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15 March 2025, 5.30pm at the Centre Medem The evening is devoted to the presentation of the book Le Monde yiddish by Olivier Peyroux and Arnaud Nebbache. The book follows the many musical and festive routes of Yiddish culture through its diverse sources and manifestations. It’s a joyous journey through the historical, social and religious themes that inspired the artists’ music. ...
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19 September 2024, 7.30pm at the House of Yiddish Culture To celebrate the publication by Bibliothèque Medem of An-ski’s play The Dybbuk, translated by Batia Baum, the Maison de la culture yiddish is organising an evening with three highlights. Firstly, Clarisse Brossard will talk about the author’s ethnographic expeditions to Volhynia and Podolia between 1911 and 1914. Then ...
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Registration for courses and workshops on 5 and 8 September 2024 Teachers and facilitators will be on hand to welcome prospective students and introduce them to the Yiddish, Hebrew, Judeo-Spanish and Judeo-Arabic courses offered at Medem. There are also dance, poetry, genealogy, drama and choir workshops to get every day off to a great start! Journées portes ouvertes du Centre Medem-les 5 et ...
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8 June 2024 at the House of Yiddish Culture A Book Fair will bring together a host of authors and translators, including Sylvie-Anne Goldberg, Annette Wieviorka, Talila, Virginie Linhart and Michael Sibony, Robert Bobert, Henri Raczymov, Arnaud Bikard, Magali Bertrand, Carole Mann, Elise Golberg, Bernard Suchecky, Katia Faber-Simbler and Ami Flammer. There will also be a number of publishing ...
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11 February 2024 at the Medem Centre The Song of songs has inspired so many readings and interpretations throughout the ages. This talk by François Ardeven, Chairman of the Medem Centre’s Culture Committee, will attempt to answer the secrets and questions surrounding the text, which is based on Henri Meschonic’s translation of the Five Scrolls, published by Gallimard. But also on ...
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20 January 2024 at the Medem Library How was the body perceived and presented by the Yiddish press over time, the time of the body and the press according to the generations of authors and cartoonists? The evening devoted to this theme at the Medem Library, with curator Natalia Krynicka, will attempt to answer this question through the presentation of numerous archives. There will also be ...
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9 December 2023 at the Medem Centre Words and music accompany the presentation of this travel book about Ashkenazi cuisine, not a parade of recipes but an atmosphere, traditions and experiences. Elise Goldberg, the book’s author, and singer Muriel Missirlou will whet your appetite for gefilte fish and all the other flavours. Starting with the Hanukkah doughnuts that await you at the end ...
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7 and 10 September 2023 at the Medem Centre These days will provide an opportunity to find out more about the centre and its role in sharing Yiddish culture. https://www.centre-medem.org/EVT/portes-ouvertes-2023-les-7-et-10-septembre-2023
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19 April 2023 at the Paris City Hall The commemoration of this act of inestimable courage will take place in the Grands Salons of the Hotel de Ville. How a handful of surviving men and women in terrible conditions took up arms against the powerful Nazi army. The event is organised in partnership with the Medem Centre. Due to limited space, registration on their website is required. ...
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15 April 2023 at the Medem Centre The icon of Yiddish music in France shares her lyrics and views during this exceptional meeting. Unpublished documents tell the story of her personal journey, the migration of her Polish Jewish family and her childhood in France. This will of integration while keeping some madeleines of Proust or herring with onions of Talila. ...
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10 June 2023 at the House of Yiddish Culture – Medem Library How about a little more… music? That’s what the name of the group means in Yiddish. The pleasure of going back to the table and watching the dishes being passed around or on stage with notes that do the same. The Nora Bisele, a group composed of Elsa Signorile and Raphaele Merdrignac, are back with their show ...
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February 23, 2023 at the Medem Centre This workshop is led by Salomon Bielasiak by ZOOMTM and follows the one held in January. He will present and translate about twenty Yiddish expressions. These expressions are accompanied by klezmer music and traditional Yiddish songs. The accompaniment is provided by professional singers and musicians. https://www.centre-medem.org/recevoir-le-programme
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March 10 at the House of Yiddish Culture – Medem Library This evening proposed by Annick Prime Margules welcomes Michel Fisbein and Lionel Miller to share, in French and Yiddish, classic jokes and other zygomatic boosters. With, in particular, a classic sketch by Dzigan and Szumacher that every record player owner enjoyed after the war in memory of distant ancestors.
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12 November 2022 at 15:30 at the Medem Centre This literary meeting around Henri Minczeles’ book on the history of the Bund. A rich and diverse history according to generations and countries, Poland, Russia, but also France. The influence of this workers’ movement, its emancipatory struggles and its conflicts with other political movements. An event in the presence of Constance ...
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Thursday, December 15, 2022 at 7:30 pm at the House of Yiddish Culture If a consensual definition of Jewish humour is difficult to find, the same is true for one of its major influences, Yiddish humour. An anthology published by Nadia Déhan-Rotschild (Bibliothèque Medem) provides an insight into the scope of Yiddish humour. 104 drawings and 262 texts are included in this bilingual ...
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Around the Place de la République, you will find one of the oldest places in Paris attesting to the Jewish cultural heritage of Paris: the synagogue of Nazareth. But also very active cultural institutions such as the Cercle Bernard Lazare, the Center Medem and the Maison de la Culture Yiddish. By order of June 29, 1819, King Louis XVIII authorized the Consistory to build the first major in ...
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