March 15: Rukhl Schaechter Joins Boulder Jewish Film Festival Panel

Rukhl Schaechter

By Forward Staff February 11, 2021

On March 15, at 7pm ET / 4pm PT, the editor of the Yiddish Forward, Rukhl Schaechter, will be joining a panel at the Boulder Jewish Film Festival about the remastered 1979 documentary, Yiddish: The Mother Tongue.

The talk will be open to viewers of the film and will include documentary filmmaker Pierre Sauvage, novelist Dara Horn, historian David Fishman and Richard Silverstein, who appeared in the film when he was a Yiddish student at the University of California.

For tickets to the film and the panel discussion, click here.

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