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If you thought that March Madness was limited to the world of basketball, take a look at what's going on in the world of Yiddish here in L.A.! 

 

March means that spring is almost here. And over the next two weeks we are celebrating the arrival of a fantastic new book and a wonderful new musical album. We hope you can join us for the book launch of Brave Girl, the picture book biography of labor champion Clara Lemlich. And the following Sunday, come listen to international musical sensations Daniel Kahn & the Painted Bird and Psoy Korolenko. There's even more going on all over town, too! Read below to find out more. 

 

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Brave Girl
Celebrating International Women's Day 
Brave Girl
Sunday, March 10 * 7:00 pm
Arbeter Ring | Workmen's Circle
1525 South Robertson Blvd. * Los Angeles 
A book launch, reading, and celebration of the release of Michelle Markel's new picture-book biography of the dauntless organizer of the legendary Uprising of the 20,000 -- Clara Lemlich: Brave Girl: Clara and the Shirtwaist Makers' Strike of 1909. Join Yiddishkayt, Workmen's Circle, and the Sholem Community for a celebration with song and performances for this fantastic new work, weaving Jewish history, labor history, and women's history together.

Brave Girl tells the inspiring story of the 1909 union uprising and its improbable leader. Lemlich may have been small in stature and her grasp of English tenuous, but she worked in a sweatshop to support her family by day and read and studied at night. While union leadership dithered about striking, young Lemlich finally stood up and, in Yiddish, called for a general strike. She would be arrested 17 times and frequently beaten, but the strike won the right to unionize in many factories.
 
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Daniel Kahn & the Painted Bird
With Special Guest Psoy Korolenko! 
Sunday, March 17 * 7:00 pm
Fiesta Hall * Plummer Park
1200 North Vista Street * West Hollywood 

"Kahn's music transcends any label, Jewish or otherwise;
it is cosmopolitan in every sense of the word."
--New York Music Daily
 
We are thrilled to present international Yiddish music sensation Daniel Kahn & the Painted Bird, coming to West Hollywood for a one-night event with their new album Bad Old Songs and special guest Psoy Korolenko.
 
Formed in Berlin in 2005, the Painted Bird has built an international cult following, touring from Moscow to Marseille, Istanbul to Indiana. Playing everywhere from underground punk clubs to Central Park Summer Stage, Turkish cabarets to abandoned Polish synagogues, Daniel Kahn and the band challenge the borders between radical and traditional, lyrical and political, east and west, folk and punk, mama loshn and loshn hora
 
Click below for a taste of Daniel Kahn & the Painted Bird -- with Psoy Korolenko -- with their take on Mordechai Gebirtig's classic "Arbetsloze-Marsh!"
March of The Jobless Corps - Daniel Kahn and The Painted Bird
March of The Jobless Corps - Daniel Kahn & The Painted Bird

Co-sponsored by the City of West Hollywood Arts & Cultural Affairs

  

CLICK HERE for details and to reserve a seat.
 
Around Town
Journey to Eastern Europe (...on the East Side)
Intourist 1937 Sunday, March 10 * 3:00 pm 
Red Lion Tavern  
2366 Glendale Boulevard * Los Angeles 
 
East Side Jews invites you to join journalist/rabbinical student Robin Podolsky, writer Helena Lipstadt, and Yiddishkayt's Rob Adler Peckerar as they share their recent experiences exploring Jewish Eastern Europe and the shifting relationship of contemporary Jewish culture to the alter heym.
 
Stay for an informal follow-up conversation. 
 
To join the discussion, please RSVP to East Side Jews.
 
Yiddish Writers in America
California Institute for Yiddish Culture and Language
America
Sunday, March 17 * 4:00 pm
Santa Monica Synagogue 
1448 18th Street * Santa Monica 

CIYCL's 2013 Series on Contemporary Yiddish Culture presents Yiddishkayt's director Rob Adler Peckerar for a multimedia exploration of Yiddish in America.

  

This illustrated presentation takes us through the emergence of a uniquely American Yiddish literature and the development of a sophisticated Yiddish literary culture in the United States. We'll look at the early days of the American Yiddish press, which addressed a Yiddish reading public comprised mostly of newly arrived workers who were politically radicalized by their experiences both in the old country and new. Learn how Yiddish poetry evolved from a more polemical, propagandistic medium to a deeply personal and aesthetically polished cornerstone of Yiddish letters. 
 
Admission: General $10; Members $8; Students are free. 
For more on this program, please visit CIYCL. 
 
Learn Yiddish! 
Beginning and Continuing Yiddish Classes Start in April
 
Yiddishkayt offers you the keys to a millennium of Jewish culture. Learn Yiddish today!

Mindl Cohen Join Yiddishkayt's Mindl Cohen to learn the secret language of your heart. Two classes in two parts of town are starting on April 15. 
 
Beginning Yiddish is perfect for newcomers and those who know only a few words and phrases. It will be taught on Mondays & Wednesdays at Yiddishkayt's HQ in Koreatown. Or enroll in Continuing Yiddish -- suitable if you know the alphabet, have some knowledge of the language, or if you knew Yiddish once but have forgotten. This class is offered on Tuesdays & Thursdays at the Arbeter Ring in Pico-Robertson.
 
Click here to find out more. 
 
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