Re: Yiddish Women's Voices

[Susan Lerner <meydele...>]

Jewish Music list members should note the February 24 MIKVEH concert in Los 
Angeles and the workshop on Women's Yiddish Songs of Exile and Homecoming 
by Adrienne Cooper on February 25.

Shira Lerner
Co-Chair, Yiddishkayt Los Angeles
Conference Coordinator, Women's Yiddish Voices

Di froyenshtimen/WOMEN?S YIDDISH VOICES


Yiddishkayt Los Angeles and the University of Southern California's Center 
for Feminist Research invites you to explore Women?s Yiddish Voices on 
February 24 and 25 in Los Angeles. Through the centuries, the myriad voices 
of Jewish women have found their expression in the rich mameloshn (mother 
tongue) of the East European Ashkenazi Jews. Yiddish has long been 
associated with women and women?s literature. From folktales to lullabies, 
from the earliest women?s prayer books to the writing of the brilliant 20th 
century poets and novelists, Yiddish has given voice to Jewish women's 
passions, dreams, and longings. Join us for a special Saturday women?s 
all-star klezmer concert and an all-day Sunday conference conducted in English
         Women?s Yiddish Voices begins on Saturday night, February 24, at 
Temple Isaiah in West Los Angeles, with a concert by MIKVEH, a 
?super-group? made up of well-known women klezmer musicians.  An all-day 
conference (in English) co-sponsored by the USC Center for Feminist 
Research follows on Sunday, February 25, on the University of Southern 
California campus. A list of the conference presentations and speakers 
follows.  Join us when di froyenshtimen / Women's Yiddish Voices honors and 
celebrates women's participation in a living, vibrant, contemporary Yiddish 
culture.

For a brochure and more information contact: Yiddishkayt Los Angeles, 
Yiddishkaytla (at) eathlink(dot)net, www.yiddishkaytla.org,  323/692-8151.

Concert by MIKVEH
Saturday, February 24, 8 pm, Temple Isaiah, 13045 W. Pico Blvd., Los Angeles

Conference, February 25, 9 am  5 pm, Taper Hall, USC
9-9:30 am, Registration

9:30  10:30 am, Plenary Lecture by Dr. Kathryn Hellerstein

10:30  12 noon:  Morning Sessions

Morning A:  SHRAYBN: WOMEN WRITERS OF THE 19 & 20 CENTURIES
         Dr. Kathryn Hellerstein on Kadya Molodovsky
         Troim Katz Handler on Esther Singer Kreitzman
         Norma Fain Pratt on Anna Margolin

Morning B: LEZBIANKES:  LESBIAN IDENTITY IN TODAY'S YIDDISH AMERICAN COMMUNITY
         Irena Klepfisz
         Fran Chalin
         Sara Felder

Morning C:  YIDDISH IN THE MEDIA
         Eve Jochnowitz:  Audible kashres:  food ads on Yiddish radio
         Ellie Kellman:  Women as Heroes in Yiddish American Popular Fiction

Morning D: WORKSHOP on WOMEN'S SONGS OF EXILE AND HOMECOMINGYIDDISH MUSIC
         Adrienne Cooper

12:15  1:30 pm: Lunch and Keynote Speech by Irena Klepfisz

2  3:15 pm: Afternoon Session 1

Afternoon -1A: A GAYSTIK FARGENIGN : SOULFUL DELIGHTS: WOMEN'S LIFE-STORIES 
IN THE US
          Jocelyn Cohen:  Saved by Reading: Working Class Autobiography

Afternoon -1B:  GLICKL'S SHVESTER: MEDIEVAL WOMEN
         Gerald Frakes:   Vashti as Political Radical in Early Purim Shpiln
         Justin Jared Lewis: Smart, Strong, Sexy & frum: Biblical Women in 
a Medieval                     Yiddish Manuscript

Afternoon - 1C: HELDISHE FROYEN: WOMEN RADICALS
         Lilke Majzner: Women?s Political Role in Europe and During the 
Holocaust:                                              1880-1945
         Norma  Fain Pratt: Continuing the Tradition in the goldene medine

Afternoon  - 1D:  T'KHINES : PRAYERS AND SUPPLICATIONS
         Kaye Goodman

3:30  4:30 pm Afternoon Session 2:

Afternoon -2A:
FROYEN IN YIDDISHN TEATER
Sabell Bender: Women in the Yiddish Theater: Actors, Directors and Characters

Afternoon -2B:    UNDZERE HAYNTIKE POETN / OUR CONTEMPORARY POETS
         Poets Read Their Poetry (in Yiddish and English)
                 Beyle Schaechter-Gottesman
                 Sarah Moscowitz
                 Troim Katz Handler
                 Gitl Shaechter-Viswanath

Afternoon -2C:    DERTSEYLERINS  / Storytellers
         Itsik Gottesman: Women in Yiddish Folktales
         Justin Jaron Lewis:  ?I Heard It from the Rebbetzin??: Women as 
Heroes and                                      Storytellers in Hasidic Tales

Afternoon -2D:   A YIDISHN TAM / A JEWISH FLAVOR
         Eve Jochnowitz / Yiddish Foodways in the Old World and the New

4:45  5 pm:  Closing

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