Yiddish and Music at the Los Angeles Winter Yiddish Intensive!

[Jill Friemark <sefirah...>]

This year's Los Angeles winter Yiddish Intensive combines Yiddish with 
music!  It's a weeklong festival featuring a host of excellent teachers 
and musicians.  Spread the word, and hope to see you there!  For more 
information, visit:  www.yiddishinstitute.org

>  ANNOUNCING:   The only West Coast and the world’s only winter Yiddish 
> intensive: the 4th annual "Art of Yiddish: Entering the Heart of a 
> Culture Through Its Beat", Los Angeles, December 14 – 20, 2003. Learn 
> Yiddish with the best Yiddish teachers in North America: Pesakh 
> Fiszman, Anna Gonshor, Miriam Hoffman, Sheyndl Liberman, and Sheva 
> Zucker. Develop a deeper understanding of the culture that created our 
> beloved Klezmer music and humor, with world-renown klezmorim Jeff 
> Warschauer and Deborah Strauss teaching song and dance workshops 
> (bring along your own instruments too); ethnomusicologist Robert Cohen 
> revealing the back stories to Yiddish music; and writer/actor Yakov 
> Basner illuminating the comic side of Yiddish literature from Chelm to 
> Moshe Nadir. Theodore Bikel joins us for our closing concert and 
> farbrengen.
>
> It’s the perfect time to explore your roots through the vitality, 
> soul, and wit of Yiddish culture. Produced in collaboration with the 
> UCLA Center for Jewish Studies and the University of Judaism 
> Department of Continuing Education.  For more information and to 
> request or download the brochure, please visit 
> www.yiddishinstitute.org or e-mail Miriam (at) yiddishinstitute(dot)org(dot)
>

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