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The ¡Viva Yiddish! Project - September 20, 2008

THE CONCERT
The debut of The ¡Viva Yiddish! Project, an original band celebrating the rich interplay of contemporary Yiddish and Latin American cultures in Los Angeles. At Grand Performances at California Plaza.

FINAL REHEARSAL
Check out the musicians work through the final rehearsal before the evening concert.

Una Noche Idishe - October 20, 2007

PAPIROSN
Divina Gloria sings Papirosn (Cigarettes), a song about an orphan boy selling cigarettes on the streets of German-Occupied Grodno during World War I. Grab some kleenex before watching - this stunned the audience.

A SHOA DAINE
Yiddish Argentina meant Yiddish Tangos, and this number transports us to the nightclubs of Buenos Aires. What does a Yiddish Tango sound and look like? Take a little klezmer, add some Yiddish singing and throw in sexy tango footwork - watch this clip to find out.

Tango Ganas, led by Schwee Miguel (foreground, far left), rehearsing for the show.

Klezmer Juice (L-R: Oscar Lomutto, Dan Weinstein and Gustavo Bulgach), rehearsing for the show.

Schwee Miguel and Shelley Delayne practice a tango number with Klezmer Juice.

Divina Gloria discusses the path of her Argentinian ancestry in front of a picture of her zeyde.

Gustavo, with Divina playing the tambourine in the background, rehearses a song.

Gustavo (right) and Dan (left) rehearse a Yiddish Tango.

Gustavo and Divina watch clips from "No Toca Boton," a popular Argentinian sketch-comedy show in which Divina played the "Yiddish girl," a tramp who spoke only Yiddish to her fellow Spanish-speaking actors.

Gabriela Stein and Michael Ragland rehearse their tango parts.

The smooth tango dancing of Schwee and Shelley helped the audience visualize Yiddish in Argentina.

The show ended with a wedding between Divina and Schwee, with people from the audience joining the dancers for a freylekh.

The L.A. Times Festival of Books - April 28 & 29, 2007

The Yiddishkayt Los Angeles and National Yiddish Book Center booth.

Volunteers spoke with hundreds of visitors to our booth.

We sold dozens of different books in and about Yiddish, as well as
dozens of CDs of Yiddish music.

This year at the Festival of Books, Yiddish could be found at
the corner of Grand and Ludlow (or at booth 704).

We had book signings each day of the Book Festival.

A Living Lens editor (and Arts & Letters Editor for the Forward), Alana Newhouse
signing her book for L.A. Times film critic Kenneth Turan.

Yiddish books were popular with visitors of all ages!

Red Yiddish with Lorin Sklamberg - February 15, 2007

Lorin provided an audio tour of the YIVO archives, providing a history of recorded Yiddish music in America and the recent Klezmer renaissance. This clip introduces the event. Visit our youTube channel for more clips from the event.

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Klezmer and Japanese Taiko drumming at the Yiddishkayt Family Festival - October 10, 2004

Family Workshop - Yiddishkayt Family Festival - October 10, 2004

Nighttime Bus Odyssey - New Beverly Cinema - Two Kuni Lemls/Mile High Cohens - October 13, 2004

Nighttime Bus Odyssey - Canter's on Fairfax - Chers dancing a sher - October 13, 2004