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#yiddish

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Dan Carkner🎻

It just looks like a mess of paper, but.. while I was in Montreal Josh Dolgin (Socalled) invited me to his office at McGill to look at the boxes of Yiddish choral music which were discarded after the sale of the former Arbeter Ring (Workers Circle) building. It's about 3 big boxes with many duplicates so he's still trying to match parts together and make sense of what is in there.

Photo of stacks of paper and booklets (old music scores) in a cardboard box
#archives#JewishMusic#Yiddish
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Steve Dustcircle 🌹

Excerpted from Contemporary #Humanistic #Judaism: #Beliefs, #Values, Practices
by Adam Chalom and Jodi Kornfeld

"Sometimes ideological #secularists—particularly early twentieth-century #Zionists working for a #secular, Hebrew-speaking #Jewish state and socialists creating new expressions of secular #Jewishness in #Yiddish—also adapted traditional Jewish forms to their #political agendas."

thehumanist.com/magazine/sprin

TheHumanist.com · Excerpted from Contemporary Humanistic Judaism: Beliefs, Values, Practices - TheHumanist.comReprinted with permission from The Jewish Publication Society (pp. 3-9)  
Copyright 2025 THROUGHOUT JEWISH HISTORY, many Jews have questioned specific Jewish religious beliefs. In the nineteenth century, thousands of Jews became more secularized through the Haskalah (Enlightenment) and experiences of emancipation and integration in Europe and America. Sometimes ideological secularists—particularly early twentieth-century Zionists working for […]
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Dan Carkner🎻

register to hear my friend @elski talk on thursday:
"YIVO sound archivist Eléonore Biezunski will tell the story of the Max and Frieda Weinstein Archive of YIVO Sound Recordings in relation to the revitalization of klezmer music since the mid-1970s. The impetus of young folk musicians seeking to reclaim the music of their ancestors, [...] was a major factor in the establishment of the YIVO Sound Archive in the early 1980s."
yivo.org/Sound-Archive

#klezmer#Yiddish#ZoomLectures
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NJG Designs

Kish mir in tuchas is a funny Yiddish curse. You can probably figure out what the translation is: kiss my you know what! This Yiddish saying makes a perfect gift for your Jewish friends and family!

Shown on a T for only $14.98, available in pink lettering and many products

#BuyIntoArt #Yiddish #Jewish #JewishGifts #YiddishHumor #JewishHumor #YiddishCurse #AmYisraelChai #StopAntisemitism

amazon.com/dp/B09ZQGVZCB?custo

Kish mir in tuchas is shown in blue lettering on a grey T shirt.
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