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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 presented as part of the “Paris-Berlin, a link for the Yiddish diaspora” season. The poet Debora Vogel (1900-1942) was an important representative of Yiddish and Polish modernism, murdered in ...
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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 Lipovsky, assisted by Rachel Weston and Joseph Finlay. The five-day event will include theory and repertoire studies, master classes and training for Yiddish choristers. Artists and amateurs of all levels, ...
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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 culinary delights, a Glouss taï with Leiker. These activities include a screening of Yiddish films (with French subtitles), book presentations, and culinary and calligraphy workshops.
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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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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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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 and authors allow Yiddish to be in tune with the great ancients but also with the concerns of the newcomers of the 20th century. All the emotions of this turning point in English Jewish history are ...
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52 Rue René Boulanger, 75010 Paris Tél : 01 42 02 17 08 https://www.centre-medem.org/
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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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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 by bombs. While these pages are not intended in the present time for tourism, they may be useful to researchers and students as historical references. References to so many painful histories during the ...
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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 by bombs. While these pages are not intended in the present time for tourism, they may be useful to researchers and students as historical references. References to so many painful histories during the ...
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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 under Ottoman influence. A number of Jews expelled from Hungary in the mid-fifteenth century settled on the Wallachian slopes of the Carpathians, and were followed, after 1492, by those expelled from ...
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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 offers a distinctive architectural unity, with its wide-stepped city hall, central square lined with beautiful Renaissance and Baroque mansions, and its crisscrossing of old, narrow streets arranged ...
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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 1414, the year their presence was first mentioned. In 1792, on the eve of Russian domination, they numbered 6750 here, or 9,7% of the population. Their population increased considerably during ...
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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, territories that have often changed hands. The presence here of Baltic barons contributed to the Germanization of the country and placed the Jews themselves under this cultural influence. The gradual ...
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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, everything began here from the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries when European Judaism's center of gravity shifted from Germany and France to Poland and Belarus. As a reaction to the pietisitic practices ...
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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 Lithuania between the eighteenth century and the Shoah- had disappeared beyond ruins and cemeteries. The complete eradication of a Jewish presence, the sworn objective of the Nazis, was conducted with ...
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