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

Yiddish Tango in Zielona Góra coming soon! 14 of August 2018

Żydowskie i polskie tanga przedwojennej Warszawy.

Olga Avigail - wokal
Hadrian Tabęcki - pianino
Grzegorz Bożewicz - bandoneon
Piotr Malicki - gitara
Mario Jeka - gościnnie na klarnecie
Zespół taneczny - Studio DANCE Club
Wydarzenie zrealizowane będzie dzięki wsparciu: Lubuska Fundacja Judaica, Zielonogórski Ośrodek Kultury, Lato Muz Wszelakich - Zielona Góra, Fotograf- Kinga Dziwota