| October 10th, 2012
All events at Arbeter Ring Los Angeles unless otherwise stated.
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ONLY 9 DAYS LEFT! Sale of Cemetery Plots until 12/19/12!!
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Limited Time Offer!
Sale of Cemetery Plots to Arbeter Ring Members!
To our members (and prospective members):
One of the historic benefits Arbeter Ring has always offered to our members is reasonably-priced cemetery plots. We have several remaining plots in the beautiful Mount Shalom South section at Eden Memorial Park which we are offering to our members at well below market rate. This section is sold out, but if plots were available there or in comparable sections, they would go for upwards of $9000 each. We are offering these plots to our members at the very attractive price of $6500, but only for three more months. At that point, if we have any left, we will open up sales to the general public, and we are confident they will sell quickly. This will be your last opportunity to purchase plots from us, because we do not expect to ever make this benefit available again in Southern California. Please contact our office at 310.552.2007 for further details.
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YIDDISH DANCE (All levels) at the Workmen's Circle!
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FALL 2012: Tuesdays · 7-8:30pm · Oct 16th-Dec 4th, (8 sessions) * please note the new day for the class
Instructor: Bruce Bierman
Location: Workmen's Circle, 1525 S. Robertson Blvd, Los Angeles 90035
Join the circle with renowned Yiddish dance master, Bruce Bierman, and discover the nearly forgotten folk dance that is currently making a miraculous comeback. Learn the steps, stylings and expressive hand gestures to the Freylekh, Joc, Chossidle, Bulgar, Sher, and Patsh Tanz. This six week class will culminate in a special Yiddish musical evening with live klezmer music and dance on Thursday December 6th!
Presented by SoCal Arbeter Ring/Workmen's Circle. Co-sponsered by the California Institute for Yiddish Culture and Language and Yiddishkeit.
* All levels welcome. Please wear comfortable clothes and shoes.
* Tuesdays October 16th--December 4th 7-8:30pm
* Cost: $80 members/$96 non-members; $12 single-class. * please note the new price for the class
Bruce Bierman is one of the leading specialists in Klezmer dance in California and has studied with several Yiddish dance masters in New York, Poland and Israel. Bruce has been a leading presenter of participatory Yiddish dance for major festivals, performances and conferences across the U.S. including the Berkeley Jewish Music Festival, KlezCalifornia, and the Los Angeles Jewish Symphony. He has also led dance to some of the top klezmer bands in the country including the grammy award-winning Klezmatics and Veretski Pass.
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| Online course on the Yiddish writer Chaim Grade | |
Many people think that the Yiddish writer most deserving of the Nobel Prize was not Isaac Bashevis Singer, but Chaim Grade. Learn about Grade's seminal contributions to Yiddish literature in...
Sabbath Days and Extinguished Stars: The Life and Work of Chaim Grade
Online, self-paced class October 22-November 18, 2012
Register by October 15 for this online class and explore the world of the great and often neglected Yiddish writer, Chaim Grade. Walk through the yeshivas of Grade's Vilna boyhood. Bear witness to the destruction of the world in which he grew up. Ponder the poignant conflicts Grade explores in his post-Holocaust novels.
Study with two leading Grade scholars-professors Justin Cammy (Smith College) and David Fishman (Jewish Theological Seminary)-and delve into the continuing controversy over Grade's literary estate with Joseph Berger, the journalist who covered the controversy for The New York Times.
Listen, read, and discuss: all from the comfort of your own living room!
Click here for more information and to register.
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Beginning Sunday, October 28...
"Jewish Holidays: A 21st Century Secular/Cultural Approach" | |
A lecture-discussion series hosted by Hershl Hartman, five Sunday mornings at 10:15
From its beginnings some 150 years ago, Secular Jewishness has radically changed its approach to the holidays. More changes have been brought on by present-day realities. Do current observances fill our needs? This series will combine factual background with wide-ranging discussion in our multi-generational, intercultural communities. For more information, and to sign up for the series, click here.
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SHOLEM Community Forum - California Public Schools Under Siege
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California Public Schools Under Siege:
How Underinvestment, Privatization, and Attacks on Teachers' Unions Are Dismantling the Education System
A Sholem Community Forum
10:15 am, Sunday, October 21
Westside Neighborhood School
5401 Beethoven Street
Los Angeles, CA 90066
Two Sholemites and prominent Los Angeles educators -- Jackie Goldberg and John Rogers -- will discuss the erosion of the state's public education system and the steps needed to reverse the decline.
Jackie, a former classroom teacher, is well known to Angelenos as an outspoken advocate for public education. In addition to having served in the California Assembly (2000-2006), she is also a former member of both the L.A. Unified School Board and the Los Angeles City Council.
John, a professor at UCLA's Graduate School of Education and Information Studies, is the Director of UCLA's Institute for Democracy, Education and Access (IDEA)
This free event is co-sponsored by the Arbeter Ring (Workmen's Circle).
For more information, go to http://sholem.org/publicschools.html.
For leaflet to print and hand out, go to: http://sholem.org/images/goldberg-rogers%20flyer.pdf
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Let's Put Shmuel Polonski's 1931 Yiddish Songbook "For Youth" on a CD!
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The very first performances anywhere in the world of S. Polonski's complete set of songs, by forces organized by the Arbeter Ring (Workmen's Circle) in Los Angeles (2008) and Tucson (2009), drew a wildly enthusiastic and appreciative response, given that only one song in this collection, "A krenetse/A Well," ever became widely known in the West. The Songbook we uncovered for these performances is a rare item few scholars even knew about. Yiddish culture enjoyed a spotty and often tragic career in the USSR, but we offered these songs as a record of a fleeting, uplifting moment, and as a legacy to the future for us to discover and cherish. The CD will render all 19 songs faithfully, creatively, and professionally, with "name" vocal talent and fresh instrumental arrangements by one of our favorite Yiddish musicians, our friend (and AR member) Yale Strom.
Polonski's songs for solo voice, small ensembles and chorus show an impressive level of musicianship and modernity, even of experimentalism in places, and a demanding vocal and technical range. Some of these are more properly characterized as art songs. The lyrics are by many of the most respected names in the Soviet Yiddish pantheon: Itsik Fefer, Perets Markish, Izi Kharik, and others. Subject matter includes pastoral scenes and village life, the passing of the old ways, collective farming, a woman who becomes a tractor driver, the death of Lenin, the Red Army, the machine rhythms of a shoe factory, seamstresses, and building the new cities. The CD project is truly an act of rescue!
The Sholem Educational Institute, Inc., and SoCal Arbeter Ring have enthusiastically joined with Yale Strom and historian/activist and SoCal Arbeter Ring Director Emeritus Eric Gordon on this exciting CD project. We plan to record in 2013. We are especially looking forward to the opportunity for the Sholem School student chorus to participate in the album. The booklet will also include the masterful, complete translations by Hershl Hartman, transliterations (to help you sing along!), and an introductory essay by Eric Gordon.
Your contribution to The Sholem Educational Institute, Inc., a nonprofit 501c3 corporation (Federal Tax ID Number 95-2112000), is tax-deductible to the full extent of the law. Donations of any size are welcome. The faster we raise our production budget, the sooner we can get on to producing the CD. All contributions of $54 or more (Triple Khay) will be acknowledged in print in the accompanying CD booklet (unless you wish to remain anonymous).
Please make checks payable to (and be sure to mention "Polonski Project"):
Sholem Educational Institute, Inc.
P. O. Box 4508
Culver City, CA 90231
A hartsikn dank! / Thank you so much!
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Contact Us
Kalil Cohen, Director
Ruth Judkowitz, Chairmentsh
Phone: 310.552.2007
E-mail: circle@circlesocal.org & director@circlesocal.org
Web: www.circlesocal.org
1525 S. Robertson Blvd. Los Angeles, CA 90035 |
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Clothing + Food: WANTED!
| In an on-going effort to help those in need, we are asking that you please bring a can of food the next time you come to the Workmen's Circle.
We will donate items on a rolling basis to SOVA.
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Extra! Extra! Workmen's Circle Members in the News!!
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1525 S. Robertson Blvd.
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NEW SEMESTER! on hiatus until 10/15
Beginning Yiddish:
5-6 pm
Intermediate Yiddish:
6-7:30pm
Advanced Yiddish:
7:30-9 pm
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Yiddish Conversation
with Hadasa
Every Monday
2-3:15 pm
(by donation)
on hiatus until 10/15
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Voices of Conscience Chorus
Upcoming VOC rehearsal(s):
Oct 15
We perform in English, Yiddish, and more!
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AR Office Wish List
Want to support the AR but don't know how? Here are a few things we need: 1. A Stool for performers 2. Gift certificate to an office supply store 3. USB drive 4. Forever Stamps ------------------------------- Keep up with our events on Facebook! 
-------------------------------  Speak Yiddish! Why not? Far vos nisht? Every Monday at 2 pm on hiatus until Oct 15th Thanks to your attendance, her Conversational Yiddish group is thriving with world-recognized Yiddish teacher, scholar, translator and raconteuse Hadasa Cytrynowicz. Originally from Lodz, and later a long-time resident of Brazil, Hadasa brings a wealth of experience and stories, songs, proverbs and sayings, poetry and interesting topics for discussion to her group. Each session is an hour and 15 minutes. Admission is by voluntary donation.
Keep your Yiddish kite flying by attending this group! All levels of Yiddish are welcome. Kumt arayn!
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