KlezCalendar

Join us for our Yidstock: the festival of new Yiddish music and be treated to a week of performances, music-related films, lectures, exhibitions and other events culminating in two days of concerts featuring some of the top names in klezmer and Yiddish music.

Saturday, July 14
TALK: Rockin' the Shtetl: The Essential Klezmer with music critic and author Seth Rogovoy | 4 PM
CONCERT: Socalled/Michael Winograd Trio | 7 PM

National Yiddish Book Center
Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Building
1021 West Street (campus of Hampshire College)
Amherst, MA 01002

Festival pass: $75/member; $100/general admission
Tickets may be purchased for individual events. Festival passes include discounted admission to the week's concerts, films, talks, and workshops presented at the Yiddish Book Center.
For more info: support.yiddishbookcenter.org/site/Calendar/1311216708?view=Detail&id=4441

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July 13, time TBD:
Yale Strom & Elizabeth Schwartz share music and tales from their treks throughout Eastern Europe, St. Anne Church, Mackinac Island, hosted by the Mackinac Island Community Foundation.

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Monday, July 9 at 7 PM

Fiddler Off the Roof
A Klezmer event with Golem and Seth Rogovoy
Barrington Stage, Pittsfield
30 Union St.
Pittsfield, MA

For more info: support.yiddishbookcenter.org/site/Calendar/1673015529?view=Detail&id=4482

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Barrington Stage: Celebration of Yiddish folklore and music
Sunday, July 8
TALK: Aaron Lansky presents New Riffs on Everyone's Favorite Yiddish Story | 3 PM
30 Union St.
Pittsfield, MA

National Yiddish Book Center
Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Building
1021 West Street (campus of Hampshire College)
Amherst, MA 01002

For more info: support.yiddishbookcenter.org/site/Calendar/1673015529?view=Detail&id=4481

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3rd Berkshire Summer Celebration of Jewish Music

Wednesday, May 30, 7:30 p.m., Taft Recital Hall, Berkshire Music School, Pittsfield
Lecture: "The Relationship between Jewish and African American Music," with Charles Neville and Paul Green. Free.

On Wednesday, May 30, at 7:30 p.m. with a follow-up lecture/performance by Green and Neville at the Taft Recital Hall at the Berkshire Music School in Pittsfield. The event, „The Relationship between Jewish and African American Music,‰ traces the complex interaction between the two cultures, and how each has influenced the other. The program will include recordings and live performance. This event is free.

These events are co-sponsored by the Jewish Federation of the Berkshires, Hevreh of Southern Berkshire, Congregation Beth Israel, Congregation Knesset Israel, Congregation Ahavath Sholom, Temple Anshe Amunim and The Berkshire Music School. Supported in part by grants from the Harold Grinspoon Foundation and the Pittsfield Cultural Council. The Summer Celebration of Music is also presented in cooperation with the Boston Symphony Orchestra Berkshire Education and Community Program.

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Sunday, May 20, 2012, The UMA Senior College presents The Casco Bay Tummlers - A History of Jewish Music. A concert with commentary.
2:00 pm
University of Maine at Augusta, Jewett Hall
$10, Students $5, 12 and under, free.

For more information contact the UMA Senior College at (207) 621-3551

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SATURDAY, MAY 19, 1pm
Dr. Barnett Zumoff: Singable Translations of Yiddish Songs

Workmen's Circle
247 West 37th Street, 5th Floor
New York, NY

$12/ WC-AR Members $5
More information

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The Jewish Fiddler
A musical presentation by Cookie Segelstein
Thursday May 17, 7:00 p.m
BJE Library
1835 Ellis Street,
San Francisco, CA, 94115,
Tel: 415.567.3327

Cookie Segelstein, founder and director of the Klezmer group Veretski Pass, will explore the many elements that contribute to the Jewish style of playing by examining characteristics of Ashkenazi Jewish culture: the humor, the physical gestures associated with Jewish expression, and the evocative sound of spoken Yiddish. Using historical recordings, interviews, and her own virtuoso playing, she will explore this familiar but unexplainable sound.

Co-presented by the 27th Jewish Music Festival and KlezCalifornia

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Press release from the Jewish Daily Forward:

In July of 2011, the Jewish media was abuzz with the news that JDub Records, the Jewish music label responsible for launching the careers of Matisyahu and Balkan Beat Box, was shutting down. Online forums were flooded with debates about what its failure meant for the future of New Jewish Culture. Was the Jewish philanthropic world abandoning New Jewish Culture?

On May 15, “Now What? The Future of New Jewish Culture” reignites the conversation. A unique town hall-style event, “Now What?” brings together ten experts of diverse backgrounds and experiences for a critical look at New Jewish Culture over the last ten years and the pressing issues it faces today, including changing attitudes towards American Jewish identity; waning support for quality Jewish art and culture; and strategies for cultivating Jewish art and culture in the future. This event is presented by the Posen Foundation U.S. through its new public programming initiative, Speakers’ Lab, and The Jewish Daily Forward. It is hosted by the 14th Street Y in downtown NYC.

After a decade of flourishing Jewish creativity, major Jewish cultural enterprises are being forced to scale back operations or close entirely. Using recent funding cuts as a springboard to examine the most pressing issues facing new Jewish arts and culture, “Now What?” addresses:

• New perspectives on American Jewish identity
• Waning support for quality Jewish art and culture
• Strategies for cultivating Jewish art and culture in the future

Panelists include: Jody Rosen, music critic for Slate Magazine; Alana Newhouse, Editor-in-Chief for Tablet Magazine; Elise Bernhardt, President and CEO of the Foundation for Jewish Culture; Dan Friedman, Arts & Culture Editor at The Jewish Daily Forward; and Stephen Hazan Arnoff, Executive Director at the 14th Street Y and LABA: The National Laboratory for New Jewish Culture.

Admission to “Now What? The Future of New Jewish Culture” is free. Seating is limited and pre-registration encouraged. Sign-up at www.speakerslab.org or by calling 212-564-6711 x 305.

Event and Venue Info:
The Theater at the 14th Street Y
344 East 14th Street (between 1st and 2nd Avenues)
New York, NY 10003
May 15, 2012 7pm

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Monday, May 14: Bay mayn mames shtibele: The Women's Art of Yiddish Folksong.

An exploration of the Yiddish folksong tradition as preserved through the remarkable artistry of women singers in Eastern Europe and the United States. Folklorist Itzik Gottesman of the Yiddish Forverts newspaper will lead a panel including NEA National Heritage Fellow Beyle Schaechter-Gottesman, CTMD Artistic Director Ethel Raim and renowned folksinger/researcher Michael Alpert as they present and discuss the work of leading folksingers such as Lifshe Schaechter-Widman (Schaechter-Gottesman's mother), Bronya Sakina and other important exponents of the tradition. Presented by CTMD's An-sky Institute for Jewish Culture, Center for Jewish History and Brooklyn Arts Council’s Half the Sky Festival: Brooklyn Women in Traditional Performance.

At Center for Jewish History, 15 West 16th Street in Manhattan (between 5th and 6th Avenues in Manhattan). Admission: $15, $10 for CTMD/CJH members. Reserve tickets through www.smarttix.com (7:00PM)

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Broder Singer lectures in YIVO - Feb. 2 (English) & Feb. 24 (Yiddish), 2012

The Broder Singers: Forerunners of the Yiddish Theater
Amanda (Miryem-Khaye) Seigel, Librarian, Dorot Jewish Division, New York Public Library

Thursday, February 2, 2012
3 PM
Joseph Kremen Memorial Lecture,
Max Weinreich Center Academic Lecture Series
YIVO Institute for Jewish Research, 15 W. 16t St., New York, NY

Broder singers were the first Yiddish performers to present music and drama in a secular setting beginning in the mid-nineteenth century. This lecture will explore the Broder singers’ history, repertoire, and style, and their relationship to Yiddish theater.
www.yivo.org/events/index.php?tid=183&aid=897

Free and open to the public. Reservations:
www.yivo.org/reservations

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New American Quartet—Jazz Rabbi's Invitational
Thursday, Feb 16 at 08:30 PM
Sixth Street Synagogue
325 E. Sixth Street
New York, NY 10003
212.473.3665

Jazz Rabbi Greg Wall is hosting his Thursday night series of mystical learning and jazz. The nights begins with his popular class, “The Art Of Judaism”, featuring the work of Rabbi Moshe Chaim Luzzato, Rav Kook, and the Rav HaNazir at 7:30pm, and then continues with a concert featuring one of Rabbi Wall’s bands at 8:30pm.

The class is free, the cover charge for the concert is $10.

New American Quartet
Playing the original jazz compositions of pianist/composer Mitch Schechter, the New American Quartet features Mitch Schechter on the piano, Greg Wall on the saxophone, Takashi Otsuka on the acoustic bass, and Jonathon Peretz on the drums.

Admission is $10
More info: sixthstreetsynagogue.org/special-events

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The Levitt Legacy East Village Klezmer Series

Wednesday, Feb 8 at 08:00 PM
Sixth Street Synagogue
325 E. Sixth Street
New York, NY 10003
212.473.3665

7:30PM Klezmer Workshop led by Aaron Alexander and various esteemed guests $25
6 - 7:30PM Yiddish Class taught by Dmitri Slepovitch $25
8 – 9:15PM The Levitt Legacy, ft. Dave Levitt, $15 (includes a drink)
9:30 – 11PM Klezmer Jam Session, led by Aaron Alexander and guests

Full evening pass $35 (includes Workshop or Yiddish Class, Concert, Jam Session & one drink!)

Dave Levitt learned the music business from his parents. They got him started at age eight in Hollywood, Florida. He went on to appear with his folks at every one of their performances. First it was drums and clarinet. Later it became alto sax before Dave finally settled with the trombone at age fourteen. As a teenager Dave attended the famous Laguardia H.S. of Music and Art in New York. While a student there, he was a cast member in the Elizabeth Swados production "Swing" which had a run at the Brooklyn Academy of Music. After completing High School, Dave attended Manhattan School Of Music on a scholarship. As student at MSM, Levitt had the good fortune of appearing with many notable jazz musicians. They included Red Rodney, Al Grey, Clark Terry as well as many others. It was about this time that Dave started to arrange and record Klezmer music with his father. These recordings also included their distant cousin Howie Leess on alto saxophone. After finishing his education, Dave took his artistry on the road which included the U.S. as well as Europe. Two of his European tours were with the Epstein Brothers Klezmer Band. Dave was the youngest member of the group as the brothers were well into their 70's. The eldest brother Max Epstein was in his early 80's. It was about this time that Dave started his own company called Progressive Music. The business operated as a rehearsal/recording studio for thirteen years. The business has since shifted gears and Dave is now involved in publishing as well as operating as a record label. The initial release of the label is called "Marty Levitt's Greatest Hits". It's a series of recordings with two generations in the ensemble. (Marty and Dave Levitt).

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Darshan Jazz Rabbi's Invitational

Thursday, Feb 2 at 08:30 PM
7:30 PM Lecture with Rabbi Menachem Leibtag
8:30 PM Darshan Concert
Sixth Street Synagogue
325 E. Sixth Street
New York, NY 10003
212.473.3665

Darshan is astral rap, liturgical jazz, audio alchemy. Harmonizing Hebrew chant with hiphop, folk rock with electro-pop, love poetry with kabbalistic psychology, Darshan is a unique and organic weave of world wisdom traditions and modern musical styles.
Shir Yaakov is a Master of Melody who has given birth to hauntingly beautiful liturgical chants, used in havurot and synagogues around the world.

Eprhyme is a Radical Jewish Rennaissance Rapper.

Together, as Darshan, these two combine and connect to create something that is altogether new, and at the same time ancient. Deep and probing rhymes blend with evocative and uplifting melodies in "an uncompromising blend of urban forms and neo-Hasidic spirituality." — The Forward.

admission: $10 at the door

The concert will be preceded by a guest lecture on "Torah and Creativity" by Rabbi Menachem Leibtag, an internationally acclaimed bible scholar and pioneer of Jewish Education on the internet, is well known in the Jewish community for his essays on the weekly Bible portion. His vibrant thematic-analytical approach blends the methods of modern academic scholarship with traditional Jewish approaches to the Biblical text. He is best known for his ability to teach students how to study rather than simply read Biblical passages. As his essays focus on meta-themes in the Bible, his readership has expanded to students of the Bible from all religions and walks of life.

In Israel, Rabbi Leibtag teaches at Yeshivat Har Etzion, Yeshivat Shaalavim, Midreshet Lindenbaum, and at Yeshiva University's Gruss Center.

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Broder Singer lectures in YIVO - Feb. 2 (English) & Feb. 24 (Yiddish), 2012

The Broder Singers: Forerunners of the Yiddish Theater
Amanda (Miryem-Khaye) Seigel, Librarian, Dorot Jewish Division, New York Public Library

Thursday, February 2, 2012
3 PM
Joseph Kremen Memorial Lecture,
Max Weinreich Center Academic Lecture Series
YIVO Institute for Jewish Research, 15 W. 16t St., New York, NY

Broder singers were the first Yiddish performers to present music and drama in a secular setting beginning in the mid-nineteenth century. This lecture will explore the Broder singers’ history, repertoire, and style, and their relationship to Yiddish theater.
www.yivo.org/events/index.php?tid=183&aid=897

Free and open to the public. Reservations:
www.yivo.org/reservations

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Hanukkah: A Story That Still Needs To Be Told

An evening of conversation, music, and food

Thursday, December 15, 2011 6:45 p.m.

Hebrew College, 160 Herrick Rd. Newton, Massachusetts 02459

For thousands of years, the Greek and Jewish worlds have made an indelible impact on each other's history, culture, and faith. Please join AJC Boston and the Greek Orthodox Metropolis of Boston as we explore the historic roots that bind together our peoples and examine how the encounter between Greeks and Jews transformed our world.

Panel discussion with:

Shaye J.D. Cohen, Littauer Professor of Hebrew Literature and Philosophy, Harvard University Fr. George Dragas, Professor of Patristics, Holy Cross Greek Orthodox School of Theology

Also featuring Jewish music performed by Deiskeit, The Brandeis Klezmer Ensemble, and Greek music by Taximi.

Please RSVP by registering online: http://www.ajcboston.org/H anukkah
Light refreshments will be served. Jewish dietary laws observed. Free parking available. T accessible.

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Broadway's Bar Mitzvah
December 6, 2011, 7pm
Congregation Or Shalom
21 Hawthorn Parkway
Vernon Hills, IL

Join us for this conversation on Jewish culture as we explore the maturation of Jewish themes and stories on the Broadway musical stage.

Fiddler wasn’t the first or last Jewish musical—Jewish theatre on Broadway has a long history. The portrayal of Jewish imagery and stories on the Broadway boards has grown increasingly nuanced, specific and poignant.

Sponsored by Kfar Jewish Arts Center

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Wednesday, November 16: The Art of Klezmer and Yiddish Song

A Concert, Lecture and Dance, Featuring Hankus Netsky, Michael Alpert, members of the Klezmer Conservatory Band and students from the New England Conservatory

Slosberg Hall, Wednesday, November 16, 2011, 8:15PM (pre-concert lecture at 7:30PM)

On Wednesday, November 16, 2011, Center for German and European Studies in cooperation with the program in Yiddish and Eastern European Studies and the department of music at Brandeis University will present "The Art of Klezmer and Yiddish Song." The evening will feature internationally renowned Yiddish singer, fiddler, and dance leader Michael Alpert along with local klezmer revival pioneer, Dr. Hankus Netsky, virtuoso klezmer clarinetist Zoe Christiansen, and members of the Klezmer Conservatory Band.

The program will begin at 7:30 with an introductory lecture entitled "Eastern European Jewish Musical Roots - Still a Vital Wellspring." A concert will follow at 8:15 PM followed by a dance and refreshments for all. People of all ages are welcome to come and celebrate the renewal of traditional Eastern European Jewish culture!

Michael Alpert is a founding member of the klezmer super-group, Brave Old World and a former member of Kapelye. Hankus Netsky is founder and director of the Klezmer Conservatory Band and Music Director for Itzhak Perlman's "In the Fiddler's House" and "Soul of Jewish Music" projects. He directs the Discovery Project at the National Yiddish Book Center and is chair of the Contemporary Improvisation Department at the New England Conservatory. Zoe Christiansen is a student in the Contemporary Improvisation Department at the New England Conservatory.

Our Co-Sponsors:
The Department of Music at Brandeis University
The Tauber Institut for the Study of European Jewry
The Department of Near Eastern and Judaic Studies at Brandeis University
The National Center for Jewish Film
The Goethe Institut Boston
The Yiddish Committee of Boston Workmen's Circle
The German Embassy in Washington, D.C.

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November 12-14: Yale Strom in residence at the Michigan Festival of Sacred Music. His string quartet "In The Memory Of..." will be performed by the Kalamazoo Symphony Orchestra's Burdick-Thorne String Quartet at Cong. Moses at 7pm on Nov. 13th. In the morning of Nov. 13th Yale will give a lecture about how he came to compose the string quartet. He will also play some klezmer violin melodies from Hungary and Romania. This lecture/performance will be at Congregation Moses. Lastly Yale will give a workshop at one of the local high schools on Monday morning Nov. 14th.

For more info. Website: www.mfsm.us. For further information: (269) 382-2910

IN THE MEMORY OF… is based upon melodies from a 1931 cantor's book Strom found in the abandoned Mare synagogue during his invitation to participate in the world music festival in Satu Mare in 2008. This composition is dedicated to the Jews of Romania and Hungary that perished in the Holocaust.

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November 12-14: Yale Strom in residence at the Michigan Festival of Sacred Music. His string quartet "In The Memory Of..." will be performed by the Kalamazoo Symphony Orchestra's Burdick-Thorne String Quartet at Cong. Moses at 7pm on Nov. 13th. In the morning of Nov. 13th Yale will give a lecture about how he came to compose the string quartet. He will also play some klezmer violin melodies from Hungary and Romania. This lecture/performance will be at Congregation Moses. Lastly Yale will give a workshop at one of the local high schools on Monday morning Nov. 14th.

For more info. Website: www.mfsm.us. For further information: (269) 382-2910

IN THE MEMORY OF… is based upon melodies from a 1931 cantor's book Strom found in the abandoned Mare synagogue during his invitation to participate in the world music festival in Satu Mare in 2008. This composition is dedicated to the Jews of Romania and Hungary that perished in the Holocaust.

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November 12-14: Yale Strom in residence at the Michigan Festival of Sacred Music. His string quartet "In The Memory Of..." will be performed by the Kalamazoo Symphony Orchestra's Burdick-Thorne String Quartet at Cong. Moses at 7pm on Nov. 13th. In the morning of Nov. 13th Yale will give a lecture about how he came to compose the string quartet. He will also play some klezmer violin melodies from Hungary and Romania. This lecture/performance will be at Congregation Moses. Lastly Yale will give a workshop at one of the local high schools on Monday morning Nov. 14th.

For more info. Website: www.mfsm.us. For further information: (269) 382-2910

IN THE MEMORY OF… is based upon melodies from a 1931 cantor's book Strom found in the abandoned Mare synagogue during his invitation to participate in the world music festival in Satu Mare in 2008. This composition is dedicated to the Jews of Romania and Hungary that perished in the Holocaust.

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JAZZ RABBI’S THURSDAY NIGHT INVITATIONAL

Jazz Rabbi Greg Wall is hosting his Thursday night series of mystical learning and jazz. The nights begins with his popular class, “The Art Of Judaism”, featuring the work of Rabbi Moshe Chaim Luzzato, Rav Kook, and the Rav HaNazir at 7:30pm, and then continues with a concert featuring one of Rabbi Wall’s bands at 8:30pm.

The class is free, the cover charge for the concert is $10 unless otherwise noted.

October 27 - Ayn Sof Arkestra and Bigger Band

Sixth Street Synagogue
325 E. Sixth Street
New York, NY 10003
Tel: 212.473.3665

More info: sixthstreetsynagogue.org

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Monday, October 10, 7:00PM – 10:00PM
The Center for Traditional Music and Dance website and Dance, the Center for Jewish History and the Workmen's Circle present:
Multi Media Lecture & Tantshoyz!The Hidden Musical Treasures of Romania—A Fulbright Scholar’s Quest
Featuring Jake Shulman-Ment with Michael Alpert
Admission: $15, CTMD/CJH/WC Members $10
At Center for Jewish History 15 W 16th St., Manhattan

Join klezmer violinist Jake Shulman-Ment on a multi-media musical travelogue of his year as a Fulbright Scholar exploring the deep roots that connect Romanian music and klezmer music. Based in the city of Botosani, in Romanian Moldavia, Shulman-Ment conducted field research with elderly Roma (Gypsy) musicians, organized and performed in a ten-city musical tour of old Romanian synagogues, and even played for the US Ambassador as a soloist with the regional folk orchestra. Klezmer pioneer Michael Alpert will serve as a respondent for the lecture. After the lecture, please join us in the Great Hall for a Tantshoyz Yiddish Dance Party led by Michael Alpert featuring rare Romanian-Jewish repertoire and a free reception.

For more information about upcoming events, go to www.ctmd.org or call (or email) Pete Rushefsky at 212-571-1555, ext. 36 (office) or 917-326-9659 (cell).

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JAZZ RABBI’S THURSDAY NIGHT INVITATIONAL

Jazz Rabbi Greg Wall is hosting his Thursday night series of mystical learning and jazz. The nights begins with his popular class, “The Art Of Judaism”, featuring the work of Rabbi Moshe Chaim Luzzato, Rav Kook, and the Rav HaNazir at 7:30pm, and then continues with a concert featuring one of Rabbi Wall’s bands at 8:30pm.

The class is free, the cover charge for the concert is $10 unless otherwise noted.

September 22 – New American Quartet

Sixth Street Synagogue
325 E. Sixth Street
New York, NY 10003
Tel: 212.473.3665

More info: sixthstreetsynagogue.org

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JAZZ RABBI’S THURSDAY NIGHT INVITATIONAL

Jazz Rabbi Greg Wall is hosting his Thursday night series of mystical learning and jazz. The nights begins with his popular class, “The Art Of Judaism”, featuring the work of Rabbi Moshe Chaim Luzzato, Rav Kook, and the Rav HaNazir at 7:30pm, and then continues with a concert featuring one of Rabbi Wall’s bands at 8:30pm.

The class is free, the cover charge for the concert is $10 unless otherwise noted.

September 15 – Jazz Talmud, featuring Jake Marmer

Sixth Street Synagogue
325 E. Sixth Street
New York, NY 10003
Tel: 212.473.3665

More info: sixthstreetsynagogue.org

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Tuesday, September 13

The East Village Klezmer Festival Returns!
A Weekly Celebration of Yiddish Culture and Music

6:00 PM Klezmer Masterclass for musicians of all levels and instruments, taught by drummer Aaron Alexander.

7:00 PM Learn Conversational Yiddush with Dmitri Slepovitch!

8:00 PM Concert featuring violin virtuoso Jake Shulman-Ment and Band, followed by a klezmer jam session. Cover is $15 (drink included)

Sixth Street Synagogue
325 E. Sixth Street
New York, NY 10003
212.473.3665

More info: sixthstreetsynagogue.org

The series are co-sponsored by Workmen’s Circle/Arbeiter Ring of NY, Living Traditions/Klez Kamp, and Center for Traditional Music and Dance.

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JAZZ RABBI’S THURSDAY NIGHT INVITATIONAL

Jazz Rabbi Greg Wall is hosting his Thursday night series of mystical learning and jazz. The nights begins with his popular class, “The Art Of Judaism”, featuring the work of Rabbi Moshe Chaim Luzzato, Rav Kook, and the Rav HaNazir at 7:30pm, and then continues with a concert featuring one of Rabbi Wall’s bands at 8:30pm.

The class is free, the cover charge for the concert is $10 unless otherwise noted.

September 8 – Later Prophets performing ‘HaOrot: The Lights of Rav Kook’

Sixth Street Synagogue
325 E. Sixth Street
New York, NY 10003

More info: sixthstreetsynagogue.org
Tel: 212.473.3665

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Wednesday, June 22, 2011 at 7:30 PM
"Music as a bridge"—A Lecture demonstration by Yuval Ron

A fascinating talk with live music, exploring ways to teach unity and tolerance, how to use music as a platform for meeting your opponent, your neighbor and the other. In addition, a discussion of the path of Music, as a way to connect to the Reality beyond all realities. With special guest Jamie Papish (percussion).

Location: VBS, 15739 Ventura Boulevard Encino , California 91436
Admission: Free
For more info: 818-788-6000
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Come to the William G. McGowan Theater at the National Archives (through the Special Events Entrance) for some Klezmer music provided by Aaron, Nat, Leslie, and Matt!

We'll be playing before and after a discussion between Jewish cookbook author extraordinaire Joan Nathan and famed chef Spike Mendelssohn, famed for his Top Chef appearances, and for the one and only Good Stuff Eatery.

The event is free, and the music begins at 6:30 PM before the 7 PM discussion.

The Goodniks are:
Aaron Blacksberg-Accordion
Matt Hotez-Trombone
Leslie Root-Bass
Nat Seelen-Clarinet

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Monday, May 9: CTMD's An-sky Institute for Jewish Culture, the Center for Jewish History and the American Society for Jewish Music present The Weimar Klezmer Republic: Creating a Center for Yiddish Culture in Germany, a multi-media lecture by composer/musician Alan Bern. Bern's talk will cover the surprising interest in klezmer music in Germany as well as his work in creating Yiddish Summer Weimar - now ten years old and one of the most celebrated institutes for Yiddish culture in the world. In addition to founding and directing Yiddish Summer Weimar, Bern is Music Director of the internationally renowned Brave Old World ensemble, and leads the Other Europeans, an international ensemble of fourteen leading musicians who explore the connections between Jewish and Roma musical traditions. Admission: $15, $10 for CJH/CTMD members. (7:00PM)
www.cjh.org

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April 16th, 1:30pm Yale Strom lectures at the Skirball Cultural Center: “How to teach klezmer history/culture to students” 2701 North Sepulveda Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90049 Tel: (310) 440-4500

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Lost and Found - Jewish Musical Treasures

Sunday April 3, 2011, 3PM
Temple Beth Israel
25 Harvard St
Waltham, MA

Temple Beth Israel will present "Lost and Found—Jewish Musical Treasures," directed by Hankus Netsky, featuring members of the world renowned Klezmer Conservatory Band and students from the New England Conservatory. Netsky has selected a program of old favorites and recent discoveries. The concert will feature Yiddish, Hebrew, and Hassidic repertoire, including little-known melodies gathered from diverse sources such as the Frydman family, Esther-Leah Marchette, the Barsh family klezmer band, and TBI member Morris Hollender. There will be dancing and kosher refreshments for all. All ages are welcome to come and celebrate the spring season and the renewal of Jewish culture!

Music director Hankus Netsky is founder and director of the Klezmer Conservatory Band and Music Director for Itzhak Perlman's "In the Fiddler's House" and "Soul of Jewish Music" projects. He heads the Discovery Project at the National Yiddish Book Center and is chair of the Contemporary Improvisation Department at the New England Conservatory.

$20 General
$15 Temple Members/Seniors/Students
$5.00 for children under age 15

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Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire Commemoration

Sunday, March 27, 1:00-3:00pm,
Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire: A Centennial Commemoration in Words and Music.

In this program commemorating the fire's centennial, Judy Baston will explore the Jewish responses to the tragedy, and Sonoma State University Professor Elaine Leeder will discuss the dramatic life of Rose Pesotta and the influence of other Jewish women, such as Rose Schneiderman, in the labor movement. Jill Tallmer will lead the audience in Yiddish labor songs of the era, including Dos Lid Funem Trayengl-Fayer (Ballad of the Triangle Fire) and Arbeter-Froyen (Working Women).

At BJE Jewish Community Library, San Francisco. Co-sponsored by KlezCalifornia. No charge. More info: www.bjesf.org/adults_events.htm, 415.567.3327.
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Yuval Ron in Residency in UCLA - Feb 22-March 6, 2011

Tuesday, March 1, 2011, at 11am – 12:15pm:
What is Israeli Music ?

A lecture - demonstration on the ancient and contemporary music of Israel with Maya Haddi - vocals, Jamie Papish - percussion, Yuval Ron - Oud.

Humanities Building , room 135, UCLA, Los Angeles
Admission: Free
More Info: (310) 825-9646
Parking: Lot 2. Go to the parking and information booth at Westholme & Hilgard Avenues in order to pay and to reach lot 2. How to Park at UCLA

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Yuval Ron in Residency in UCLA - Feb 22-March 6, 2011

Thursday, February 24, 2011, 4 - 6 pm
The Magic Carpet

A lecture - demonstration on the music of the Yemenite-Jews in Israel
with Margalit Oved (Yemenite dancer and singer), Barak Marshal ( Yemenite singer), Maya Haddi (Israeli Yemenite singer), Jamie Papish - percussion, Yuval Ron - Oud.

Schoenberg Music Building, Room 1440, UCLA, Los Angeles.
Admission: Free
More Info: (310) 825-9646
Parking: Lot 2. Go to the parking and information booth at Westholme & Hilgard Avenues in order to pay and to reach lot 2. How to Park at UCLA

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December 6, 2010
Sephardic Scholar Series
Sepharad: Voices From Across the Strait w/Vanessa Paloma & d'Safi Takht Ensemble

Center for Jewish History
Presented in collaboration with the American Sephardi Federation and Yeshiva University Museum. Curated by Samuel R. Thomas with Co-sponsorip by The Foundation for Iberian Music, the Institute for Sephardic Studies, AsefaMusic and Shemspeed.
15 West 16th Street, NYC
Sunday, December 6, 2010, 6:30pm
General Admission: $15/ $12 for ASF & YUMuseum members and students
Ticket includes both performances, panel discussion with the artists, entrance to Yeshiva University Museum and viewing the current ASF exhibit, Looking Back: The Jews of Morocco.
Tickets @ www.smarttix.com; or 212.868.4444.
For more info: 212.294.8350 x2 or visit: www.americansephardifederation.org

Sephardic Music Festival

sephardicmusicfestival.com

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Guy Mendilow
November 1st, 11:30am
Special lecture demo: The Ladino Project

Hebrew Union College
Cincinnati, OH
Info: 513-487-3053

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Lecture in Yiddish with Eddy Portnoy on “Little Smart Alecks: Professional Mirth Makers Zuni Maud and Yosl Cutler and their Puppets”

Lecture in Yiddish “Little Smart Alecks: Professional Mirth Makers Zuni Maud and Yosl Cutler and their Puppets” by Eddy Portnoy on Sunday, October 24, 2010 at 2:00 p.m. The lecture will be illustrated with audiovisual material and will feature the short film “Yosl Cutler and his Puppets.” At the Jewish Public Library, 5151 Côte Ste-Catherine Road, Montreal. Sponsored by the Nathan Igelfeld Foundation. Cost $5 for JPL members and students, $10 others. For advance tickets and information, call 514-345-6416 or 514-345-2627 ext. 3006 or visit www.jewishpubliclibrary.org.

Anything is possible in Yiddish theatre – but dolls that talk back to you? When artists Zuni Maud and Yosl Cutler created their “Modicut” Yiddish puppet theatre at the end of 1925, it was an instant hit among the Yiddish-speaking masses in New York City, and within a few years they were touring Europe and the Soviet Union to great acclaim. Come hear the fascinating history of this unusual piece of Yiddish culture.

Eddy Portnoy teaches Yiddish language and Jewish literature and culture at Rutgers University. A contributor to The Forward and Tablet Magazine, he writes on Jewish popular culture with an emphasis on Yiddish.

The author will be introduced by Rivka Augenfeld, co-Chair of theYiddish Cultural Committee of the Jewish Public Library.

The Jewish Public Library, founded in Montreal in 1914, is committed to encouraging and promoting the Yiddish language, culture and literature, by collecting and preserving Yiddish materials, and by presenting a variety of cultural events.

www.jewishpubliclibrary.org

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The Schaechter/Gottesman dynasty has played a central role in America's Yiddish-speaking academic and cultural scene. From renowned linguist Mordkhe Schaechter and poet and songwriter Beyle Schaechter-Gottesman onwards, the family has produced poets, musicians, journalists and educators active in keeping Yiddish alive and thriving. In this unique event, Meena-Lifshe Viswanath - current MIT student and native Yiddish speaker - will give an insider's history of the family, and talk about growing up as a Yiddish speaker
in the 21st century. The programme will be interspersed with Yiddish songs and poems, from within the family and beyond. Daughter of Yiddish poet Gitl Schaechter-Viswanath, and one of Mordkhe Schaechter's sixteen Yiddish-speaking grandchildren, Meena-Lifshe Viswanath is a native of Teaneck, New Jersey. She is currently a Civil Engineering major at MIT, and has spent the past year at the University of Cambridge as a Cambridge-MIT exchange student. Meena-Lifshe is currently Treasurer of the Yiddish youth organisation Yugntruf, having previously served as its Chairperson. She was a member of the now-defunct Pripetshik
Singers, and now sings in Techiya, MIT's Jewish a cappella group.

This event will take place at the Spiro Ark Centre, 25-26 Enford Street, London W1H 1DW, UK at 7:30 pm on Sunday 13th June 2010.
Tickets £12 (+£1 online booking fee), available from the Spiro Ark website, see:
http://www.spiroark.org/

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Please come hear a unique lecture in Yiddish at the Solem Aleichem Cultural Center (3338 Bainbridge Avenue, Bronx NY) by Ely Moseson, "The Mystical Tradition in Yiddish"

Sunday, June 6, 2010, 1:30 PM

Musical Program to follow with Cantor Sam Weiss
Contribution: $3.50
members: free
Corner 208th street, one block from Montefiore Hospital.
D Train train to 205th st, or 4 train to Mosholu Parkway
information: 917-930-0295

Kumt hern di interesante lektsye af yidish:
"Di mistishe traditsye in yidish"
fun Elly Moseson.
Zuntik, dem 6tn yuni, 2010, 1:30 bay tog.
In der muzikalisher program: Khazn Shmuel Weiss
inem Sholem-Aleichem-Kultur-Tsenter

3301 Bainbridge Avenue, Bronx

rog 208te gas, lebn Montefiore shpitol.

informatsye: 917-930-0295

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April 11, 7pm: Community-Wide Yom Hashoah lecture by
klezmer artist-ethnographer Yale Strom at Congregation
Schaarai Zedek, Tampa Florida. For more information,
tickets and reservations, call (813) 876-2377

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Sunday March 28
11:00 am - 12:30 pm

The Crypto Jews of Portugal
Lecturer: Dr. Judith Cohen

$9 Drop-In ($5 Student with valid ID)
Includes light refreshments

"Dr Judith Cohen is among the few people to have spent considerable time in Belmonte and other Portuguese villages with a strong historic, and sometimes contemporary, Crypto-Jewish presence.

She set out on an exploration to these small Portuguese villages in the mid 1990s in order to answer the question: Are there old Crypto-Jewish songs? Since then, she has returned regularly, and is still intrigued by what she continues to learn about the role of music in the lives of the Portuguese "Judeus"."

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Monday, March 9, 2010: World renowned klezmer artist-
ethnographer Yale Strom and acclaimed klezmer vocalist
Elizabeth Schwartz in concert, Waseda University, Tokyo,
Japan. Strom will also lecture.
OPEN TO THE PUBLIC.

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MARCH 08, 6PM-8PM
Yale Strom & Elizabeth Schwartz, "Klezmer
Symposium in Japan. Invitation to Jewish Music" Lecture +
Concert (open to students and general public) Tokyo Rikkyo
Univ. Tachikawa Hall (Sorry, Japanese only:
www.rikkyo.ac.jp/aboutus/profile/facilities/tachikawa_hall/)

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FAU Libraries & Klezmer Company Orchestra Presents:
Keynote Address - "Coexistence through Culture"
Dr. Henry Abramson & Dr. Zion Zohar
Date & Time: Sunday March 7, 2010 @ 1 p.m.
Venue: Live Oak Pavillion, Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton FL 33431
BUY NOW
Tickets $5

Two renowned Jewish scholars will illustrate the common cultural bonds among the Judeo, Christian and Muslim diasporas, as evidenced in music, art, philosophy, history and literature.

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Saturday, March 6, 2010, 7pm: Leading klezmer artist-
ethnographer Yale Strom and acclaimed klezmer vocalist
Elizabeth Schwartz in concert, Osaka University, Osaka,
Japan. Strom will also lecture that evening.

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Yale Strom & Elizabeth Schwartz in Japan:
4PM-5:30PM: Klezmer Music workshop with Japanese Musicians
Osaka Univ. Kaitokudo Hall (Sorry, Japanese only:
21c-kaitokudo.osaka-u.ac.jp/30a230af30bb30b9/)

6PM-8PM: Lecture to Osaka University students on the
History of Klezmer Music and the Relationship between
Romanian folk and Romanian klezmer Musics, moderated by
Professor Ito

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The Silver Age of American Jewish Music is Happening Now!
And Why We're Missing It! (Extended Play Edition)

Sunday, February 28, 2010
1:00pm - 3:00pm
Ann Arbor District Library
343 South Fifth Avenue
Ann Arbor, MI

Jewish music is exploding. Bands and labels and venues are multiplying. Rock. Hip Hop. Reggae. Punk. Klezmer. Sephardic. Choral. Chamber Music. Jazz. Chassidic-Pop. Breslov Techno. Niggunim. Pop-liturgical. Bible-gum. Beat Box. Boy Choirs. House. Socialist Yiddish Gothic. Indie. Weird hybrids. Avant-Garde experiments. Earnest devotion. But we're not immigrants clustered in tenements, in range of a local Yiddish radio station anymore. A revolution is happening but we're scattered across a big nation with no common media to connect us....except the net. Will it be enough?

This Extended Play version of Jack's recent 5 minute Ignite Ann Arbor talk will be loaded with more music, a road-map of the contemporary Jewish Music scene, a case study in social-networking Jewish Music, and the greatest Jewish song you've never heard.

Jack Zaientz is the author of Teruah, a popular Jewish music blog. Jack has been interviewed regarding Jewish music by the Israeli National Radio and was recently ranked by the Jewish Telegraphy Agency as the #36 most influential Jewish twitter.

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Stutchkoff's Yiddish radio scripts, with a musical
performance by Benjy Fox-Rosen

PROGRAM IN YIDDISH

Sholem Aleichem Cultural Center
3301 Bainbridge Avenue, corner 208th St.
(near Montefiore Hospital), Bronx, NY
Take the #4 train to Mosholu Parkway or the D train to 205th St.

Please come to hear a Yiddish lecture and reading "The Treasures of Nahum Stutchkoff" given by Amanda (Miryem-Khaye) Seigel with excerpts from funny commercials to heart-wrenching dramas - all from the collection of Nahum Stutchkoff's typescripts in the Jewish Division at The New York Public Library.

Nahum Stutchkoff (Nukhem Stutshkov) was not just a Yiddish linguist, but also a prolific playwright, translator, actor and lyricist who worked with Yiddish composers such as Rumshinsky, Ellstein, Secunda, and Perlmutter.

ADMISSION: $ 3.50. Members and students: free.
Refreshments served.
http://shul21.org/

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An-sky Institute for Jewish Culture Series

The Center for Traditional Music and Dance and the Center for Jewish History present a new three-part An-sky Institute for Jewish Culture Series, curated by ethnomusicologist Walter Zev Feldman, Ph.D. (New York University, Rubin Academy of Music, Jerusalem).

Ilyas Malayev: Remembering the Poet Laureate of the Bukharian Jews. Ilyas Malayev (1936-2008) was an immensely popular musician across Uzbekistan, deeply loved by the Bukharian Jewish community. He was a master of the central Asian classical music cycles known as "Shash maqam," and a major innovator of traditional forms through his musical compositions, poetry and theatrical works. CTMD worked with Dartmouth ethnomusicologist Theodore Levin to produce Malayev's important 1997 recording, At the Bazaar of Love (Shanachie Records). This special retrospective will take place at the Center for Jewish History's Forchheimer Auditorium/Kumble Stage, 15 W. 16th Street in Manhattan. A reception will follow the event. Tickets $15, $10 for CJH and CTMD members. Reservations through Smart Tix or call 212-868-4444. (7:00PM)

The series is named in honor of the pioneering Jewish folklorist and writer, Semyon An-sky, who led a remarkable expedition to collect Jewish folklore in Ukraine and Belorussia in 1911–1914.

Major support for CTMD's An-sky Institute for Jewish Culture was provided by the Keller-Shatanoff Foundation. Support was also provided by the Atran Foundation, and public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts Folk Arts Program, a State agency, the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs and the National Endowment for the Arts. We thank Fumie Suzuki and Joan Roth for providing photographs for the series.

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JEWS AND SUFIS: A Sacred Bridge

Location: Temple Beth Zion in Brookline
Date/Time: Thursday, October 29, 6:30pm
Price of admission: FREE

Since at least the 16th century, the maftirim repertoire--Hebrew devotional poetry set to Turkish makam music for use in the synagogue--demonstrates the deep relationships Ottoman Jews established with members of Muslim mystical brotherhoods. A panel of three scholars will speak on cultural, historical, religious and musical aspects of the topic, followed by dialogue with the audience. The program will conclude with a lively 40-minute recital featuring an ensemble of Jewish, Muslim and Christian vocalists and instrumentalists demonstrating examples of relevant musical repertoire.

Visit www.DunyaInc.org for more information

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An-sky Institute for Jewish Culture Series

The Center for Traditional Music and Dance and the Center for Jewish History present a new three-part An-sky Institute for Jewish Culture Series, curated by ethnomusicologist Walter Zev Feldman, Ph.D. (New York University, Rubin Academy of Music, Jerusalem).

Monday, October 26: Beyle Schaechter Gottesman: Celebrating a Lifetime in Yiddish Song. A conversation and performance featuring America's leading Yiddish poet/songwriter, who will be joined by her son Itzik Gottesman of the Yiddish Forward newspaper. Moderated by Walter Zev Feldman. In 2006 Beyle Schaechter-Gottesman was awarded the NEA's National Heritage Fellowship Award, our nation's highest honor in the traditional arts. At the Center for Jewish History's Forchheimer Auditorium/Kumble Stage, 15 W. 16th Street in Manhattan. A reception will follow the event. Tickets $15, $10 for CJH and CTMD members. Reservations through Smart Tix or call 212-868-4444. (7:00PM)

The series is named in honor of the pioneering Jewish folklorist and writer, Semyon An-sky, who led a remarkable expedition to collect Jewish folklore in Ukraine and Belorussia in 1911–1914.

Major support for CTMD's An-sky Institute for Jewish Culture was provided by the Keller-Shatanoff Foundation. Support was also provided by the Atran Foundation, and public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts Folk Arts Program, a State agency, the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs and the National Endowment for the Arts. We thank Fumie Suzuki and Joan Roth for providing photographs for the series.

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On October 24, Joseph Vass is premiering eight compositions based on the letters of the Hebrew alphabet. Artist Robyn Awend has created visual art to work along with the music. Joe has scripted a narration intended to explain, enlighten and entertain.

The Alef Bet Ensemble unites ten of Minnesota’s finest and most versatile musicians:

Bass - Chris Bates

Violin - Carolyn Boulay

Drums - Jay Epstein

Trumpet - Dave Jensen

Cello - Michelle Kinney

Woodwinds - Dale Mendenhall

Viola - Michael Rieff

Violin - Gary Schulte

Woodwinds - Bruce Thornton

Piano - Joseph Vass

Judging by contemporary audience reaction and subsequent history, those who came to previous Vass premieres at the St. Paul JCC, including Gershwin The Klezmer and Klezmerica, were delighted they came. We’re aiming for the same with Alef-Bet: Music Of The Hebrew Letters.

The world premiere of Alef-Bet: Music of the Hebrew Letters is scheduled for Saturday night, October 24, 7:30 PM, at the Jewish Community Center of St. Paul, 1375 St Paul Avenue in Saint Paul. More information is available at (651) 698-0751 or at www.stpauljcc.org/jewish/arts_events.lasso

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An-sky Institute for Jewish Culture Series

The Center for Traditional Music and Dance and the Center for Jewish History present a new three-part An-sky Institute for Jewish Culture Series, curated by ethnomusicologist Walter Zev Feldman, Ph.D. (New York University, Rubin Academy of Music, Jerusalem).

Monday, September 21: The Multi-Ethnic Music Cultures of Moldova. In a multi-media presentation, Walter Zev Feldman discusses the cultural history of this area of ethnic transformation and his recent expedition which discovered musicians of mixed ancestry (Jewish/Roma/Slavic/Moldavian) still performing traditional Jewish music in his father's hometown of Edinets. At the Center for Jewish History's Forchheimer Auditorium/Kumble Stage, 15 W. 16th Street in Manhattan. A reception will follow the event. Tickets $15, $10 for CJH and CTMD members. Reservations through Smart Tix or call 212-868-4444. (7:00 PM)

The series is named in honor of the pioneering Jewish folklorist and writer, Semyon An-sky, who led a remarkable expedition to collect Jewish folklore in Ukraine and Belorussia in 1911–1914.

Major support for CTMD's An-sky Institute for Jewish Culture was provided by the Keller-Shatanoff Foundation. Support was also provided by the Atran Foundation, and public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts Folk Arts Program, a State agency, the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs and the National Endowment for the Arts. We thank Fumie Suzuki and Joan Roth for providing photographs for the series.

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La littérature yiddish à l'honneur

Vendredi 11 septembre à partir de 19h00

La librairie La Boucherie invite la musique et la littérature yiddish.
Denis Cuniot sera au piano et Batia Baum lira des extraits de ses traductions publiées aux éditions Bibliothèque Medem.
Renseignements : librairie La Boucherie, 76 rue Monge, 75005 Paris, tél. 01 42 17 08 80
Retrouvez le catalogue des éditions Bibliothèque Medem sur le site de la Maison de la culture yiddish.

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Yiddish Café presents An Evening in Honour of Sholem Aleichem on Thursday, May 21, 2009 at 8:00 p.m. To respect Sholem Aleichem’s final wishes, a group of talented Montrealers offers a program of stories and songs in Yiddish and English, in a café-style setting. Refreshments served. At the Jewish Public Library, 5151 Côte Ste-Catherine Road, Montreal. Sponsored by the Chana Gonshor and Etta Michtom Miransky Endowments. Cost $5 for JPL members and students, $10 others. Call 514-345-2627 ext. 3006 or 514-345-6416 for tickets and information.

The Jewish Public Library, founded in Montreal in 1914, is committed to encouraging and promoting the Yiddish language, culture and literature, by collecting and preserving Yiddish materials, and by presenting a variety of cultural events.

www.jewishpubliclibrary.org

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Halt di date - ir zent hartsik farbetn af a frayen referat af yidish vos ikh vel haltn inem YIVO:

"Di oystres fun Nukhem Stutshkov: Radioskriptn in der Nyu-Yorker shtot-bibliotek"

Fraytik, dem 24stn April, 12 a zeyger n"m
Inem shulekhl, bam YIVO/Tsenter far yidisher geshikhte
15 W. 16te gas, Manhetn

Ikh hof az ir kent bayzayn.
Al dos guts
Miryem-Khaye Seigel

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Moments of Hope: Yiddish Folk and Theatre Music of the Holocaust

April 21, 2009 7:30p-8:30p
MIT campus, room 4-145
77 Massachusetts Avenue
Cambridge, MA
tel: 617-253-2982
Cambridge, MA
mit.edu/hillel

For a thousand years, the Jews of Europe poured out their deepest feelings and chronicled the events of their times through Yiddish folksong. In this program, we will explore how Jewish poets and musicians continued to tell their story through song, even as the almost incomprehensible events of the Holocaust period unfolded around them, A multi-instrumentalist, composer, and ethomusicologist and scholar, Hankus Netsky is chair of the Contemporary Improvisation Department at the New England Conservatory, Vice President for Education at the National Yiddish Book Center, and founder and director of the Klezmer Conservatory Band, an internationally renowned Yiddish music ensemble. He has composed extensively for film, theater, and television, and has collaborated extensively with such artists as Itzhak Perlman, Robin Williams, Joel Grey, and Theodore Bikel. Hankus has produced numerous CDs on the Rounder and Vanguard labels and co-produced two CD's with Itzhak Perlman on EMI.

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Please join us for our annual Yiddish lecture in memory of the Holocaust at the Sholem Aleichem-Cultural Center, 3301 Bainbridge avenue , corner 208th st., in the Bronx, one block from Montefiore Hospital, Sunday, April 12 1:30 PM

Feygl Infeld-Glaser, from Lodz, will speak on the topic - "A Child Survivor in the Holocaust".
After the talk, Michael Alpert of "Brave Old World" and "The Singing Table" will present a musical program. information: 917-930-0295

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Naked Soul at the Rubin Museum of Art in NYC continues on April 3 with Susan McKeown & Lorin Sklamberg, lead singer of the Klezmatics debuting their new show Saints & Tzadiks: Songs from the Yiddish and Irish Traditions. Naked Soul is one of the most unique concert series in NYC as it's all acoustic and unplugged—no mics or amps (naked). The intimate theater only seats 137 and has perfect acoustics. The Rubin Museum is the only museum in North America whose collection is dedicated to artwork of the Himalayas (soul). Slides of any pieces of art that speaks to the artist's music are shown behind the artist during the appropriate songs at the performance. After the show, the audience is given a free tour of the museum. Time Out NY calls Naked Soul an "innovative" and "cool" series. Tickets available by calling the museum M-F 11am-5pm at 212-620-5000 ext 344.

Saints & Tzadiks: Songs from the Yiddish and Irish Traditions
Friday April 3 at 7pm
tickets $30/$35 at the door

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The Judaica Sound Archives (JSA) at Florida Atlantic University Libraries on FAU's Boca Raton campus is hosting Paul Green for a lecture and demonstration titled "The Development of Jewish Art Music," on Wednesday, April 1, at 3:30 p.m., at the Wimberly Library, fifth floor east.

Green teaches clarinet and chamber music at Florida Atlantic and Florida International universities, and is principal clarinetist of the Florida Grand Opera, the Concert Association of Florida and the Boca Raton Symphonia. He studied with the noted clarinetist Leon Russianoff and performed Saint-Saens' "Carnival of the Animals" in a Young People's Concert with the New York Philharmonic under the direction of Leonard Bernstein. Green received a Bachelor of Art degree in music theory and composition from Yale University and a Master of Science degree in performance from The Juilliard School in 1972. The JSA has been collecting, preserving and digitizing Judaica sound recordings since 2002. For more information, visit www.fau.edu/jsa.

For more info: 561-297-0080
The Event is Free.

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FAU Libraries & Klezmer Company Orchestra Present
Kultur Festival 2009
A Celebration of Jewish Music & Arts
February 25-March 1, 2009 @ Florida Atlantic University
Boca Raton, FL

Keynote Address
"Tradition and Transformation"—Rabbi Irwin Kula
Sunday March 1, 2009 @ 1 p.m.
Friedberg Lifelong Learning Center (FAU)
Tickets $5

Rabbi Irwin Kula, noted radio and TV personality, author, international speaker and co-president of CLAL (National Jewish Center for Learning and Leadership), shares his progressive philosophy on Jewish wisdom and its relationship to the past, present and future. One of the festival's highlights, Rabbi Kula's keynote address examines the role of Jewish arts and culture in the 21st century.

For tickets, call 800-564-9539 or visit www.fauevents.com/kulturfest.html. For more information on KCO, visit www.klezmercompany.com. A limited number of festival passes are available and must be purchased by phone or in person at the FAU Box Office

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FAU Libraries & Klezmer Company Orchestra Present
Kultur Festival 2009
A Celebration of Jewish Music & Arts
February 25-March 1, 2009 @ Florida Atlantic University
Boca Raton, FL

Hebrew Book Arts
Friday February 27, 2009 @ 2 p.m. -
Wimberly Library (fifth floor)
Tickets $8

Book artist and printmaker Lynne Avadenka discusses the use of Jewish themes and Hebrew language in her work, with an exhibition from FAU Libraries' Jaffe Center for Book Arts. In her book Root Words Avadenka explores cultural similarities through language, with beautiful Hebrew and Arabic calligraphy displayed side-by-side. Following the lecture audience members will be invited to tour the Jaffe Center.

For tickets, call 800-564-9539 or visit www.fauevents.com/kulturfest.html. For more information on KCO, visit www.klezmercompany.com. A limited number of festival passes are available and must be purchased by phone or in person at the FAU Box Office

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FAU Libraries & Klezmer Company Orchestra Present
Kultur Festival 2009
A Celebration of Jewish Music & Arts
February 25-March 1, 2009 @ Florida Atlantic University
Boca Raton, FL

Bernstein & Blitzstein&performance and lecture
Friday February 27, 2009 @ 11 a.m.
Wimberly Library (fifth floor)
Tickets $8

Distinguished musician and scholar Dr. Leonard Lehrman and vocalist Helene Williams present a song recital and lecture about the close musical and personal relationship between Jewish-American composers Leonard Bernstein and Marc Blitzstein. Music will be sung in English and Yiddish with translations provided.

For tickets, call 800-564-9539 or visit www.fauevents.com/kulturfest.html. For more information on KCO, visit www.klezmercompany.com. A limited number of festival passes are available and must be purchased by phone or in person at the FAU Box Office

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FAU Libraries & Klezmer Company Orchestra Present
Kultur Festival 2009
A Celebration of Jewish Music & Arts
February 25-March 1, 2009 @ Florida Atlantic University
Boca Raton, FL

The Art of Cantorial Improvisation - with Cantor Jacob Mendelson
Thursday February 26, 2009 @ 11 a.m. - Wimberly Library (fifth floor)
Tickets $8

Renowned New York City Cantor Jacob Mendelson leads six of his South Florida colleagues in a unique presentation featuring live performance, classic recordings and a panel discussion. The cantors will improvise and demonstrate their individual vocal skills. Recordings from FAU Libraries' Judaica Sound Archives and Cantorial repertoire from the library's printed music collections will be featured.

For tickets, call 800-564-9539 or visit www.fauevents.com/kulturfest.html. For more information on KCO, visit www.klezmercompany.com. A limited number of festival passes are available and must be purchased by phone or in person at the FAU Box Office

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Friday, February 20, 2009, 1pm

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Monday, February 16, 2009 at 7:30pm
Slifka Cennter and the Council on Middle Eastern and North African Studies presents:
"Muslim, Jewish and Christian Harmony in The Golden Age of Spain"
a lecture/demonstration with Yuval Ron Ensemble with dancer Maya Karasso

Slifka Center
FREE
More information: Nathaniel DeLuca (203) 231-1617
www.yale.edu/chaplain/yuvalronensemble.html

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Musical History of The Yiddish Theater

Join Zalmen Mlotek, the Artistic Director of the country's only National Yiddish Theatre - Folksbiene, in a multi-media historical edu-tainment about the Yiddish Theater with interactive audience participation.

Presentation follows full bagel breakfast.

Sunday, January 18, 2009, 9:30am - 12pm
at Valley Cities JCC
14701 Friar St., Van Nuys, CA 91411
$8 VCJCC/ Yiddishkayt/ CIYCL members; $10 public
More info at www.yiddishkayt.org

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December 17, 2008

7pm:

Concert and panel discussion, "Jews and Jazz" at the Eldridge Street Synagogue featuring Yale Strom & Hot Pstromi with Loren Schoenberg, Executive Director, The National Jazz Museum in Harlem

Note: Elizabeth Schwartz will be participating on the panel only due to Kol Isha. For information, tickets: (212) 219-0888
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December 16, 2008:

3Pm to 4:30:
Symposium 'Beyond Boundaries: Klezmer in the 21st Century' at CUNY's Martin E. Segal Theatre.

7pm:
Concert with Yale Strom & Hot Pstromi and special guests celebrating the first anniversary of the historic 'Great Day on Eldridge Street' photo and gathering. Martin E. Segal Theatre, CUNY, New York
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The Jewish Theory of Everything: Negotiating Jewish Identity in Italy
A Talk with Slides and Musical Examples by Francesco Spagnolo

Wednesday, November 5, 7:30 pm
FREE
BJE Jewish Community Library
1835 Ellis Street, San Francisco

Italy is home to one of the oldest communities in the Jewish diaspora. It is also a place where Jews settled from the four corners of the world to meet at the heart of Christianity. Ashkenazi, Sephardic, and Italian Jews lived together, clashing and blending cultural identities, negotiating their status with the changing ruling powers, and keeping a line of communication with the global Jewish diaspora. Francesco Spagnolo will talk about daily and synagogue life, literature, music, and visual culture inside and outside the Italian ghettos.
For more information please call 415.567.3327 x703.

"There is just about nobody more worth listening to, and more fun to listen to, than Francesco Spagnolo" —Ari Davidow

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The Jewish Theory of Everything: Negotiating Jewish Identity in Italy
A Talk with Slides and Musical Examples by Francesco Spagnolo

Wednesday, November 5, 7:30 pm
FREE
BJE Jewish Community Library
1835 Ellis Street, San Francisco

Italy is home to one of the oldest communities in the Jewish diaspora. It is also a place where Jews settled from the four corners of the world to meet at the heart of Christianity. Ashkenazi, Sephardic, and Italian Jews lived together, clashing and blending cultural identities, negotiating their status with the changing ruling powers, and keeping a line of communication with the global Jewish diaspora. Francesco Spagnolo will talk about daily and synagogue life, literature, music, and visual culture inside and outside the Italian ghettos.
For more information please call 415.567.3327 x703.

"There is just about nobody more worth listening to, and more fun to listen to, than Francesco Spagnolo" —Ari Davidow

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On Wednesday, October 22nd at 11:30 A.M., at the Arbeter-ring, 48 Kalisher Street, Tel Aviv, our Culture club will be hosting our beloved guest from Hamburg, Dorothea Greve ("Shevele"), together with 15-17 members of the Solomon Birenbaum Yiddish Club, who will present literary readings commemorating the 100th Anniversary of the Czernovitz Yiddish Language Conference.

All members of our Culture Club and Yiddish-lovers of Israel are invited.

Arbeter-ring in Yisroel - Brith Haavoda
48 Kalisher Street
Tel Aviv Israel

Tel/fax: 972-3-517-6764

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Lecture in Yiddish with Prof. Eugene Orenstein "On the Centenary of the Czernowitz Conference"

Lecture in Yiddish with Prof. Eugene Orenstein "On the Centenary of the Czernowitz Conference" on Sunday, October 19, 2008 at 2:00 p.m. at the Jewish Public Library, 5151 Côte Ste-Catherine Road, Montreal. Cost: $5 JPL members/students, $10 others. Refreshments served. For information call (514) 345-2627 ext. 3006 or advance tickets call (514) 345-6416. Sponsored by the Yentl Fishman Fund.

The Czernowitz Yiddish Language Conference in 1908 was the first international attempt to consolidate the achievements of Yiddish and to encourage its creative future. The meaning of this attempt will be analyzed through the prism of the past century.

Eugene Orenstein is Associate Professor of Jewish Studies at McGill University and has also taught at Columbia University, NYU, Oxford, and Monash University in Melbourne. He has most recently contributed articles to The Encyclopedia Judaica, 2007.

The Jewish Public Library, founded in Montreal in 1914, is committed to encouraging and promoting the Yiddish language, culture and literature, by collecting and preserving Yiddish materials, and by presenting a variety of cultural events.

www.jewishpubliclibrary.org

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Sunday, October 12th, 2008 - 1:30pm

Calling all Litvaks!

Dr. Dmitri Slepovitch,
ethnomusicologist, folklorist and klezmer formerly of Minsk, Belarus, will lecture in Yiddish on the topic:

"Yiddish music in Belarus".

Based on extensive fieldwork of him and
Prof. Nina Stepanskaya z''l.

He will also show clips of video interviews and play samples of his findings as well.

Sholem Aleichem Cultural Center
3301 Bainbridge Avenue, corner 208th St.
(near Montefiore Hospital), Bronx, NY
$ 3.50 Refreshments served.
INFORMATION: +1 917 930-0295

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8/10 Arbeter Ring/Workmen's Circle presents
Far Yugnt/For Youth: the Yiddish Songbook of S. Polonski

Sunday, August 10
2:00 pm
The Workmen's Circle
1525 S Robertson Blvd
Free admission, reservations not required.

Yiddishkayt is proud to participate in the annual commemoration of of Soviet Yiddish Writers. Fifty-six years ago, on August 12, 1952, the Soviet regime of Joseph Stalin executed fourteen prominent Yiddish writers and Jewish communal officials in an attempt to wipe out Jewish culture.

This year, we recognize Soviet Jewish composer S. Polonski, who contributed several well-known songs to the Yiddish repertoire. The Mit Gezang Yiddish Chorus of the Workmen's Circle will delve deeper into Polonski's musical legacy, performing the entirety of his songbook written for Yiddish-speaking schoolchildren in the Soviet Union, published in 1931. This unique program will be in Yiddish and English.

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Dec. 17th, 7pm: concert and panel discussion at the Eldridge Street Synagogue for the one year anniversary of A GREAT DAY ON ELDRDIGE STREET (Note: Elizabeth Schwartz will be ONLY DISCUSSING the art of Yiddish and klezmer vocalizing on the panel due to Kol Isha)

For information, tickets: (212) 219-0888
www.eldridgestreet.org

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Dec. 16th, 7pm: Concert and panel celebrating the one year anniversary of A GREAT DAY ON ELDRIDGE STREET historic photo shoot.

Martin E. Segal Theatre Center
The CUNY Graduate Center,
365 Fifth Avenue
New York, NY 10016-4309
ph: 212-817-1860
web.gc.cuny.edu/mestc/

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July 12th, 13th and 14th 2008:
Symposium "The Other Europeans"

A three-day symposium on Yiddish and Roma music and cultures takes place on July 12-14, featuring talks by renowned anthropologists, historians, musicologists, and musicians. For anyone interested in Yiddish or Roma cultures, or in issues of national and transnational identities in Europe, the symposium will be a rich experience.

Lecturers:
Kalman Balogh (Hungary)
Diana Bunea (Moldova)
Claude Cahn (Switzerland)
Bob Cohen (Hungary)
Zev Feldman (USA/Israel)
Ruth Ellen Gruber (Italy)
Ivan Ivanov (Belgium)
Slawomir Kapralski (Poland)
Zola Kondur (Ukraine)
Harry Stein (Germany)
Yale Strom (USA)
Janina Wurbs (Germany)

participation fee 60 € or 40 € (reduced),

Yiddish Summer Weimar, July 12-Aug 15, 2008
Veranstalter other music e.V.
c/o Kulturbüro LaRete | Goetheplatz 3 | 99423 Weimar
Fon +49 (0)3643 50 66 77 | Fax +49 (0)3643 49 86 04
Mehr Informationen zum Festival finden Sie unter
www.yiddish-summer-weimar.de

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July 12th, 13th and 14th 2008:
Symposium "The Other Europeans"

A three-day symposium on Yiddish and Roma music and cultures takes place on July 12-14, featuring talks by renowned anthropologists, historians, musicologists, and musicians. For anyone interested in Yiddish or Roma cultures, or in issues of national and transnational identities in Europe, the symposium will be a rich experience.

Lecturers:
Kalman Balogh (Hungary)
Diana Bunea (Moldova)
Claude Cahn (Switzerland)
Bob Cohen (Hungary)
Zev Feldman (USA/Israel)
Ruth Ellen Gruber (Italy)
Ivan Ivanov (Belgium)
Slawomir Kapralski (Poland)
Zola Kondur (Ukraine)
Harry Stein (Germany)
Yale Strom (USA)
Janina Wurbs (Germany)

participation fee 60 € or 40 € (reduced),

Yiddish Summer Weimar, July 12-Aug 15, 2008
Veranstalter other music e.V.
c/o Kulturbüro LaRete | Goetheplatz 3 | 99423 Weimar
Fon +49 (0)3643 50 66 77 | Fax +49 (0)3643 49 86 04
Mehr Informationen zum Festival finden Sie unter
www.yiddish-summer-weimar.de

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July 12th, 13th and 14th 2008:
Symposium "The Other Europeans"

A three-day symposium on Yiddish and Roma music and cultures takes place on July 12-14, featuring talks by renowned anthropologists, historians, musicologists, and musicians. For anyone interested in Yiddish or Roma cultures, or in issues of national and transnational identities in Europe, the symposium will be a rich experience.

Lecturers:
Kalman Balogh (Hungary)
Diana Bunea (Moldova)
Claude Cahn (Switzerland)
Bob Cohen (Hungary)
Zev Feldman (USA/Israel)
Ruth Ellen Gruber (Italy)
Ivan Ivanov (Belgium)
Slawomir Kapralski (Poland)
Zola Kondur (Ukraine)
Harry Stein (Germany)
Yale Strom (USA)
Janina Wurbs (Germany)

participation fee 60 € or 40 € (reduced),

Yiddish Summer Weimar, July 12-Aug 15, 2008
Veranstalter other music e.V.
c/o Kulturbüro LaRete | Goetheplatz 3 | 99423 Weimar
Fon +49 (0)3643 50 66 77 | Fax +49 (0)3643 49 86 04
Mehr Informationen zum Festival finden Sie unter
www.yiddish-summer-weimar.de

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This Sunday, June 22, 1:30 PM Itzik Gottesman and Emily Socolov will speak, in Yiddish, on their recent trip to the Ukraine, and in particular the Bukovina. They will show many slides so if your Yiddish is not up to speed you still might find it interesting.

After the talk, Itzik's mother, Beyle Schaechter-Gottesman, will accompany her son and sing 6 or 7 songs from Bukovina, including his grandmother's older folksongs, and Beyle's interwar Chernovitz-based repertory and original songs. And, if he can learn it in time, a song that was sung at Gimpel's Yiddish Theater in Lviv/Lemberg in the early 1900s, since Lviv was one of his stops in Bukovina.

The talk is entitled "On the Trail of Our Yesteryears" and takes place at the Sholem Aleichem Cultural Center 3301 Bainbridge Avenue, Bronx NY, corner 208th st. one block from Montefiore Hospital.

information 917-930-0295 admission: $3.50

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KlezKanada 2008 Lecture Series
May 11, 2008, 4 pm
Gelber Conference Centre, 2 Carré Cummings Square, Montreal, Quebec
Michael Wex
"Nu Shoyn? Why we need Yiddish today."
A look at some of the factors that make Yiddish unique and at what we could lose by losing the language. Longtime KK staff member Michael Wex is the author of Just Say Nu and Born to Kvetch.

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Music, Oppression and Exile:
The Impact of Nazism on Musical Development in the 20th Century

Wednesday 9–Friday 11 April 2008
Senate House, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HU

It will followed by two days of concerts and public lectures presented by
The ARC Ensemble (Artists of the Royal Conservatory, Canada) and the English Chamber Orchestra Ensemble

Saturday 12, Sunday 13 April 2008
Cadogan Hall, Sloane Terrace, London, SW1X 9DQ

Fuller details can be found on Website www.jmi.org.uk

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Music, Oppression and Exile:
The Impact of Nazism on Musical Development in the 20th Century

Wednesday 9–Friday 11 April 2008
Senate House, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HU

It will followed by two days of concerts and public lectures presented by
The ARC Ensemble (Artists of the Royal Conservatory, Canada) and the English Chamber Orchestra Ensemble

Saturday 12, Sunday 13 April 2008
Cadogan Hall, Sloane Terrace, London, SW1X 9DQ

Fuller details can be found on Website www.jmi.org.uk

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Music, Oppression and Exile:
The Impact of Nazism on Musical Development in the 20th Century

Wednesday 9–Friday 11 April 2008
Senate House, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HU

It will followed by two days of concerts and public lectures presented by
The ARC Ensemble (Artists of the Royal Conservatory, Canada) and the English Chamber Orchestra Ensemble

Saturday 12, Sunday 13 April 2008
Cadogan Hall, Sloane Terrace, London, SW1X 9DQ

Fuller details can be found on Website www.jmi.org.uk

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Music, Oppression and Exile:
The Impact of Nazism on Musical Development in the 20th Century

Wednesday 9–Friday 11 April 2008
Senate House, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HU

It will followed by two days of concerts and public lectures presented by
The ARC Ensemble (Artists of the Royal Conservatory, Canada) and the English Chamber Orchestra Ensemble

Saturday 12, Sunday 13 April 2008
Cadogan Hall, Sloane Terrace, London, SW1X 9DQ

Fuller details can be found on Website www.jmi.org.uk

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Music, Oppression and Exile:
The Impact of Nazism on Musical Development in the 20th Century

Wednesday 9–Friday 11 April 2008
Senate House, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HU

It will followed by two days of concerts and public lectures presented by
The ARC Ensemble (Artists of the Royal Conservatory, Canada) and the English Chamber Orchestra Ensemble

Saturday 12, Sunday 13 April 2008
Cadogan Hall, Sloane Terrace, London, SW1X 9DQ

Fuller details can be found on Website www.jmi.org.uk

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Montclair State University, in Montclair New Jersey, will host a semester-long Italian Festival of the Arts and Humanities, which will include a few events that might interest your readers.

April 8, 1pm:
Lecture: "Between Ghetto and Emancipation- Musical Traditions of Italian Jews"
Featuring Francesco Spagnolo, music curator and lecturer at the University of California at Santa Cruz.

University Hall, Room 1040

For further information, see www.montclair.edu/italianfestival or call 973-655-4185

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Montclair State University, in Montclair New Jersey, will host a semester-long Italian Festival of the Arts and Humanities, which will include a few events that might interest your readers.

April 1:
Lecture: Jewish Musical Activity in Northern Italy
Lydia Cevidalli and Simonetta Heger, Milan Verdi Conservatory

* Tuesday April 1, 2008
* 8:30 am

Featuring visiting scholars Lydia Cevidalli, chamber and orchestral performer and violin professor at the Milan Verdi Conservatory; and Simonetta Heger, soloist and piano and harpsichord professor at the Milan Verdi Conservatory. Part of the Italian Festival of the Arts and Humanities, "An Italian Sense of Place."

University Hall, Room 1010

For further information, see www.montclair.edu/italianfestival or call 973-655-4185

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Sunday, March 23, 2008 at 2pm

The Celluloid Closet of Yiddish Film: "A yingl mit a yingl hot epes a tam?"
Lesbian & Gay Subtext from a Cinema of Diaspora
video clips/lecture program presented by Eve Sicular
at Pioneer Valley Jewish Film Festival
at The National Yiddish Book Center
Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Building
1021 West Street
Amherst MA
on the campus of Hampshire College
Info: 413-256-4900
bikher.org
pvjff.org

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Music Salon at the Magnes Museum
A Festival of Faith: The Musical Legacy of Cantor Reuben Rinder
The Judah L. Magnes Museum
2911 Russell Street, Berkeley
Thursday, March 13, 4:00 pm
$6 for Magnes members, $8 non-members
info: 510.549.6950

Cantor Roslyn Barak of Congregation Emanu-El in conversation with Francesco Spagnolo. Cantor Reuben Rinder (1887-1966) whose tenure spanned 50 years was a renowned cantor as well as an impresario and composer. Cantor Rinder was most noted for the influence he had on the careers of young artists such as Isaac Stern and Yehudi Menuhin, as well as for his commitment to the commissioning of liturgical works.

Cantor Roslyn Barak has served at Congregation Emanu-El of San Francisco since 1987 and Dr. Francesco Spagnolo is Head of Research at the Magnes.

Co-Sponsored by the 23rd Jewish Music Festival and Congregation Emanu-El

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TANGELE : La pulsation du tango yiddish

Lloïca Czakis: chant, Juan Lucas Aisemberg: violon, Ivo De Greef: piano.

Dimanche 24 février 2008 à la Cité Bleue, Genève
à 11h : Conférence - entrée libre

à 17h : Concert
tarifs: 30.- ; Tarif réduit (AVS; étudiants, etc): 20.-
Réduction supplémentaire de 10.- aux membres AMJ

Réservation: 022/344.64.09 ou email AMJ
informations: www.amj.ch et www.tangele.com

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KlezKanada 2008 Lecture Series
Gelber Conference Centre, 2 Carré Cummings Square, Montreal, Quebec
February 24, 2008, 4 pm
Frank London
Topic TBA

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Dear friends of the Jewish Music Forum,

Our next presentation will be held on
February 22, 2008
10:30 am - 12 pm

at the Center for Jewish History, Forchheimer Auditorium
15 W. 16th Street (between 5th and 6th Aves., north side of the street)
New York, NY 10011
This event is FREE and open to the public

"Creating 'New' Jewish Sounds"
Presentations and a roundtable with
Dr. Josh Kun, University of Southern California
Dr. Judah M. Cohen, Indiana University
Daniel Saks, member of the NYC bands DeLeon and The LeeVees

www.jewishmusicforum.org

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Jeremiah Lockwood of the Sway Machinery: Hidden Melodies Revealed
a work-in-progress showing
Feb. 20, 7pm
Center for Jewish History, 15 W. 16th St, NYC, $10
Tickets at www.ticketweb.com or 917.606.8200

Jeremiah Lockwood will be performing solo, playing pieces from The Sway Machinery repetoire and new works-in-progress from the Hidden Melodies Revealed project. His performance will be followed by a scholarly discussion of the history of Cantorial music with Peter Rachefsky, Director of the Center for Traditional Music and Dance, and Cantor David Lefkowitz, of the Park Avenue Synagogue.

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Anna Shternshis: “White Piano from the Shtetl: East European Jewish Culture in Post-Soviet Imagination”

Scholar and author Anna Shternshis will speak in English on “White Piano from the Shtetl: East European Jewish Culture in post-Soviet Imagination” on Sunday, February 17, 2008 at 2:00 p.m. at the Jewish Public Library, 5151 Côte Ste-Catherine Road, Montreal. Cost $5 for JPL members and students, $10 others. Call 514-345-2627 ext. 3006 for tickets and information.

The Jewish Public Library, founded in Montreal in 1914, is committed to encouraging and promoting the Yiddish language, culture and literature, by collecting and preserving Yiddish materials, and by presenting a variety of cultural events.

www.jewishpubliclibrary.org

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The Center for Judaic Studies at the University of Denver presents,
SHEMA: WHAT JEWISH CULTURE SOUNDS LIKE
With Galeet Dardashti and Divahn for an exploration of
Middle Eastern and Sephardic Jewish music

Saturday, February 16, 2008, 7:30 p.m.
The Oriental Theatre
4335 West 44th Avenue
Denver, Co. 80212

$18 general public
$10 DU faculty and staff
$5 with a University student ID
Thanks to support from our sponsors, tickets are offered at a reduced price.

Tickets available online at www.theorientaltheater.com or by calling 1.800.838.3006.

Doors open at 6 p.m. with a cash bar and restaurant available for pre-concert dining. Concert begins at 7:30 p.m. A reception with Divahn to follow the concert.
Public Lecuture with Galeet Dardashti
Mizrahi Piyutim: Middle Eastern Prayer Poetry
Join Galeet Dardashti for an interactive evening that introduces attendees to the Sephardi piyut traditions from the Middle East and North Africa. This evening will not only allow you to hear and learn a few of these beautiful and poetic songs but will provide you with a cultural and historical lens for understanding why the paytanim (poets) wrote them and continued composing them up until the last century. This lecture will also highligh the important ways in which the music of these piyutim draws from secular Arabic and Middle Eastern music. Galeet will perform and teach a number of piyutim representing the Iraqi, Sephardi-Yerushalmi, Moroccan, and Iranian traditions.

For further info: www.du.edu/cjs/public_programs.html

Continue reading "Shema: What Jewish Culture Sounds Like, Denver, CO, Feb 15-20, 2008" »

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At the Eldrige Street Synagogue, newly restored in the Lower East Side/Chinatown of Manhattan,
"Of Jews and Jazz"
Wednesday, February 6 at 7 pm
Lost and Found Music Series

Jewish musicians have long been drawn to the modes and moods of jazz. Greg Wall, chronicles the connection and, accompanied by his quartet, raises the roof with some swinging illustrations.

Tickets: $15 adults; $12 students and seniors

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Congress for Jewish Culture Presents:
Treasures of Second Avenue
January 30th at 7 PM

Come enjoy this symposium on ethnic influences in vaudeville and enjoy seeing the newly renovated Eldridge Street Synagogue at the same time. Tonight's sections include Yiddish, Italian and Hungarian influences, with Shane Baker presenting the Yiddish section -- songs, recitations and magic. Admission $15. In the Eldridge Street Synagogue, 12 Eldridge Street. How to get there.

Congress for Jewish Culture, Inc.
212-505-8040

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Sauerkraut Cowboys and Klezmer Cafes
"Real Imaginary Spaces in Europe"
Six and I Historic Synagogue
600 I St. NW Washington, DC

Ruth gives a talk and reads from her books, including just-published "Letters from Europe (and Elsewhere)"

Tuesday, January 29 at 7:00pm
View Map

Info: 202.408.3100

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19 Dec., 11:30 A.M., Debut of new film "Bundists in Israel", with film director Eran Turbiner

Arbeter-ring in Yisroel - Brith Haavoda
48 Kalisher Street
Tel aviv Israel
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EXTENDED BODY:
19 Dez., 11:30, Nay dershinerer film "Bundisten in Yisroel", mitn film reszitzer Eran Turbiner

Arbeter-ring in Yisroel - Brith Haavoda
48 Kalisher Street
Tel aviv Israel
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בית לייוויק

יום שלישי 11.12.2007 שעה 19:30
הדלקת נר שביעי של חנוכה והשקת ספרה החדש של לאה גרפינקל – שבע אמהות מנחה יו"ר בית לייוויק – מר דניאל גלאי משתתפים: ד"ר מתי דוידסון; הגב' מזל קאופמן; מר אבי גרפינקל והמחברת ד"ר לא גרפינקל שירה: הזמרת בתיה פונדה הספר שבע אמהות יצא בהוצאת ה. לייוויק בתמיכת קרן עקביהו וקרן מניה
ואיציק מנגר

דב הוז 30 תל אביב; טלפון 5231830 03
www.leyvik.org

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The Center for Traditional Music and Dance and New York University’s Department of Performance Studies present:

The Yiddish Dance Research Symposium
“Defining Yiddish Dance: Secular, Sacred, Borrowed and Transformed”

Sunday, December 9, 9:30 AM – 5:30 PM
Edgar M. Bronfman Center
New York University
7 East 10th Street
New York, NY 10003
(between 5th Avenue and University Place).

Admission: $10 general public, $5 students/seniors

Scholars wishing to register should RSVP to Center for Traditional Music and Dance’s Pete Rushefsky, 212-571-1555 ext. 36, or email Pete

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Session III. Monday December 10th: Special Session (place/time to be announced)
Strategies for Field Research, Documentation and Dissemination
Training Dance Leaders & Encouraging Participation
For hundreds of years, Jews were part of a diverse tapestry of ethnic communities in Eastern and Central Europe. Dance, particularly during wedding festivities, was an important means of cultural expression and community cohesion for Jews living in cities and shtetlekh (villages) alike. Much of the dance repertoire of East European Jews was of a multi- cultural nature. Nevertheless, Jewish dance also featured a unique vocabulary of gestures and genres. A variety of factors caused most traditional Yiddish dance and its associated klezmer repertoire to fall almost completely out of practice by the 1960s.

Participants at the typical American-Jewish celebration of today may move in a circle to the rhythm of the music but are at a loss as to the dance forms, steps and stylistic gestures of the tradition. While remnants of a limited number of dance forms and gestures are retained in Hasidic communities, today there are but a few elderly immigrant and second-generation Jews left who still perform, or can even recall traditional dance from either Europe or America.

Despite significant success in the revival of traditional Jewish klezmer music over the past thirty years, the associated Yiddish Dance tradition has received less attention and is at alarming risk of being almost completely forgotten. It is only thanks to the work of a handful of dedicated individuals (mostly operating without institutional support) that any fieldwork and documentation of Yiddish Dance has been done over the past thirty years.

Peter Rushefsky, Executive Director
Center for Traditional Music and Dance

email Pete Rushefsky
phone: 212-571-1555 x36
web: www.ctmd.org

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The Center for Traditional Music and Dance and New York University’s Department of Performance Studies present:

The Yiddish Dance Research Symposium
“Defining Yiddish Dance: Secular, Sacred, Borrowed and Transformed”

Sunday, December 9, 9:30 AM – 5:30 PM
Edgar M. Bronfman Center
New York University
7 East 10th Street
New York, NY 10003
(between 5th Avenue and University Place).

Admission: $10 general public, $5 students/seniors

Scholars wishing to register should RSVP to Center for Traditional Music and Dance’s Pete Rushefsky, 212-571-1555 ext. 36, or email Pete

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Yiddish Dance Symposium at New York University
Sunday, December 9, 2007 (Revised Schedule)

The Center for Traditional Music and Dance and New York University's Department of Performance Studies present:

The Yiddish Dance Research Symposium "Defining Yiddish Dance: Secular, Sacred, Borrowed and Transformed"

Sunday, December 9th - 9:30AM - 5:30PM
Edgar M. Bronfman Center
New York University
7 East 10th Street
New York, NY 10003
(between 5th Avenue and University Place).

Admission: $10 general public, $5 students/seniors

Scholars wishing to register should RSVP to Center for Traditional Music and Dance's Pete Rushefsky, 212-571-1555 ext. 36, or email Pete.

In the evening after the Symposium a Tantshoyz (Yiddish Dance Party) will take place at the Ukrainian East Village Restaurant. Additionally, a special session focused on strategies for revitalizing the Yiddish Dance tradition will be held on the morning of Monday, December 10th (call/email Pete Rushefsky for details).

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בית לייוויק

יום שישי 7.12.2007
שעה 11:30

יום שישי 7.12.2007 שעה 11:30
רב שיחבנושא: ישראל פולין - היום
אמביוולנטיות, ריחוק או קרוב לבבות?
מנחה: העיתונאי נח הלפרין
משתתפים:
טובה בן צבי; יוהנה ברנסקה; דניאל גלאי; מאשה לייזר; ברכה רוזנפלד;
בלה שוטן; עופר דינס
חלק אומנותי: האקורדיוניסט רפאל לירז
כניסה 10 ש"ח לכיסוי הוצאות

דב הוז 30 תל אביב; טלפון 5231830 03
www.leyvik.org

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5 Dec., 11:30 A. M., "Chanukah merriment", Mendy Cahane,
Artistic program: music and songs with the Yung-Yiddish ensemble

Arbeter-ring in Yisroel - Brith Haavoda
48 Kalisher Street
Tel aviv Israel
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EXTENDED BODY:
5 Dez., 11:30, "Khanukah frimorgn", Mendy Cahane,
In artistisher tayl: muzik un gezang oysgefirt fun mitglider fun Yung-Yiddish

Arbeter-ring in Yisroel - Brith Haavoda
48 Kalisher Street
Tel aviv Israel
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בית לייוויק

יום שני 3.12.2007 שעה 17:30 המרכז הישראלי לתקשורת המונים: לימודי עיתונאות הרצאת מבוא ורישום מרצה נח הלפרין – יו"ר איגוד התקשורת והעיתונות בישראל לפרטים: טלפון:

דב הוז 30 תל אביב; טלפון 5231830 03
www.leyvik.org

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21 Nov.,11:30 A. M., "Innovations in Modern Medicine", Prof. Zeev Dreznik,
Artistic program: the singer Aliza Blecherovitz

Arbeter-ring in Yisroel - Brith Haavoda
48 Kalisher Street
Tel aviv Israel

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The Graduate Program in Folklore & Folklife, the Jewish Studies Program, and the Middle East Center invite you to attend a lecture by Dr. Dina Roginsky on Monday, November 12, at 5 p.m. A reception will immediately follow the talk.

Dr. Dina Roginsky, University of Toronto
“Authentic Folklorism: Israeli Folk Dancing in Israel and in America”
Monday, November 12, 5 p.m.
Moose Room, 3619 Locust Walk (Fiji House), University of Pennsylvania
A reception will immediately follow the lecture

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7 Nov., 11:30 A. M., "50th Yahrzeit of Sholem Asch", Dr. Leah Ayalon,
Artistic program: readings by Shura Grinhoyz-Turkow, Bella Bryks-Klein

Arbeter-ring in Yisroel - Brith Haavoda
48 Kalisher Street
Tel aviv Israel

Tel/fax: 972-3-517-6764

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24 Oct., 11:30, Film "Europa Europa", Shlomo Perl, Shoah tematik

Arbeter-ring in Yisroel - Brith Haavoda
48 Kalisher Street
Tel aviv Israel

Tel/fax: 972-3-517-6764

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100 Years of Jewish Theatre Music: From The Yiddish Stage to the Klezmer Revival
Zalmen Mlotek presents this multi-media musical lecture full of rare gems and familiar melodies seen in a new light.

Thursday, October 11th at 6:30 PM

Museum of The City of New York
1220 5th Avenue (at 103rd Street)

Reservations Required.

For more information please call 212-534-1672

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10 Oct., 11:30 A. M., "55 years after the cultural pogrom in the former
Soviet Union", Artistic program: the singer Marina Yakobovitz

Arbeter-ring in Yisroel - Brith Haavoda
48 Kalisher Street
Tel aviv Israel

Tel/fax: 972-3-517-6764

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Robert Wiener will present an hour-long version of his audio-video material on "Blacks and Jews in American Music" at the Asbell Center of Dickinson College in Carlisle, PA, this Sunday, October 7th, at noon. The program and bagel brunch are co-sponsored by Diversity Initiatives and the Music Department.

Music will range from spirituals, ragtime, jazz, gospel, show tunes, folk music, and popular music. Wiener will discuss how the music of American Blacks and Jews reflect the complicated relationship between these two groups. From the first part of the 20th century to WWII, from the Cold War to the present, you will hear the similarities and differences.

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19 Sept., 11:30 A.M., "Eliezer Shteinberg", Dr. Moshe Lemster, Artistic
program: the singer Vera Loszinski accompanied by the pianist Regina Driker

Arbeter-ring in Yisroel - Brith Haavoda
48 Kalisher Street
Tel aviv Israel

Tel/fax: 972-3-517-6764

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We begin our 2007-2008 cultural season on Wednesday, September 5th. Our
planned program of a lecture in Yiddish followed by a musical interlude is
as follows:

5 Sept., 11:30 A.M.,"The Underworld in Yiddish literature", Prof. Avraham
Novershtern, Artistic program: the singer Aliza Blecherovitz

Arbeter-ring in Yisroel - Brith Haavoda
48 Kalisher Street
Tel aviv Israel

Tel/fax: 972-3-517-6764

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Three-part presentation with Janie Respitz on "Jewish Life and Memories Through Yiddish Song."

Part 1 on folk song writer Mark M. Warshawsky on Wednesday, April 25, 2007 at 7:30 p.m.

Part 2 on Mordecai Gebirtig, the Carpenter from Cracow on Wednesday, May 30, 2007 at 7:30 p.m.

Part 3 on The Jewish Life Cycle on Wednesday, July 11, 2007 at 7:30 p.m.

All three presentations will be at FEDERATION CJA, 96 Roger Pilon, Dollard-des-Ormeaux. Cost $10 per lecture or $25 for all three. For information call the Jewish Public Library at (514) 345-2627 ext. 3033 or visit www.jewishpubliclibrary.org.

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Three-part presentation with Janie Respitz on "Jewish Life and Memories Through Yiddish Song."

Part 1 on folk song writer Mark M. Warshawsky on Wednesday, April 25, 2007 at 7:30 p.m.

Part 2 on Mordecai Gebirtig, the Carpenter from Cracow on Wednesday, May 30, 2007 at 7:30 p.m.

Part 3 on The Jewish Life Cycle on Wednesday, July 11, 2007 at 7:30 p.m.

All three presentations will be at FEDERATION CJA, 96 Roger Pilon, Dollard-des-Ormeaux. Cost $10 per lecture or $25 for all three. For information call the Jewish Public Library at (514) 345-2627 ext. 3033 or visit www.jewishpubliclibrary.org.

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Temple Beth Zion
Sunday Seminars presents:
The Psalms of Ali Ufki - A Journey of Interfaith Sacred Music with Noam Sender
on Sunday, May 20, 10:30 am - 12:00 noon, 1550 Beacon Street, third floor
www.tbzbrookline.org/reality/adult.php?id=6377&page=6377

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Yiddish Café: An Evening in Honour of Sholem Aleichem at the JPL

Yiddish Café: An Evening in Honour of Sholem Aleichem on Thursday, May 17, 2007 at 8:00 p.m. at the Jewish Public Library, 5151 Côte Ste-Catherine Road, Montreal. To respect the great Yiddish writer’s final wishes, a group of talented Montrealers offers a humourous program of stories and songs in Yiddish and English, with introductions in English, in a café-style setting. Includes audio-visual presentation and refreshments. Sponsored by Shelley Solomon and the Yetta Feldman Chmiel Endowment. Cost $7 for JPL members and students, $12 others. Call 514-345-2627 ext. 3006 for tickets and information.

The Jewish Public Library, founded in Montreal in 1914, is committed to encouraging and promoting the Yiddish language, culture and literature, by collecting and preserving Yiddish materials, and by presenting a variety of cultural events.

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Asya Vaisman
Der Sod fun Mayn Hartsn:
Lider fun Tshernovitser poetn un kompozitorn
Thursday 17 May 2007
7 PM
Atran Center
25 East 21st Street, Ground Floor
Contribution: $8

Asya will be performing "Der Sod fun Mayn Hartsn," a program of songs by Czernowitz poets and composers, including several of Asya's own compositions.
With special guests Art Bailey and Jake Shulman-Ment.

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The Jewish Music Forum Lecture Series 2006-2007
Music, Media and Memory in Jewish Life

Tuesday, May 8, 2007
7:30pm
Center for Jewish History
15 West 16th Street, New York City

"Kurt Weill's Kol Nidre and Jewish Memory"
Prof. Tamara Levitz, UCLA
a lecture discussion on the Judaic aspects of the music of Kurt Weill, including a live performance of songs from The Eternal Road and Ofrah's Lieder.

guest respondent, Dr. Kim Kowalke, Eastman School of Music

Free and open to the public.
www.jewishmusicforum.org

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THE JEWISH MUSIC FORUM 2006-2007
MUSIC, MEDIA AND MEMORY IN JEWISH LIFE

May 8, 2007 7:30PM-9:30PM
Kurt Weill's Kol Nidre
Lecture and Music Performance

Prof. Tamara Levitz, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Respondent: Prof. Kim Kowalke, Eastman School of Music and the Kurt Weill Foundation

All seminars take place at 10:30 a.m. at the Center for Jewish History
15 West 16th Street, NYC

Event is free and open to the public.
www.jewishmusicforum.org

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Sholem Aleichem Cultural Center Events

Ts. Ben-Dovid
"The Fate of Rabbis and Rebbes in the Holocaust"

Phyllis Berk
will sing Yiddish songs from the Holocaust

Sunday, April 29, 2007
1:30 pm
Sholem Aleichem Cultural Center
3301 Bainbridge Avenue, corner 208th St.
(near Montefiore Hospital), Bronx, NY

Take the #4 train to Mosholu Parkway or the D train to 205th St. Walk to 208th Street & Bainbridge Avenue.

$ 3.50 Refreshments served.
Tel: +19179300295

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THE JEWISH MUSIC FORUM 2006-2007
MUSIC, MEDIA AND MEMORY IN JEWISH LIFE

April 27, 2007 10:30AM-12PM
Blacks and Jews in American Popular Music: The Business of Cultural Mediation

Prof. Jonathan Karp, SUNY Binghamton
Respondent: Prof. Jonathan Schorsch, Columbia University

All seminars take place at 10:30 a.m. at the Center for Jewish History
15 West 16th Street, NYC

Event is free and open to the public.
www.jewishmusicforum.org

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The Jewish Music Forum Lecture Series 2006-2007
Music, Media and Memoriy in Jewish Life

Friday, April 27, 2007
10:30am to Noon
Center for Jewish History
15 West 16th Street, New York City

"Blacks and Jews in American Popular Music: The Business of Cultural Mediation"
Prof. Jonathan Karp, Binghamton University, SUNY

Guest respondent: Prof. Jonathan Schorsch, Columbia University

Free and open to the public.
www.jewishmusicforum.org

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KlezCalifornia warmly invites you to the following program at the Jewish Community Library, which we are co-sponsoring.

BJE Jewish Community Library | Main Location
1835 Ellis Street, San Francisco, CA
on the campus of the Jewish Community High School of the Bay
415.567.3327

Thursday, April 26, 7:30pm. “The Musical World of S. An-sky: Yiddish Protest Songs, Russian Miners’ Songs, and Children’s Rhymes.” This lecture/presentation is by Gabriella Safran, Associate Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures, Stanford University.

www.bjesf.org/adults_events.htm

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Three-part presentation with Janie Respitz on "Jewish Life and Memories Through Yiddish Song."

Part 1 on folk song writer Mark M. Warshawsky on Wednesday, April 25, 2007 at 7:30 p.m.

Part 2 on Mordecai Gebirtig, the Carpenter from Cracow on Wednesday, May 30, 2007 at 7:30 p.m.

Part 3 on The Jewish Life Cycle on Wednesday, July 11, 2007 at 7:30 p.m.

All three presentations will be at FEDERATION CJA, 96 Roger Pilon, Dollard-des-Ormeaux. Cost $10 per lecture or $25 for all three. For information call the Jewish Public Library at (514) 345-2627 ext. 3033 or visit www.jewishpubliclibrary.org.

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Annual Commemoration of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising
Sunday, April 22nd
2 pm
The Florence & Chafetz Hillel House of Boston University, 213 Bay State Road, Boston

The Workmen’s Circle, in cooperation with Boston University Hillel, is proud to present its annual Warsaw Ghetto Uprising commemoration. Our guest Joshua Rubinstein, Northeast Regional Director of Amnesty International USA will speak about his new book on resistance movements followed by a program of stories, music, and history featuring: A Besere Velt, Yiddish Community Chorus of Boston Workmen’s Circle, and students from local universities. Join us as we honor this important historical example of resistance to oppression and recommit ourselves to building a better world. This event is free and open to the public.

For more information contact the Workmen’s Circle office at 617.566.6281 or E-mail Workmen’s Circle Boston.

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Joel Bresler
Entrepreneur and expert on Sephardic Music
The first 100 years of Sephardic recordings: A lecture /demonstration featuring recordings of songs from the 78 rpm era to the iPod era.

Osher Lifelong Learning Institute @ Brandeis University (BOLLI).
Lunch: 11:30-12:00, Gathering Place
Lecture: 12:00-1:00, Napoli Room

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KlezCalifornia warmly invites you to the following program at the Jewish Community Library, which we are co-sponsoring.

BJE Jewish Community Library | Main Location
1835 Ellis Street, San Francisco, CA
on the campus of the Jewish Community High School of the Bay
415.567.3327

Wednesday, March 28, 7:30pm. “Freylekh! The Joyous Dances of the Ashkenazi Jews,” This participatory lecture/demonstration features dance leader Bruce Bierman accompanied by Julie Egger on klezmer fiddle.

www.bjesf.org/adults_events.htm

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Sholem Aleichem Cultural Center Events
3301 Bainbridge Avenue, Bronx, NY

Prof. Zelda K. Newman
אַלט־ייִדישע
ליטעראַטור: נישט
װאָס מע מײנט
"Old Yiddish Literature: It's Not What You Think"

Shane Baker
װאָרטקונסט
לכּבֿוד
פּורים און
פּסח
Yiddish recitations for Purim & Passover

Sunday, March 18th, 2007 - 1:30pm

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Friday, March 9, 2007 10:30AM to 12PM

"The Media and the Messenger: Transforming the Cantor's Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction"

Dr. Jeffrey Shandler, Rutgers University
Respondents: Dr. Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett, New York University,
and Dr. Mark Slobin, Wesleyan University
Co-sponsor: Working Group on Jews/Media/Religion at the Center for Religion and Media, New York University

Location: The Center for Jewish History
15 W. 16th St. New York, NY
This event is free and open to the public

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THE JEWISH MUSIC FORUM 2006-2007
MUSIC, MEDIA AND MEMORY IN JEWISH LIFE

March 9, 2007 10:30AM-12PM
The Media and the Messenger: Transforming the Cantor's Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction
Prof. Jeffrey Shandler, Rutgers University
Respondents: Prof. Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett, New York University and Prof. Mark Slobin, Wesleyan University.
Co-sponsor: Working Group on Jews/Media/Religion at the Center for Religion and Media, New York University

All seminars take place at 10:30 a.m. at the Center for Jewish History
15 West 16th Street, NYC

Event is free and open to the public.
www.jewishmusicforum.org

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The Music Library Association and the Society of American Music are holding a joint annual conference in Pittsburgh February 28-March 4, 2007. As usual, the Jewish Music Roundtable will present a program, which is scheduled for Thursday, March 1, 2007 at 2:00pm

This year the program features a program entitled "Lost and Found: Jewish Music in America". The program Chair is Judith S. Pinnolis, Brandeis University.

The papers will be:

• Jewish Identity and the Search for Spiritual Authenticity: Jewish
  Composers in the New York Composers’ Forum, 1935ｭ1940 , by
  Dr. Melissa de Graaf, University of Miami


• On the Trail of Leo Zeitlin’s Manuscripts by Paula
  Eisenstein Baker, University of St. Thomas, Houston


• Estelle Liebling: John Philip Sousa’s Jewish Diva by
  Judith S. Pinnolis, Brandeis University

For details about the conference, location, program, and costs to attend, see:
href="http://www.pitt.edu/‾mla2007/index.htm">http://www.pitt.edu/‾mla2007/index.htm
The program schedule is located at: href="http://www.pitt.edu/‾mla2007/program.htm">http://www.pitt.edu/‾mla2007/program.htm

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Havdalah/Melaveh Malkah
Sat., Feb 17, 5:30pm - 7:30pm
Temple Beth Zion, 1566 Beacon St., Brookline, MA

Havdalah Service with Lee Moore, followed by conversation and music spinning by Ari Davidow:

The Klezmer Revival: The Next Generation

With the Klezmatics putting Woody Guthrie poems to music it is clear that Jewish music in America is going through exciting new changes. It isn't just klezmer, Debbie Friedman, or Avraham Fried any more. Where an earlier generation gave the world "Bei Mir Bist du Shein," a Jewish Lubavitch hip hop singer is back on the mainstream pop charts, punk Yiddish singing (a band called "Golem") is taking the club circuit by storm and even today's klezmer has gone through some changes since our grandparents time.

Free and open to the public.

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THE JEWISH MUSIC FORUM 2006-2007
MUSIC, MEDIA AND MEMORY IN JEWISH LIFE

February 16, 2007 10:30AM-12PM
Sephardic Music On Record: A Century of Commercial Ladino Recordings

Prof. Edwin Seroussi, Hebrew University, Jerusalem and Joel Bresler, discographer
Respondent: Dr. Virginia Danielson, Harvard University
Co-sponsor: American Sephardi Federation

All seminars take place at 10:30 a.m. at the Center for Jewish History
15 West 16th Street, NYC

Event is free and open to the public.
www.jewishmusicforum.org

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Yitzhok Niborski, renowned yiddish teacher, lecturer and the director of the Paris Yiddish Center will be delivering a lecture (in yiddish with english translation) on Aaron Tseitlin's "Weitzman the Second - a visionary farce" For those not familiar with Dr. Niborski, he is to my mind one of the finest Yiddish teachers in the world and a very engaging and entertaining lecturer with a keen sense of humor.

After the lecture there be a performance by the Strauss-Warschauer Duo,
internationally recognized klezmer musicians and teachers.

The lecture will be held at the Los Angeles Yiddish Culture Club which has
existed in Los Angeles for more than 80 years and is a Yiddish cultural icon
without peer on the west coast.

Los Angeles Yiddish Culture Club 8339 West Third Street, Los Angeles 90048

Ticket prices:
General: $15 / Seniors $12 / Students: $8

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THE JEWISH MUSIC FORUM 2006-2007
MUSIC, MEDIA AND MEMORY IN JEWISH LIFE

December 8, 2006 10:30AM-12PM
Mediterranean Israeli Music: The Politics of Aesthetics
Dr. Amy Horowitz, Ohio State University
Respondent: Prof. Zvi Ben-Dor Benite, New York University

All seminars take place at 10:30 a.m. at the Center for Jewish History
15 West 16th Street, NYC

Event is free and open to the public.
www.jewishmusicforum.org

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Nora Guthrie, daughter of folk music icon Woody Guthrie, will present HOLY GROUND: the Yiddish Connection on Tuesday, December 5 from 4:30-5:30 p.m. at the URI University Club, 95 Upper College Rd. in Kingston. The program is sponsored by Hillel, the Jewish Student Center at URI in conjunction with the 2006 URI Honors Colloquium, “Songs of Social Justice.” The program is free and open to the public.

For more information, please call Amy Olson, Executive Director of URI Hillel at 401-874-2740.

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THE JEWISH MUSIC FORUM 2006-2007
MUSIC, MEDIA AND MEMORY IN JEWISH LIFE

November 10, 2006 10:30AM-12:30PM
Composing Herself: Finding Miriam Gideon in Her 1958 Opera Fortunato
Lecture Performance and Panel Discussion
Stephanie Jensen-Moulton, CUNY Graduate Center
Panel discussion: Prof. Ellie Hisama, Columbia University, Prof. Bruce Saylor, CUNY Graduate Center, and Cantor Charles Osborne.

All seminars take place at 10:30 a.m. at the Center for Jewish History
15 West 16th Street, NYC

Event is free and open to the public.
www.jewishmusicforum.org

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Divahn
Ithaca College Residency with Galeet Dardashti and Divahn, October 26th-27th Galeet Dardashti lectures at Ithaca. Friday, October 27th Mizrahi/Sephardi Kabbalat Shabbat service led by Galeet Dardashti at Ithaca College Hillel @ 6 pm. Saturday, October 28th Divahn Concert @ 8 pm FREE.

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Divahn
Ithaca College Residency with Galeet Dardashti and Divahn, October 26th-27th Galeet Dardashti lectures at Ithaca. Friday, October 27th Mizrahi/Sephardi Kabbalat Shabbat service led by Galeet Dardashti at Ithaca College Hillel @ 6 pm. Saturday, October 28th Divahn Concert @ 8 pm FREE.

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"The Celluloid Closet of Yiddish Film" video clips/lecture
presented by Eve Sicular (of Metropolitan Klezmer & Isle of Klezbos)

Sunday, 10/22
2:00pm - 4:00pm
Seattle Public Library Central Branch, 1000 Fourth Avenue, Seattle WA
www.seattlequeerfilm.com/06/schedule.html

Seattle Queer Film Festival is produced by Three Dollar Bill Cinema.
This event is co-presented by The American Jewish Committee's Seattle Jewish Film Festival & Jewish Federation of Greater Seattle.

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THE JEWISH MUSIC FORUM 2006-2007
MUSIC, MEDIA AND MEMORY IN JEWISH LIFE

October 20, 2006 10:30AM-12PM
Music and Memory among Crypto-Jews in Portuguese Border Villages
Dr. Judith Cohen, York University
Dr. Cohen's ethnographic fieldwork of extant musical traditions in the area or northeastern Portugal is the focus of her presentation. Her findings are perhaps unprecedented, owing to the private nature of practices in this region. Cohen will discuss the ways in which music has preserved elements of post-cultural memory among descendants of the crypto-Jews who remained in the Spanish and Portuguese communities of Belmonte and Tras-os-Montes from the time of the Inquisitions.

With careful consideration for their privacy and the trust placed in her by her study subjects, Dr. Cohen will share with us the historical and ethnographic contexts of the communities discussed, the perceptions and myths that inspire the music in their lives, and the nature of assumptions made by others about what constitutes musical memory among members of these communities. Cohen also looks at how the performance of this music utilizes older memories, shared memories, and more recent memories in the construction of a regained Jewish identity.

The respondent will be Dr. Jane Gerber, an internationally-acclaimed expert on the history of Jews in the Iberian Peninsula and pioneer in the field of Sephardic studies.

This presentation is co-sponsored by the American Sephardi Federation ; New York's Center for Jewish History; and the CUNY Graduate Center's Jewish Studies program.

All seminars take place at 10:30 a.m. at the Center for Jewish History
15 West 16th Street, NYC

Event is free and open to the public.
www.jewishmusicforum.org

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"The Celluloid Closet of Yiddish Film" video clips/lecture
presented by Eve Sicular (of Metropolitan Klezmer & Isle of Klezbos)

Wednesday, 10/11
7:00pm - 9:30pm
The Village Temple, 33 East 12th St (btw University & B'way), NYC
Info: Maria DeKord, 212-674-2340
www.villagetemple.org

For more info on the Yiddish Celluloid Closet (with musical DVD trailer coming soon!), see:
www.metropolitanklezmer.com/celluloid.html

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THE JEWISH MUSIC FORUM 2006-2007
MUSIC, MEDIA AND MEMORY IN JEWISH LIFE

Friday, September 15, 2006
10:30AM - Noon

Professor Michael Beckerman, Chair
Department of Music
New York University

�How Do You Play the Musical Scream in Gideon Klein's Terezin Requiem?�

All seminars take place at 10:30 a.m. at the Center for Jewish History
15 West 16th Street, NYC

Event is free and open to the public.
www.jewishmusicforum.org

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Pharaoh's Daughter
Lecture: 3:10 Jewish Identity Crisis: Musicians Explain their Connection
to Judaism in
Their Work. How is their own Jewish identity represented in their musical
compositions? How are ancient melodies and traditional texts integrated
into their current work? Are contemporary Jewish Musicians the spiritual
leaders of our generation? How is music used to deliver and communicate
relevant Jewish messages?

Moderated by Rabbi Niles Goldstein, New Shul
* Frank London of the Klezmatics
* Basya Schecter of Pharaoh's Daughter
* Neshama Carlbach
* Lanzbom, Soulfarm
* Noah Soloman Chase, Soulfarm

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First European Cantors Convention, London
Sunday 25 � Wednesday 28 June 2006
Central Synagogue, 36 Hallam Street, W1W 6NW

Attendance at the Cantors Convention includes a free ticket to the opening concert:
Cantors in Concert, Sunday 25 June, 8.00pm Queen Elizabeth Hall.
Fourteen cantors will exemplify the art of the cantor with the gentlemen of the Choir of London accompanied and introduced by Stephen Glass.
(Public booking at www.rfh.org.uk or 08703 400 800)

Sunday 3.00pm rehearsal 8.00pm (concert)
Monday and Tuesday 9.30 am � 10.00pm
Wed 9.30am � 6.00pm
full rate �165, student rate �120
daily rate �45, student daily rate �35
(includes light lunch&emdash;suppers will be provided at a small extra cost
Accommodation not included&emdash;a list of hotels at all prices in the area on request)

Convention information and on-line registration www.jmi.org.uk Or telephone the Jewish Music Institute on +44 (0)20 8909 2445

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First European Cantors Convention, London
Sunday 25 � Wednesday 28 June 2006
Central Synagogue, 36 Hallam Street, W1W 6NW

Attendance at the Cantors Convention includes a free ticket to the opening concert:
Cantors in Concert, Sunday 25 June, 8.00pm Queen Elizabeth Hall.
Fourteen cantors will exemplify the art of the cantor with the gentlemen of the Choir of London accompanied and introduced by Stephen Glass.
(Public booking at www.rfh.org.uk or 08703 400 800)

Sunday 3.00pm rehearsal 8.00pm (concert)
Monday and Tuesday 9.30 am � 10.00pm
Wed 9.30am � 6.00pm
full rate �165, student rate �120
daily rate �45, student daily rate �35
(includes light lunch&emdash;suppers will be provided at a small extra cost
Accommodation not included&emdash;a list of hotels at all prices in the area on request)

Convention information and on-line registration www.jmi.org.uk Or telephone the Jewish Music Institute on +44 (0)20 8909 2445

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First European Cantors Convention, London
Sunday 25 � Wednesday 28 June 2006
Central Synagogue, 36 Hallam Street, W1W 6NW

Attendance at the Cantors Convention includes a free ticket to the opening concert:
Cantors in Concert, Sunday 25 June, 8.00pm Queen Elizabeth Hall.
Fourteen cantors will exemplify the art of the cantor with the gentlemen of the Choir of London accompanied and introduced by Stephen Glass.
(Public booking at www.rfh.org.uk or 08703 400 800)

Sunday 3.00pm rehearsal 8.00pm (concert)
Monday and Tuesday 9.30 am � 10.00pm
Wed 9.30am � 6.00pm
full rate �165, student rate �120
daily rate �45, student daily rate �35
(includes light lunch&emdash;suppers will be provided at a small extra cost
Accommodation not included&emdash;a list of hotels at all prices in the area on request)

Convention information and on-line registration www.jmi.org.uk Or telephone the Jewish Music Institute on +44 (0)20 8909 2445

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First European Cantors Convention, London
Sunday 25 � Wednesday 28 June 2006
Central Synagogue, 36 Hallam Street, W1W 6NW

Attendance at the Cantors Convention includes a free ticket to the opening concert:
Cantors in Concert, Sunday 25 June, 8.00pm Queen Elizabeth Hall.
Fourteen cantors will exemplify the art of the cantor with the gentlemen of the Choir of London accompanied and introduced by Stephen Glass.
(Public booking at www.rfh.org.uk or 08703 400 800)

Sunday 3.00pm rehearsal 8.00pm (concert)
Monday and Tuesday 9.30 am � 10.00pm
Wed 9.30am � 6.00pm
full rate �165, student rate �120
daily rate �45, student daily rate �35
(includes light lunch&emdash;suppers will be provided at a small extra cost
Accommodation not included&emdash;a list of hotels at all prices in the area on request)

Convention information and on-line registration www.jmi.org.uk Or telephone the Jewish Music Institute on +44 (0)20 8909 2445

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Thursday evening, June 22
8.30 pm at YUNG YiDiSH
Jerusalem Rehov Yermiyahu 52, Romema, Jerusalem [35/50 NIS] (donations accepted)
Our Annual Siyum - with our in-house artists
Polina Belilovsky, Mendy Cahan, Avishay Fisz, Ruth Levine, Esti Svidensky
and special guest-star Bente Kahan

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Sunday 18th June 7pm � 11pm
Henry Goodman, Debbie Chazen, Linda Grant, Jason Solomons, Ori Gersht, dj Max Reinhardt and more
SP!EL @ the Hampstead Theatre and the new Jewish Community Centre for London
Institute of Contemporary Art, London, SW1
Price: �12 /�11 concessions /�10 ICA members.
TICKETS AVAILABLE AT THE ICA BOX OFFICE ON 020 7930 3647

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Joel Berkowitz (SUNY Albany)
"False Messiahs in Yiddish Historical Drama" (ENGLISH) Thursday, June 15 (postponed from May 18!) 7:00 PM
Center for Jewish History
15 West 16 Street
New York, NY 10011
Kovno Room

Please contact the CJH Theater Box Office
phone: (917) 606-8200

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The Vladimir and Pearl Heifetz and Joseph Kremen Memorial Lecture
"More Famous than the Beatles: Klezmorim as Negotiators of Change in 19th and 20th century Poland"
Dr. Joel E. Rubin, Syracuse University
May 30, 2006 at 7:00pm
Center for Jewish History
15 West 16 Street
New York, NY 10011
Kovno Room

Please contact the CJH Theater Box Office
phone: (917) 606-8200

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Yiddish Café proudly presents:

An Evening In Honour of Sholem Aleichem’s 90th Yortsayt
Thursday, MAY 18, 2006 at 8:00 p.m.

Jewish Public Library, 5151 Côte Ste-Catherine, Montreal

Admission: $7 JPL members, $10 non-members

For information, please call (514) 345-2627 ext. 3006
or advance tickets call (514) 345-6416

www.jewishpubliclibrary.org

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The Jewish Music Forum, a project of the American Society for Jewish Music at the Center for Jewish History is pleased to announce the following presentation:

The Migration of Memory: New Contexts for Mizrahi and Bukharian Musical Poetic Traditions in Israel and the United States

Evan Rapport (CUNY) and Galeet Dardashti (University of Texas at Austin)
Respondent: Mark Kligman (Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute, New York)

Friday, May 12
10 A.M.
Center for Jewish History
15 West 16th Street
New York, NY

Admission is free and open to the public

For information on this or other events of the Jewish Music Forum, please see the website: www.jewishmusicforum.org, call 212-294-8328 or Continue reading ""The Migration of Memory", Jewish Music Forum, NYC, May 12" »

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Don’t Knock Me a Teapot
Strange Yiddish Expressions and How They Got That Way

Michael Wex, Author of Born to Kvetch
Thursday, May 11, 2006 at 7:30 PM
UCLA Faculty Center
Pre-Registration is not required.
Seating is limited and available on a first-come, first-served basis.

Yiddishkayt Los Angeles
E-mail Yiddishkayt Los Angeles
phone: 323-692-8151
web: www.yiddishkaytla.org

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A Day in Yiddishland: Klezmer Music and Yiddish Culture Program for all ages

Sunday, April 30th, 9:30am - 6:00pm, Kehillah Jewish High School, 3900 Fabian Way, Palo Alto, held in collaboration with the Albert L. Schultz JCC.

Join us for a fun filled day of workshops and classes in Klezmer music for all levels, special presentations and lectures, Yiddish language and humor, sing-alongs, dancing, art, special teen workshops, youth programs for ages 5 and older. Featuring fabulous teachers of the internationally renowned klezmer band Veretski Pass, special Yiddish dance teacher from Chicago, and Stanford lecturers. Check website to get the latest information.

Space is limited! Please preregister online or by mail, see web site at www.klezcalifornia.org for details. General admission $20, Students $15, Seniors $15, ALSJCC members $15, children $5.

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The Sholem Aleichem Cultural Center 21 is pleased to invite you to a
lecture.

RAY (CHAYELE) PALEVSKY
member of the United Partisan Organization
(Partisans of Vilna) will speak on the topic

MY LIFE IN THE RESISTANCE

After the lecture, there will be a musical program with

JERRY SILVERMAN
renowned researcher and performer of Holocaust music

SUNDAY 30 APRIL 2006
1:30 PM

In our auditorium at 3301 Bainbridge Ave. & 208th St., Bronx.
(D train to 205 St, #4 to Moshulu Pkwy;
Buses 10, 28 or 34 to 210th St.)

Contribution: $3.50
Members and students -- free

Refreshments will be served
Come with your friends and family!

*** PROGRAM IS IN YIDDISH!! ***

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CELEBRATE YIDDISH 2006!
Featuring "Born to Kvetch"
A hilarious and enlightening performance by MICHAEL WEX
Author of the NY Times, LA Times, Amazon Bestseller

KLEZMER CONCERT WITH
Gabe Bolkosky & San Slomovitz
Honoring: Shirley Benyas, Sidney Bolkosky, Leon Cohan

Saturday
April 29, 2006
8 p.m.

Marion & David Handleman Hall & Auditorium
Jewish Community Center of Metropolitan Detroit
D. Dan & Betty Kahn Building
Eugene & Marcia Applebaum Jewish Community Campus
6600 West Maple Road
West Bloomfield, MI 48322

A BENEFIT PERFORMANCE AND DESSERT RECEPTION FOR THE WORKMEN'S CIRCLE/ARBETER RING OF MICHIGAN
Dedicated to Jewish Community, Yiddish Culture and Social Justice

Tickets: $36, $72, $100
Reservations & tributes: 248-545-0985

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The Jewish Music Forum, a project of the American Society for Jewish Music at the Center for Jewish History is pleased to announce the following presentation:

"I am a Jew from eternal nowhere": Yiddish song in the aftermath of the Holocaust

Shirli Gilbert (University of Michigan) Respondent: Jeremy Dauber (Columbia University)

Friday, April 28
10 A.M.
Center for Jewish History
15 West 16th Street
New York, NY

Admission is free and open to the public

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Klezmer Conservatory Band Reunion
and mini-KlezmerFestival

Saturday, March 25, 8pm
Sunday, March 26: workshops 1-3:30; concert 4pm

Special Guests include:
Michael Alpert
Rosalie Gerut
Deborah Strauss
Jeff Warschauer

In this finale to the KlezmerShack's 10th Anniversary, we are pleased to co-sponsor the Klezmer Conservatory Band, plus alumni from over 25 years of yiddish and klezmer musical magic. In addition to the concerts, there will be a mini-Jewish music festival Sunday afternoon featuring everything from "A Taste of Yiddish" to Yiddish song, klezmer, Eastern European Jewish Dancing, klezmer workshops for beginners through advanced musicians, and, of course, a panel discussion on the future of Jewish music.

$22 general; $20 JCC Member
Seniors and students $2 off single ticket price
Youth Ticket $16 General $14 JCC Member
Festival Pass - concert plus workshops $25 general $23 JCC Member

Co-sponsored by the Leventhal-Sidman JCC, Brookline Workmen's Circle, and the KlezmerShack

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Klezmer Conservatory Band Reunion
and mini-KlezmerFestival

Saturday, March 25, 8pm
Sunday, March 26: workshops 1-3:30; concert 4pm

Special Guests include:
Michael Alpert
Rosalie Gerut
Deborah Strauss
Jeff Warschauer

In this finale to the KlezmerShack's 10th Anniversary, we are pleased to co-sponsor the Klezmer Conservatory Band, plus alumni from over 25 years of yiddish and klezmer musical magic. In addition to the concerts, there will be a mini-Jewish music festival Sunday afternoon featuring everything from "A Taste of Yiddish" to Yiddish song, klezmer, Eastern European Jewish Dancing, klezmer workshops for beginners through advanced musicians, and, of course, a panel discussion on the future of Jewish music.

$22 general; $20 JCC Member
Seniors and students $2 off single ticket price
Youth Ticket $16 General $14 JCC Member
Festival Pass - concert plus workshops $25 general $23 JCC Member

Co-sponsored by the Leventhal-Sidman JCC, Brookline Workmen's Circle, and the KlezmerShack

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The Jewish Music Forum, a project of the American Society for Jewish Music at the Center for Jewish History is pleased to announce the following presentation:

Assimilating (Post-Modern) Jewish Music: Ambivalence in Contemporary Composition

Dr. David Schiller (University of Georgia)
Respondent: Dr. Klára Móricz (Amherst College)

Friday, March 17
10 A.M.
Center for Jewish History
15 West 16th Street
New York, NY

Admission is free and open to the public

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Middle East & Islamic Studies Program Boston College presents a lecture-recital by

Joel Cohen, Director of the Boston Camerata

Music and Poetry in Jewish, Christian, and Muslim Andalusia

Wednesday, 15 March 2006, 4:00
Devlin 101 (next to Admissions Office)

Joel Cohen is one of the leading contemporary interpreters of early music in the world today. He directs what Le Monde in Paris has hailed as "America's foremost early music ensemble."

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The Jewish Music Forum, a project of the American Society for Jewish Music at the Center for Jewish History is pleased to announce the following presentation:

Finding the Rhythm: Dance and Music in Jewish Studies

Dr. Nina Spiegel (National Museum of American Jewish History)
Respondent: Dr. Judah M. Cohen (New York University)

Friday, February 10
10 A.M.
Center for Jewish History
15 West 16th Street
New York, NY

Admission is free and open to the public

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The Tradition Continues on the Lower East Side: Experimental Music and the American Jewish Imaginary in 1990s New York City

Tamar Barzel (Wellesley College)
Respondent: Jonathan Freedman (University of Michigan)

Friday, January 20
10 A.M.
Center for Jewish History
15 West 16th Street
New York, NY

For information on this or other events of the Jewish Music Forum, please see the website: www.jewishmusicforum.org, call 212-294-8328 or email the Jewish Music Forum.

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SUNDAY, DECEMBER 18
"Helsinki Hanukah Klezmer Festival," featuring klezmer/Yiddish band GOLEM
and SETH ROGOVOY's ROCKIN' THE SHTETL; dinner at 5:30; concert at 7; Club
Helsinki, 284 Main St., Great Barrington, Mass., 413.528.3394;
www.clubhelsinkiweb.com.

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From Rossi to Rossini:
Shifting Paradigms in Italian Jewish Musical Culture

Francesco Spagnolo (University of California, Santa Cruz)
Respondent: David Ruderman (University of Pennsylvania)
Friday, December 2
10 A.M.
Center for Jewish History
15 West 16th Street
New York, NY

The event is a special joint session of the Jewish Music Forum’s ongoing seminar, “New Perspectives on Music in Jewish Life” and the Centro Culturale Primo Levi’s current symposium, “Humanism and the Rabbinic Tradition in Italy and Beyond.”

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The Sephardic Voice in Ottoman Song: The Life and Art of Tanburi Isak Fresco (1745-1814)

Dr. Walter Zev Feldman (Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
Author, Music of the Ottoman Court: Makam, Composition and the Early Ottoman Instrumental Repertoire

Respondent: Dr. Karl Signell (Editor, Ethnomusicology OnLine)

Friday, November 18
10 A.M.
Center for Jewish History
15 West 16th Street
New York, NY

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Sunday 2nd October 7pm – 11pm
Jonathan Freedland, Janet Suzman, Tim Supple, Rachel Lichtenstein, Jason Solomons, Los Desterrados and more…

SPIEL @ the ICA and the new Jewish Community Centre for London
Institute of Contemporary Art, London, SW1
Price: £12 /£11 concessions /£10 ICA members
TICKETS AVAILABLE AT THE ICA BOX OFFICE ON 020 7930 3647

Produced by YaD Arts for the Jewish Community Centre
www.ica.org.uk & www.jewishcommunitycentre.org.uk

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The Sholem Aleichem Cultural Center 21 is pleased to invite you to a lecture.

Dr. Sheva Zucker, Executive Secretary of the League for Yiddish
will speak on
THE YIDDISH LEAGUE: AN OLD ORGANIZATION FOR MODERN TIMES
After the lecture, there will be a performance by
PAULA TEITELBAUM
the beloved folksinger
with a program of Yiddish songs old and new!

SUNDAY 25 SEPTEMBER 2005
2 PM

In our auditorium at 3301 Bainbridge Ave. & 208th St., Bronx.

(D train to 205 St, #4 to Moshulu Pkwy;
Buses 10, 28 or 34 to 210th St.)

Contribution: $3.50
Members and students -- free

Refreshments will be served
Come with your friends and family!

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The Jewish Music Forum is very pleased to introduce the 2005-2006 schedule of our academic seminar series, “New Perspectives on Music in Jewish Life.” The second year of this series continues the Forum’s initial goal of providing new contexts for scholars across Jewish studies to explore ways of incorporating music into their research. We have assembled a broad range of researchers who approach Jewish music from a rich variety of methodological and theoretical perspectives.

We are delighted that our first speaker this year will be Dr. Hankus Netsky of the New England Conservatory of Music. On Friday, September 23 at 10 A.M. at the Center for Jewish History, Dr. Netsky will deliver a lecture, “The Philadelphia Russian Sher Medley: Viewing the Immigrant Experience through a Musical Text.” Dr. Mark Slobin of Wesleyan University will serve as respondent to this talk.

All sessions of the Jewish Music Forum take place on Friday mornings, beginning at 10:00 AM at the Center for Jewish History. For additional information, please email James Loeffler. or callt 212-294-8328.

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Metropolitan Klezmer

Wednesday, September 21
Yiddish film clips/lecture project with Metropolitan Klezmer live!
at Makor, 35 W 67th St NYC, btw CPW & Columbus Avenue
212-601-1000 Tickets $15 www.makor.org
Doors open 7:30pm, show at 8pm
Gourmet kosher menu & full bar
Film research info: metropolitanklezmer.com/celluloid.html
Program sources: Uncle Moses, The Dybbuk, American Matchmaker, Overture to
Glory, Mamele, Yidl Mitn Fidl, rare Soviet Yiddish theater newsreels & more!
Bandleader/drummer Eve Sicular has toured this lecture abroad, now the band
joins in...

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It's the 10th anniversary of a great klezmer gathering. Musicians gather on the 21st, everyone else on the 24th.

We'll post more details here as they come together towards the event.

For further information visit the KlezKanada website, www.klezkanada.com

The 2004 weblog is at www.klezmershack.com/klezkanada/

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The Weimar Klezmer Wochen, runs this year from July 23 through August 18 in Weimar, Germany.

• Jul 23-26: Preparatory Course on Klezmer Music - Learning Music By Ear: Aural Musicianship
• Jul 24-31: Yiddish course (beginners and advanced learners) plus an extra conversation course in Yiddish
• Jul 28-Aug 4: workshop Yiddish songs - "Crossroads: New York to Constantinople" + videos 2004
• Aug 6-9: dance workshop - (Aug 4-9: Yiddish dance-music workshop for specially advanced musicians) + videos 2004
• Aug 11-18: instrumental workshop - "Crossroads: New York to Constantinople" + videos 2004

The Weimar workshops are for experienced musicians who enjoy learning by ear, small class sizes, and intensive focus. Most of the classes are team-taught in an atmosphere of musical and intellectual exploration. The evenings are dedicated to public jam sessions and dances in the cafes and markets of Weimar. The student body is truly international, coming from all over Europe, North America, and even Asia. For more information about the individual workshops, faculty, dates, costs, etc., please visit our website. Thanks!

www.klezmer-wochen-weimar.de

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You are invited to attend a talk by
Prof. Martin Schwartz of the University of California on the topic of
THE LARGE SHARED REPERTORY OF GREEK AND KLEZMER / YIDDISH VERNACULAR MUSICS

DATE: 6.00pm on Wednesday 22 June 2005
VENUE: Khalili Lecture Theatre, SOAS, Thornhaugh Street, London WC1H 0XG
ADMISSION: Admission free. Open to all interested parties. A collection will be taken.

RESERVATIONS: All places must be reserved in advance. Please E-mail Ed Emery.

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HEART/BEAT: SECULAR MUSIC'S JEWISH SOUL:

Three evening lecture concert series
with Joshua Jacobson
Jack Gottlieb
Hankus Netsky
Josh Dolgin
The Zamir Chorale

MAY 25; JUNE 1 AND 19, 2005
7:30 p.m.
Berenson Hall

Hankus Netsky, Josh Dolgin
Deborah Strauss, Michael Winograd
Ron Caswell, Mark Slobin
Hasid Meets Hip-Hop: A postmodern mix
SUNDAY, JUNE 19, 7:30 P.M.

Programs are $12 advance paid registration, $15 at the door, $30 advance paid registration for all three programs. Matriculated students receive a 50 percent discount.

REGISTER ONLINE NOW AT: www.hebrewcollege.edu/selreg or call 617-559-8709 to register by phone with a credit card.

FOR FULL DETAILS, go to www.hebrewcollege.edu/heartbeat

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HEART/BEAT: SECULAR MUSIC'S JEWISH SOUL:

Three evening lecture concert series
with Joshua Jacobson
Jack Gottlieb
Hankus Netsky
Josh Dolgin
The Zamir Chorale

MAY 25; JUNE 1 AND 19, 2005
7:30 p.m.
Berenson Hall

Jack Gottlieb
Funny, It Doesn't Sound Jewish: Unexpected undertones of Broadway and Hollywood music
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 1, 7:30 P.M.

Programs are $12 advance paid registration, $15 at the door, $30 advance paid registration for all three programs. Matriculated students receive a 50 percent discount.

REGISTER ONLINE NOW AT: www.hebrewcollege.edu/selreg or call 617-559-8709 to register by phone with a credit card.

FOR FULL DETAILS, go to www.hebrewcollege.edu/heartbeat

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HEART/BEAT: SECULAR MUSIC'S JEWISH SOUL:

Three evening lecture concert series
with Joshua Jacobson
Jack Gottlieb
Hankus Netsky
Josh Dolgin
The Zamir Chorale

MAY 25; JUNE 1 AND 19, 2005
7:30 p.m.
Berenson Hall

Joshua Jacobson
The Zamir Chorale of Boston
Sacred Song: From liturgical piece to masterpiece
WEDNESDAY, MAY 25, 7:30 P.M.

Programs are $12 advance paid registration, $15 at the door, $30 advance paid registration for all three programs. Matriculated students receive a 50 percent discount.

REGISTER ONLINE NOW AT: www.hebrewcollege.edu/selreg or call 617-559-8709 to register by phone with a credit card.

FOR FULL DETAILS, go to www.hebrewcollege.edu/heartbeat

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ANNUAL REMEMBRANCE PROGRAM:
WARSAW GHETTO UPRISING

TUESDAY, APRIL 19, 2005
4:00 PM
MEMORIAL STONE
RIVERSIDE PARK AT 83RD STREET
Professor Jack Jacobs, Chair.
Featuring speeches and a cultural program by the Workmen’s Circle children’s choruses led by Deborah Strauss

For more info, e-mail Kavehoyz or call 212-505-8040

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KAVEHOYZ
MADDY SIMON

An evening with the renowned Yiddish musician and choir director

APRIL 14, 2005
7:00 PM
Atran Center, 25 E. 21st St, Manhattan (between Broadway and Park)
Admission: $7.00
Refreshments served.

The "Kavehoyz" series is supported by the New York State Council on the Arts, a state agency.

For more info, e-mail Kavehoyz or call 212-505-8040

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You are cordially invited to a literary event:

Yiddish Writers Today

with
Irena Klepfisz
Beyle Schaechter-Gottesman
Miryem-Khaye Seigel
Gitl Schaechter-Viswanath

Readings will be in Yiddish with English translations.
Caraid O'Brien will moderate a discussion.

Sunday, April 10, 2004
3:00 PM
Eldridge Street Shul
12 Eldridge Street (between Canal and Division)
Admission: $12 for adults, $10 for students and seniors

This event is part of the Garden Cafeteria literary series and is organized by the Eldridge Street Shul with the National Yiddish Book Center and the Congress for Jewish Culture.
For more information: www.eldridgestreet.org
212-219-0880

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Dear KlezKampers and friends of Living Traditions,

We are thrilled to announce the dates for the 20th annual KlezKamp: December 26 � December 31, 2004 at the Swan Lake Resort Hotel in the Catskills.

www.livingtraditions.org/docs/index_kk.htm

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Announcing the Festival of New Jewish Liturgical Music
November 13-�14, 2004
Deadline for submissions: March 30, 2004

For an application and more information, e-mail
Shalshelet@NewJewishMusic.com or visit
www.Shalshelet.org.

For an application and more information, e-mail
Shalshelet@NewJewishMusic.com or visit
www.Shalshelet.org.
tel: 301-907-3336
PO Box 15836
Chevy Chase, MD 20825

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Sunday 3 October
Yiddish tango performance and lecture
Lloica Czackis illustrated talk on the history of the Yiddish tango and solo performance
California Institute for Yiddish Culture & Language
33 Washington Blvd., #118, Marina del Rey, CA 90292
Info and Reservations: (310) 745 1190

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YIDDISH WEEK 2004
(sponsored by Yugntruf Youth for Yiddish) - the one-and-only week-long
opportunity to LIVE IN YIDDISH LAND with other Yiddish-speakers young and
old, from around the whole world; where all the activities and performances are entirely in Yiddish,
and where Yiddish is spoken everywhere, including on the porches, at the
swimming pool and in the dining hall;and which is the best opportunity for those who will have taken an
intensive Yiddish summer course to use what they've learned in the classes
will take place from WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 25 through TUESDAY, AUGUST 31
in the Berkshire Hills Emanuel Adult Vacation Center, Copake, NEW YORK, USA

More info? Write to yvokh@yugntruf.org or go to www.yugntruf.org

arshraybt zikh di dates!

YIDISH-VOKH 2004
(unter der patronat fun Yugntruf Yugnt far Yidish) -
der eyn-un-eyntsiker vokh-langiker gelegnhayt ZIKH OYSTSULEBN IN GANTSN AF
YIDISH mit andere yidish reders yung un alt, fun arum der gorer velt; vu
ale aktivitetn un forshtelungen zenen in gantsn af yidish,
un vu me redt yidish umetum, arayngerekhnt af di verandes, bam shvimbaseyn
un in eszal; un af velkher se kumen a hipshe por studentn fun di intensive
yidish-zumer-programen, vayl ken beser ort iz nishto af ontsuvendn dos vos
zey hobn zikh gelernt in di klasnvet forkumen fun MITVOKH, DEM 25STN OYGUST
biz DINSTIK, DEM 31STN OYGUST in dem Berkshire Hills Emanuel Adult
Vacation Center, Copake, NEW YORK,USA

Nokh kashes? Vendt zikh tsu yvokh@yugntruf.org oder www.yugntruf.org

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Musicians begin today

One of the best Klezmer/yiddish culture camps in North America is the annual "KlezKanada", held each years in the spectacular Laurentian mountains north of Montreal. Organized, in part, by the folks in Brave Old World, the program is always spectacular.

Events include lectures, a mini film festival, and of course, intensive workshops in singing, klezmer music, theatre, and dance. The "Kidz for Klez" program is also great. This is the best summer camp in the world (in fact, the event is hosted at a Jewish summer camp). Register early to get the best bunks.

Although most events start on Wednesday, the 25th, musicians should arrive this morning with the first workshops scheduled for this afternoon. Today is the day to arrive, get oriented, and get in some preliminary jamming.

For further information, visit the site website, www.klezkanada.com

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Come Celebrate the Rebirth of Klezmer Music in the Former Soviet
Union at the Fifth Annual KlezFest, Ukraine!

August 15-20, 2004
Kiev, Ukraine

klezmer.com.ua/events/info5.php

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'JMI Summer Academy'
at London University 1 - 12 August 2004

KlezFest London 2004
Sunday 8 - Thursday 12 August

JMI's annual Klezmer Academy - a structured and stimulating course of
workshops in Klezmer music song and dance - origins, style, ornamentation
and repertoire for amateur and professional singers, dancers and
instrumentalists. Course Director, Alan Bern of Brave Old World with a
faculty of Klezmer luminaries such as Michael Alpert, Deborah Strauss, Jeff
Warschauer, Josh Dolgin, Sophie Solomon, Zalmen Mlotek and others give
vocal, instrumental and ensemble tuition, also masterclasses for existing
bands. Make new friends in the Klezmer family and jam on into the night.

JMI Klezmer and Yiddish Academy Course fees

Ot Azoy! £265 (students £165) early booking discount £15 if booked by 31 May
KlezFest £265 (students £165) early booking discount £15 if booked by 31 May
If doing both courses a discount of £40 (student £30) applies

Hotel and University accommodation can be arranged

More details:
E-mail Jewish Music Institute or
Tel 020 8909 2445
Fax 020 8909 1030

Registration on Website www.jmi.org.uk

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'JMI Summer Academy'
at London University 1 - 12 August 2004

Ot Azoy! Yiddish Crash Course
Sunday 1 - Friday 6 August 2004
This is the way - to speak, read and write Yiddish in a week! An inspiring
and captivating course for beginners up to intermediate levels, devised by
Dr Helen Beer (UCL) with Pesakh Fiszman (NY) and Sonia Pinkusowitz
(Brussels). The perfect course if you always wanted to learn (or brush up
on) Yiddish but were not confident enough (nor could not spare the time) to
devote a whole summer to it.

JMI Klezmer and Yiddish Academy Course fees

Ot Azoy! £265 (students £165) early booking discount £15 if booked by 31 May
KlezFest £265 (students £165) early booking discount £15 if booked by 31 May
If doing both courses a discount of £40 (student £30) applies

Hotel and University accommodation can be arranged

More details:
E-mail Jewish Music Institute or
Tel 020 8909 2445
Fax 020 8909 1030

Registration on Website www.jmi.org.uk

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The North American Jewish Choral Festival
July 11-15, 2004

NEW LOCATION!!: Hudson Valley Resort & Spa, Kerhonksen, NY

Join hundreds of Jewish choral music lovers who will raise their voices in song in a unique program of choral music. The Fifteenth Annual North American Jewish Choral festival will once again provide participants with the opportunity to hear and be a part of Jewish choral music at its best. Our renowned teaching staff will enlighten, inspire and entertain you as you explore a full range of Jewish musical skills, literature, and texts.

For further information, visit the festival website

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Albuquerque Academy Klezmer Camp
June 28-July 2, 2004

Set in the foothills of the Sandia Mountains on the lush 300+ acre campus of Albuquerque Academy, this weeklong workshop features Veretski Pass, including tsimbalist and accordianist Josh Horowitz, fiddler Cookie Segelstein, and Stu Brotman on bass. This year we are offering optional afternoon classes including 2 sessions of Yiddish dance, a lecture and slide show on 18th and 19th C. Yiddish life, and a film screening and discussion. You can also hike on our private wilderness tract and on the many acres of public land nearby. Or you may want to explore the cultural resources of the Albuquerque/Santa Fe area.

This class is open to anyone who can play simple tunes on their instrument. You do not have to read music or be familiar with Klezmer style. We encourage both solo players and existing ensembles to participate. Class will run daily from 9 AM until noon with optional afternoon programs as describged above. $210.

The week will conclude with a student concert, and a concert by Cookie, Josh and Stu on Friday evening.

This weeklong workshop could be a great start or end to a southwestern summer vacation or a vacation unto itself.

For more information contact Danny Packer at (505) 828-3361, or packer@aa.edu. To register, contact the Albuquerque Academy Summer session at (505) 858-8811.

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Celebrating Yiddish Culture & Klezmer Music. A week-long celebration of Klezmer Music, Yiddish Language, Dance, Theatre and Folk Arts. Presented in Association with the Jewish Music Festival.

Place: San Francisco, California at the Jewish Community
High School of the Bay, 1835 Ellis St.
Dates: June 20 - 25, 2004
Times: 9:00 am -6:00 pm & Evening Programs

For more information: visit www.klezCalifornia.org, e-mail info@klezcalifornia.org, call (415) 789-7679. Mailing Address: P.O. Box 36 Lagunitas, CA 94938.

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KLEZFEST ST. PETERSBURG 2004

The Center for Jewish Music of the Jewish Community Center of St.
Petersburg is proud to announce "KlezFest St. Petersburg 2004,"
an international seminar on the traditional music of Eastern
European Jewry, to be held June 12-16, 2004 in St. Petersburg,
Russia.

For more information, please contact the Jewish Community Center of
St. Petersburg via fax at (+7-812) 314-5117, or e-mail Alexander Frenkel.

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The Kulturreferat of the city of Gelsenkirchen runs the festival 'Klezmerwelten 2004' from April 14 - May 2

Klezmerwelten Gelsenkirchen presents:
FRI APRIL 16 lecture "Joshua talks Klezmer" with Josh Horowitz
SAT APRIL 17 concert Veretski Pass
SUN APRIL 18 concert Khupe, dancing led by Steve Weintraub
WED APRIL 21 dance workshop with Steve Weintraub, music by Veretski Pass

Khupe and Veretski Pass will also sincerely try to mess up each other's sets... There's an instrumental workshop and more concerts by fabulous Willy Schwarz, Bente Kahan and others...

For details check www.klezmerwelten.de

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The Kulturreferat of the city of Gelsenkirchen runs the festival 'Klezmerwelten 2004' from April 14 - May 2

The program includes some interesting activities, and even cooperation, of listers Josh Horowitz, Cookie Segelstein, Steve Weintraub, Sanne Möricke, Christian Dawid

For details check www.klezmerwelten.de

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19th Annual Jewish Music Festival

March 20 - 27, 2004

a program of the Berkeley Richmond
Jewish Community Center

Box Office tickets & info 925-866-9599 or www.brjcc.org
Call today for a brochure!

Back to the Sources: The music collections of pioneer Russian Jewish folklorists

Tuesday, March 23, 7:30pm
$15-$10
BRJCC

A dialog and musical demonstration with eminent scholars
Dr. Izaly Zemtsovsky and Michael Alpert, member
of the klezmer ensemble Brave Old World.

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'ACROSS BOUNDARIES'
"AU-DELA DES FRONTIERES"

Récital-conférence de JASCHA NEMTSOV
Salle des Abeilles, 2 rue de l'Athénée, Genève
Dimanche 14 mars à 17h

Sur invitation de l'AMJ, le pianiste et musicologue russe de renommée internationale Jascha Nemtsov présentera un répertoire original de compositeurs juifs russes du début du vingtième siècle.

Chaque oeuvre fera l'objet d'une présentation spécifique. Jascha Nemtsov est l'auteur de plusieurs ouvrages de référence sur ce thème: http://www.musica-judaica.com/composers.htm
Ce concert sera dédié au professeur Shimon Markish.

Au programme:
Arthur Lourié (1892-1966): Valse
Juliusz Wolfsohn (1880-1944): Deux paraphrases d'après d'anciennes mélodies juives
Alexander Krejn (1883-1951): 3 pièces tirées de la Suite "Jüdische Tänze"
Joseph Achron (1886-1943): Variations symphoniques sur thème juif 'El Yivneh Hagalil'
Alexander Weprik (1899-1958): Sonate n°2
Joachim Stutschewsky (1891-1982): Vier jüdische Tanzstücke
Arthur Lourié (1892-1966): Nocturne, Gigue
Entrée: 28 Frs / AVS, AI, étudiants, chomeurs: 18 Frs
Réduction complémentaie de 5 Frs pour membres AMJ
Réservations: amj@club-association.ch ou tel 022 734 71 93

pour l'AMJ:
Michel Borzykowski
Homepage AMJ: www.amj.ch
Geneva klezmer page: borzykowski.users.ch

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Thursday, February 26

7:00 pm � "Shir L'Shalom" � An Adult Educational Opportunity. How does the popular culture of a nation offer a window into its past and its soul? Join us for an exploration and discussion of songs made popular during various military campaigns over Israel's short history. We will pay special attention to the ways these songs reflect the events and political sentiment of the people during that time period. Limited seating. RSVP JRC office 847-328-7678 or debra@jrc-evanston.org.

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I'll be speaking this Sunday (yes, Super Bowl Sunday ...) *afternoon* (2/1),
at 2 p.m. (plus desserts and beverages) at Congregation Kadimah-Toras Moshe,
113 Washington St., Brighton, MA, on MUSIC OF THE PSALMS: FROM KING DAVID'S
TIME TO OUR OWN. I'll be discussing the intriguing musical and liturgical
history of the Psalms and sharing recorded arrangements of the Psalms in
over a dozen musical styles, from 17th-century Renaissance to 19th-century
classical and operatic; from Hassidic and neo-Hassidic to a cappella; from
bluegrass to world music.

Will also have CDs for sale!

-- Robert Cohen

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The 19th Annual Yiddish Folk Arts Program "KlezKamp" will be held from December 23-29, 2003 at the Swan Lake Hotel in the heart of New York's Catskill region. For information about the program, registration, and work/study options please go to our website www.klezkamp.org.

To find out more about KlezKamp, see Ari Davidow's article about KlezKamp '96 or Ben Gerhon's article about KlezKamp '99

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ANNOUNCING: The only West Coast and the world's only winter Yiddish intensive: the 4th annual "Art of Yiddish: Entering the Heart of a Culture Through Its Beat", Los Angeles, December 14 � 20, 2003. Learn Yiddish with the best Yiddish teachers in North America: Pesakh Fiszman, Anna Gonshor, Miriam Hoffman, Sheyndl Liberman, and Sheva Zucker. Develop a deeper understanding of the culture that created our beloved Klezmer music and humor, with world-renown klezmorim Jeff Warschauer and Deborah Strauss teaching song and dance workshops (bring along your own instruments too); ethnomusicologist Robert Cohen revealing the back stories to Yiddish music; and writer/actor Yakov Basner illuminating the comic side of Yiddish literature from Chelm to Moshe Nadir. Theodore Bikel joins us for our closing concert and farbrengen.

It's the perfect time to explore your roots through the vitality, soul, and wit of Yiddish culture. Produced in collaboration with the UCLA Center for Jewish Studies and the University of Judaism Department of Continuing Education. For more information and to request or download the brochure, please visit www.yiddishinstitute.org or e-mail Miriam@yiddishinstitute.org.

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Wednesday, November 12, 2003 at 8:00pm:

Mystical Music of the Middle East
A LECTURE
by Yuval Ron
(with a demonstration on the oud)
Location: Folk Music Center - 220 Yale Avenue Claremont, CA 91711
Admission: FREE
Reservations required by calling (909)624-2928
for more info: folkmusiccenter.com

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Michael Alpert will be giving a lecture titled "Funny You Don't Look Klezmer: A Jewish Mucician's Guide to the Autobahn", followed by a half-hour klezmer performance as part of a day-long workshop on the history of Yiddish Culture on Sunday, November 9. Two of the other speakers from Nov 9 will also participate.

Location: University of Victoria, BC, Canada
Time: 11:30 to 5PM
Date: November 11
Contact: 250 - 472-4747 / fax - 250-721-8774
Cost: $61.
Sponsors: Jewish Community Centres of Victoria and Vancouver, University of Victoria, Department of Continuing Studies and the Waldman Holocaust Education Committee at UBC

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KRISTALLNACHT PROGRAM

PLAINVIEW JEWISH CENTER
SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 9, 7:00 PM
STRAUSS/WARSCHAUER DUO
The Children's Choir of the I.L. Peretz School Of Nassau County
Guest Speaker Fred Margulies

The Holocaust Center and the Plainview Jewish Center will have a joint
KRISTALLNACHT (Night of Broken Glass) program on Sunday evening, November 9, 2003 at
7:00 PM, at Plainview Jewish Center, Long Island, NY.

Plainview Jewish Center is located at 95 Floral Drive, Plainview, NY
Their telephone number is # 938-8610.

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Michael Alpert will be giving a lecture titled "Funny You Don't Look Klezmer: A Jewish Mucician's Guide to the Autobahn", followed by a half-hour klezmer performance as part of a day-long workshop on the history of Yiddish Culture on Sunday, November 9. The other speakers will be Naomi Sheindel Seidman, Sarah Abrevaya Stein and Nahma Sandrow.

Location: University of Victoria, BC, Canada
Time: 11:30 to 5PM
Date: November 9
Contact: 250 - 472-4747 / fax - 250-721-8774
Cost: $61.
Sponsors: Jewish Community Centres of Victoria and Vancouver , University of Victoria, Department of Continuing Studies and the Waldman Holocaust Education Committee at UBC

That same evening Michael will be the main feature at the Victoria Folk Music Society; the first hour of the evening is open stage and Michael will play the second hour. We plan to have a couple of local klezmer groups on the open stage as well. Here are the details:

Place: Norway House - 1118 Hillside Avenue, Victoria, BC
Time: 7:30PM till 10PM (doors open at 7PM)
Tickets: $4 at the door - rush seats
Contact: Mary Lowther at 592-5156

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Explore the rich diversity of American Jewish musical expression, from its modest beginnings with early Jewish settlers of the Colonial era all the way through the vibrant creativity and dynamics of the 20th century. Celebrate musical masterpieces once thought lost forever; chart future directions with world premieres and workshops.

Only in America takes place Friday, November 7 through Tuesday, November 11, 2003 in New York City.

Unprecedented in scope, this five-day Conference & Festival is jointly sponsored by The Jewish Theological Seminary and the Milken Archive of American Jewish Music.

Papers, Lectures, Panel Discussions, Symposia
World Premieres, Concerts, Musical Services
Choral, Klezmer & Other Workshops
New & Traditional Music

http://www.milkenarchive.org/events/events.taf

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Soviet & Kosher: A Century of Jewish Culture in Russia

This looks like an exciting symposium with talks and workshops ranging from klezmer to theatre to religion. For a full schedule (sadly, PDF only), go to www.utoronto.ca/crees/sk/program.pdf

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Free Open House Tuesday, October 7 at 7:00 PM

6 week paid session starts the following Tuesday, October 14 through November 18, 7:00 pm.

• Study with an internationally recognized master instructor
• Learn tunes from the diverse klezmer tradition
• Work in ensembles with other instrumentalists
• Develop tools for improvisation
• Guest instructors from the cutting edge of the contemporary klezmer scene

Open to players of any instrument who play and read music at at least an intermediate level

Course Fee:
Member: 6 week session $140; per session $25
Non-member: 6 week session $170; per session $30

For more information or registration call: 212 889 6800 x270

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"Celebrating Sutzkever"
to Mark the 90th Birthday of Abraham Sutzkever
"The Poet of the Vilna Ghetto"

7pm in the Morrison Library

Poetry Readings by The UC Berkeley Yiddish Reading Group

Musical Settings of Sutzkever's Poetry performed by
Sylvie Braitman, Daniel Hoffman
and Michael Grossman
Professor Benjamin Harshav:
Reflections on Sutzkever and His Poetry

Free admission

A Dessert Reception provided by Ristorante Raphael

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Here's why you gotta come to the Yiddish Conference in Baltimore

1. Your friends and colleagues will be there.
2. The networking's great.
3. You can learn a great deal about today's world of Yiddish.
4. You'll learn about the newest books and cds

So come on down. For particulars and to download a registration form, visit fishl kutner's site �www.derbay.org. Baltimore's the place to be this September. Kumt, kinderlekh, kumt.

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The Center of Jewish Education in Ukraine, with the support of the Jewish Communities Development Fund for Russia and Ukraine (USA) and the Canadian Embassy in Ukraine announces the fourth annual Klezfest music festival in Kiev on August 24-29, 2003! Klezfest Ukraine 2003 will be devoted to the study of the traditional performance of Ashkenazi music and its modern interpretation and composition. Special attention will be devoted to methods of promotion of modern Jewish music in the music market. Performers (vocalists and musicians), members of Jewish music bands and composers who use elements of traditional Jewish music are invited to take part in Klezfest Ukraine 2003.

For additional information please contact the organizing committee.
The Center of Jewish Education in Ukraine
6 Kurska St., Room 37, 03049, Kiev, Ukraine
Telephone: (380-44) 248-3670, 248-3634, 248-5377;
fax: (380-44) 248-3670, 248-5377
E-mail: center@cjeu.carrier.kiev.ua

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One of the best Klezmer/yiddish culture camps in North America is the annual "KlezKanada", held each years in the spectacular Laurentian mountains north of Montreal. Organized, in part, by the folks in Brave Old World, the program is always spectacular.

Events include lectures, a mini film festival, and of course, intensive workshops in singing, klezmer music, theatre, and dance. The "Kidz for Klez" program is also great. This is the best summer camp in the world (in fact, the event is hosted at a Jewish summer camp). Register early to get the best bunks.

Although most events start on the 20th, today is the day to arrive, get oriented, and get in some preliminary jamming.

For further information, visit the site website, www.klezkanada.com

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This event may be of interest to musicians and enthusiasts who wish to explore the art and repertoire of classic East-European Hazzanut "from the inside".

Kutshers Country Club, New York

The "Rozhinke Retreat" is an effort to preserve and continue the great Cantorial art tradition of yesteryear. At the turn of the Millenium, we have seen many Jewish cultural revivals: Yiddish, Klezmer... and Hazzanut is due a revival of its own.

This retreat has its roots in the great Cantorial stylings of such renowned Hazzanim as Yossele Rosenblatt, David Kousevitsky, Zavel Kwartin and many others--with an emphasis not on historical examination, but rather living reproduction of an art form which is so intrinsically Jewish, and so passionate, so filled with pathos and sweetness, that it can only be described as "Rozhinke" --the sweet sound of raisins and almonds.

• Faculty to include world-class Cantors
• Workshops with hands-on singing
• Nightly Cantorial Concerts
• Late Night Sharing Sessions

For further info: rozhinke.org

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4th Summer University Seminar in Yiddish Language and Literature, Paris, Jul 15 - Aug 1. For details, in French, Yiddish, or English, consult the website at www.yiddishweb.com/Zumerkurs

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An international seminar on the traditional music of Eastern European Jewry, to be held July 12-16, 2003 in St. Petersburg, Russia. KlezFest in St. Petersburg," now in its seventh year, is the oldest Klezmer seminar in Russia. The 2003 festival will include master-classes on Yiddish folk songs and Klezmer music, workshops on Yiddish folklore and Yiddish dance, lectures, concerts, and two excursions: "Jewish St. Petersburg" and "Rivers and Canals of St. Petersburg." Our staff will include world-famous musicians -- the world's leading expert on Yiddish dance, violinist, accordion player, vocalist, and ethnomusicologist Michael Alpert from New York, wonderful Yiddish singer and storyteller Shura Lipovsky from Amsterdam, and the outstanding Klezmer clarinetist from Berlin, Christian Dawid.

For more information, please contact the Jewish Community Center of St. Petersburg via fax at (+7-812) 314-5117, or e-mail Alexander Frenkel.

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The Workmen's Circle/Arbeter Ring presents a participatory weekend of workshops and classes on Sylvan Lake at

Circle Lodge
June 27-29, 2003
TIF YIDDISH

Spend the weekend in a total environment of Yiddish culture: Yiddish classes, lectures and film screenings, Klezmer instrumental workshops/band, Yiddish singing, creative writing workshop (in English), children's program (ages K-7th grade)

For more information call Stacey Bosworth 212-889-6800 ext. 271 Space is limited! Call now!

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The JMI Barry Weinberg Jewish Choral Festival Sing to the Lord 16�26 June 2003

For ten days in June, London will resound with Jewish choral singing when choirs and choristers from all over come together for the first international Choirs Festival in London, set up in memory of our dear colleague Barry Weinberg.

For further info: www.jmi.org.uk/performance/choral03/chorfest03.html

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