Re: IAYC conference/Lorele's new CD oops

[Sylvia Schildt <creativa...>]

Ooops. I forgot to click on the program update -- this is the latest.

Sylvia


Yiddish Teachers:
Heroes Then and Now
International Association of Yiddish Clubs IAYC ­8th World Conference
September 4, 5, 6, 7, 2003      Pikesville Hilton, Baltimore, MD
www.derbay.org
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THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 4

Check in and registration  time: from 3:00  Check in to a tuneful welcome by
local klezmer duo Jerry Lapides, vocals and harmonica, Jil Ice, vocals and
accordion. (Lobby)

Sign up with Mitch Smolkin for Talent Cabaret before Friday Night Dinner.
Space limited. (Sing, dance, read poetry or prose, declaim, do your stuff)

To arrange for Secular Shabat service on site, contact Judith Seid or Rivke
Feinstein before Friday evening.

5th floor Hospitality Suite  - Shule Show and Tell (informal, optional )

Dinner (for hotel guests) (kosher option available)
6:00-7:15 Preakness Ballroom

8:00-10:00 pm  Harry V. Lerner Memorial Opening Ceremonies and
                          Evening Program at the Preakness Ballroom

Welcome by IAYC and Yiddish of Greater Baltimore
Mayor¹s Proclamation of Yiddish Month in Baltimore ­ Councilwoman Rikki
Spector

Our keynote speaker will be noted teacher, activist  Gella Schweid Fishman
who established the Secular Schools in America Collection at Stanford
University (California). She will speak on the topic:
The Secular Yiddish Schools in North America:
An Archival Collection as a Living Source
of Jewish Creativity




WORLD PREMIERE OF THEIR NEW CD
? A musical salute to Mikhl Gelbart with teacher/klezmer  Lori Cahan Simon
trio with  violin virtuoso Steven Greenman, Walt Mahovlitch and a
Shule/Summer Camp Song singalong.
? The big band sounds of the Baltimore Klezmer Orchestra

FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 5

7:45-8:45 am   Kosher Bagel Continental Breakfast (Special Corridor set-up)
                                               (hotel guests only)

9:15-10:30am  Period A Breakout Sessions
Morrie Feller ­ Yiddish Kompyuteray: Getting It Write In Yiddish (E/Y) ­
(Whirlaway)
Troim Katz Handler ­ ³Simche² Love and Sex, Jewish Style² (E/Y) ­ (Citation)
Eve Jochnowitz  ­  Traditional Shabes Meals  (Y/E)  (Secretariat)
Iosif  Vaisman  -  Internet as a tool for teaching Yiddish (E/Y) -
(Pimlico/Laurel)

10:45-12:00 noon  Period B  Breakout Sessions
Lori Cahan-Simon ­ Researching Mikhl Gelbart (Yiddish through song) (Y/E) ­
                                              (Whirlaway)
Sylvia Schildt ­ Remembering Brownsville/Mayn Shtetele Bronzvil ­
           Launch of her new book published by IAYC (Y/E) - (Citation)
Prof. Max Ticktin ­ Abraham Joshua Heschel & Yiddish -  (Y) - (Secretariat)
Iosif Vaisman - Hersh Segal, his friends, pupils, and flourishing of Yiddish
culture in
                          Czernowitz between the World Wars.² (Y) -
(Pimlico/Laurel)


12:15-1:30 PM   Lunch on Your Own
                         IAYC BOARD MEETING (Board Room)

1:45-3:00 pm   Period C Breakout Sessions
Betty Tepper ­ Yiddish Tango: Buenos Aires to the World  (E/Y/S) -
(Whirlaway)
Mitch Smolkin  -- Yiddish Program in Vilnius (E/Y) (Secretariat)
Sholem Berger ­ Vos Fara Yid Redt Yidish? ­ (Y)  - (Citation)
Shelby Shapiro - Continues his fascinating exploration of the Yidishe
Ganovim ­ (E) 
                   
(Pimlico/Laurel)

3:00-3:15 PM ­ KOSHER PASTRY BREAK








3:15- -4:30 pm   Period D
PLENARY SESSION  & IAYC ELECTIONS

Plenary Session in honor of long time Yiddish teacher and activist Itche
Goldberg (Y/E) 
Preakness Ballroom  (Panel discussion)
Henry Sapoznik   creator of the Peabody Award winning Yiddish Radio Project
and Director of Living Traditions, will hold a very important plenary
session on Yiddish Education and the KlezKamp Phenomenon. KlezKamp, now in
its 18th year, has been a major force in producing a new generation of
enthusiasts of Yiddish music, language, literature and culture and there is
much we can learn from its phenomenal success.
Followed by IAYC ELECTIONS 4:30-5:00***

5:00-5:45     5th floor Hospitality Suite  - Shule Show and Tell (informal)

6:30-7:45 pm  KOSHER SHABES DINNER* (for hotel guests, special passes)  with
zmiros by Cantor Allan Berman­ Preakness Ballroom

 8:30 until 11:00- 
 Preakness Ballroom
GIGANTIC TALENT CABARET (Mitch Smolkin MC)
Cookie Blattman
Elsa Dragon

(Sign up with Mitch anytime Friday before Shabes Dinner)

SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 6  - GUT SHABES!

7:45-8:45 am   Kosher Bagel Continental Breakfast (Special Corridor set-up)
(hotel guests only)

SHABES (SHABBAT) SERVICES
Orthodox Shakhres Musaf services (optional) (E/H) with Cantor Allan Berman ­
Churchill Downs
(Nearby Conservative & Reform services available, Secular services upon
request)

9:15-10:30 am   Period A Breakout Sessions
Dr. Sheva Zucker ­ Teaching Intermediate Yiddish ­ (Y/E) -  (Whirlaway)
Jim Kapplin ­   My Life As a Zamler  (E)  -  (Secretariat)
Ruth Barlas ­  Yitskhok Leybush Peretz: Romantic Realist and Rebel with a
Cause  ­ 
                                                      (E/Y)   (Citation)
Hilda Rubin -  Yiddish theatre as a means of teaching language ­ (Y/E)
(Pimlico/Laurel)




10:45-12:00 noon  Period B  Breakout Sessions
Motl Rosenbush ­ How to Start a Yiddish ³Svive² in Your Town (Y) (Whirlaway)
Judith Seid -   Secular Options in Yiddish-kayt with Rivke Feinstein  -
Exec. Director, Congress of Secular Jewish Organizations,(E/Y)  - (Citation)
Roz Baker, Panel leader ­  Giving Your Programs A Lift: A Panel of Program
Ideas with Seymour Graiver, Fanny Yokor, Cyrelle Simon, Hilda Rubin  (E/Y)
(Pimlico/Laurel)
Sylwia  Szymanska Smolkin  -- Yiddish in Poland in the 21st Century  (Y/E) ­
                                                      (Secretariat)

12:15-1:30  LUNCH ON YOUR OWN (Sabbath Observers Take Away Lunch included
with Kosher Option)

1:45-3:00 pm   Period C Breakout Sessions
Dr. Solon Beinfeld ­ New Yiddish Center in Paris, its cultural activities
and goals, the work of Prof. Yitskhok Niborski and others. ( (Y/E) ­
(Whirlaway)
Herman Taube  -- Yidishe Zhurnaln in Lodz & Varshe Tsvishn di 2 Velt
                        Milkhomes ­ (Y)  - (Citation)
Motl Rosenbush ­    ³Abi Me Zeyt Zakh² Vegn Humor fun ³Dzhigan un
Schumacher² 
                       mit skitses      (Y)   (Secretariat)
Yale Strom ­ Klezmer history as found in Yizkor books (E/Y)  --
(Pimlico/Laurel)

3:00-3:15 pm  - KOSHER PASTRY BREAK

3:15-4:45 pm   Period D
PLENARY SESSION  & FILM SHOWING ­ (Preakness Ballroom)
Filmmaker Yale Strom screens and discusses his film  ³L¹Chaim, Comrade
Stalin² ---- audience Q&A.

4:45-5:45     5th floor Hospitality Suite  - Shule Show and Tell (informal)

6:30-7:45 pm DINNER (for hotel guests, special passes)   Preakness Ballroom
 (Kosher option by pre-arrangement only)

8:30-10:00 PM GALA EVENING CONCERT -  PREAKNESS BALLROOM
Presented by Henrietta Wexler
A special in-person  musical greeting from the YIDDISH THEATER by Zalmen
Mlotek, Executive Director of the Folksbiene Yiddish Theater, only and
oldest continuous running Yiddish theater in America ­ in honor of  his
parents, also great Yiddish educators, writers and collectors of Yiddish
cultural treasures ­ the late Yosl Mlotek (z¹l²) and Chane Gordon Mlotek.





Plus ?
? The unique music of Baltimore¹s wildly popular Charm City Klezmer
? Shira Shazeer and Ken Richmond, Fish Street Klezmer Duo, of Klezmaniacs
fame in a program of Yiddish song ­ old favorites, new discoveries
? World Class khazn AVI ALBRECHT sings Yiddish

SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 7

 7:45-8:45 am   Kosher Bagel Continental Breakfast (Special Corridor set-up)
                        (hotel guests only)

9:00-10:00 am   Period A Final Breakout Sessions
Miriam Beckerman  -- Mayn Lerer Dovid Katz (Y)  (Whirlaway)
Rabbi Reuven Poupko  --   Yidish Tsvishn di Khsidim (Y) (Secretariat)
Marcia Gruss Levinsohn ­ Model children¹s class (E/Y)  (Pimlico/Laurel)
Fanny Yokor -- Dialogues for Yiddish Conversation  (Y) ­ (Citation)

10:15-12:00 noon   Period B  CLOSING PLENARY SESSION & CONCERT
. Shelby Shapiro  JEWISH DAY SCHOOLS  & THE FUTURE OF YIDDISH? (Y/E)
                                (Preakness Ballroom)
CONCLUDING SOULFUL SUNDAY CONCERT with a host of favorites new and old  Mayn
Oytser -- Concert of Yiddish Art and Folk Songs with Sender
Botwinik, Sherm Labovitz and Marvin Weinberger from their CD
published by the Sholom Aleichem Club of Philadelphia.

12:00 noon ­box lunch (for hotel guests) (kosher option available)
CHECKOUT (Those going on the guided tour can leave luggage in designated
area ­ see concierge)

GUIDED TOUR  - AN ADVENTURE NOT TO BE MISSED
Bus departs 12:15 for guided tour of Jewish Baltimore with Aaron Seiden
(Pre-registration only)

Books, videos, CDs, tapes and more Yiddish goodies by our own Sal Kluger in
the Bowie Room  

* (This is the only meal under Star K  supervision.)


We reserve the right to make schedule changes in response to unforeseen
circumstances.
A mentsh trakht un G-t lakht.


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