Thursday, September 2
10.30 - The State Jewish TheaterOfficial opening of the Festival - Press conference12.00 - The State Jewish TheaterFrom the ”Green Tree” to Broadway - Conference – Moderator: Director Harry Eliad16.30 - The “Union” Cinema
The Yiddish Theater in Romania (Director Harry Eliad) Jewish Music in Theater productions (Eng. Adrian Cuperman) Why do we need a Yiddish theater? Director Andrei Munteanu) From Iași to New York (Director Radu Gabrea)“And they faded out like the wind…” – the story of the Barasheum Theater19.30 - The State Jewish Theater
Documentary - Presented by Director Radu GabreaThe Fools of Helem by Moishe GershenzonFriday, September 3
The State Jewish Theater
10.00 – Jewish Community CenterThe Shtetl and its world - Conference – Moderator: Director Erwin Șimșensohn16.30 - The “Union” Cinema
The Shtetl culture in Romania (Prof. Dr. Liviu Rotman) The Jewish Bukovina (Dr. Emil Rennert – Austria Rediscovering Yiddishland in Romania (Dr. Simon Geissbühler, Switzerland) Chassidism and Hesychasm: landmarks, origins, connections (Dr. Madeea Axinciuc) The mural painting of Moldavian synagogues (Dr. Măriuca Stanciu)Itzic Manger19.00 - The Great Synagogue
Documentary – Presented by Director Radu GabreaKabbalat ShabbatSaturday, September 410.00 – Jewish Community Center16.00 – Jewish Community Center
Yiddishland - Conference – Moderator: Dr. Aurel Vainer
Yiddish language – past and present – from mammelushn to art (Dr. Harry Kuller) Yiddishland: culture and political identity in the Yiddish media at the end of the 19th century in Romania (Drd. Augusta Radosav – Cluj) The Yiddish language – a source of moral support during the Holocaust (Dr. Lya Benjamin) Memories about Yiddish, from a Shtetl (Dr. Aurel Vainer)Mammelushn - Conference – Moderator: Dr. Jose Blum19.00 - The State Jewish Theater
Translations into Romanian from the Yiddish classic literature (Dr. Camelia Crăciun) Peretz- a great Yiddish writer (Ghidu Brukmaier ) From La Fontaine to Eliezer Shteinberg (Writer Carol Feldman)One Man Show "Alein ist die Neshume rein" - “Alone, the heart is pure”21.00 - Green Hours 22 Club Jazz Café
Yaakov Bodo & Misha Blecharovitz - Yiddishpiel Theater - IsraelVienna Klezmer Band (Austria)Sunday, September 5 – ““The European Day of Jewish Culture”
11.00 - The Romanian Peasant MuseumVisiting the Great Synagogue from Bucharest – September 2,3,5, from 10.00 to 17.00 h.Hakeshet Klezmer Band (Romania) The Hora dance group (Romania) Mames Babegenush Klezmer Band (Denmark)17.30 - The Romanian Peasant MuseumMazel Tov Klezmer Band (Romania) Preβburger Klezmer Band (Slovakia)20.30 - Jewish Community CenterOne Woman Show
Yiddish Experience
Maia Morgenstern & Radu Captari
The Festival of Klezmer music “LvivKlezFest” will welcome its guest for the second time on July 25, 2010 from 10.00 a.m. until 23.00 p.m.
You will enjoy the theatrical Jewish wedding procession on the streets of medieval Jewish quarter which will be adorned by playing of Klezmer groups from different countries. Then the ceremony will fluently turn into a great long-lasting gala-concert on the ancient square near the legendary synagogue “Golden Rose”.
You will be also offered the master-classes on Jewish dance and handicrafts, walking tours in Jewish quarter and, certainly, you will taste traditional Jewish cuisine.
Those who will visit this big holiday of Jewish culture in Lviv in the very heart of Eastern Galicia will get unforgettable feelings due to the combination of natural scenery in conjunction with unique Klezmer music.The Festival is organized and supported by All-Ukrainian Jewish Charitable Foundation “Hesed-Arieh” (Lviv), “Joint Center”(Kiev), Company of Emotions “!Fest”(Lviv).
ALL LOVERS OF JEWISH MUSIC, DANCES AND SONGS ARE WELLCOMED!The Schedule of «LvivKlezFest-2010» (July 25, 2010)
10.00–13.30 Every half-hour free tour walks in the Jewish quarter of the city (the tour walks will start from the cafe "Diana", Rynok square)
from 12.00 - Theatrical performance "А hаsеnе in Galitsie" - "Jewish wedding-party in Galicia" accompanied by Klezmer orchestras - (cafe "Diana", Rynok square); Treating, master-classes on Jewish handicrafts - (Br.Rogatyntziv street); Jewish workshops - (Staroyevreyska street).
14.30–23.00 Gala-concert ”Muzl Tov!” - “Happiness”! with participation of klezmers from Ukraine, Russia, Germany, Poland (Arsenalna square, across the synagogue “Golden Rose”).
Called “Quarter6Quarter7,” the festival, which starts Friday and is the first of its kind, features some 130 events in more than 30 different venues in and around the city’s Seventh District, central Budapest’s first and most important Jewish neighborhood.Read Full Story
“It's a Hanukkah festival, but it’s not just a Jewish event; it’s a festival of the Quarter, of everyone who lives here and visits here,” said Adam Schonberger, one of the organizers. “Living culture is the key, and the district itself becomes a house of culture, where it all is going on.”
