Referatn un Varshtatn series presents:
Prof. Marc Caplan, of Johns Hopkins University
HOYPTSHTROMEN FUN YIDISHN HUMOR: FUN HASKOLE BIZ BORAT
Sunday, May 3, 1:30 p.m.
JCC of Greater Washington
6125 Montrose Rd., Rockville MD
Prof. Caplan, a dedicated scholar always brings both his own sense of
Yiddish irony and his wealth of knowledge about modern Jewish (and
non-Jewish) literature and culture to bear on his topic. This talk
will be entirely in Yiddish.
For more information, email yiddishdc@yahoo.com. Admission: $3 for
members of YGW, $5 others. Reservations not necessary |
Café Kasrilevke presents:
CINDY PALEY LIVE!
Sunday, April 19, 7:30 p.m.
JCC of Greater Washington
6125 Montrose Road, Rockville, MD
Join us as West Coast songstress Cindy Paley arrives direct from her
performances in Israel to entertain us with her talent, energy, and
music. For over 20 years, Cindy Paley, musical educator and
performer, has brought the joys of Jewish music to teachers, students
and families throughout North America. Now, she has prepared a great
program of primarily Yiddish songs, to delight an audience of all
ages. Come and hear the familiar and the new, and, above all --
Zing-along as she brings her new program to Cafe K.
Admission: $3 members of the JCC and YGW/$5 others
Reservations not necessary.
For more information, call 301-348-3464 or email khutman@jccgw.org.
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CAFE KASRILVEKE presents
A NIGHT AT THE MOVIES
featuring "Freylikhe Kaptsonim (Jolly Paupers)"
and "Yosl Cutler and His Puppets"
Sunday, October 12, 2008; 7 p.m.
JCC of Greater Washington
6125 Montrose Rd., Rockville, MD
Here's an opportunity to see Yiddish movies (subtitled in
English) that you haven't seen over and over and over. They're a
delight. "Jolly Paupers," made in Poland in 1937, features Dzigan &
Shumacher, the greatest comedy duo ever to appear in Yiddish
entertainment, in a hilarious "get rich quick" scheme. You'll laugh
`til your sides ache.
Yosl Cutler was a multi-talented artist, poet, and Yiddish Art Theater
designer, probably best known as a cartoonist. This 15-minute short
shows fanciful and slightly surreal sketches he performed with the
marionettes he created.
Admission: $3 members of the JCC, Yiddish of Greater Washington &
Workmen's Circle/ $5 general public. No reservations necessary. |
The Bernard Wexler Lecture on Jewish History 2008
FINDING THE JEWISH SHAKESPEARE:
THE LIFE AND LEGACY OF JACOB GORDIN
with author Beth Kaplan
and featuring readings by
Actors Barbara Rappaport and Norm Seltzer
Monday, September 15, 7:30 p.m.
DC Jewish Community Center
1529 16th Street, N.W., Washington, D.C. 20036
ADMISSION: FREE
In her new book, author Beth Kaplan, great-granddaughter of Jacob
Gordin, greatest of Yiddish playwrights and icon of the Yiddish stage,
set out to explore Gordin's true character and creative achievements.
Shedding new light on Gordin and his world, Kaplan describes the
commune he founded and led in Russia; his rise among Jewish New York's
literati; his masterworks, including Mirele Efros and The Jewish King
Lear; and his feud with Abraham Cahan, powerful editor of the
Forverts. Kaplan's book recaptures the Golden Age of the Yiddish
Theatre and the dynamic cultural life of Jews on New York's Lower East
Side. Kaplan is a graduate of the London Academy of Music and
Dramatic Art. An actress and writer, she teaches memoir and personal
essays at Ryerson University and the University of Toronto.
Kaplan's talk, based on the highlights of her research into Gordin
and her own experiences in delving into the little-known past of this
great writer, will also include a short selection of readings from
some of Gordin's greatest works by actors Barbara Rappaport and Norm
Seltzer. Barbara Rappaport studied with the legendary Stella Adler
and will be appearing in Theatre J's upcoming production in October of
"Honey Brown Eyes." Norm Seltzer has had a distinguished career
acting and directing in professional and community theaters. He has
had a love of the Yiddish theater since the time, at the age of four,
when he attended a Yiddish play and babbled so perfectly in Yiddish
that an elderly gentleman gave him a one-lb. bar of chocolate!
This year's Wexler Lecture, held annually in memory of Bernard Wexler
and his passion for and knowledge of Jewish history, is presented in
partnership with the 16th Street J's Leo and Anna Smilow Center for
Jewish Living and Learning. It is a part of the Hyman S. and Freda
Bernstein Jewish Literary Festival. For more details on this and
other events, go to www.washingtondcjcc.org and follow the links for
the Jewish Literary Festival. |
CAFE KASRILVEKE presents
A BOUQUET OF YIDDISH SONGS AND POEMS
featuring dynamic entertainer Mendy Cahan, Founder of Yung Yiddish in
Israel
Sunday, Sept. 7, 2008; 7 p.m.
JCC of Greater Washington
6125 Montrose Rd., Rockville, MD
Mendy Cahan is a distinguished performer, and will delight us with a
fresh "bouquet" of Yiddish songs and poems by Gebirtig, Manger,
Peretz, Leyvik, and Markish ? as well as George Gershwin and Jacques
Brel in Yiddish! Mendy will be accompanied by our own Harry Appleman.
Mendy is also the leading Yiddish activist in Israel and will tell
us briefly about Yung Yidish, the organization he founded 15 years ago
that is now the leading center of public Yiddish activities in Israel.
Yung Yidish holds regular programs in both Tel Aviv and Jerusalem.
If you want to know what's happening in the popular world of Yiddish
in Israel, or just want to hear an outstanding and unique program of
Yiddish music (when's the last time you heard Gershwin in Yiddish?),
come to Mendy's performance.
Admission: $3 members of the JCC, the Workmen's Circle and Yiddish of
Greater Washington/$5 general public.
Reservations not necessary. |
Cafe K Annual June Gala
Adrienne Cooper, with Marilyn Lerner and Greg Wall, in
"SHAKE MY HEART: A SONG CYCLE ON THE POETRY OF ANNA MARGOLIN"
Sunday, June 8, 2 p.m.
JCC of Greater Washington
6125 Montrose Road, Rockville MD
The groundbreaking "Shake My Heart: A Song Cycle on the Poetry of
Anna Margolin," features a unique fusion of Jewish, jazz, classical
and improvised new music. It reaches through time and casts new light
on the poetic genius of Anna Margolin, one of the greatest Yiddish
poets of the 20th century. The program features 13 stunning poems and
diary entries written by Margolin, newly translated by Adrienne Cooper
herself, and set to music especially for Cooper's voice by brilliant
Montreal-born composer Marilyn Lerner. They will also be accompanied
by virtuoso saxophonist Greg Wall. Adrienne Cooper is the the
outstanding contemporary interpreter and innovator in Yiddish vocal
music, and this is her most exciting and newest program. THIS WILL BE
THE EVENT OF THE YEAR ? DON'T MISS IT!!
This program is specially dedicated to Branch 494 of the of the
Workmen's Circle, and its long-term dedication to "a shenere un besere
velt" and to the preservation and growth of the Yiddish language and
culture.
Admission: $18 members of the JCC, Yiddish of Greater Washington &
Workmen's Circle/ $25 general public. Tickets available at the door,
or reserve by calling 301-348-3840. |
Sunday, May 18, 7:30 p.m.
JCC of Greater Washington
6125 Montrose Road, Rockville MD
ANNUAL SHOLEM ALEICHEM YORTSAYT
The great writer Sholem Aleichem asked that he be remembered by the
gathering of friends and the reading of his works, with a smile rather
than a tear. Yiddish of Greater Washington carries on this tradition
with the annual Sholem Aleichem Yortsayt program, this year featuring
performances by Di Shpilers, Washington's own Yiddish theater troupe,
a talk by renowned Prof. Max Ticktin on "Sholem Aleichem and Yiddish
Folklore," and the reading of the great author's will ? one of the
world's moving and beautiful "ethical" wills. We conclude, as always,
with the singing of his haunting lullaby, Shlof, Mayn Kind.
Admission: $3 members of the JCC and Yiddish of Greater Washington/$5
general public. Reservations not necessary. |
Referatn un Varshtatn series presents:
Dr. Morris Faierstein, on
Translating Aaron Zeitlin
Sunday, May 11, 2008, 2:00 p.m.
JCC of Greater Washington
6125 Montrose Road, Rockville MD
Yiddish of Greater Washington presents a reading and lecture by Dr.
Morris M. Faierstein, editor and translator of the recently released
Poems of the Holocaust and Poems of Faith by Aaron Zeitlin. Dr.
Faierstein will discuss both Zeitlin and his work as well as the
issues involved in translating the poems into English. Copies of the
book will be available for purchase and signing.
Aaron Zeitlin (1898-1975) was one of the major literary figures of
interwar Poland. He was a poet, playwright, editor and critic. He was
president of the Yiddish PEN Club and with his close friend, Isaac
Bashevis Singer, edited Globus, a literary journal, from 1932-1935. In
the summer of 1939, Zeitlin was invited to come to New York to
supervise the American premiere of one of his plays. The outbreak of
World War II let him stranded and unable to return home. He spent the
rest of his life in New York. His writings, particularly his poetry,
expressed his sense of despair and mourning for the loss of his family
and society. Many poems describe his guilt at having survived the
destruction of his whole world. Though not conventionally religious,
Zeitlin was very interested in spirituality and mysticism, and his
poems reflect this interest. He was a major talent who has not
received the attention that the quality and quantity of his literary
output deserves.
Admission: $3 members of the JCC and Yiddish of Greater Washington/$5
others; no reservations necessary |
Cafe Kasrilevke presents:
Ruth Levin in "Word and Melody: Music to Yiddish Poetry by composer
Leibu Levin"
Tuesday, April 6, 7:30 p.m.
JCC of Greater Washington
6125 Montrose Road, Rockville, MD
Join us as renowned singer Ruth Levin, daughter of composer Leibu
Levin, presents the story of her father's life, featuring some of his
finest music composed to the work of great Yiddish poets including
Isaac Manger, H. Leivick, H. N. Bialik, Moshe-Leib Halpern, and Sh..
Halkin. Don't miss this unique Yiddish music program of poetry and
melody.
Admission: $3 members of the JCC and Yiddish of Greater Washington/$5
general public |
Referatn un Varshtatn series
Dr. Sheva Zucker
"A Farkerte Velt - Birobidzhan Fun Der Noent: Ayndrukn fun a Nesiye in
der Yidisher Oytonomer Gegnt, Zumer 2007"
Sunday, March 16, 11:00 a.m.
JCC of Greater Washington
6125 Montrose Rd., Rockville, MD.
A special treat: Dr. Sheva Zucker, the executive director of the
League for Yiddish and editor of the journal Afn Shvel, will speak on
the topic "The Upside Down World of Birobidzhan: Impressions of a trip
to the Jewish Autonomous Region of Russia." Dr. Zucker spent Summer
2007 at the first Birobidzhan summer program. Come hear her
fascinating talk on her experiences of present-day life in the Jewish
Autonomous Region of Eastern Russia, the area originally set aside by
Stalin as an alternative Jewish "homeland".
Admission: $3.00 at the door
For more information, email yiddishdc@yahoo.com. |
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Referatn un Varshtatn series Prof. Miriam Isaacs, University of Maryland "Etlikhe Shprakh Frages in Shaykhes mit Yidishn Teater un Film" Sunday, Feb. 24, 1:00 p.m. JCC of Greater Washington 6125 Montrose Rd., Rockville, MD. Hear Prof. Isaacs discuss her latest research on language issues in Yiddish theater and film. THIS TALK WILL BE ENTIRELY IN YIDDISH, as part of our Referatn un Varshtatn series. Admission: $3.00 at the door For more information, email yiddishdc@yahoo.com. |
Don't miss this special musical program.
JCC of Greater Washington
6125 Montrose Rd., Rockville, MD
Gala Chanuka Concert of Yiddish songs, with Sender Botwinik, arranger,
composer and pianist and Richard Lenatsky, tenor, with "a voice like
Jan Pierce."
Come hear some songs you don't know and some old favorites.
Admission $6 for members of Yiddish of Greater Washington, the JCC,
and the Workmen's Circle; $9 for others. |
Lectures/Seminars entirely in Yiddish with Prof. Eugene Orenstein,
distinguished professor of Yiddish and Jewish history, McGill
University, Canada
JCC of Greater Washington
6125 Montrose Rd., Rockville
Don't miss this special guest visit by one of the most dynamic scholars and teachers in the field today:
11 am, Yiddish Folklore Traditions and Their Pioneering Discoverers
7 pm, Warsaw – A Major Center of Yiddish Culture in Pre-War Europe
Price for one event: $6 for members of Yiddish of Greater Washington,
the JCC, and the Workmen's Circle, $9 for others.
Price for both events: $10 for members of Yiddish of Greater
Washington, the JCC, and the Workmen's Circle; $15 for others. |
JCC of Greater Washington
6125 Montrose Rd., Rockville, MD
Singing the World Awake: The Voice of Tikkun Olam, with Susan Levitan
Special return engagement of this extraordinary singer.
Admission $6 for members of Yiddish of Greater Washington, the JCC,
and the Workmen's Circle; $9 for others. |
JCC of Greater Washington, Rockville
Klezmer Concert and Party, with the Machaya Klezmer Band led by Jay
McCrensky, master klezmer dance teacher. For all from experienced
dancers to those who just like to listen. $8 for members, $10 for the
general public, $5 children. |
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The tango is from Argentina, but most of its composers were Jewish. Come hear this rediscovered Yiddish tango and cabaret music with Lloica Czackis, internationally famed singer from Paris on her first U.S. tour. At the JCC in Rockville, 6125 Montrose Road. $6 for members of Yiddish of Greater Washington, the JCC, and the Workmen's Circle; $9 for others. |
Sunday, Oct. 17
Lectures/Seminars, entirely in Yiddish, with Dovid Braun, Yiddish language teacher at Harvard
JCC of Greater Washington
6125 Montrose Ave., Rockville
2 p.m. Dramatically Improve Your Yiddish: Tricks of the Trade from an Experienced Teacher
7 p.m. Yiddish Given Names: The Meaning and History of the Quaint and the Curious
Price for one event: $6 for members of Yiddish of Greater Washington, the JCC, and the Workmen's Circle, $9 for others. Price for both events: $10 for members of Yiddish of Greater Washington, the JCC, and the Workmen's Circle; $15 for others. |
Cafe Kasrilevke
Sunday, Oct. 10, 7:30 p.m.
JCC of Greater Washington
6125 Montrose Ave., Rockville
Ms. Gottesman, who lives in New York, is the leading Yiddish poet and songwriter active in the U.S. today. Her poems and songs express the full range of emotions from her charming and humorous songs for children and adults, to her deeper explorations of human emotion. This is a rare visit. Don't miss the chance to see this wonderful, radiant woman and to hear her marvelous creations in poetry and song.
Admission $6 for members of Yiddish of Greater Washington, the JCC, and the Workmen's Circle; $9 for others. |
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