Ver Vet Blaybn? - Sutzkever biography now online
The Yiddish Book Center’s award-winning documentary film,
Ver Vet Blaybn? ( Who Will Remain? ), is now available for home
viewing -? click on these links:
Watch the trailer (
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Hester Street at Theater J
“Hester Street at Theater J goes even deeper than the beloved 1975 movie version”
The Washington Post
World Premiere - Hester Street
A play by Sharyn Rothstein
With original music and songs by
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YIVO course on Jewish comedy
YIVO course on Jewish comedy
Thursday, March 21 | 7:00pm ET
IS ANYTHING OKAY? THE HISTORY OF JEWS AND COMEDY IN AMERICA
On Zoom or YouTube live, and on YouTube afterwards.
Is Anything Okay? The
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Spring 2024 classes offered at YIVO
*YIVO is offering lots of courses beginning in February.? Except where noted, the classes are on Zoom.*
*There are language classes for those at various levels of proficiency, as well as conversation
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Save-the-date: Deborah Strauss and Jeff Warschauer at Adat Shalom February 9 - 11
Dear Friends,
We are very fortunate that a wonderful and talented duo is coming to the DC area for a residency with Adat Shalom Reconstructionist Synagogue in?February. More information about
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Yiddish language Zoom courses
https://www.edcjcc.org/programs/language-classes/
Beginner Yiddish: Kum arayn – come on in! Join the Yiddish revival. In this beginning-level class, you will learn the Yiddish alphabet and develop
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The Forward now free to read
*The Forward is now free to subscribe and to read, although of course welcoming charitable donations.*
*To subscribe, go to Forward.com and click on Get our Newsletters on the top left.*
*Yiddish of
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YIVO classes Fall 2023
Tell your friends and relatives, or sign up for a class yourself:
https://yivo.org/Once-a-Week-Yiddish ( https://yivo.org/Once-a-Week-Yiddish )
Most of the classes meet via Zoom.
The ones that meet
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Yiddish singalong this Sunday (7/16)
Tayere khevrim ,
Did you miss Lorin Sklamberg's Yiddish singalongs at the Folklife Festival last weekend?
Or did you attend and want more?
Either way, I'd like to invite you to a Yiddish singalong
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Jacob Howley
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YidFest 2023 klezmer concert is online
for the first time everstreaming July13 to 16 from the Yiddish Book Center
buy tickets athttps://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/6052157
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Melvin Leifer
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Yiddish music and food at the 2023 Smithsonian Folklife Festival
YIVO is participating in the *Smithsonian Folklife Festival* , which will take place *June 29-July 4 and July 6-9, 2023* at the *National Mall in Washington, DC*. Produced annually by the Smithsonian
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Tantzhoyz! June 18 at Adas Israel
www.dcklezmer.com
www.facebook.com/dcklezmer
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Ellen Cassedy talk about Yenta Mash, 6/15
Women in Exile: What Yenta Mash Can Tell Us, with Ellen Cassedy
?Yiddish Book Center event on ZoomThursday, June 15 @ 7 p.m. ET
Yenta Mash (1922–2013) was an extraordinary writer whose own?life
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Livestream Choral Concert with guest Daniel kahn
FREEDOM IS A VERB: 25TH ANNIVERSARY CONCERT WITH SPECIAL GUEST DANIEL KAHN
JUNE 10 @ 7:30 PM?-?9:30 PM
DESCRIPTION
For 25 years, the A Besere Velt Yiddish chorus has created a culture of
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Melvin Leifer
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Max Weinreich and Yiddish - June 15 YIVO zoom
*Thursday, June 15 | 1:00pm (ET)*
*MAX WEINREICH AND THE MEANING OF YIDDISH
* ( http://yivo.convio.net/site/R?i=_YMuHSGInf-Ej28OzVMB89JtBJDrNTC9qpFp2CuGYj4abO0MK7YyJg )
A 'convert' to the cause of
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Reminder: Yiddish Film SHTTL May 18
You don't have the chance to see a beautiful NEW Yiddish film very often.
Don't miss the pioneering and spellbinding Yiddish film, SHTTL which
beautifully captures the lives and loves of a
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Zalmen Mlotek - Zoom event May 16
Tuesday, May 16, UCLA School of Music, a talk with Zalmen Mlotekon Zoom at 7:30 pm Pacific Time (10:30 pm ET) or watch the recording later
Register to get the Zoom link or to be sent the notice for
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YIVO /IAYC Club Mixer
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The YIVO Institute for Jewish Research and the
International Association of Yiddish Clubs (IAYC)
join forces to present a Yiddish club mixer on
Sunday, May 7th at 2pm
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Miriam Isaacs lecture May 7
Sunday, May 7, 10:00 am at Congregation Beth El
Daniel Mann Literary Luminaries Lecture - Congregation Beth El of Montgomery County ( https://www.bethelmc.org/events/literary-luminaries/ )
Dr. Miriam
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Yiddish courses at DCJCC this summer
Beginner and Intermediate Yiddish Classes Summer 2023?Tuesday evenings, June 6-August 8, virtually via Zoom.
For more information, and to
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