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Yiddish and Music at the Los Angeles Winter Yiddish Intensive!
- From: Jill Friemark <sefirah...>
- Subject: Yiddish and Music at the Los Angeles Winter Yiddish Intensive!
- Date: Wed 24 Sep 2003 06.24 (GMT)
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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- Yiddish and Music at the Los Angeles Winter Yiddish Intensive!,
Jill Friemark