Re: KlezKamp: The 14th Annual Yiddish Folk Arts Program

[Matt Jaffey <mjaffey2...>]

At 04:08 PM 9/29/98 -0500, you wrote:
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Matt

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KlezKamp: The 14th Annual Yiddish Folk Arts Program

Living Traditions is proud to announce its 14th annual KlezKamp: The Yiddish 
Folk Arts Program, to be held December 23-29, 1998 at the Paramount Hotel in 
Parksville, New York.

In honor of Israel's 50th anniversary, we are focusing this year's event on the 
history of Yiddish culture in Israel past, present and future. To help us
explore 
our theme, we have invited several of Israel's finest exponents of East
European 
Jewish arts to join us: ethnomusicologist GILA FLAM, who will offer an insight 
into the rich archival holdings of Yiddish music in Israel, folklorist DOV
NOY,  
who will examine the history of pre-Zionist Yiddish folksongs, and special
guest 
CHAVA ALBERSTEIN, who will screen her award-winning documentary film 
on Yiddish poets in Israel, and perform a concert together with The Klezmatics, 
featuring music from their recent recording of new song settings of Yiddish 
poetry.

In addition, we continue to present a dizzying array of exciting and unique 
courses. Instructors in klezmer music include Frank London, Jim Guttmann, Jeff 
Warschauer, Deborah Strauss, Alicia Svigals, Lauren Brody, Sy Kushner, Mark 
Rubin, David Licht, Ken Maltz, Sherry Mayrent, Sid Beckerman and Merlin 
Shepherd. Lectures in Yiddish music will feature a class in musicological
history, 
"From the Bible to the Revival," with Mark Kligman and talks on the history of 
klezmer music in Philadelphia with Klezmer Conservatory Band director 
Hankus Netsky, assisted by senior veterans of the Philly klezmer scene. 
Returning teachers of Yiddish song are Adrienne Cooper and Zalmen Mlotek, 
who will lead a master class, song survey and our KlezKamp Community 
Chorus, and, for the first time in many years, Josh Waletzky, who will
present an 
overview of contemporary Yiddish lider. Our dance staff includes Steve 
Weintraub, who will survey both Yiddish dance and Israeli dances inspired by 
East European models and Jill Gellerman-Pandey leading Hasidic dance.

Our Yiddish language classes will be taught by Paula Teitelbaum, Sheva Zucker, 
Pesakh Fiszman and Miriam Isaacs. And what would KlezKamp be without 
Michael Wex and "Wexology?"

Our folklore class will feature Itzek Gottesman speaking on the state of
Yiddish 
in Israel and Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett's history of tableaux vivants and 
pageants of the Holy Land of the last 100 years, while our literature course 
unites returning scholars Anita Norich and Jeffrey Shandler. An overview of 
recent Jewish films with Roberta Newman, hand crafts workshops taught by 
Peggy Davis and Susan Leviton, our KlezKids program and Jenny Romaine's 
innovative Teen Theater Project plus slow jams, evening programs and nightly 
dances continue the tradition that makes KlezKamp, the world's original Yiddish 
gathering, an experience not to be missed.

As KlezKamp will run an extra day over shabbos this year, expect special 
shabesdik events, including group singing of nigunim, special lectures and
panel 
discussions.

KlezKamp will be held, as always, at the kosher and comfy Paramount Hotel in 
scenic Parksville, New York, just a couple of hours or so from midtown 
Manhattan. 

For a brochure please send your name and address to:

Living Traditions
430 West 14th Street Suite 409
New York NY 10014
Tel. (212) 691-1272 
Fax (212) 691-1657
email: livetrads (at) aol(dot)com

Information and applications can also be downloaded from the new Living 
Traditions heymbletl at www.livingtraditions.org