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Musical reading-performance “Mannequins”
3 February 2024 at the Maison de la culture yiddish This reading-performance is based on a work by Debora Vogel, translated by Batia Baum and published in a bilingual edition in 2023. It is ...
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Golden Peacock 2023 – Sing Yiddish
20-25 August 2023 at SOAS, Russell Square Campus, London The festival is an introduction to, or confirmation of, the public’s enthusiasm for Yiddish music, led by singer/teacher Shura ...
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Yiddish Café
May 22, 2023 at the Jérôme Cahen Community Centre in Neuilly-sur-Seine Activities will take place for those curious and passionate about Ashkenazi culture and the Yiddish language, along with ...
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Concert by Nora Bisele
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 ...
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Workshop “Picturesque Expressions of Folk Yiddish: Comparative Phrases of Blessings, Curses and Swearing”
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. ...
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An evening of laughter
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 ...
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“Secrets of the London Yiddish Stage” evening
17 November 2022 at the Jewish Museum of London A meeting of times and genres on the London stage. What could be more surprising than to see Shakespeare performed in Yiddish? Actors, directors ...
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Jewish Cultural Association of Nancy
55 rue des Ponts, 54000 Nancy Tel : 03 83 35 26 97 https://acj55.fr/
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Maison de la Culture Yiddish – Medem Library
29 Rue du Château d’Eau, 75010 Paris Tel: +33 1 47 00 14 00 Maison de la culture yiddish | Le plus grand centre européen d’enseignement et de diffusion de la culture yiddish
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Place de la République
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 ...
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Rovno (Rivne)
The terrifying war against Ukraine changes, of course, the function of these pages devoted to the Jewish cultural heritage of that country. Many of the places mentioned were razed to the ground ...
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Chernivtsi (Czernowitz)
The terrifying war against Ukraine changes, of course, the function of these pages devoted to the Jewish cultural heritage of that country. Many of the places mentioned were razed to the ground ...
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Wallachia
Although its underground petroleum resources are today largely exhausted, Wallachia remains the country’s economic center. This region was first dominated by Hungary, but in 1330 it fell ...
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Zamosc
Zamosc is a magnificent example from the Polish Renaissance era. Built in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries by Italian architects in the service of Kings Sigismund and Casimir, the city ...
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Warsaw
The name alone evokes the martyrdom of the ghetto following the April 1943 insurrection. Events here shall remain firmly fixed in the conscience of humanity. Jews settled in Warsaw beginning in ...
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Latvia
The Jewish community of Latvia traces its origins to the middle of the fourteenth century. Numbering today some 15000 persons, it developed in the principalities of Kurland and Livonia, ...
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Lithuania
The Jewish community of Lithuania numbers only some 6000. People It is no more than a shadow of what it once was: until the Shoah, it was a center of the Yiddish-speaking lands. In a sense, ...
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Yiddishland
The visitor to Eastern Europe hoping to discover a rich Jewish architectural heritage must remember that what was once the center of Judaic cultural and religious life in Europe -principally in ...