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Winter in Yiddishland Online – The Workers Circle

February 6, 2022

WINTER IN YIDDISHLAND ONLINE, held entirely on Zoom, will offer a variety of programming on February 6, 2022.

Our program includes Yiddish classes for all levels and ages, lectures by Yiddish scholars (in English and Yiddish), Klezmer, Yiddish song and Yidishe nigunim workshops, concerts featuring Klezmer stars, Yiddish singalongs, children’s program and the opportunity to meet with ardent Yiddishists from around the world. We hope you will join us and become a part of our international Yiddishland mishpokhe!
The program starts at 10 AM EDT and ends at 6:00 PM EDT.

Registration for Winter in Yiddishland Online is $25 per individual program.

Polina Shepherd will be leading a workshop at 12:00 – 1:15 pm EDT

A Snow-Covered Singing Journey with Polina Shepherd: In Vinter Farnakhtn 
Join Polina Shepherd for a singing journey through Russian fields towards a Jewish home in a shtetl. In Vinter Farnakhtn by Dovid Hofshteyn is about a path surrounded by deep snows and memories. Let’s walk this path with two very different melodies and see how the colours change from melody to melody. 

Join us for the concert: 3:30 PM – 5:00 PM EDT

The Workers Circle Annual Lorraine (Libby) Buch Yiddish Concert 
Lorraine (Libby) Buch z”l was a longtime member of the Workers Circle, passed away in May 2019. Libby left the Workers Circle a generous legacy donation in her will that reflects her commitment to lifelong learning and celebrates her love of Yiddish, music, and Jewish culture. The legacy Libby left for the Workers Circle will be memorialized with an annual Yiddish Music concert named for her. The inaugural Lorraine Buch concert will be held at our first Winter in Yiddishland program and features performances from Polina Shepherd (UK), Svetlana Kundish (Germany), Tania Grinberg (Brazil), Yasmin Garfunkel (Argentina), Daniel Kahn (Germany), Deborah Strauss and Jeff Warschauer, Michael Winograd, Jake Shulman-Ment, Nicole Borger (Brazil), Teressa Tova (Canada), Mikhl Yashinsky, Cindy Paley, Zhenya Lopatnik, Psoi Korolenko, Lloika Czaskis (France), Motl Didner & Leyzer Burko, Timur Fishel (Estonia) , Annie Cohen, Sheva Zucker, Miri Koral, Daniel Galai (Israel), Gustavo Emos (Brazil), and more.

We are also thrilled to offer free community events; KinderKlub Yiddish: Winter Edition, The Workers Circle Annual Lorraine (Libby) Buch Yiddish Concertand Yiddish Sing-Along with Cindy Paley. Advance registration for free events is required. 

If you have any questions, please email Kolya Borodulin at nborodulin@circle.org or Baruch Blum at bblum@circle.org

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Winter in Yiddishland Online – The Workers Circle

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February 6, 2022
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