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2/28/11

Film Series Highlights Work Of SLU's Siegel Lecturer

CANTON - In addition to screening filmmaker Aviva Kempner's documentary Yoo-Hoo, Mrs. Goldberg, the 2011 Rabbi Seymour Siegel Lecture at St. Lawrence University, two additional films by Kempner will be shown in the region. All events are open to the public, free of charge.

The Siegel Lecture is on Thursday, March 3, at 7 p.m. in the auditorium of Hepburn Hall (Room 218), at 7 p.m. Following the screening of Yoo-Hoo, Mrs. Goldberg, there will be a question-and-answer session with Kempner.

Her award-winning documentary The Life and Times of Hank Greenberg, chronicling the career of the Baseball Hall of Famer who battled anti-Semitism in the 1930s and 1940s, will be shown on Wednesday, March 2, at 7 p.m. in Room 123 of the Griffiths Arts Center at St. Lawrence. On Saturday, March 5, The Partisans of Vilna, Kempner's documentary on Jewish resistance against the Nazis, will be shown at Congregation Beth El, 81 Market Street, Potsdam, at 7:30 p.m. Kempner writes and produces films that investigate non-stereotypical images of Jews in history. She was the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, DC Mayor's Art Award, Women of Vision award and the Media Arts Award from the National Foundation for Jewish Culture.

Rabbi Siegel was a noted Conservative Jewish author and scholar. His family donated his papers to St. Lawrence University's Owen D. Young Library and created an endowment for an annual lecture on campus in his memory.

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