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Calling All *Zamlers! -
The Yiddish Dance Action Network Needs You
For hundreds of years, Ashkenazi Jews were part of a diverse
tapestry of ethnic communities in Eastern and Central Europe.
Dance,
particularly during wedding festivities, was an important means of
cultural expression and community cohesion for Jews living in cities
and shtetlekh (villages) alike.
These old Eastern European Jewish
folk dances are now known as Yiddish dances. Examples include the
freylekhs, bulgar and sher. To find out more about the dances visit
www.yiddishdance.com
A variety of factors caused most traditional Yiddish dance and its
associated klezmer repertoire to fall almost completely out of
practice by the 1960s. While remnants of a limited number of dance
forms and gestures are retained in Hasidic communities, today there
are but a few elderly immigrant and second-generation Jews left who
still perform, or can even recall traditional dance from either
Europe or America.
The Yiddish Dance Action Network is a non-profit association of
musicians, dancers, ethnographers and others who strive to document
and continue the traditions of Yiddish Dance. We need your help.
We seek materials and memories that will help complete the picture
of what Yiddish dance was and what it can be. Examples of useful
documentation include:
-memories of Yiddish dancing: perhaps you have a family member or
friend who recalls the old dances and wants to share these memories
-old family films, home movies or photos of celebrations that
feature Yiddish dance
-written descriptions in books or personal accounts of the dances,
such as written memoirs
If you have information about the dances that you would like to
share, please contact us:
Helen Winkler or Pete Rushefsky
Peter I. Rushefsky, Executive Director
Center for Traditional Music and Dance
32 Broadway, Suite 1314
New York, NY 10004
Tel: USA (1) 212.571.1555 ext. 36
Fax: USA (1) 212.571.9052 |
*Zamler is the Yiddish word for compiler. Zamlers gather together
scattered things in order to form a collection.
Please bring this message to the attention of anyone else you know,
who may have an interest in this subject. |
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| Call for Survivor Participants in a Musical study
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My name is Joseph Toltz, and I am Cantor and Director of Pastoral Care at Emanuel Synagogue in Sydney. On 17th November I began a period of 13 months leave in order to complete my PhD in music.
I wish to document, record, conserve and analyse musical memories of Jewish survivors of Concentration, Labour, Transit and Death camps and Ghettos under the control of the Nazis and their puppet allies from 1939-1945, and also musical memories from partisan groups and those in hiding.
This study is supervised by Dr Cecilia Sun (Lecturer, Arts-Music Unit, University of Sydney) and Professor Allan Marett (Professor of Musicology, Arts-Music Unit, University of Sydney).
My study wishes to focus on any musical recollections of time spent in ghetto, in camp, in hiding or in partisan groups. I’m interested in any melodies survivors may recollect; any musical experiences; any folk tunes (no matter the language), songs both subversive and resistant, forced marching tunes and other such experiences. During interviews we will also discuss feelings about revisiting these musical memories.
Participation is entirely voluntary; participants are not obliged to continue if they are uncomfortable, and can withdraw at any time without prejudice or penalty. I won’t publish or share at conference, or publicly disseminate any material without express permission of the participant.
This study will function as a commemorative ethnographical project, focusing on musical life in the Holocaust; I am also hoping to understand how human psychology interacts with the musical form to provide survival techniques.
If you are willing to participate and let me record your musical story, please contact me on (0409) 448 616 or on the email, joeandal@optusnet.com.au |
| This study has met with approval from the Human Research Ethics Committee of the University of Sydney (documentation can be supplied on request). |
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| Tutor - Melbourne |
Tutoring available for English and related subjects. Young, enthusiastic and experienced tutor -- references available. Caulfield and surrounding areas.
Contact Jeremy Splitter on 0438 001 664 or jem@splitter.com.au |
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Kosher Guest House - London England
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A Kosher Guest House in Golders Green has vacancies for visitors.
We have been in business for 27 years and would like the chance to welcome you to our clean and friendly home.
A large breakfast is included.
Please phone Sharon for reservations 44-208-458-8531
or email jlazenga@gmail.com |
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| 18 - 40 yr olds - Blood Testing Urgently Needed |
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| WANTED: Yiddish speaking parents for playgroup |
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WANTED: Jewish cubs (girls and boys aged 7-10) |
urgently needed for fun meetings
every Wednesday 7-8.30 pm and camps twice a year.
Bentleigh/McKinnon area.
Try without any obligation. Call Bev 9525 9771 |
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WANTED: Babysitter - Sydney |
Babysitter/nanny wanted: Sydney (Bondi Junction)
Energetic babysitter required to look after 2 babies from mid-March
(they will be 6 months and 11 months respectively).
Hours Mon-Fri, 10am-4pm, with flexibility to work some additional hours.
Location: on-site, at the grandparents' place, just 10 minutes' walk from Bondi Junction station.
If you have a cheerful and caring nature, love children, have lots of energy,
and are a non-smoker, you will be perfect for this role.
Competitive hourly wage.
Contact Ruth to schedule an interview on (02) 9386-1628 or e-mail rcb@bigpondnet.au |
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WANTED: Hebrew Tutor |
Tutor to teach me to speak and write in Hebrew.
Living in outback Queensland makes it difficult to access mainstream academic institutes.
Distance Education costs are prohibitive. Woe is me!
If you can help with contacts or suggestions, please email
Roberta Flude on rflude@hypermax.net.au |
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YIDDISH TO ENGLISH TRANSLATION SERVICE |
| Have you found old letters you cannot read? |
| Do you have photgraphs with inscriptions? |
| Have you found old, yellowed newspaper articles? |
| I CAN HELP YOU FIND OUT WHAT THESE SAY!!! |
Mindle Crystel Gross
8870 Boatswain Drive
Boynton Beach, Florida USA 33436-1916 Tel. #: 561-369-1854
email: marv144@aol.com |
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 PHOTOGRAPHER - South Africa |
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SEEKING BARMITVAH-BATMITZVAH TEACHERS |
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