Letter of January 2012
The Paris Yiddish Center - Medem Library English newsletter is now on line
on the website : http://yiddish2english.canalblog.com
דער חודשלעכער בריוו פֿונעם פּאַריזער ייִדיש–צענטער -- מעדעם–ביבליאָטעק איז שוין אויף אינטערנעץ
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The Paris Yiddish Center - Medem Library wish you a happy new year!
Seminar in Yiddish Language and Literature
Paris, Friday 3 - Sunday 5 February
Teaching staff directed by Yitskhok Niborski
Helen Beer (University College, London)
Natalia Krynicka (University Paris IV-Sorbonne)
Yitskhok Niborski (Inalco, Paris)
Karolina Szymaniak (University of Varsow)
Aron Waldman (Paris yiddish center)
One level : "intermediate" and "advanced" students
Friday, February 3rd
2:30 PM to 4:00 PM: Aron Waldman - “In Polish Woods” by Yosef Opatoshu
4:30 PM to 6:00 PM: Aron Waldman - “In Polish Woods” by Yosef Opatoshu
Saturday, Feburary 4th
9:30 AM to 11:00 AM: Karolina Szymaniak – The poetry of Dvoyre Fogel
11:30 AM to 1:30 PM: Karolina Szymaniak – The poetry of Dvoyre Fogel
1:00 PM to 2:30 PM: Pot luck lunch. Every participant contributes something to eat and/or drink.
2:30 PM to 4:00 PM: Helen Beer – Itsik Manger in London
4:30 PM to 6:00 PM: Helen Beer – Itsik Manger in London
Sunday, February 5th
9:00 AM to 10:30 AM: Yitskhok Niborski - Mechanisms characteristic of Jewish humor
11:00 AM to 12:30 AM: Yitskhok Niborski - Mechanisms characteristic of Jewish humor
1:00 PM to 2:30 PM: Pot luck lunch. Every participant contributes something to eat and/or drink.
2:30 PM to 4:00 PM: Natalia Krynicka – The whistle, a Hasidic theme as seen by several authors
4:30 PM to 6:00 PM: Natalia Krynicka – The whistle, a Hasidic theme as seen by several authors
Tuition fees : 160 €.
Reduced Rate for students under 30 years old (submit proof of student enrollment at a university) : 120 €.
Scholarships may be available (priority given to students).
Information
Maison de la culture yiddish - Bibliothèque Medem
29, rue du Château d’eau - 75010 Paris
Tel. : (+ 33 - 1) 47 00 14 00. Fax : (+ 33 - 1) 47 00 14 47.
Website : www.yiddishweb.com
To register : mcy@yiddishweb.com
Download the registration form and the brochure in yiddish.
Exceptional performance by the Troïm Theater!
Tuesday, February 7th at 8:30 PM
Le gros lot
by Sholem-Aleykhem
Adaptation and direction: Charlotte Messer
A provincial city in the Tsar’s empire. Shimele Saroker, a humble Jewish tailor, is heavily in debt. He is unable to pay his rent and his bills at the local shops. But, fate takes a turn: he wins the big lottery and becomes the wealthiest man in the city. What will the life of Shimele and his family be like from now on? Find out by coming to see the Troïm Theater’s new production, “The Big Lottery” adapted from a play by Sholem-Aleykhem, in the delightful Yiddish so typical of his work.
In Yiddish with French surtitles.
Information and tickets available at the Maison de la culture Yiddish: 01 47 00 14 00
or at the Centre d’Art et de Culture – Espace Rachi- Guy de Rothschild: 01 43 31 93 60
Tickets available here on the internet.
Tickets : 23 €. Members : 18 €.
Yiddish cabaret
Saturday January 28 at 20h30
When Paris sings and laughs like in Warsaw, Lodz or the shtetl!
Professionals and talented amateurs will appear in a variety of numbers: Yiddish songs, theater, klezmer music, poetry, comedy, etc. Different shows coming up! !
Artistic Director Betty Reicher
With :
Daniel Korenhof, violinist & Marcel Korenhof, accordionist
Lionel Miller & Michel Fisbein, comic duet
Mashke - voice, clarinet & percussions
Do you want to take part in our Yiddish Cabaret? As an amateur, professional or semi-professional, contact Betty Reicher : bettyreicher@gmail.com.
Information and reservations : 01 47 00 14 00
Price : 15 € . Members : 12 €.
Maison de la Culture Yiddish- Bibliothèque MEDEM
29 rue du Château d'eau 75010 Paris
http://www.yiddishweb.com/
Encounters
Rencontres
Tuesday, January 17 at 8 pm Dave Tarras : The King of Klezmer, by Yale Strom
«The Benny Goodman of klezmer», Dave Tarras is considered the most influential klezmer musician of the 20th century.
Yale Strom, violinist, composer, filmmaker, writer, playwright and photographer, is one of the pioneers of the klezmer revival. He has done research in both Rom and Jewish communities in Central and Eastern Europe and in the Balkans. This encounter with Yale Strom (in Yiddish, English and French) will mark the publication of his latest book, the only authorized biography of Dave Tarras. The talk will be accompanied by rare film clips and by music that he will play on the violin. Book signing at the end of the evening.
Our cafeteria proposes a taste of Eastern European specialties, starting 6.45 p.m.
Admission: 15 €. Members: 12 €.
Thursay, February 9 at 8.30 pm Simon Epstein
For the release of his book: 1930 : une année dans l'histoire du peuple juif ( Stock editions).
Admission : 5 €. Members : 3 €.
Historical tuesdays : January 24 at 8pm
Cycle of lectures by Philippe Boukara.
Jewish geography of the past and the present are not limited to the “western world” and the Arab countries. The also include rich interactions with the non-western civilizations of Asia Africa.
The Jews of Asia: China and the Far East (1/4)
Les Juifs et l’Asie : Chine, Extrême-Orient (1/4)
Admission: 5 €. Members : 3 €.
The books presented during these encounters are sold at the Paris yiddish center.
The accents of yiddish
אַ צונג אָן ביינער
A tsung on beyner
or A tsing un bayner ?
How to speak (and laugh) in all the dialects of Yiddish…
Led by Yitskhok Niborski
with Rubye Monet and David Kurc.
(in French and Yiddish)
Admission: 5 €. Members: 3 €.
January 14 at 3 pm
P.A.F : 5 €. Membres : 3 €.
Exhibition
The Sounds of Silence
December 14, 2011 to March 3, 2012.
Presented by the Lithuanian Embassy, this exhibition shows works by Lithuanian photographer Raimondas Paknys is about the Jews of Lithuania, a world that no longer exists. With photos of the vestiges of a "golden age", it retraces the the history of a community that formed a majority of many towns and village in the 19th and early 20th centuries. Photos of sites, houses and buildings evoke the people, famous or unknown, who left their mark on this country.
Admission free of charge.
Workshops of the Maison de la culture yiddish
This year, learn singing, cooking or klezmer music.
Choral Group Tshiribim
Led by Shura Lipovsky
January 8
From 11 am to 1 pm and 2.30 pm to 4.30 pm
The group have lunch together, each participant contributing something to eat or drink.
From age 15. Cost : 185 € (18 sessions of 2 hours each).
Theater Workshop
Led by Noëmi Waysfeld
with the assistance of Renée Kaluszynski.
January 3 and 17
From 6.30 pm to 8.30 pm
Cost: 170 € (15 sessions in the year) including cost of photocopies.
Klezmer Workshop
Led by Marthe Desrosières
January 22 and 29
From 11 am to 1 pm
Cost : 170 € for 15 session in the year (including cost of photocopies). Students under 30: 150 €. Open to all including juniors over 13 with a minimum of 3 years’ instrumental practice.
Translation workshop
Led by Batia Baum
January 10 and 17
From 2 to 4 pm
P. A. F. : 230 € (20 rencontres dans l'année)
incluant la participation aux frais de photocopie.
Kindershul : For Children from 3 to 13
Led by Sharon Bar-Kochva, Anyel Fisbein and Fleur Kuhn
With participation of Marthe Desrosières and the Klezmer workshop.
19 sessions of 3 hours each during the school year, including celebration of Jewish holidays.
Fun with Yiddish! from 14h30 to 17h30.
January 8 and 22/ February 5 and 12 / March 18/ April 1st
Cost 185 € (including pedagogic material)
Reduced rate for more than one child in the same family.
One session : 16 €. Family membership in Maison de la culture yiddish: 75 € partially tax deductible (CERFA receipt).
Download the workshop program and the kindershul program as a pdf.
Talks and lectures on line
Encounter of October 20, 2011 : For the publication of his book Corpus Rothi (éd. Leo Scherr), Steven Sampson in a dialogue with Cécile Guilbert. Here.
Round Table of November 15, 2011 : «En pologne, c’est-à-dire nulle part », led by Gilles Rozier with Talila, Jérémie Dres, Hélène Oppenheim-Gluckman and Daniel Oppenheim. Here.
You can also hear or watch past episodes of the cycle "Writing the catastrophe” conceived by Cécile Wajsbrot.
Meeting of April 6, 2011 : Cécile Wajsbrot read her text Vesuvius, followed by a dialogue with Gilles Rozier
Audio and video versions on the site of the revue remue.net.
Meeting of April 28, 2011 : Hélène Cixous reads her text Après chaque fin du monde, then dialogue with Cécile Wajsbrot
Audio and video versions on the site of the revue remue.net.
Meeting of May 5, 2011 : Laurent Binet reads his text Tolstoy at Stalingrad
Audio and video versions on the site of the revue remue.net.
Meeting of May 26, 2011: Svetlana Alexievitch speaks (in Russian, translation into French) then dialogue with Cécile Wajsbrot
Audio and video versions on the site of the revue remue.net.
Meeting of June 16: Marcel Cohen reads a text on the theme then dialogue with Cécile Wajsbrot
Audio and video versions on the site of the revue remue.net.
Meeting of September 22: Gilles Rozier on the publication of his new novel D'un pays sans amour (éd. Grasset).
Audio and video versions on the site of the revue remue.net.
Meeting of October 13: Dominique Dussidour reads La Conjugaison des anges then dialogue with Cécile Wajsbrot
Audio and video versions on the site of remue.net.
Meeting of November 10: Laurence Werner David reads his text on the subject, then dialogue with Cécile Wajsbrot
audio.
Monthly seminar in yiddish literature
Directed by Yitskhok Niborski and Natalia Krynicka
This year’s themes:
1. Jewish Humor (in the original)
2. Traditional motifs and their avatars
Sunday, January 8
1. Typical situations. Selected storied.
2. The figure of Jesus in Yiddish literature.
1. Typical characters. Choosen stories.
2. Jesus image in the yiddish literature.
This seminar is carried out entirely in Yiddish; it is accessible to any students who have studied the language for at least three years.
Hours: from 9.30 am to 12.30 and from 2.00 to 4.30 p.m. Cost: 34€. Members: 27 €. Annual fee of 10€ for photocopies.
Lunch is taken together: each participant contributes some food or beverage.
Tshaynik café
To talk of many things . . . in Yiddish
Come have a glass of tea in a pleasant, friendly atmosphere and enjoy speaking Yiddish together.
Thursdays from 14h30 to 16h30.
The alef-beys... and after?
Led by Nadia Déhan-Rotschild and Aron Waldman
Introduction to Yiddish
For beginners with knowledge of the alef-beys
Saturday, February 4 from 9.30 a.m to 6 p.m
Each participant brings his lunch.
Tuition: 60 €. Members: 45 €
Summer university
The summer university program in Yiddish language and literature will take place in Paris from July 9 to 27. For further information, write to: annick@yiddishweb.com
Students wishing to find lodging or Parisians who can provide lodging for a student for the duration of the summer program (renting a room or apartment, or taking in a student free of charge) can contact us through our Facebook group: Parizer zumerkurs 2012.
The complete program will be available by February 2012.
Radio program
On the air :
Yidish haynt, the monthly cultural program de culture (in French), on RCJ 93.9 FM, aired at 23h30, produced by the Maison de la culture yiddish, is on line.
On internet :
New weekly webcast in Yiddish, Tsu zingen un tsu zogn, produced by the Maison de la culture yiddish, animated by Sharon Bar-Kochva, Nicole Wajeman and Gilles Rozier. Listen to the latest program on our website and also have access to previous programs here.
Search for documents
The Maison de la culture yiddish is preparing an exhibition on the theme “Utopias of Yiddish”, scheduled to open on March 8, 2012. For this purpose we are seeking original documents concerning projects of colonization or “back to the land” movements created by Jews in Eastern Europe:
— In the Soviet Union: Crimea in the 1920s and 30s and Birobidjan from 1930 on
— In Palestine, with the kibbutz movement and its pre-figuration in the form of hakhsores (farms to prepare people for agriculture and collective life) in Poland and Lithuania
— In Argentina with the agricultural colonies created by the Baron de Hirsch
— The territorialist movement created by Israel Zangwill at the beginning of the 20th century
— The Frayland-lige, which envisaged Jewish colonization projects, in Yiddish, in Surinam, Australia and several other locations.
If you have any original documents (letters and postcards, photos, postage stamps or commemorative stamps, magazines, objects, leaflets or certificates of all sorts), and you are willing to lend them out for the time of the exhibition, please contact Gilles Rozier
Book news
Simon Epstein, 1930 : une année dans l'histoire du peuple juif, éd. Stock.
What was happening in the Jewish world before the Genocide? What were the ideologies, organizations, defense strategies? How did they see the future?
To answer these questions, Simon Epstein, economist and historian living in Jerusalem, examines in depth, country by country, the political life of 1930.
A new edition of The Joys of Yiddish -- Joies du yiddish –by Leo Rosten, éditions Calmann-Lévy. The volume contains the original drawings by Olivier Ranson, illustrator for Parisien-Ajourd'hui in France.
De Aleph-beis à Zeyde -- This glossary of astonishing characters straight out of the shtetl is a humorous look at the culture of Ashkenaz from the Borsht Belt to Krakow via the Rue des Rosiers, the Lower East Side, Jerusalem and the town of Chelm.
Zygmunt Klukowski, "Une telle monstruosité…" : journal d'un médecin polonais, 1939-1947, edited by Jean-Yves Potel, éditions Calmann-Lévy
"I was consumed with the passion to write down notes that would later (I already hoped) enable the world to reconstruct the amazing story of the region of Zamosc and of Poland.
Anne Gorouben, 100, boulevard du Montparnasse, éditions Les cahiers dessinés
The title address is that of a small apartment in Paris, just next to the café La Coupole. The story of two childhoods: that of a father who claimed that his was devoid of any “great dramas”, despite the fact that during the war he was hidden for two years in the country, feeling both guilty and abandoned; and that of a daughter who has “ all she needs to be happy” but who lives haunted by the story of a family some of whose members were deported, and others fled or hid or simply disappeared.
The book includes drawings by the author, each accompanied by a text.
Rental of rooms by the Maison de la culture yiddish
At any time when our rooms are not occupied by our own activities, we can rent them out for your meetings, family reunions, etc.
You will be assured of a pleasant setting for your event, at the same time as you contribute financial support to our Center to help us continue our work on preserving and disseminating Yiddish language and culture.
Depending on the size of your event, you rent one of our meeting rooms, the large conference hall or the entire ground floor (with the exception of the reading room).
Feel free to come and visit our premises or contact us for further details.
Contact Gilles Rozier (gilles@yiddishweb.com or 47 00 14 00)
Ideas of gifts
Offer editions of the Maison de la culture yiddish : literature, posters of the alef-beys, catalogues of exhibitions, dictionnaries.
Offer tickets for the Troïm-Teater show.
Project Judaica Europeana
For information on the projects of Judaica Europeana, of which the Maison de la culture yiddish is a partner, click ici.
Offers for members
"Un Enfant de la Corrèze"
by Ben ZIMET
A play with music
Directed by Lionel PARLIER. Lighting: Jean GRISON
Musical Direction: Maurice DELAISTIER
with the Yiddish Quartet :
Maurice Delaistier (violin, guitar), Nicole Uzan (voice)
Michel Derouin (piano, accordion), Louis Derouin (bass)
Ben Zimet (voice,narration)
Un enfant de la Corrèze deals with the theme Memory of the Shoah, and the innocence of children. It takes place in France, under the Occupation. With a combination of original texts in French, French songs of that era, and Yiddish songs.
Théâtre de la Vieille Grille
1 rue du Puits de l’Ermite Paris, 75005 Paris.
Reservations : 01 47 07 20 01 / 06 15 53 69 9O /zmetb@yahoo.fr/Fnacs
Prices: 20 eur. Reduced rate:16 eur.(for members of M.C.Y)
Thirty performances from December 8, 2011 to January 8, 2012
at 21 H 00 (Sundays : 17H30)
