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Ot Azoy Yiddish language classes are held at 4 levels, led by world renowned Yiddish Lecturer Helen Khayele Beer and her distinguished team of fellow Yiddishists, Sonia Pinkusowitz-Dratwa, Annick Prime-Margules, Lily Kahn and Barry Davis. Shura Lipovsky, Director of The Golden Peacock, will also teach a daily session of Yiddish through song.

Sun Aug 9 - Fri Aug 14, 2015
SOAS Vernon Square Campus,
Penton Rise,
London WC1X 9EW, UK

FEES:
Full rate £245
Discount rate £230 (if paid in full by 1 May)
Student / Senior rate £145
Discount Student / Senior rate £130 (if paid in full by 1 May)

More info: www.jmi.org.uk/event/ot-azoy-2015/

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Yiddish Summer Weimar 2015

From July 18 to August 9, we offer beginner through advanced workshops in Yiddish instrumental music (klezmer), vocal music, dance, language, and more, taught by some of today's leading artists. With participants of all ages and from all around the world, Yiddish Summer workshops touch the mind, heart, soul, and body. You won't believe how much you can learn in an atmosphere that is so open and supportive! It's no wonder that many of today's most creative and successful Yiddish music projects have roots in Yiddish Summer Weimar. Concerts, jam sessions in outdoor cafés, Yiddish dance events, and more contribute to the justly famous "Yiddish Summer Weimar" atmosphere during the Workshop Weeks.

Workshops includel:

• Yiddish Song Workshop July 19 – 25


• Yiddish Language Classes (Beginning, Intermediate, Advanced)


• Introduction to Klezmer & Yiddish Song July 27 – August 1


• Yiddish Dance Orchestra Workshop July 27 – Aug 1


• Yiddish Dance July 28 – August 1


• Traditional Klezmer Workshop Aug 3 – 9 (Intermediate, Advanced)


• Yiddish Children’s Song Workshop Aug 4 – 9

Yiddish Festival Week, Aug 10 - 16. More info: yiddishsummer.eu/592-0-Program.html

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The London Klezmer Quartet

Aug 11-16, 2015
Neuchatel Busking Festival
Switzerland

More info: www.neuchateltourisme.ch/en/events/main-events/buskers-festival-neuchatel.1791.html

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Please join us on for a special program honoring the Yiddish artists and writers murdered in the Soviet Union on August 12, 1952. The date has become known as the "Night of the Murdered Poets". Among others, David Bergelson, David Hofshteyn, Perets Markish, Itsik Fefer, Leyb Kvitko, and Benjamin Zuskin were executed on that date in the Lubyanka Prison in Moscow.

Tuesday, August 11th from 6:30 PM to 8 PM
at the Center for Jewish History
15 West 16th Street (between 5th and 6th Avenues)
Admission free
Reserve your seat here

This year we will feature Ala Zuskin Perelman - daughter of Benjamin Zuskin, principal actor in GOSET (the Moscow State Yiddish Theater)—who will share memories of her father and read from her recent biography of him, The Travels of Benjamin Zuskin. Ms. Perelman will be available to sign copies of the book after the event.

Dr. Jonathan Brent of the YIVO will greet the audience. Professor Tom Bird of Queens College, CUNY, will deliver opening remarks. Shane Baker of the CJC will chair. In the musical program, Yelena Shmulenson, well-known Yiddish actress and singer.

The Congress for Jewish Culture has organized the program together with the YIVO, the Jewish Labor Committee and the Workmen's Circle.
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