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September 2015 |
L'Shanah Tovah to all our Khaverim | |||||||
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No programs in
September due to yontif
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A gut, Gezundt
un Zeis Yor , a Yor fun Sholom
tsu alamen from the Minneapolis Yidish Vinkl |
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Sunday, October 18, 2015 2:00 p.m. Sabes JCC |
A Delightful Musical Double Header |
Guest artist
Amanda(Miryem-Khaye) Seigel  a Yiddish, singer, songwriter, and actor from New
York City.
(Note to you: Several years ago, Amanda lived here in
Minnesota and was a young
member of our Vinkl).
Amanda became a fluent Yiddish speaker in her 20's. She has performed, lectured and taught at Klez Kamp in NY, Klez Kanada, Yiddish Australia in Melbourne,and the Seminarium jezyka i kultury jidys in Warsaw, Poland. She appears frequently with the famed Folksbiene Yiddish Theater in New York City. She recently released her solo album A Toyznt Zamen, A Thousand Tastes. Amanda will be accompanied by pianist Thomas Bartsch. Also appearing in a special performance is local
and national
favorite, the talented ethno-musician,
Mark Stillman. His freylakh tunes are always a
crowd pleaser.
You do not need to speak or understand all Yiddish to enjoy these performances. Tickets at the door $5.00. Reception with the artists follows the program. |
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Sunday, November 1, 2015 12:00 noon Sabes JCC |
Yiddish Film His
Wife's Lover (Zayn
Vaybs Lubovnik)
USA,
1931 Restoration and new English subtitles: The National Center for Jewish Film
Billed
as the "first Jewish
musical comedy talking picture," His Wife’s Lover stars
the popular Yiddish theater comedian Ludwig Satz in one of his only
surviving film performances. This fast-paced, song-filled comedy
benefits from location camerawork of New York City's Lower East Side.
With a script by a female author, Sheyne Rokhl Simkoff, His Wife's Lover revels in its role
reversals and love triangles all the while exploring the gender issues
of the day. "Ludwig
Satz, the gifted tummler who prefigures such mainstream American clowns
as Sid Caesar and Jerry Lewis gets to strut his gallery of oafs and
rakes." $5.00 if you call JCC to reserve a seat; $10.00 at the door. |
 Cast: Ludwig Satz, Isidor Casher, Lucy Levin, Lillian Feinman and Zita MaKar, Michael Rosenberg, Jacon Frank, Anne Shapiro |
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December 2015 |
Winter
Break |
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January 2016 |
Winter Break | No program. | ||||||
Sunday, February 2016 10:00 a.m |
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Yiddish Folk Music
Reflections on Yiddish Life How the songs
of the Pale of Settlement reflected on poverty, social
activism, traditions and celebrations, rules,
life and rituals, and on the challenges in the latter half of the 19th century.
With - Dorothy Marden, Markle Karlen,
pianist Rita Lusky, violinist Gitlele Eisner, and readers Paula Mailer
and Lev Mailer. Come listen, learn, and sing along. Klezmer musicians at a wedding, Ukraine, ca. 1925 from the YIVO Encyclopedia.
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Sunday, March 13, 2016 3:00 p.m. |
Carnival of the Animals By French composer Camille Saint Saens a multi-media presentation with live music, readings, and projected pictures Judith Eisner and Friends
with a ten piece orchestra that mimics the animal sounds in each of these classical movements (2 pianos, 2 violins, 1 viola, 1 cello, 1 base, 1 flute, 1 clarinet, 1 xylophone). In 1949 Ogden Nash wrote funny
animal poems to accompany the music. Currently, Boris Sandler, editor of
the Yiddish Forward newspaper, The Forverts, and one of the most
significant contemporary writers of Yiddish, has composed poems in Yiddish to
accompany the music. (Used with permission from his book Nisht Geshtroygn, Nisht Gefloygfn, illustrated by Itella Mastbaum.) Lev Mailer, drama coach and former screen actor will narrate in Yiddish; Minnesota Public Radio host Mindy Ratner, will narrate in English. Technical assistance by Doug Cole
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First Sunday April 3 2016 10:00 a.m. |
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Visible and Invisible Boundaries:
Presentation and Panel Discussion of Jews who in their lifetime became national and international public figures outside the Pale of Settlement - Three assimilated Jews whose thought determined no less than the Direction
of the 20th century; - The first Jewish Prime Minister
of a major European country on two separate occasions
Panelists: Doug Cole, Neal Gosman,
Florence Littman and Ralph Wittcoff Dorothy Marden, Forzitser Yidishkeit - Friendship - Refreshments |
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Sunday May 22 2016 1:00 PM to 3:00PM |
Ourselves We Share and
Celebrate These, Our Timeless Yiddish
Treasures Annalee Odessky - Forzitser |
Needle Trades workers - NYPL Digital gallery |
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June 2016 |
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