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The Yiddish "Pirates of Penzance" Returns!

Di Yam Gazlonim is back at the JCC for a return engagement
The National Yiddish Theatre—Folksbiene is thrilled to bring Di Yam Gazlonim ("The Pirates of Penzance" in Yiddish) back to the JCC in Manhattan for a celebrated return engagement beginning Sunday, March 18th.

Performed in Yiddish with English and Russian supertitles

Mar 18, 2pm & 6pm

Call 212-279-4200 or visit www.ticketcentral.com to order tickets. All tickets $40.

JCC in Manhattan - 334 Amsterdam Avenue @ 76th Street

Folksbiene website: www.folksbiene.org

Don't miss this chance to see the show that The New York Times called "brisk, bright and funny" and "a joyful treat."

Book and Lyrics by Al Grand
Directed by Allen Lewis Rickman
Musical Direction by Zalmen Mlotek

This limited engagement begins Sunday, March 18 for two weeks only.

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Stephen Wise Free Synagogue presents...
"Passover To Freedom"
Featuring works by A.W. Binder, Michael Isaacson, Luboff, etc.

March 18th at 2pm
This is part of the Sacred Music Series, an Adult Education program focused on Music Education that is promoted through the Center for Community Learning at SWFS. We are exploring all sorts of Jewish music as a part of this continuous series.

30 W. 68th St.
New York, NY 10023
(212) 877-4050

Please join us!

Cantor Dan Singer
Stephen Wise Free Synagogue
30 W. 68th St.
New York, NY 10023
(212) 877-4050 X 237

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Brave Old World
Song of the Lodz Ghetto

cancelled

A unique musical-theatrical work created by the renowned Klezmer ensemble Brave Old World. Built around the arrangements of rare songs performed in the Nazi ghetto of Lodz, Poland, the program is a musical and spiritual testament to resistance, love and reconciliation in the face of intolerance.

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La MaMa E.T.C. is proud to present the World Premier of

REPUBLIC OF DREAMS
--- Inspired by the writing, artwork and life of Bruno Schulz ---
A new piece by Double Edge Theatre

The Annex at La MaMa E.T.C.
74 A EAST 4TH STREET

Mar 8 - 18, 2007
Thursday - Saturday at 7:30pm
Sun at 2:30pm & 7:30pm

La MaMa E.T.C is located at 74A East 4th St. between 2nd Avenue and The Bowery
(F/V to 2nd Avenue, 6 to Astor Place, N/R to 8th St.)

TICKETS :$20 Box Office (212) 475-7710
Student & senior tickets are $15 www.lamama.org

"Republic of Dreams", takes the magic realism writings and imaginings of WWII-era Polish-Jewish artist Bruno Schulz (1892-1942), adapting his lush, magical and sometimes erotic drawings to the stage. Using the theatre's signature style of physicality, imagery, puppetry, live instrumental and choral music, Double Edge deeply explores Schulz' powerful prose and life, as well as his banal death at the hands of a jealous Nazi, to create an unforgettable journey through the human experience in the modern world. "Republic of Dreams" is conceived and directed by Stacy Klien.

Double Edge Theatre, based in Ashfield, MA, is a creator of dynamic and visually stunning theater pieces. It has a unique approach, by establishing a home "The Farm" where the artist can practice, receive training, research and conduct cultural exchanges with other artists. Double Edge Theatre is widely renowned for long-term collaborations, classic literature adaptations, and original theater performances.

If you would like to arrange a group of students to see this production, please contact Kiku Sakai at 212-254-6468. This is a great opportunity for students of various majors such as Art, Theatre, Slavic and Jewish Studies and Literature to explore the culture and history of the early 20th Century in Poland. Double Edge Theatre would be happy to give your students a post-performance discussion on the production. Our student rate is $15. Please share this information with your colleague.

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Dayton Jewish Community Yiddish Club

The Third Annual Yiddish Concert will be March 18, 2007 at 3 pm at Beth Jacob synagogue. This concert is sponsored by the Dayton Jewish Community Yiddish Club.

At this year's concert the duo Gemini will be performing. Gemini comes to Dayton from Ann Arbor, Michigan. They have been in Dayton performing at Cityfolk concerts, Jewish community concerts and for children's concerts. This concert will be Yiddish music sprinkled with a bit of Hebrew. The brothers will share their Yiddish background with us that came from their dad who was a cantor.

The concert is $5 a person. Membership in the club is a $20 a year donation which includes the concert and covers the cost of mailings and supports the annual concert.

For reservations, membership and contributions
Dayton Jewish Community Yiddish
Lynda A Cohen
6501 Foursome Lane
Englewood, Ohio 45322
937 836 4417

The Dayton Jewish Community Yiddish Club meets once a month to enjoy the Yiddish language, be it poetry, conversation, recipes or memories. People attend who speak Yiddish, to learn some Yiddish and people attend who love to listen to Yiddish. Each month the group attracts more people. The gatherings are hosted by members of the group which makes it even more heimish.

The group sponsors the concert to share their love of Yiddish with the entire community. You are invited to attend this concert and you are invited to be a supporter a well. Your donation will contribute to the efforts of many who keep Yiddish alive and well in Dayton.

Please join us for a glass of tea and cookies and an afternoon of delightful entertainment.

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Théâtre Yiddish: "Di Tsvey Kune-Leml"

Le B'nai B'rith de Boulogne présente en première exclusivité une pièce en Yiddish, sous-titrée en direct en vidéo en français le dimanche 18 Mars 2007 à 16 heures à l' Espace Landowski, 28 Av André Morizet à Boulogne Billancourt, tout près de la Mairie. Métro Marcel Sambat

25 € la place. 15 € pour les enfants.

Chèques à expédier de suite à l'ordre de l'Association Marinette Artman c/o M. Gilbert Kamoun, 170 rue de Paris, 92100 Boulogne Billancourt.

Venez passer un très bon moment. Merci de nous aider à faire connaître cette langue, dans la joie, le rire et … la nostalgie.

Contact : Jean Claude Benzekri : 06 08 51 85 49, Gisele Kamoun : 01 46 03 82 81 Yves Derhy : 06 16 13 94 84.

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Sunday 18th March
Radio Gagarin: Experiments in Sunday Socialism
Notting Hill Arts Club, 21 Notting Hill Gate, London W12
6pm – 1a.m. £5.

London’s only Balkan/Russian/Baltic/Gypsy/Klez/Mash/Thrash/Trash/KULTURKlash!!!

‘The Arts Club's most adventurous and anarchic night (and that's saying something)’ Time Out

The Commissar continues to pledge exclusive music from MAMA MATRIX with DAZ DOLCZECH, LONDON SEVDAH featuring accordion virtuoso Omer Pobric, THE ALRIGHT ALREADIES, performance from Friends of Gagarin, poetry from Tim Cumming, Marxist-Leninist alienation from art/animation/video installations for the Proletariat from state artists Adrian Philpott & Cathy Gale; frozen vodka & rakiya galore and resident DKs (Dancefloor Komissars) Max Reinhardt & Misha Maltsev sweating it out in the Gypsy Diskoteka til’ the road of excess has led us to the place of wisdom. Early evening come to feed your soul with wintery home-cookin in the Kitschen and take a rest from your fight for Revolutionary Determinism for a few moments in the Kinodrom with new and classic shorts from Eastern Europe.

Co-Produced by YaD Arts / Adrian Philpott/ Ariadne Arendt/ The Shrine

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Grammy winners The Klezmatics
Sun, March 18
20 Years Live! A Retrospective Celebration
Klezmer Festival
Stadttheater Furth
Furth, Germany
Time: 7:30 pm
www.klezmer-festival.de/2007/konzerte.html

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This year’s Festival will be held from March 8-25 and feature concerts throughout the Bay Area. Performers include Aires de Sefarad; Michael Alpert; Peter Apfelbaum; Avi Avital; Steven Bernstein; Dan Cantrell; Kitka; Klezmer Buenos Aires; Pharaoh's Daughter and more!

Tonight: Steven Bernstein, with Peter Apfelbaum and Friends, presents "Diaspora Blues." Originally from Berkeley, these now New York-based cutting edge composer/ performers are stretching the definition of Jewish music.

For more information: www.jewishmusicfestival.org

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Danny, Gidi & Friends

Danny Sanderson, Gidi Gov, Efraim Shamir, Alon Olearchick,
Karen Malka, Shay Wetzer, Roy Suarez and Illil Pazel

Sunday March 18, 2007 8:00 PM
John Hancock Hall
180 Berkeley Street, Boston, MA 02116

Tickets: $25 - $45
For tickets:
HaKesher, Inc. - Annette - 617-738-5038

About Danny, Gidi & Friends

Two of the most influential performers on the Israeli cultural scene, Danny Sanderson and Gidi Gov are both legendary and contemporary pop icons. They are founding members of the amazing band Kaveret/Poogy, dubbed “the Beatles of Israel” and a top concert ticket-seller for over 25 years and through five reunions. Together, Gidi and Danny also formed the groups Gazoz and Doda, both of which are considered among the cornerstones of Israeli rock music.

Danny and Gidi have had impressive solo recording careers, and succeeded in other media, such as authoring books, acting in theater and film productions, and on Israeli television as musicians, comedians, and hosts.

In the North American tour of “Danny, Gidi & Friends”, Gov and Sanderson, with guest artists Alon Olearchik, and Ephraim Shamir (original members of Kaveret), Karen Malka, Shay Wetzer, Roy Suarez and Illil Pazel will perform the greatest hits of Kaveret/Poogy, Gazoz and Doda as well as their solo repertoires. Don’t miss this incredible opportunity to enjoy some of Israel’s best known and most beloved songs performed by legends in an evening laced with humor and melody.

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I'm proud to invite you to our March 18th concert entitled "Musik Macht Frei" (music makes you free) that explores the role of music in the survival of the human spirit under the crushing barbarity of the Nazi concentration camps. This concert includes stories of historic performances, archival images and survivor accounts presented to the accompaniment of music performed and/or composed by prisoners. From small choirs to fully
staged operas, this music—making took place against the unlikely backdrop of the camps, both in secret or with the consent of the Nazi officials. I have found this music to be hauntingly beautiful and inspiring and I look forward to sharing it with you.

Please join me, Hinda Goodstein, and the Brookline Chorus in celebration of the human spirit and in remembrance of these terrifying events.

Sunday March 18th, 2007 7:00 pm
Temple Emanuel
385 Ward Street
Newton Centre, MA

You can purchase tickets online at www.brooklinechorus.org or at these retail locations:
Brookline Booksmith - 279 Harvard St.
Kolbo - 437 Harvard Street.

Prices are $20 for general admission and $15 for students and seniors.

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The public is invited to the Reception for "Music Makers of New Rochelle" an exhibition of famous popular composers who lived in New Rochelle, NY on Sunday, March 18 at 5:30 at the New Rochelle Library, 1 Library Plaza, New Rochelle, NY.

There will be live and recorded music and refreshments. More information on the show is on the New Rochelle Council on The arts, the sponsors, web site at www.dolice.com/NRCA.html.

Tel: 914-632-3990

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The Flying Bulgar Klezmer Band ~ The Next Generation
So much to celebrate...

Sun., Mar. 18 @10:30pm
TRANZAC
292 Brunswick Avenue
Toronto
(416) 923-8137

www.tranzac.org

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