April 2008: Mercator Research Centre invites speakers to Yiddish Festival Leeuwarden
From April 15th until April 20th, 2008, Ljouwert/Leeuwarden will be a “Yiddish shtetl in der medine” for five days, as it will host the 1st international Yiddish Festival. The festival, called 'Friling, a New Yiddish Spring', highlights various aspects of Yiddish culture, and will introduce people to the wealth of Yiddish language, music, film, literature, and history.
The programme of the Yiddish Festival Leeuwarden is very diverge and offers concerts, music workshops by internationally renowned teachers/musicians, a Yiddish language workshop for beginners, lectures, exhibitions, a film programme, a walk through town, and jam sessions in the city cafés.
The Mercator Research Centre also has a share in the Yiddish Festival Leeuwarden. It has invited two speakers to give a lecture on Friday afternoon (from 1.30 pm), and drs. Cor van der Meer, member of the management team of the Mercator Research Centre, will be the afternoon chair. The two speakers are professor Dovid Katz and dr. Marija Krupoves-Berg. Dovid Katz is professor at the Vilnius University, Lithuania. The title of the lecture is ‘Yiddish Past, Yiddish Present, Yiddish Future’.
Dr. Marija Krupoves-Berg is lecturer of the Vilnius Yiddish Institute,
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