BEYLE The Artist and Her Legacy

Beyle SchaechterGottesman was a woman whose life and work bridged the old world with the new Following in the footsteps of her activist father and folk singer mother she dedicated her life to preserving and transmitting Yiddish language and culture Her influence reached across continents until her death in 2013 and lives on in a new generation BEYLE The Artist and Her Legacy tells the story of Beyles rich life through archival recordings along with newly recorded oral history interviews with family friends and colleagues in both English and in Yiddish In keeping with Beyles multimedia artistic practice we have translated her paintings and sketches into whimsical animations and weaved her story through the tradition of oral history and into a film