Ashkenaz Festival to celebrate Polish-Jewish culture

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Ruth Schweitzer

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August 20, 2018 

Ashkenaz Festival to Celebrate Polish Jewish Culture

today in the radio Classical fm Toronto

Klezkanada afterparty Montreal

Meet the Catholic-born Polish Orthodox Jew who’s reviving Yiddish tango

Meet the Catholic-born Polish Orthodox Jew who’s reviving Yiddish tango: This story is sponsored by the Polish Cultural Institute New York. TEL AVIV — She’s a Catholic-born Polish woman now living as a Modern Orthodox Jew in Israel. As if that weren’t unusual enough, Olga Avigail Mieleszczuk’s life’s work is reviving the musical genre of Yiddish tango — two words rarely uttered in the same breath. Mieleszczuk, known simply as...

Olga Avigail at the Klezkanada

Save dates! KlezKanada 2018

tomorrow 10:45 am - Art rising up from the archives, open session with Evelyn Tauben and Alicia Svigals

Thursday 23.08 9 am - Yiddish Fox from Warsaw: Polish-Jewish Cabaret of Interwar Period (workshop)

Thursday 23.08 5:30 pm - Songs of Jewish Polesye (concert)

Friday 24.08 9:00 am - Yiddish Fox from Warsaw: Polish-Jewish Cabaret of Interwar Period (workshop)

Sunday 26.08 8.15 pm concert Montreal La Sala Rossa 

Save the date! Ashkenaz Festival 2018