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14 December at 5pm at the Maison de la culture yiddish The rich collections of the Medem Library have made it possible to find textbooks from yesteryear that provide a better understanding not only of the perceptions of these periods but also of the way in which Yiddish culture was transmitted. The textbooks come from many countries, including Poland, the former USSR and the United States. ...
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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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From 12 September 2024 to 12 June 2025 at JEM Beaugrenelle Those singing sessions welcomes all singing enthusiasts to take part in its activities without an admission test. A very varied repertoire is offered throughout the year. The repertoire includes traditional songs, musicals, Israeli songs, songs in Ladino and Yiddish. All in the company of Marlène Samoun, the choirmaster. Voci Copernic ...
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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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From 17 May to 16 December 2024 at the Polin Museum This exhibition gives visitors an insight into Jewish life in Opatow through the works of the painter Mayer Kirshenblatt. All those characters who populate the tales of so many Yiddish authors in the 1001 shtetls of Eastern Europe. Although most of these villages have disappeared, literary and artistic memories remain, a wonderful way of ...
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8 April 2024 at 8pm at the Maison de la Poésie Inspired by his experience as a librarian, the great texts of Russian literature, the popular language of Muscovites and the exploratory madness of pop art, Lev Rubinstein has left his mark on poetry. In form, by publishing his texts on a series of index cards, and in content, by exploring the emotions and feelings of the opponent of the regime ...
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18 May 2024 at 4.30pm at the House of Yiddish Culture The famous Yiddish author asked his children to get together on each anniversary of his death to read aloud some of his funniest texts, as a way of sharing his work with joy, even in his absence. It’s a wish shared by the House of Yiddish Culture. Excerpts from Tevye le laitier will be read, and the short story from Les Gens de ...
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28 March 2024 at the Institut universitaire Rachi Didier Francfort, university professor and specialist in cultural history at the University of Lorraine, presents the background to and reasons for the musical encounter between these two worlds, jazz and klezmer. The former is mainly a music created by black Americans and the latter is rooted in the musical tradition of Yiddishland. Since the ...
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23 November 2023 at the CCLJ This musical journey featuring Russian actor, director and writer Veniamin Smekhov and pianist and author of Yiddish poems Evgeny Kissin pays tribute to the Soviet Yiddish poets who fell victim to Stalinism. They were among the 13 Yiddish poets and writers murdered on the night of 12 to 13 August 1952, all members of the Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee. There will ...
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Thursday 19 October 2023, from 19:30 to 21:00 This lecture in Yiddish by Eliezer Niborski, organised by the Yiddish Culture House, is part of the “Paris-Berlin, a link for the Yiddish diaspora” season. Through documents from Yiddish publications in Warsaw (Haynt, Moment, Folkstsaytung, Literarishe Bleter) and New York (Forverts, Der tog, Morgn Frayheyt), we discover the evolution ...
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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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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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