Skip To Content
JEWISH. INDEPENDENT. NONPROFIT.
Culture

March 3: Manhattan: Happy Birthday, Molly Picon!

In honor of the 121st birthday of Molly Picon, an actress who burst onto the scene in the 1920s, the American Jewish Historical Society is hosting a live score and screening of one of her films, the silent classic “East and West.”

Picon is lauded for her role in the 1923 movie, which encourages the audience to examine the important and oft contentious concepts of immigration, diaspora and identity — with a comedic twist. It was restored by The National Center for Jewish Film and will feature title cards and live music by Pete Sokolow and Michael Winograd.

The Forward is proud to partner with AJHS in the “Not Just ‘Funny Girl’” series at the Center for Jewish History in Manhattan.

The event, on Sunday, March 3 at 4 p.m., is also co-sponsored by YIVO, the Jewish Women’s Archive, the National Center for Jewish Film, and the Goldstein-Goren Center for American Jewish History.

Buy tickets here.

To find out how to become a friend of the Forward and get notices of events like these, email Robbie Caplan.

Republish This Story

Please read before republishing

We’re happy to make this story available to republish for free, unless it originated with JTA, Haaretz or another publication (as indicated on the article) and as long as you follow our guidelines. You must credit the Forward, retain our pixel and preserve our canonical link in Google search.  See our full guidelines for more information, and this guide for detail about canonical URLs.

To republish, copy the HTML by clicking on the yellow button to the right; it includes our tracking pixel, all paragraph styles and hyperlinks, the author byline and credit to the Forward. It does not include images; to avoid copyright violations, you must add them manually, following our guidelines. Please email us at [email protected], subject line “republish,” with any questions or to let us know what stories you’re picking up.

We don't support Internet Explorer

Please use Chrome, Safari, Firefox, or Edge to view this site.