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Yizkor Bikher/ Memorial Books – Untapped Treasure of the Last Collected Memories of a Vanished Civilization

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Sunday April 14, 2024 11 AM Pacific; 2 PM Eastern Free Online Event – Registration Required Yizkor Bikher/ Memorial Books – Untapped Treasure of the Last Collected Memories of a Vanished Civilization יזכּור ביכער נישט־אויסגעניצטער אוצר פֿון די לעצטע קאָלעקטיװע זיכרונות פֿון אַ פֿאַרשװוּנדענער ציװיליזאַציע Presented by ELIYANA ADLER, Ph.D What began as pamphlets of names immediately after…

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Animation Sings New Life into Once Popular Yiddish Songs

600 459 janet

 Presented by Jane Peppler Musician, composer, singer, translator Jane Peppler has been researching brilliant but forgotten Yiddish theater songs for more than a decade. How, then, to get people to listen to these obscure but marvellous songs, when most people have heard – and loved – only the same 20 Yiddish songs over and over again? Animation was…

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