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w7thart.com - 1934 saw the founding of the Jewish Autonomous Oblast, an independent communist state for Jews in a remote corner of Russia near the Chinese border. Its capital was Birobidzhan, and its language Yiddish. Communist Jews from all over the world were encouraged to move there. Did Jewish pioneers come up with this idea and get approval from Stalin, or did the Russian totalitarian leader have his own reasons for supporting this migration? The Belgian director Guy-Marc Hinant went to Birobidzhan to explore this remarkable slice of history. What’s left of Jewish culture there, and who’s living in the city nowadays? Hinant focuses on some now-elderly people whose parents settled in Birobidzhan. Their memories tell a story that’s very different from the scenes shot in the city as it is today. The modern population is finding it difficult to preserve their traditional practices and their Yiddish – despite the language lessons for young people and the celebration of Jewish holidays. Intercut shots of bleak landscapes reveal an empty region crisscrossed at high speed by improbably long freight trains. The soundtrack of old Yiddish songs – played on records and sung directly into the camera – forms a melancholy musical echo of times past.
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Yale Strom: Klezmer - Cafe Jew Zoo
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“History of Education in Russia” at Jewish Museum and Tolerance Center
How does the story of Russia’s thousand-year-old education system transform from a history lesson to an exciting and engaging learning experience for teenagers? Prosveshcheniye Education Holding turned to Lorem Ipsum to answer just that.
Through a combination of colorful, historical characters, popular movies and modern technology, Lorem Ipsum constructed an immersive exhibit exploring the history of Russian education in one single lesson, outside the traditional classroom setting.
The exhibition consists of five parts, each corresponding to a significant period in the development of Russia’s education system. Visiting teachers narrate the story of each period while students use augmented reality glasses to view animated illustrations curated and designed by Lorem Ipsum.
Each period concludes with a short film—directed by Yan Vizinberg—in which, historical figures who contributed to the development of Russia’s education system tell the story in their own words. These characters are brought to life by two of Russia’s most noted film and theater stars, Aleksey Serebryakov (star of the the Golden Globe-winning film “Leviathan”) and Yulia Peresild (star of the 2017 film “Cold Tango”). The actors are fully transformed in makeup and splendid costumes from the vaults of the legendary Mosfilm. The actors take on the roles of Catherine the Great, Leo Tolstoy, Vladimir Lenin and others, and provide a fresh take on centuries past.
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Jews in Russia have historically constituted a large religious diaspora; the vast territories of the Russian Empire at one time hosted the largest population of Jews in the world. Within these territories the primarily Ashkenazi Jewish communities of many different areas flourished and developed many of modern Judaism's most distinctive theological and cultural traditions, while also facing periods of anti-Semitic discriminatory policies and persecutions. The largest group among Russian Jews are Ashkenazi Jews, but the community also includes a significant number of other Diasporan Jewish groups, such as Mountain Jews, Sephardic Jews, Crimean Karaites, Krymchaks, Bukharan Jews, and Georgian Jews.
The presence of Jewish people in the European part of Russia can be traced to the 7th–14th centuries CE. In the 11th and 12th centuries, the Jewish population in Kiev, in present-day Ukraine, was restricted to a separate quarter. Evidence of the presence of Jewish people in Muscovite Russia is first documented in the chronicles of 1471. During the reign of Catherine II in the 18th century, Jewish people were restricted to the Pale of Settlement within Russia, the territory where they could live or immigrate to. Alexander III escalated anti-Jewish policies. Beginning in the 1880s, waves of anti-Jewish pogroms swept across different regions of the empire for several decades. More than two million Jews fled Russia between 1880 and 1920, mostly to the United States and what is today the State of Israel.The Pale of Settlement took away many of the rights that the Jewish people of the late 17th century Russia were experiencing. At this time, the Jewish people were restricted to an area of what is current day Belarus, Lithuania, Poland and Ukraine. Where Western Europe was experiencing emancipation at this time, the laws for the Jewish people were getting more strict. The general attitude towards Jewish people was to look down on the religion and the people. It was as both a religion and a race, something that one could not escape if they tried. Slowly, the Jewish people were allowed to move further east towards a less crowded population. This was a small change, and did not come to all Jewish people, and not even a small minority of them. In this more spread out area, the Jewish people lived in communities, known as Schtetls. These communities were very similar to what would be known as ghettos in World War II, with the cramped and subpar living conditions.Before 1917 there were 300,000 Zionists in Russia, while the main Jewish socialist organization, the Bund, had 33,000 members. Only 958 Jews had joined the Bolshevik Party before 1917; thousands joined after the Revolution. The chaotic years of World War I, the February and October Revolutions, and the Russian Civil War had created social disruption that led to anti-Semitism. Some 150,000 Jews were killed in the pogroms of 1918–1922, 125,000 of them in Ukraine, 25,000 in Belarus. The pogroms were mostly perpetrated by anti-communist forces; sometimes, Red Army units engaged in pogroms as well. After a short period of confusion, the Soviets started executing guilty individuals and even disbanding the army units whose men had attacked Jews. Although pogroms were still perpetrated after this, mainly by Ukrainian units of the Red Army during its retreat from Poland (1920), in general, the Jews regarded the Red Army as the only force which was able and willing to defend them. The Russian Civil War pogroms shocked world Jewry and rallied many Jews to the Red Army and the Soviet regime, and also strengthened the desire for the creation of a homeland for the Jewish people.In August 1919 the Soviet government arrested many rabbis, seized Jewish properties, including synagogues, and dissolved many Jewish communities. The Jewish section of the Communist Party labeled the use of the Hebrew language reactionary and elitist and the teaching of Hebrew was banned ...
Jews in the Russian Revolution
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Jewish history of Harbin rediscovered
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1. Wide of the New Jewish Synagogue
2. Front of the New Jewish Synagogue
3. Plaque of the New Jewish Synagogue
4. Mid of Jewish Menorah (seven branched candlestick) inside the New Jewish Synagogue
5. Pan of the exhibition hall inside the New Jewish Synagogue
6. Corridor on the second floor of the New Jewish Synagogue
7. Zoom out of ceramic figure in the exhibition hall of the New Jewish Synagogue
8. Mid of ceramic figure in the exhibition hall of the New Jewish Synagogue
9. Wide of the pictures displayed in the New Jewish Synagogue
10. Close of various pictures of displayed in the New Jewish Synagogue
SOUNDBITE (English): Dan Ben-Canaan, Professor of Writing for Journalism, Hei Long Jiang University
The first family that came to Harbin came in 1898, so 108 years ago. They were followed by business people who came from Russia, from Sweden, from France, through the tran-siberian railway that was built at the time, this by the way was the foundation of the city.
11. Mid of the pictures displayed in the New Jewish Synagogue
12. SOUNDBITE: (Mandarin): Li, Shu-Xiao, Senior Researcher, Jewish Research Centre, The Academy of Social Science of Hei Long Jian Province
After the railway was built in 1898, many Russians came to Harbin. So the Russian Jews arrived. This is the origin of the history. More importantly, after the First World War, many Jewish refuges mainly from Eastern Europe came, then after the October Revolution, and after the Second World War. These are about three stages. At the height, the number of the Jewish people living in Harbin was twenty thousand.
13. Pan of Modern Hotel built by Jewish people of Harbin
14. SOUNDBITE(English): Dan Ben-Canaan, Professor of Writing for Journalism, Hei Long Jiang University
As you walk along the districts of Dao Wai and Dao Li districts, you will see those buildings that were either commercial, hotels, restaurants, theatres, all the way to synagogues, to social halls, to hospitals, schools, and their residential buildings. Those served not just the Jewish community, but the whole community.
15. Exterior of the Eye Hospital, the site of the Jewish Hospital in Jewish district
16. Plaque of the Jewish Hospital
17. Exterior of the Hei Long Jiang Taxation Bureau, the site of the Jewish Free Soup Kitchen and the Home for the Aged on Guo Ge Li Street
18. Exterior of the Main Jewish Synagogue
19. Plaque of the Main Jewish Synagogue (writing in Chinese/ Hebrew and English)
20. Exterior of the Korean High School, the site of the Jewish High School
21. SOUNDBITE : (English): Dan Ben-Canaan, Israel, Professor of Writing for Journalism, Hei Long Jiang University
When you are walking into the what is now known as the Korean High School, but it was a Jewish high school, adjacent to the synagogue, this is the way it was, exactly the way it was.
22. Exterior of building on Guo Ge Li Street used to be shops and houses of Jewish people in Harbin
23. Close of the number plaque : No. 18 Guo Ge Li Street, of the building used to be shops and houses of Jewish people in Harbin
24.Exterior of building on Guo Ge Li Street used to be shops and houses of Jewish people in Harbin
25. Close of top of building on Guo Ge Li Street used to be shops and houses of Jewish people in Harbin (shows year when the building was built 1921)
26. SOUNDBITE : (Mandarin): Li, Shu-Xiao, Senior Researcher, Jewish Research Centre, The Academy of Social Science of Hei Long Jian Province
27. Wide of tomb at the Jewish Huang Shan Cemetery
28. Mid of tomb at the Jewish Huang Shan Cemetery
29. Close of Star of David at the Jewish Huang Shan Cemetery
30. Wide of monument at the Jewish Huang Shan Cemetery
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Solomon Mikhoels Jews and Jewish Art in the USSR Part 2/3 Dr. Henry Abramson
Solomon Mikhoels (1890-1948), one of the most prominent actors and directors in early Soviet Russia. His career coincides with the brief flourishing of Yiddish culture under the policy of korenizatsiia, or indiginization, when the Communist authorities sought to develop folk culture as a means of developing loyalty to the new regime and its ideology. Performing in Shakespeare and Sholom Aleichem with equal grace, Mikhoels was a hero to Jews throughout the Soviet Union until Stalin brought the liberal policy to an abrupt end.
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Cargo Cult | Artist from the ex-eastern bloc
Curated by Max Lumbers, 'Cargo Cult' exhibits the works of artist from the ex-eastern block, most of them immigrated to Israel during the 1990's:
Michail Grobman, Yuri Albert, Ivars Gravlejs, Andrey Lev,
Pavel Pepperstein, Anton Smirnsky (FenSo), New-Barbizon Group (Natalia Zourabova,
Zoya Cherkassky, Anna Lukashevsky, Olga Kundina, Asya Lukin), Igor Guelman-Zak, Maxim Komar-Myshkin, Arcadi Greenman, Ilya Medvedev, TBA & Nikakoi, Kollektiv and Birobidzhan.
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Yiddish language | Wikipedia audio article
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Yiddish (ייִדיש, יידיש or אידיש, yidish/idish, lit. Jewish, pronounced [ˈjɪdɪʃ] [ˈɪdɪʃ]; in older sources ייִדיש-טײַטש Yidish-Taitsh, lit. Judaeo-German) is the historical language of the Ashkenazi Jews. It originated during the 9th century in Central Europe, providing the nascent Ashkenazi community with a High German-based vernacular fused with elements taken from Hebrew and Aramaic as well as from Slavic languages and traces of Romance languages. Yiddish is written with a fully vocalized version of the Hebrew alphabet.
The earliest surviving references date from the 12th century and call the language לשון־אַשכּנז (loshn-ashknaz, language of Ashkenaz) or טײַטש (taytsh), a variant of tiutsch, the contemporary name for Middle High German. Colloquially, the language is sometimes called מאַמע־לשון (mame-loshn, lit. mother tongue), distinguishing it from לשון־קדש (loshn koydesh, holy tongue), meaning Hebrew and Aramaic. The term Yiddish, short for Yidish Taitsh Jewish German, did not become the most frequently used designation in the literature until the 18th century. In the late 19th and into the 20th century the language was more commonly called Jewish, especially in non-Jewish contexts, but Yiddish is again the more common designation today.
Modern Yiddish has two major forms. Eastern Yiddish is far more common today. It includes Southeastern (Ukrainian–Romanian), Mideastern (Polish–Galician–Eastern Hungarian), and Northeastern (Lithuanian–Belarusian) dialects. Eastern Yiddish differs from Western both by its far greater size and by the extensive inclusion of words of Slavic origin. Western Yiddish is divided into Southwestern (Swiss–Alsatian–Southern German), Midwestern (Central German), and Northwestern (Netherlandic–Northern German) dialects. Yiddish is used in a number of Haredi Jewish communities worldwide; it is the first language of the home, school, and in many social settings among many Haredi Jews, and is used in most Hasidic and many Lithuanian yeshivas.
The term Yiddish is also used in the adjectival sense, synonymously with Jewish, to designate attributes of Yiddishkeit (Ashkenazi culture; for example, Yiddish cooking and Yiddish music: klezmer).Prior to the Holocaust, there were 11–13 million speakers of Yiddish among 17 million Jews worldwide. 85% of the approximately 6 million Jews who died in the Holocaust were Yiddish speakers, leading to a massive decline in the use of the language. Assimilation following World War II and aliyah, immigration to Israel, further decreased the use of Yiddish both among survivors and among Yiddish-speakers from other countries (such as in the Americas). However, the number of speakers is increasing in Hasidic communities.
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Yiddish (ייִדיש, יידיש or אידיש, yidish/idish, lit. Jewish, pronounced [ˈjɪdɪʃ] [ˈɪdɪʃ]; in older sources ייִדיש-טײַטש Yidish-Taitsh, lit. Judaeo-German) is the historical language of the Ashkenazi Jews. It originated during the 9th century in Central Europe, providing the nascent Ashkenazi community with a High German-based vernacular fused with elements taken from Hebrew and Aramaic as well as from Slavic languages and traces of Romance languages. Yiddish is written with a fully vocalized version of the Hebrew alphabet.
The earliest surviving references date from the 12th century and call the language לשון־אַשכּנז (loshn-ashknaz, language of Ashkenaz) or טײַטש (taytsh), a variant of tiutsch, the contemporary name for Middle High German. Colloquially, the language is sometimes called מאַמע־לשון (mame-loshn, lit. mother tongue), distinguishing it from לשון־קדש (loshn koydesh, holy tongue), meaning Hebrew and Aramaic. The term Yiddish, short for Yidish Taitsh Jewish German, did not become the most frequently used designation in the literature until the 18th century. In the late 19th and into the 20th century the language was more commonly called Jewish, especially in non-Jewish contexts, but Yiddish is again the more common designation today.Modern Yiddish has two major forms. Eastern Yiddish is far more common today. It includes Southeastern (Ukrainian–Romanian), Mideastern (Polish–Galician–Eastern Hungarian), and Northeastern (Lithuanian–Belarusian) dialects. Eastern Yiddish differs from Western both by its far greater size and by the extensive inclusion of words of Slavic origin. Western Yiddish is divided into Southwestern (Swiss–Alsatian–Southern German), Midwestern (Central German), and Northwestern (Netherlandic–Northern German) dialects. Yiddish is used in a number of Haredi Jewish communities worldwide; it is the first language of the home, school, and in many social settings among many Haredi Jews, and is used in most Hasidic and many Lithuanian yeshivas.
The term Yiddish is also used in the adjectival sense, synonymously with Jewish, to designate attributes of Yiddishkeit (Ashkenazi culture; for example, Yiddish cooking and Yiddish music: klezmer).Prior to the Holocaust, there were 11–13 million speakers of Yiddish among 17 million Jews worldwide. 85% of the approximately 6 million Jews who died in the Holocaust were Yiddish speakers, leading to a massive decline in the use of the language. Assimilation following World War II and aliyah, immigration to Israel, further decreased the use of Yiddish both among survivors and among Yiddish-speakers from other countries (such as in the Americas). However, the number of speakers is increasing in Hasidic communities.
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00:03:25 1 Origins
00:06:49 2 History
00:10:52 2.1 Written evidence
00:12:58 2.2 Printing
00:16:06 2.3 Secularization
00:17:40 2.4 20th century
00:19:46 3 Phonology
00:20:25 4 Numbers of speakers
00:23:32 5 Status as a language
00:24:36 5.1 Israel and Zionism
00:28:12 5.2 Former Soviet Union
00:30:21 5.2.1 Russia
00:31:54 5.2.1.1 Jewish Autonomous Oblast
00:33:32 5.2.2 Ukraine
00:33:49 5.3 Council of Europe
00:34:32 5.4 Sweden
00:36:40 5.5 United States
00:41:07 5.5.1 Present U.S. speaker population
00:43:40 5.6 United Kingdom
00:45:02 5.7 Canada
00:46:27 5.8 Religious communities
00:49:40 5.9 Modern Yiddish education
00:51:36 5.10 Internet
00:52:55 6 Influence on other languages
00:53:34 7 Language examples
00:53:51 8 See also
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Yiddish (ייִדיש, יידיש or אידיש, yidish/idish, lit. Jewish, pronounced [ˈjɪdɪʃ] or [ˈɪdɪʃ]; in older sources ייִדיש-טײַטש Yidish-Taitsh, lit. Judaeo-German) is the historical language of the Ashkenazi Jews. It originated during the 9th century in Central Europe, providing the nascent Ashkenazi community with a High German-based vernacular fused with elements taken from Hebrew and Aramaic as well as from Slavic languages and traces of Romance languages. Yiddish is written with a fully vocalized version of the Hebrew alphabet.
The earliest surviving references date from the 12th century and call the language לשון־אַשכּנז (loshn-ashknaz, language of Ashkenaz) or טײַטש (taytsh), a variant of tiutsch, the contemporary name for Middle High German. Colloquially, the language is sometimes called מאַמע־לשון (mame-loshn, lit. mother tongue), distinguishing it from לשון־קודש (loshn koydesh, holy tongue), meaning Hebrew and Aramaic. The term Yiddish, short for Yidish Taitsh (Jewish German), did not become the most frequently used designation in the literature until the 18th century. In the late 19th and into the 20th century the language was more commonly called Jewish, especially in non-Jewish contexts, but Yiddish is again the more common designation today.Modern Yiddish has two major forms. Eastern Yiddish is far more common today. It includes Southeastern (Ukrainian–Romanian), Mideastern (Polish–Galician–Eastern Hungarian), and Northeastern (Lithuanian–Belarusian) dialects. Eastern Yiddish differs from Western both by its far greater size and by the extensive inclusion of words of Slavic origin. Western Yiddish is divided into Southwestern (Swiss–Alsatian–Southern German), Midwestern (Central German), and Northwestern (Netherlandic–Northern German) dialects. Yiddish is used in a number of Haredi Jewish communities worldwide; it is the first language of the home, school, and in many social settings among many Haredi Jews, and is used in most Hasidic and some Lithuanian yeshivas.
The term Yiddish is also used in the adjectival sense, synonymously with Jewish, to designate attributes of Yiddishkeit (Ashkenazi culture; for example, Yiddish cooking and Yiddish music - klezmer).Prior to the Holocaust, there were 11–13 million speakers of Yiddish among 17 million Jews worldwide. 85% of the approximately 6 million Jews who died in the Holocaust were Yiddish speakers, leading to a massive decline in the use of the language. Assimilation following World War II and aliyah, immigration to Israel, further decreased the use of Yiddish both among survivors and among Yiddish-speakers from other countries (such as in the Americas). However, the number of speakers is increasing in Hasidic communities.
Jewish studies | Wikipedia audio article
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Jewish studies (or Judaic studies) is an academic discipline centered on the study of Jews and Judaism. Jewish studies is interdisciplinary and combines aspects of history (especially Jewish history), Middle Eastern studies, Asian studies, Oriental studies, religious studies, archeology, sociology, languages (Jewish languages), political science, area studies, women's studies, and ethnic studies. Jewish studies as a distinct field is mainly present at colleges and universities in North America.
Related fields include Holocaust research and Israel Studies, and in Israel, Jewish thought.