

Class Description:
Talk and Reading by Joanne Greenberg

Author of I Never Promised You A Rose Garden and Miri Who Charms

From The Greeenwood Encyclopedia of Multiethnic American Literature (2005): “Although Greenberg’s writing career began with a historical novel about the twelfth-century York massacre of Jews (1963), she is best known for an autobiographical novel about a teenage girl’s struggle with mental illness. Published in 1964 under the pseudonym Hannah Green, I Never Promised You a Rose Garden has been in print since then, and was re-published with a new afterword by the author in 2004. Greenberg has published ten novels and four collections of short stories. Formally inventive, satisfying on the level of story and character, deeply moral, politically aware but with an active distrust of political agendas, Greenberg’s fiction often features Jewish characters and topics; Greenberg has aptly characterized herself as not an ‘Orthodox’ but a ‘paradox’ Jew.”

More Info:
E-mail judaicst@pdx.edu for more info

*This is a free class.

02/26/2010 - 7:00pm to 02/26/2010 - 8:30pm

Location:
Multnomah County Library
The Cedar Mill Community Library

Class Description:
a show by Sarah Stein





More Info:
For adults and children 10 and over. Admission is free. For more information call the library at 503-644-0043 ext 114.

*This is a free class.

02/26/2010 - 7:30pm to 02/26/2010 - 9:30pm

Location:
American Jewish Committee
Artists Repertory Theatre
1515 Southwest Morrison Street
Portland , OR 97205


Class Description:
Jewish Theatre Collaborative partners with Oregon Holocaust Resource Center and the Oregon Area Jewish Committee this winter to present Kindertransport 2010.



Performances February 25-March 21, Thursday-Saturday @ 7:30 PM, Sundays @ 2 pm

Kindertransport, by Diane Samuels weaves story of 3 generations of women whose lives are intertwined when 9 year old Eva is sent from Germany to Manchester in 1938.

For JTC, producing this play is anchored in the moral imperative of the Holocaust Never Again; to draw lessons from the Holocaust and broaden the scope of the conversation from the historical to the present. Talkbacks and additional events planned: On March 1st, Dr. Natan Meir will present a lecture on the Vibrant and Diverse Jewish Life of Pre War Europe and the remnants that remained after the war. March 8th, JTC will host The Beirut Wedding World Theatre Project, who will present a reading of Honey Brown Eyes by Stefanie Zadravec about the ethnic violence in Bosnia . And finally, Base Roots, a local African American Theatre Company will present a staged reading of Winter Miller’s In Darfur on March 15th.



More Info:

Tickets available @ www.jewishtheatrecollaborative.org and 503-512-9582