TWIN CITIES YIDDISH FEST - Oct 5 - 20, 2013
Thank you all for making our first ever Yiddish Fest so amazing! The month of October was filled with 13 events in 8 locations featuring dynamic lectures, concerts, art exhibits, performances, cooking classes and more. Truly something for everyone! If you have still not had enough of Yiddish Fest, please visit the two Yiddish comic art exhibits on display at the Sabes JCC through the end of November (Yiddishkeit and A Bintel Brief) and there is still room in the newly added cooking class through Beth El Synagogue:
Just like Bubbe used to Bake…
With a Modern Twist
Prepare Delicacies of the Yiddish Kitchen
with Guest Baker, Jeff Sherman
Sunday, November 10, 10:00 am
Beth El Synagogue
5224 W 26th St
St Louis Park, MN 55416
Register by emailing Raquel, [email protected]
$10 p/person. Space is limited.
We would like to thank all of our wonderful guests, sponsors, community partners, and committee members for helping make Yiddish Fest one to remember!
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Faith beat: Sabes Center launches Twin Cities Yiddish Fest
Star Tribune, September 27, 2013
ARCHIVE OF PAST EVENTS - 2013 Yiddish Fest
Art, Solidarity, Jewishness, and Jive:
Black Entertainers and Yiddish, 1920-1990 - October 5, 2013
Aaron Lansky Presents:
Enormous Changes at the Last Minute
New Adventures in Yiddish Culture - October 6, 2013 at 7:00pm
Location: Sabes JCC
Aaron Lansky, founder and president of the Yiddish Book Center, will recap early adventures
to save the world’s Yiddish books and carry the story to the present with a rollicking
account of new technologies and the young people using them to reclaim the cultural
“flip side” of contemporary Jewish life.
Sky Tinged Red - October 7, 2013 at 7:00pm
Location: St. Paul JCC
Sky Tinged Red is Isaia
Eiger’s chronicle of
two-and-a-half years
as a prisoner in the
Auschwitz-Birkenau
death camp during
World War II.
A Bisl Yiddish Songs of the Spirit - October 11, 2013 at 7:00pm
Location: Mount Zion Temple
During Shabbat services, Cantor Strauss-Klein will offer a sermon-in-song highlighting several classic and inspirational Yiddish songs.
Yiddish Diva of the Yeshiva - October 13, 2013 at 2:00pm
Location: Sabes JCC
Live concert of Broadway tunes and Yiddish folk song, accompanied by pianist, Allen Levine.
Learning to Listen: Yiddish Radio in the 1920s - October 14, 2013 at 12:30pm
LOCATION: University of Minnesota, 135 Nicholas Hall
Before Twitter fed news, before news outlets could, before apps streamed live media content, there was radio. A giant leap forward in the technology of media dissemination, radio appeared in the 1920s to an American audience that largely did not know quite what to do with this new technology, what it meant, or how to fit it into their living rooms.
A Cultural History of Yiddish Radio, 1923-1955 - October 14, 2013 at 7:30pm
LOCATION: Beth Jacob Congregation, 1179 Victoria Curve, Mendota Heights, MN 55118
From 1926 to 1964, more than 70 radio stations in the United States carried programming in Yiddish to audiences of Jewish immigrants who settled everywhere from Boston to Honolulu.
CONCERT
FROM
JEWISH FOLK POETRY - October 17, 2013 at 5:00pm
LOCATION: Sabes JCC
Featuring Dr. Megan
Wallace, pianist, Roy
Heilman, tenor, Korissa
Olson, soprano, Clara Osowski, mezzo-soprano.
From Jewish Folk Poetry for soloists and
piano, Op. 79, by Soviet composer Dmitry
Shostakovich is immediately memorable,
their rhythms infectious, and the harmonies
both sweet and sour.
Yiddishkeit: The Exhibition Reception with Paul Buhle - October 17, 2013 at 4:00pm
LOCATION: Sabes JCC
An exhibition of comic art posters exploring the concept of Yiddishkeit, roughly translated as “Yiddish culture or sensibility.” Drawn from the 2011 book Yiddishkeit: Jewish Vernacular and The New Land, edited by the late comic art icon Harvey Pekar and distinguished cultural historian Paul Buhle, the posters feature comic art that examines the impact of pivotal figures and movements in Yiddish literature, theater, music, politics, and comedy.
A Bintel Brief featuring works by
New York artist Liana Finck, Reception - October 17, 2013 at 4:00pm
LOCATION: Sabes JCC
These pages are excerpts from a graphic novel by Liana Finck, which will be published by Ecco Press in the spring of 2014. Each of the eleven stories in the book is based on a different letter written in to the Bintel Brief, a beloved Yiddish advice column that was published in the Forward newspaper beginning in 1906, and which was the brainchild of the newspaper's brilliant founding editor, Abraham Cahan.
Just like Bubbe used to Bake…With a Modern Twist
Prepare Delicacies of the Yiddish Kitchen
with Guest Baker,
Jeff Sherman - October 20, 2013 at 10:00am
Location: Beth El Synagogue
CONCERT - KHUPE
Performed by EISNER'S KLEZMORIM - October 20, 2013 at 3:00pm
Location: Sharei Chesed Synagogue
The instrumental music of Ashkenazi Jews is known today as "klezmer" music. Used primarily at weddings, it is at once joyous, haunting, and deeply introspective. After the Holocaust, the tone of the Jewish wedding changed dramatically, eliminating many of its emotionally demanding aspects.
