Lamed Shapiro: The Cross and Other Stories Mizel Center for Arts and Culture Colorado: Boulder, Colorado Springs, Denver - United States Theatre Thu 1 Feb 2007
2007
February 2007
Thursday 1 February 2007
Thu 1 Feb, 7 pm. 350 South Dahlia Street, Denver, 80246. Jamie Polliard, 303-316-6320. Mizel Center for Arts and Culture - [email][events]
Singer Gallery, 7 p.m. $5 (general), $3 (students/seniors) Lamed Shapiro, who was born in Ukraine and came to the United States in 1905, personifies the struggles of Jewish modernists adrift in a changing culture. Leah Garrett, an associate professor of English Literature and Judaic Studies at University of Denver and the editor of a new book about Shapiro's life and work, will discuss the ways in which the Jewish experience of the violence of war is both unique and universal. 303-316-6360.