Women's Media Group

Inspired by the rebellious spirit and virtuoso talent of singer Isa Kremer, three women--Lois Barr, a university professor of Spanish and a Yiddishist by avocation, Maya Friedler, an actor and public radio producer, and Selma Gordon, an educator--have come together as the Women’s Media Group to create a documentary. Lois Barr taught Spanish language, literature and culture at Northwestern University as a lecturer and is now a professor in the Department of Foreign Languages at Lake Forest College. Her publications include many articles on Latin American fiction, with special emphasis on the Jewish writers. Maya Friedler served as moderator and co-producer of "Talk-In", a weekly public affairs forum from a woman’s perspective heard over Chicago’s WBEZ (1987-80). Maya co-founded The Woman’s Forum in1978, with Eileen Mackevitch, to disseminated knowledge from a humanist perspective and develop informed discussion among the general citizenry on public issues. Selma Gordon has taught in the Port Washington Schools for 32 years and edits a newsletter for the business community interested in dealing with the European Economic Community. She serves as the non-governmental observer at the United Nations for the Jane Addams Conference and lectures at universities on the impact of non-governmental agencies in international affairs.

Isa Kremer: The People's Diva
Directed by Nina Baker Feinberg and Ted Schillinger
A film by the Women's Media Group, 2000, 56 min., Color/BW
A charismatic stage performer who crisscrossed the world and was feted by princes, sultans and czars; a diva activist who confronted totalitarianism ...