פֿון אלכּסנדרה פּאָליאַן
The Sefer Summer Program attracts about 70 students from the former Soviet Union; a bicycle race organized by the Moscow Chabad.
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A 4-day seminar of young scholars takes place in St. Petersburg; A series of films on Jewish composers was screened at the Jewish Museum in MoscowRead More
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The End-of-year Eshkolot Festival in Jerusalem covers the theme, “Mother and Whore: Jerusalem as a Woman”; A Yiddish book fair takes place in Red Square.Read More
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פֿון אלכּסנדרה פּאָליאַן
An exhibit of Marc Chagall‘s lithographs in the Moscow gallery, “Mastart”; books containing personal letters in Yiddish elicit interest as topic of research.Read More
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A festival of Jewish film was held for the first time in Moscow; the Maimonides academy held a conference on Jewish Studies in modern education.Read More
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פֿון אלכּסנדרה פּאָליאַן
An interview with Rabbi Adolf Shayevich causes a scandal, after he says that he would participate in the hanging of all homosexuals; “Eshkolot״: an evening dedicated to Walther Benjamin - the German-Jewish writer, philosopher and philologist.Read More
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פֿון אלכּסנדרה פּאָליאַן
The prosecutor’s office of the city of Yekaterinburg has confiscated the Hebrew Bible, because of suspicions of extremism; for the first time, the old American Film “Enemeies: A Love Story,” based on the novel by Isaac Bashevis Singer, has been shown in Moscow.Read More
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פֿון אלכּסנדרה פּאָליאַן
The chef Gil Hovav, a grandson of Eliezer Ben-Yehuda, comes to the Russian State University for the Humanities; the “Eshkolot” project is organizing events dedicated to the 75th birthday of Joseph BrodskyRead More
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פֿון אלכּסנדרה פּאָליאַן
Performance of “The Sky Over Vitebsk” in honor of Marc Chagall, during Museum Night in Moscow; a lecture about Jewish merchants during the Middle Ages, at Eshkolot.Read More
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Lecture about the Jewish artists of the “second” Russian avant-garde, in the 1960s; a discussion at Eshkalot about the French writer with Jewish roots, Georges PerecRead More
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Alexandra Polian was born in Moscow and studed Hebrew and Yiddish as well as pedagogy in the Institute for Asian and African Studies at Moscow State University. She works there now as a research associate and teaches Hebrew, Hebrew and Yiddish literature, Jewish bi-lingualism and German. She also teaches Yiddish in the “Eshkolot” program. Yiddish folklore collection and research are her specialty. Each year she undertakes an ethnographic expedition to Besserabia and Bukovina to collect folklore. She also serves on the editorial board of the Yiddish periodical “Tsaytshrift”.Read More
אַלכּסנדרה פּאָליאַן איז געבוירן געוואָרן אין מאָסקווע, זיך געלערנט העברעיִש און ייִדיש אינעם אינסטיטוט פֿון די לענדער פֿון אַזיע און אַפֿריקע בײַם מאָסקווער מלוכה־אוניווערסיטעט און פּעדאַגאָגיק אויפֿן פּעדאַגאָגישן פֿאַקולטעט. אַצינד איז זי דאָרט אַ וויסנשאַפֿטלעכע מיטאַרבעטערין, וווּ זי קנעלט העברעיִש, העברעיִשע און ייִדישע ליטעראַטור, ייִדישע צוויי־שפּראַכיקייט און דײַטש. אַרבעט אויך אין „אשכּולות” ווי אַ ייִדיש־לערערין. פֿאַרנעמט זיך מיט זאַמלען און פֿאָרשן דעם ייִדישן פֿאָלקלאָר. יעדעס יאָר פֿאָרט אין עקספּעדיציעס קיין בוקאָווינע און בעסאַראַביע. אַ רעדאַקציע־מיטגליד פֿון דער אויסגאַבע „צײַטשריפֿט” (מינסק־ווילנע).Read More