The stage was set. The musicians played. The featured performer read Yiddish poems accompanied by klezmer music. The crowd was excited. I was, too. The whole experience gave off the vibe of being in a club. Except we weren’t. We were in the multipurpose room at Temple Mishkon Tephilo in Venice for an afternoon event […]
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My shvester Jaye, by Binem Heller read by Hadassa Kestin. A mixture with its reading and its translation for your benefit, since not everyone has a poem written for a cousin that they have never met. Text and translation and transliteration For everyone it is a poem, a song, for you, it is mishpoje, it […]
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The Dora Wasserman Yiddish Theatre production of Gilbert and Sullivan’s The Pirates of Penzance will be performed in Yiddish, with French and English supertitles, at the Segal Centre from May 31 to June 16, 2009. Videographer John Mahoney. www.montrealgazette.com/arts
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