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UNIVERSITY NEWS - FEBRUARY 2004
MEDIA CONTACT: Andrew LaPlant
FAU Friends of Yiddish Present “Kultur: A Celebration of Yiddish Culture” Boca Raton, FL (February 27, 2004) – The Florida Atlantic University Friends of Yiddish present “Kultur: A Celebration of Yiddish Culture.” The March events will include performances from cantors, storytellers and skits. All the events will take place on the Boca Raton campus, 777 Glades Road. The Kultur dates and locations are:
Tuesday, March 2 – “Cantors
Perform Yiddish Art Songs” will be held at the
Wimberly Library on the fifth floor at 2:00 p.m. Members of
the Cantor’s Assembly of the Southeastern Region,
Cantors Morton Kula and Isaac Goodfriend, will perform a
special vocal recital of Yiddish Art Songs with piano
accompaniment. Many of the songs featured can be found in
the newly acquired Meisels collection of the Jewish Music
Archives in FAU’s Judaica Collection.
Wednesday, March 3 –
“Ladino Kultur ‘Los
Pregoneros’” will be at the Wimberly Library on the
fifth floor at 3:00 p.m. Hosted by Dr. Marianne Sanua, a
Ladino acting troupe will perform “Los Pregoneros.”
The troupe will perform a series of skits and songs in Ladino
(Judeo-Spanish) with English translation provided.
Sunday, March 7 –
“Jewish Folktales with Peninnah
Schram” will be read in the General Classroom South
Building Room 119 at Noon. Peninnah Schram is an
internationally known storyteller, teacher, author, and
recording artist. She is the author of seven books of Jewish
folktales, including Jewish Stories One Generation Tells
Another and Stories Within Stories: From the Jewish Oral
Tradition. Schram is a recipient of the prestigious Covenant
Award for Outstanding Educator (1995) awarded by The Covenant
Foundation. In 1999, she received The Circle of Excellence
Award from the National Storytelling Network for "a body of
work which is nationally recognized as a shining example of
quality in the art form of storytelling performance." Most
recently, Peninnah has been awarded the National Storytellers
Network 2003 Lifetime Achievement Award "For sustained and
exemplary contributions to storytelling in America."
Wednesday, March 24 –
“A Yiddish Sing-a-Long” will
be at the Wimberly Library on the fifth floor at 3:00 p.m.
Yaakov Hersher will lead the Sing-a-Longs to standards from
American Yiddish theatre, folk songs from Europe and Klezmer
instrumentals.
The Friends of Yiddish is a group of individuals interested in promoting the study of Yiddish language and culture at FAU. Membership is $10 to support the purchase of Yiddish books for the Molly Fraiberg Collection at FAU, student programming in Yiddish and other events. For more information, call 561-297- 3787, visit: http://www.library.fau.edu/depts/spc/yiddish.htm or e-mail: lysca@fau.edu. -FAU- |
