Dear Friend of Yiddishkayt,
We are excited to announce the winners of our Una Noche Idishe raffle. These lucky khevrelayt (buddies) - see below for a list of the winners - won big with their support of Yiddishkayt. We'd like to thank everyone who purchased raffle tickets for helping us pull off such a big success.  If you missed the show you can still catch some of the action by watching highlights from the evening. You can see Divina Gloria sing Papirosn and Tango Ganas glide through A Shoa Daine. You can also read an interesting first-person review of the show by the Jewish Journal. Yiddish is alive and well in Israel, where Hannah Pollin-Galay is helping to start a Yiddish after-school elective in Tel Aviv. Read about the program below in a translated article from Eton Ha'Ir, the Israeli Village Voice. Hannah, our Director of Education, is attending graduate school in Israel and working on the third year of our Education Program - transforming her materials developed during the previous two years into a replicable curriculum. On the home front, Yiddish classes have continued at New Community Jewish High School with Sheyndl Lieberman. Stay tuned for more information about our evolving education program and upcoming events. |
UNA NOCHE IDISHE - RAFFLE WINNERS
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Thanks again to everyone who purchased raffle tickets! We couldn't have done it without your support.
1st Prize: Lee Saltz 2 rountrip airline tickets, Los Angeles to Buenos Aires
2nd Prize: Hal Lewis Dinner for 2 at Ciudad/Border Grill + Autographed cookbook
3rd Prize: Judith Broder 6-week series for 2 with Tango Ganas4th Prize: Clara Klieman Four free classes with Third Street Dance5th Prizes: Carole Rosen-Kaplan Ethel Rosenfeld
Music Collection of Yiddish Argentina Congratulations to the winners of the raffle!
Sponsors of the Una Noche Idishe Raffle include:
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UNA NOCHE IDISHE - VIDEOS & PHOTOS
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RETRO IN THE SHTETL
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Retro in the Shtetl: In an Elementary School, Kinderlech will study Yiddish
From Eton HaIr
(the Israeli equivalent of The Village Voice), translated by Hannah Pollin-Galay.
Principal of Tel Nordau School:
"It is a message of cultural pluralism, including all layers of Hebrew
Culture." Last Friday morning, students
of the elementary school Tel Nordau danced to the sounds of klezmorim
Marsh Dondurma. The band played as part of a Yiddish celebration to
announce the opening of an elective for students interested in studying
Yiddish language and culture. The initiative for this class came from
Beyt Leyvik, a Yiddish cultural center and headquarters for the Yiddish
Journalists and Writers Union in Israel.
"We see the teaching of Yiddish
as essential to the creation of an authentic Jewish identity," explained
Hannah Pollin-Galay (25), one of the Yiddish teachers and activists
at Beyt Leyvik, " in order for Jewish identity to exist here, with
heritage and history, it's essential to examine the recent past and
not just biblical history. With most people Yiddish arises associations
of Jews in the galut and Jewish victim-hood, but Yiddish is a
language with great diversity and cultural wealth."
Tel Nordau Elementary School
is unique in that it calls itself a school "In the Spirit of Hebrew
Culture." "This does not refer only to Jewish heritage,"
notes principal Nati Shtern, " I try to bring students a message of
cultural pluralism, including all layers of Hebrew Culture, an important
aspect of which is Yiddish culture. I believe that it is impossible
to teach culture didactically. Culture is an experiential subject, and
so we do many experiential programs here for students."
Students from all grade levels
can choose to study Yiddish once a week after school. Forty students
came to the first class and it was a great success. "I am most invested
in teaching children Yiddish," said Pollin-Galay, "Yiddish is often
labeled as an old language for old people to study, but when you see
the children's enthusiasm, you understand that the language can be
alive and present, a source of rich revelation."
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