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Yiddish Festival
May 27-31 1999

Schedule

Thursday May 27, 1999

3-7pm Registration PAL Building
6:30-8:30pm Dinner
8:15-8:45pm Kaboles Ponim: Sholem Aleichem and Mozart: Professor Morris 
Moskowitz 2ND FLOOR LOUNGE
9:00-10:15pm 
Welcome
Landsmanshaftn Organizations in America: Daniel Soyer
Introduction to "They Were Not Silent"
They Were Not Silent: Documentary by Ruvn Millman

10:30-12:00am Dancing with The Klez Dispensers.
Friday May 28, 1999

7:30-9:00am Breakfast
10:00-11:30am Classes
1.      Yiddish Beginner Alef 1: Pearl Gluck
2.      Yiddish Beginner Beyz 1: Pessach Fiszman
3.      Yiddish Intermediate/Advanced 1: Chava Lapin
4.      Orthodox vs. Secular: Miriam Hoffman
5.      A Shabbos in Slonim Nigunim Workshop: Yosl Weiss
6.      Yiddish Music101: Naomi Hirsch
7.      Mame-Loshn Klezmer Band: Jeffrey Warschauer
8.      Walks Through Nature: Leah Robinson
9.      A Kuk Arayn: Di Indishe Geselschaft: Adina Cimet
10.     How Jewish is Sholem Asch?: Troim Handler
11.     Mame-Loshn Chorus1: Binyumin Schaechter
12.     A Yiddish Love Affair!: Sylvia Schildt
13.     Klezmer Style and Technique for String Players: Deborah Strauss
14.     Yoga in Yiddish: Reyzl Rose

11:45-1:15pm Lunch 
1:30-3:00pm Classes
1.      Yiddish Beginner Alef 2: Pearl Gluck
2.      Yiddish Beginner Beyz 2: Pessach Fiszman
3.      Yiddish Intermediate/Advanced 2: Chava Lapin
4.      Jewish Life in Kovno: Tina Lunson
5.      Alefbeyz Humor and Wit: Miriam Hoffman
6.      Yiddish on the Net: Iosif Vaisman
7.      Eastern European Folk Dance: Michael Alpert
8.      Yiddish Music101: Naomi Hirsch
9.      Mame-Loshn Klezmer Band: Jeffrey Warschauer
10.     Walks Through Nature: Leah Robinson
11.     Shprakh un Yidish Identitet: Adina Cimet
12.     Financial Planning in Yiddish: Abe Ostreicher
13.     Klezmer Style and Technique for String Players: Deborah Strauss

3:15-4:45pm Classes
1.      Hebrew for Yiddish Students: Larisa Pecherskaya
2.      Eastern European Folk Music: Michael Alpert
3.      Rarely Heard Yiddish Folksongs: Jeffrey Warschauer
4.      Kneytsh un Kvetsh Massage: Donna Gallers & Reyzl Rose
5.      A Nekhtign Tog Chassidic Stories: Pearl Gluck
6.      Yiddish Poets of Bukovina: Beyle Schaechter-Gottesman
7.      Send a Salami to Your Boy in the Army: Sites of Jewish Memory and 
Identity at Lower East Side Restaurants: Eve Jochnowitz
8.      A Jewish Boyhood in Poland: Norman Salsitz
9.      Luboml: Nathan Sobel
10.     Mame-Loshn Chorus2: Binyumin Schaechter
11.     The Strike of the Vilna Street Girls: Sylvia Schildt
12.     American Style Ballroom Dance: Victoria Kriner-Stepanovsky

5:15-5:45pm Concert with the Strauss/Warschauer Trio 2ND FLOOR LOUNGE
6:00-7:30pm Dinner
7:30pm Shabes Program:Cantor Naomi Hirsch
8:00-9:30pm An Evening of Story and Song with Michael Alpert, Rachel Botchan, 
Pessach Fiszman, Pearl Gluck and Suzanne Toren.
10:00-11:00pm Yiddish Sing-a-Long with Ben Zion Bentselis of the Kovno 
Yiddish musical group "Mir Zaynen Do" and Accordionist Roman Katz 2ND FLOOR 
LOUNGE
11:30pm-? Late Night "Jam" Party 2ND FLOOR LOUNGE

Saturday May 29, 1999

7:45-9:15am Breakfast
10:00-11:30am Classes
1.      Yiddish Beginner Alef 3: Pearl Gluck
2.      Yiddish Beginner Beyz 3: Pessach Fiszman
3.      Yiddish Intermediate/Advanced 3: Chava Lapin
4.      Luboml: Nathan Sobel
5.      Travels in Belarus, 1998: Yosl Weiss
6.      Rarely Heard Yiddish Folksongs: Jeffrey Warschauer
7.      Bar/Bat Mitzvah with a "Yidishn Tam": Meg Cassedy-Blum & Parents
8.      Walks Through Nature: Leah Robinson
9.      A Yiddish Love Affair!: Sylvia Schildt
10.     Klezmer Style and Technique for String Players: Deborah Strauss
11.     Yoga in Yiddish: Reyzl Rose

11:45-1:15pm Lunch
1:30-3:00pm Classes
1.      Yiddish Beginner Alef 4: Pearl Gluck
2.      Yiddish Beginner Beyz 4: Pessach Fiszman
3.      Yiddish Intermediate/Advanced 4: Chava Lapin
4.      Yiddish on the Net: Iosif Vaisman
5.      How Jewish is Sholem Asch?: Troim Handler
6.      American Style Ballroom Dance: Victoria Kriner-Stepanovsky
7.      Eastern European Folk Music: Michael Alpert
8.      Mame-Loshn Klezmer Band: Jeffrey Warschauer
9.      Klezmer Style and Technique for String Players: Deborah Strauss
10.     Travels in Belerus, 1998: Yosl Weiss
11.     A Jewish Boyhood in Poland: Norman Salsitz

3:15-4:45pm Classes
1.      Hebrew for Yiddish Students: Larisa Pecherskaya
2.      Eastern European Folk Dance: Michael Alpert
3.      Mame-Loshn Klezmer Band: Jeffrey Warschauer
4.      Kneytsh un Kvetsh Massage: Donna Gallers & Reyzl Rose
5.      Walks Through Nature: Leah Robinson
6.      A Nekhtign Tog Chassidic Stories: Pearl Gluck
7.      Yiddish Poets of Bukovina: Beyle Schaechter-Gottesman
8.      Orthodox vs. Secular: Miriam Hoffman
9.      The Strike of the Vilna Street Girls: Sylvia Schildt

5:15-5:45pm Concert with Naomi Hirsch 2ND FLOOR LOUNGE
6:00-7:30pm
8:00-10:15pm "Break A Leg" Skits and Songs from the Yiddish Theater
Starring Suzanne Toren, Hy Wolfe, Rachel Botchan and Phyllis Berk
Written and adapted by Miriam Hoffman

9:00pm. Havdole during intermission lead by Cantor Naomi Hirsch with 
assistance by Meg Cassedy-Blum.

10:30-12:00am Dancing with The Klez Dispensers.
11:15-12:30am Cabaret: Hy Wolfe Official Tumbler 2ND FLOOR LOUNGE
12:45am-? Late Night "Jam" Party LIPPINCOTT RESIDENCE HALL LOUNGE
Sunday May 30, 1999

7:45-9:15am Breakfast
10:00-11:30am Classes
1.      Yiddish Beginner Alef 5: Pearl Gluck
2.      Yiddish Beginner Beyz 5: Pessach Fiszman
3.      Yiddish Intermediate/Advanced 5: Chava Lapin
4.      Luboml: Nathan Sobel
5.      A Shabbos in Slonim Nigunim Workshop: Yosl Weiss
6.      Rarely Heard Yiddish Folksongs: Jeffrey Warschauer
7.      Yiddish Music101: Naomi Hirsch
8.      Situation of Yiddish in St. Petersburg: Larisa Pecherskaya
9.      Bar/Bat Mitzvah with a "Yidishn Tam": Meg Cassedy-Blum & Parents
10.     Walks Through Nature: Leah Robinson
11.     Jewish Life in Kovno: Tina Lunson
12.     Mame-Loshn Chorus3: Binyumin Schaechter
13.     A Yiddish Love Affair!: Sylvia Schildt
14.Klezmer Style and Technique for String Players: Deborah Strauss
15. Yoga in Yiddish: Reyzl Rose

11:45-1:15pm Lunch
1:30-3:00pm Classes
1.      Yiddish Beginner Alef 6: Pearl Gluck
2.      Yiddish Beginner Beyz 6: Pessach Fiszman
3.      Yiddish Intermediate/Advanced 6: Chava Lapin
4.      A Jewish Boyhood in Poland: Norman Salsitz
5.      American Style Ballroom Dance: Victoria Kriner-Stepanovsky
6.      Eastern European Folk Music: Michael Alpert
7.      Mame-Loshn Klezmer Band: Jeffrey Warschauer
8.      Kneytsh un Kvetsh Massage: Donna Gallers & Reyzl Rose
9.      How Jewish is Sholem Asch?: Troim Handler
10.     The Yiddish Press & A life in Yiddish Journalism: Gershon Jacobson 
11.     Yiddish and the Kabbalah: Yosef Y. Jacobson
12.     Jewish Life in Kovno: Tina Lunson
13.     Financial Planning in Yiddish: Abe Ostreicher
14.     Klezmer Style and Technique for String Players: Deborah Strauss
 

3:15-4:45pm Classes
1.      Hebrew for Yiddish Students: Larisa Pecherskaya
2.      Eastern European Folk Dance: Michael Alpert
3.      Mame-Loshn Klezmer Band: Jeffrey Warschauer
4.      Kneytsh un Kvetsh Massage: Donna Gallers & Reyzl Rose
5.      Walks Through Nature: Leah Robinson
6.      A Nekhtign Tog Chassidic Stories: Pearl Gluck
7.      Yiddish Poets of Bukovina: Beyle Schaechter-Gottesman
8.      The Yiddish Press & A life in Yiddish Journalism: Gershon Jacobson
9.      Yiddish and the Kabbalah: Yosef Y. Jacobson
10.     Send a Salami to Your Boy in the Army: Sites of Jewish Memory and 
Identity at Lower East Side Restaurants: Eve Jochnowitz
11.     Financial Planning in Yiddish: Abe Ostreicher
12.     Mame-Loshn Chorus4: Binyumin Schaechter
13.     The Strike of the Vilna Street Girls: Sylvia Schildt

5:00-6:00pm A Conversation Between The Yiddish Forward Editor Boris Sandler & 
The Algemeiner Journal Editor Gershon Jacobson
5:15-5:45pm Concert with Faye Kellerstein of Toronto performing "Broadway's 
Jewish Roots"
6:00-7:30pm Dinner
8:00-10:00pm Concert 
Mame-Loshn Chorus
Pharaoh's Daughter: Yiddish Blend of Hasidic and Middle Eastern Melodies
Concert by David Stepanovsky
Mame-Loshn Klezmer Band
10:15-11:45am Dancing with The Klez Dispensers.
11:15-12:30am Cabaret Hy Wolfe Official Tumbler 2ND FLOOR LOUNGE
12:45am-? Late Night "Jam" Party LIPPINCOTT RESIDENCE HALL LOUNGE
Monday May 31, 1999

8:00-9:45am Breakfast
10:30-12:30 
90th Anniversary of the Czernowitz Conference: Iosif Vaisman
1:00-2:00pm Lunch


 
 

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