Nov. 6th W.C. Gala Honoring Thedore Bikel, Emceed by Lainie Kazan

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Tickets are still available for this wonderful event.  Details below.

Hope to see you there!


SECOND ANNUAL WORKMEN?S CIRCLE/ARBETER RING

?YIDDISH IN AMERICA? GALA CELEBRATION

TOWN HALL, NYC - NOVEMBER 6th, 2003 - 7:30PM

John Sweeney, President of the AFL-CIO & Theodore Bikel, Actor/Recording 
Star
To Be Honored


        October 7, 2003, New York ? The Workmen?s Circle/Arbeter Ring (WC/AR) 
will 
hold the second annual celebration of YIDDISH IN AMERICA on November 6th, 
2003, at Town Hall, 123 West 43th Street, New York City, at 7:30pm The 
evening will celebrate the organization?s ongoing commitment to Jewish 
community, Yiddish language and culture, and a dedication to progressive 
values and social action.
        The program will feature performances by Broadway and film stars 
including:

·       Award winning Broadway and film star Lainie Kazan, who will emcee the 
evening,
·       Judy Kaye, star of Mama Mia and many hits,
·       Two time Tony award nominee Bruce Adler,
·       Broadway and Yiddish theatre star Eleanor Reissa,
·       Multi-talented performer Joanne Borts,
·       Internationally acclaimed Cantor Simon Spiro,
·       Internationally acclaimed Yiddish song interpreter Adrienne Cooper,
·       An all-star, all-female Klezmer band led by violin virtuoso Alicia 
Svigals. The band will feature virtuoso clarinetist Eileen Stahl of the 
Klezmer Conservatory Band, Susan Watts of Mikveh, Canadian jazz-piano star 
Marilyn Lerner and more.
·       The New Yiddish Chorale, the New York City Labor Chorus and the Jewish 
People?s Philharmonic Chorus will join in a rousing finale to celebrate 
Yiddish.


YIDDISH IN AMERICA 2003 will also honor several outstanding individuals and 
one institution, all of which have embraced the passions and ideals of the 
Workmen?s Circle/Arbeter Ring:
        John Sweeney, President of the AFL-CIO, and America?s preeminent labor 
leader, reflects the WC/AR?s historic partnership and identification with 
the American Labor Movement. Early in its history, The WC/AR drew its tens 
of thousands of immigrant members into the shelter of the unions and 
continues today in its support of the American labor movement.
        Theodore Bikel, internationally acclaimed film, theatre, and recording 
artist,  human rights activist, and an icon of Yiddish and international 
folk-music,
Motl Zelmanowicz, a Democratic Socialist leader and the current head of the 
Jewish Labor Bund, and a generous supporter of causes that perpetuate 
Yiddish language and culture and humanist, democratic values.
        Also being honored for their crucial role in promoting and maintaining 
Jewish identity in America are:
         Seena Stein, a prominent New York realtor, and active alumna of the 
WC/AR?s venerable Kinder Ring summer camp.
        The West Side Yiddish Cultural School, NYC, which for eighteen years 
has 
served as a creative community force in progressive, secular Jewish 
education.
         The Workmen?s Circle/Arbeter Ring is a national organization. They 
were 
instrumental in championing the integration of working class Jewish 
immigrants into American society, and leading the quest for economic and 
social justice. Since its inception at the turn of the last century, when 
ten Jewish immigrants gathered in a tenement flat on the New York?s Lower 
East Side, WC/AR has been at the forefront of efforts to sustain a vital 
Jewish future. Along with its social justice mission, the organization 
maintains a network of Yiddish schools, produces many free Yiddish musical 
events, supports Yiddish theater, and publishes countless volumes and 
journals, all with the intention of preserving the cultural legacy of East 
European Jewry for future generations.
        Tickets for YIDDISH IN AMERICA are $250, $100, $50 and $36. They are 
currently available at the Town Hall Box Office, Ticketmaster, or at The 
Workmen?s Circle/Arbeter-Ring New York office 212-889-6800 x 301.

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