Congress for Jewish Culture together with the California Institute for Yiddish Culture and Language, the Jewish Labor Committee and the Workers Circle,
we present this video of yesterday’s solemn gathering
טרויער־אַקאַדעמיע
In memory of the Soviet Yiddish writers and artists murdered on August 12th, 1952 in Moscow’s infamous Lubyanka prison
with readings and songs from works by Dovid Bergelson, Itzik Fefer, Dovid Hofshteyn, Leyb Kvitko, and Perets Markish as well as Shike Driz, Shmuel Halkin, Yoysef Kerler presented by Kolya Borodulin, Maia Evrona, Yoshke Horowitz, Miri Koral, Psoy Koralenko, Sveta Kundish, Boris Sandler, Zisl Slepovitch, Deborah Strauss and Jeff Warschauer, and Yelena Shmulenson. Shane Baker, chair.
The program is in English and Yiddish with English subtitles and translations
Recorded Sunday 11 August 2024
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