Tuesday to Friday, PM1 You can bake it; you can boil it; you can fry it or you can stuff it–you’ve still got to eat it, if only for the sake of the all the starving children who would be happy with a nice plate of lung-and-liver to go with their prune compote. We’ll look [...]
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Ashkenazi Poets Remembering Sepharad to Celebrate and Cry for Argentina
Tuesday, PM2 Ashkenazi poets in Argentina have persistently made use of Ladino and Sephardic motifs to negotiate their new Argentinean identity, notably during the waves of Eastern European immigration at the beginning of the 20th Century and during the military junta at the end of that century. Yael illustrates this kind of sephardism with two [...]
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Bagegenish mit yidisher poezye
This year, to accompany the debut of the KlezKanada Poetry Initiative, Kolya Borodulin’s annual “Bagegenish mit Yidish” will become a special “Bagegenish mit yidisher poezye.” Each day a different poet will be featured and there will be special concert presentations in this period. OCCUPY YIDDISH! – Di anarchisten (Tuesday) This will be a session about [...]
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Buenos Aires Soiree
Tuesday, evening Jacinta and the amazing Lerner Moguilevsky Duo lead our celebration of Yiddishkayt in Latin America – both in their KlezKanada debuts. A native of Buenos Aires and living in Paris, Jacinta is a singer, guitarist, actress, master of Yiddish tango and much more. Marcelo Moguilevsky and César Lerner present multi-instrumental and vocal mastery [...]
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Discovering Yiddish Montreal
Tuesday, PM2 At the beginning of the 20th century Montreal is, with New York, one of the two major Yiddish speaking cities in North America as thousands of Ashkenazi Jews were crossing the Atlantic buoyed by hopes of a better world, bringing with them a very lively Yiddish culture which found a unique locus of [...]
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