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Off the Page: Kick-off Reading and
Celebration of One-Book Holyoke and Night, by Elie Wiesel,
Tuesday, March 6, 7 p.m., Lynch Middle School Auditorium
One-Book Holyoke Kicks off with readings from Night
by local luminaries including Holyoke’s Mayor Michael
Sullivan, Lynch Middle School Principal Paul Hyry, National
Yiddish Book Center’s Founder and Director Aaron Lansky,
and students from the city’s Adult Basic Education
community and the city’s public schools.
PAPER CLIPS: Tuesday March 20, 7 p.m.
Kittredge Room 301, Holyoke Community College
The award-winning documentary about a Tennessee School’s
response to lessons about the Holocaust will be shown in
partnership with the Pioneer Valley Jewish Film Festival.
A Literary Perspective, Wednesday, March 21, 7
p.m., Holyoke Public Library
The Friends of the Holyoke Public Library present: Rabbi
Robert Sternberg, Director of the Hatikvah Holocaust Education
Center in Springfield, who will discuss Night from a literary
and historical perspective.
NEVER AGAIN: Holyoke Community College
sponsors a 1-credit book discussion course (Hum. 200) examining
Night, March 21 through April 18. For details click
here.
Night: And the Questions of Evil, Suffering and
Altruism, Thursday March 29, 10:30 a.m. 225 High Street
(New England Farmworkers Council Building)
Presentation and discussion with Ervin Staub, Professor
of Psychology at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst
and Founding Director of the Ph.D. Concentration in the
Psychology of Peace and the Prevention of Violence.
DRAMATIC READING: Tuesday, April 17, 7
p.m., Open Square, 1 Open Square Way, with Enchanted Circle
Theater, and supported by the Holyoke Cultural Council.
A Reason to Remember: Roth, Germany 1933-1942,
Tuesday, April 24, 7 p.m., Hatikvah Holocaust Education
Center, 1160 Dickinson St., Springfield
Herbert L. Roth will speak about his experience as a Jewish
teenager in Nazi Germany.
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