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Born in Zimbabwe, raised in South Africa, Rabbi Ralph Genende is a well-known and popular Modern Orthodox Rabbi. Ralph was Senior Rabbi to the Auckland, New Zealand Jewish community for ten years.
blogs.timesofisrael.com
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Melvin suggests that you read The 20 best Yiddish words for discussing 2020
Hello, Your friend (Melvin) has read the article, "" on Forward.com and thought you might enjoy it. Please click below to access the article:
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You can watch the recent event, Ashkenazi Jews and Chinese Food, here:?
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Zoom Yiddish New York 26-30 December
Want to go to Yiddish New York?
Want to go to Yiddish New York FOR FREE?
For
better or worse (meaning this way at least we can have it), rather than
having us shlep to NYC this year, YNY will be Zooming to us.?
But lots
of Zoom sessions means there's a need for lots of Zoom hosts.
Be
a Zoom host for 2 sessions a day and you get a free Day Pass that gets
you in to all the sessions that day - both daytime and evening.
Such a
deal, as well as the satisfaction of being an active part or our
amazing, farflung community.
One- on- one training sessions are being conducted even as I write, so don't worry if you haven't been a Zoom host before.
To apply, click on the following link. Thanks!
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The Mauthausen Trilogy, oyf Yiddish
The Edlavitch DCJCC JxJ Festival, now online with each event available throughout the week,
includes this offering:
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Niki Jacobs, singer, recording artist, and founder of contemporary Dutch klezmer ensemble Nikitov
presents MikisTheodorakis’ Mauthausen Trilogy, sung in Yiddish.
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online Yiddish classes January-May 2021
Edlavitch DCJCC online Yiddish classes begin January 12.
The teacher is Marianne Tatom. For interesting information about her:
<https://learnatcentral.org/about/teachers/instructor-marianne-tatom/>
That site includes this interview:
<https://soundcloud.com/limmud-seattle/marianne-tatom-teaching-a-living-yiddish>
To read about the classes and to register:
<https://www.edcjcc.org/arts-culture/jewish-classes/hebrew/>
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web conference on the history of Di Linke Dec 6-14
?Di Linke: the Yiddish Immigrant Left from Popular Front to Cold War
This conference will explore the complex history of the Jewish People’s Fraternal Order (JPFO),
a crucial yet largely unknown component of the immigrant Jewish Left. Founded in 1930, the
JPFO flourished for two decades as the Jewish division of the multi-ethnic International Workers
Order (IWO) before being shut down during the Cold War.
For more information and to register:
<https://jewishstudies.cornell.edu/yiddish-immigrant-left>
Lauren Strauss, Scholar in Residence and Director of Undergraduate Studies, Jewish Studies Program
at The American University, suggests it "promises to be a very good conference for anyone with an interest
in mid-20th century Yiddish radical culture, in the digitization of previously-hidden archives, and in
American Jewish history beyond the traditional narratives.? The conference is spread out over several
days (to avoid over-zooming), in different time blocks - it begins this coming Sunday, 12/6 and goes
through Thursday, 12/10, and then there's one more session (with Ben Katchor, author/illustrator
of The Dairy Restaurant!) on the following Monday, 12/14." ?
It is expected that the Zoom sessions will be made available as videos at a later date.
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Congress for Jewish Culture online events in December
From: Yiddish Theater –– Shane Baker <kongres@...>
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Yiddish New York early bird discount
Registration is now open for the 6th Annual Yiddish New York, which will be
presented online December 26-30. We've got amazing programs for all ages.
Lectures, films, theater, concerts, klezmer workshops,Yiddish lessons, dance,
visual arts, and more! Fantastic arts/culture programs?for kids and teens too!?
Register by December 4 for our Early Bird Discount, 10% off Full Festival Passes!
<http://www.yiddishnewyork.com/registration/>
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The Jewish Arts Collaborative in Boston, aka JArts, did a Zoom presentation
of letters to the Forward. A Bintel Brief (in English) with a discussion
afterwards with Jonathan Sarna is available until November 14 at:
<https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCrYuGr9dnlKpjS7hDDEr48A>
An abridged version will begin on Saturday night.
The URL for that should be available at JArtsBoston.org
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Re: Yiddish Film Class on Zoom in January 2021
The film course I am offering in January will show and discuss the following:
Week 1: After a short introduction to Yiddish language, cinema,? & culture,
we shall view our first film: “Without a Home” (1939)
Week 2:? “The Yiddish King Lear” (1935)
Week 3: “The Light Ahead”(1939)
Week 4: “Who will Remain”(2020), based on Avrom Sutzkever’s poetry and life.
For more information and to register:
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Fw: How did the affinity for Chinese food amongst many Jews begin?
This message from YIVO surely needs to be shared with this group!
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From: Alex Weiser | YIVO Institute <yivomail@...> To: Yiddish of Washington <yiddishdc@...> Sent: Wednesday, November 11, 2020, 12:35:40 PM EST Subject: How did the affinity for Chinese food amongst many Jews begin?
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Tuesday, December 22 | 1:00pm (ET)
Live on Zoom.
Lecture |?For many Ashkenazi Jews in the U.S., Christmastime sparks memories of egg rolls and General Tso's chicken. How did the affinity for Chinese food amongst many Jews begin? Trace this delicious history from the turn-of-the-century Lower East Side to today’s take-out lo mein with Andrew Coe, author of Chop Suey: A Cultural History of Chinese Food in the United States.
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Reading Circle - Stories by Women Writers - February - March 2021:
I shall be facilitating a Yiddish Reading Circle through Anne Arundel Community College’s Peer Learning Partnership
in February and March 2021. As it will be presented on ZOOM, you do not need to live in the Annapolis area to attend.
We shall be reading and discussing Yiddish stories by women, in English translation.
The book is entitled Found Treasures: Stories by Yiddish Women Writers.
Read about the book at:
Registration for classes opens on the community college website on November 17th. Class size limited to 24 students.
To take a PLP class, one must become a Peer Learning Partnership member: $30 for 6-month period January through June 2021
Tuition is an additional $30.
Here is the URL:
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Zayt gezunt un shtark,
jay resnick
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Yiddish Film Class on Zoom in January 2021
We shall view and discuss four Yiddish films (with English subtitles) in January 2021. The class will be done on ZOOM.
Registration should open on November 17, 2020, on the Anne Arundel Community College website, under Peer Learning Partnership.
To take a PLP class, one must become a Peer Learning Partnership member: $30 for 6-month period January through June 2021
Tuition is an additional $30.
Here is the URL:
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Zayt gezunt un shtark,
jay resnick
annapolis, MD
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Reminder: Wexler Lecture tonight at 7pm
tonight, Oct 22, at 7 pm, by Zoom
Wexler Lecture on Jewish History
on the history of?Landsmanshaftn
The lecture is free, but you will need to register -- and you can do that by clicking
or copy and paste this URL:
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(If you've registered already, you have a reminder with the Zoom link from the DCJCC.)
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Oct. 22 lecture on Landsmanshaftn
LANDSMANSHAFTN: JEWISH HOMETOWN SOCIETIES IN THE NEW WORLD
DANIEL SOYER, FORDHAM UNIVERSITY
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Thursday, Oct. 22, at 7:00 pm, on Zoom
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Landsmanshaftn, associations of immigrants from the same hometown, became the most popular form of organization among Eastern European Jewish immigrants to the United States in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. In addition to providing members with valuable material benefits, they served as arenas for formal and informal social interaction—some providing springboards for involvement in radical politics, others offering houses of prayer and cemetery plots. All of them helped newly arrived Jewish immigrants adapt to their new home and find their place in American society.
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Professor Soyer will dive into the fascinating history of these organizations, connecting them to associations of immigrants from other ethnic groups as well as to an existing American tradition of fraternal organizations. In inventing new rituals and traditions, Soyer argues, landsmanshaftn reflected the influence of the surrounding American culture more than the traditions of Eastern Europe. As their members aged, the organizations became a way of keeping alive memories of a world that no longer existed.?
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Soyer is the author of Jewish Immigrant Associations and American Identity in New York, 1880-1939, the winner of the Saul Viener Award of the American Jewish Historical Society and the Thomas J. Wilson Prize of Harvard University Press. The book has been praised as an “illumination of the world of the landsmanshaftn [that] should stand as a model for all those engaged in the study of immigration and ethnicity.” He is professor of History and Jewish Studies at Fordham University. With Annie Polland, he wrote The Emerging Metropolis: New York Jews in the Age of Immigration, 1840-1920 (NYU, 2012), volume two of City of Promises: A History of the Jews of New York, winner of the National Jewish Book Award. His other books are (with Jocelyn Cohen) My Future Is in America: Autobiographies of Eastern European Jewish Immigrants (NYU, 2006), A Coat of Many Colors: Immigration, Globalization, and Reform in the New York City Garment Industry (Fordham University Press, 2005). He is coeditor, with Kirsten Fermaglich and Adam Mendelsohn, of the journal American Jewish History.
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The lecture is free, but you will need to register -- and you can do that by clicking
or copy and paste this URL:
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This program is a part of the annual Wexler Lecture series made possible by the Edlavitch DCJCC’s Bernard Wexler Fund for Jewish History.
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Yiddish video: A Three-ring Sukkos
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The third in our new series ?? ????? ??????, Readings in Yiddish Literature, we hope this jolly tale by a?renowned Yiddish novelist and raconteur will add to the joy of your holiday. It's in Yiddish, but English subtitles are available. We hope you'll watch it and if you enjoy it, "like" it and subscribe to our channel!
And if you'd like to help this tiny, 72-year-old organization survive the pandemic,?a time when we can't produce in-person?Yiddish events for?fees and ticket?revenue, please click to send a tax-deductible donation our way. Every little bit helps!
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Yiddish Theater kongres@...
Congress for Jewish Culture
PO Box 1590
New York, NY 10159-1590
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Listen to Audio Recording: Sholem Aleichem's Der Esreg
From League for Yiddish <info@...>
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“Have you heard?”
Sholem Aleichem's charming
short story for Sukkos – "Der
Esreg" (‘The Esrog’)
Our beloved holiday Sukkos has
arrived. This is the yontef when we eat in a sukkah and celebrate the harvest, as well as the protection which the Jews found in the desert after their liberation from Egypt. One of the rites performed on Sukkos is the blessing over the lulav and esrog.
In Sholem Aleichem’s short story
“Der Esreg” we get to know a boy
who can’t wait to get his hands on the esrog, but in his case, not necessarily to make a blessing.....
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Check our whole “Have you heard?” playlist on Youtube.
This recorded reading is the fifth in the series “Have you heard?”, a project of the League for Yiddish.
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well worth your online time
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From: Shane Baker, Congress for Jewish Culture <kongres@...> To: "yiddishdc@..." <yiddishdc@...> Sent: Saturday, September 26, 2020, 3:59:34 PM EDT Subject: A Yom Kippur tale
When two people pray for diametrically opposed, mutually exclusive outcomes: "Ne'ila" by Y. L. Peretz, a new Yiddish reading with English subtitles.
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Jews Praying in the Synagogue on Yom Kippur, by Maurycy Gottlieb, 1878.
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A scene from a synagogue in the old country, with glimpses inside the fervent prayers of the individuals under the tallises, this story was written by Y. L. Peretz and reworked for performances by the humorist Der Tunkeler (Yoysef Tunkel) and was a favorite piece in the repertoire of Joseph Buloff.
Enjoy this second in our series A BLAT YIDISH––Readings in Yiddish Literature. If you don't understand Yiddish, click the [CC] icon on the lower right side of the viewing window.?A BLAT YIDISH?and will continue irregularly for the time that we can't have in person Yiddish events due to the pandemic. or follow our emails to see more in the series.
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Click through to hear this moving tale.
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Lastly...
we are most grateful to those who have supported our work at this difficult time with contributions both financial and practical. You have made our online events possible, and they will remain as important artifacts of Yiddish culture at a very strange time in the history of the world. We have some very special plans for a truly unique online event this December, announcement to follow the yontoyvim. But we'll need considerable help in order to do it.
Nu, dervayle BLAYBT GEZUNT.
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The Congress for Jewish Culture receives support from the Bertha Foundation, the Kronhill Pletka Foundation, and individual donors like you.
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Online Yiddish classes from the Left Coast
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They have a variety of Yiddish language and culture classes for all ages for Yiddish
language, music, and culture. Even a Yiddish yoga class (it's California!)
Zay gezunt,
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