{"id":1350,"date":"2022-12-05T13:10:56","date_gmt":"2022-12-05T18:10:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/judaicstudies\/?p=1350"},"modified":"2022-12-05T13:11:41","modified_gmt":"2022-12-05T18:11:41","slug":"1350","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/judaicstudies\/2022\/12\/05\/1350\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Bella&#8221; a hit with audience at Minsky Hall"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Playwright and actress Vicki Summers kept the audience hanging on her every word as her grandmother in &#8220;Bella, An Immigrant&#8217;s Tale&#8221; on the evening of Sunday, December 4th, 2022 in Minsky Recital Hall. 50+ joined the audience from across the greater Bangor area and another 24 watched a live-stream.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"1351\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1351\" src=\"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/judaicstudies\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/555\/2022\/12\/318323507_660213295760124_600256068645266864_n-300x240.jpg\" alt=\"Vicki Summers as &quot;Bella&quot;\" width=\"300\" height=\"240\" srcset=\"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/judaicstudies\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/555\/2022\/12\/318323507_660213295760124_600256068645266864_n-300x240.jpg 300w, https:\/\/umaine.edu\/judaicstudies\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/555\/2022\/12\/318323507_660213295760124_600256068645266864_n-1024x818.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/umaine.edu\/judaicstudies\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/555\/2022\/12\/318323507_660213295760124_600256068645266864_n-768x614.jpg 768w, https:\/\/umaine.edu\/judaicstudies\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/555\/2022\/12\/318323507_660213295760124_600256068645266864_n-105x84.jpg 105w, https:\/\/umaine.edu\/judaicstudies\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/555\/2022\/12\/318323507_660213295760124_600256068645266864_n-317x253.jpg 317w, https:\/\/umaine.edu\/judaicstudies\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/555\/2022\/12\/318323507_660213295760124_600256068645266864_n-423x338.jpg 423w, https:\/\/umaine.edu\/judaicstudies\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/555\/2022\/12\/318323507_660213295760124_600256068645266864_n-634x507.jpg 634w, https:\/\/umaine.edu\/judaicstudies\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/555\/2022\/12\/318323507_660213295760124_600256068645266864_n-846x676.jpg 846w, https:\/\/umaine.edu\/judaicstudies\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/555\/2022\/12\/318323507_660213295760124_600256068645266864_n-951x760.jpg 951w, https:\/\/umaine.edu\/judaicstudies\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/555\/2022\/12\/318323507_660213295760124_600256068645266864_n.jpg 1094w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 320px) 85vw, (max-width: 768px) 67vw, (max-width: 1024px) 62vw,300px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Vicki Summers as &#8220;Bella&#8221;<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&#8220;Bella,&#8221; tells the fascinating story of Vicki&#8217;s grandmother&#8217;s life in Ukraine during the pogroms of the 1920s through the blossoming of her family in America. 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For details about the play, see <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vicki-summers.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.vicki-summers.com\/<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Playwright and actress Vicki Summers kept the audience hanging on her every word as her grandmother in &#8220;Bella, An Immigrant&#8217;s Tale&#8221; on the evening of Sunday, December 4th, 2022 in Minsky Recital Hall. 50+ joined the audience from across the greater Bangor area and another 24 watched a live-stream. &#8220;Bella,&#8221; tells the fascinating story of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1692,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_kad_blocks_custom_css":"","_kad_blocks_head_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_body_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_footer_custom_js":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":"","spc_primary_category":0},"categories":[5],"tags":[127,78,130],"class_list":["post-1350","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-bella-an-immigrants-tale","tag-judaic-studies","tag-umaine-hillel"],"taxonomy_info":{"category":[{"value":5,"label":"News"}],"post_tag":[{"value":127,"label":"Bella An Immigrant's Tale"},{"value":78,"label":"Judaic Studies"},{"value":130,"label":"UMaine Hillel"}]},"featured_image_src_large":false,"author_info":{"display_name":"dmichaud","author_link":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/judaicstudies\/author\/dmichaud\/"},"comment_info":0,"category_info":[{"term_id":5,"name":"News","slug":"news","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":5,"taxonomy":"category","description":"","parent":0,"count":41,"filter":"raw","cat_ID":5,"category_count":41,"category_description":"","cat_name":"News","category_nicename":"news","category_parent":0}],"tag_info":[{"term_id":127,"name":"Bella An Immigrant's Tale","slug":"bella-an-immigrants-tale","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":127,"taxonomy":"post_tag","description":"","parent":0,"count":3,"filter":"raw"},{"term_id":78,"name":"Judaic Studies","slug":"judaic-studies","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":78,"taxonomy":"post_tag","description":"","parent":0,"count":15,"filter":"raw"},{"term_id":130,"name":"UMaine Hillel","slug":"umaine-hillel","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":130,"taxonomy":"post_tag","description":"","parent":0,"count":3,"filter":"raw"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/judaicstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1350","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/judaicstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/judaicstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/judaicstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1692"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/judaicstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1350"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/judaicstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1350\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1353,"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/judaicstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1350\/revisions\/1353"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/judaicstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1350"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/judaicstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1350"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/judaicstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}