[Mendele] Mendele Personal Notices & Announcements-- Exhibit Openings: Other Zions: From Freeland to Yiddishland, July 6 in Manhattan

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June 30, 2011

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Date: Thu, 30 Jun 2011 18:13:56 -0400
From: shevayidishlige at aol.com
Subject: Exhibit Openings: Other Zions: From Freeland to Yiddishland

Di Yidish-Lige un der Yidisher visnshaftlekher institut YIVO hobn dem 
fargenign aykh tsu farbetn af dem Derefn-yontef fun der oysshtelung: 
Andere Tsiens: Fun Frayland tsu Yidishland: Land un Loshn in dray 
Yidish-instantsn, Mitvokh, dem 6tn Yuli, 6 a zeyger in ovnt, in Tsenter 
far yidisher geshikhte in Nyu-york. Di oysshtelung un di yokhed-beminedike 
tsveyshprakhike (Yidish un English) program merkt op di yoyvlen fun der 
Frayland-lige far yidisher teritoryalistisher kolonizatsye (75 yor), di 
DER Yidish-Lige (30 yor) un dem zhurnal Afn Shvel (70 yor). Arayntret 
fray. Ir megt onkukn di oysshtelung say far say nokh der program. Zayt 
azoy gut un rezervirt (es helft undz planirn):
212-294-6126 oder  http://www.yivo.org/events_signups.php. Nokh 
informatsye: info at leagueforyiddish.org 
http://archive.constantcontact.com/fs016/1102402771503/archive/1105618273971.html
Di Program

Bagrisungen fun di mishpokhes fun Frayland-firers un di ershte redaktorn 
fun Afn Shvel, Ben-adir un Yitskhok-Nakhmen Shteynberg: Galila Grin un 
Ester Sigel
Film: Nishto kin land on a keyn himl: Yitskhok-Nakhmen Shteynberg un di 
Frayland-lige: Odem Rovner, gehilf-profesor fun englisher un yidisher 
literatur in Denverer universitet. Zint 2007 iz Rovner geforn kin England, 
Yisroel, Kenye, Madagaskar, Surinam un Tazmanye oystsuforshn di geshikhte 
fun yidishn teritorializm.
A blik in der geshikhte arayn: Der Frayland-banket, 1952 Tsirl-Ester 
Kuznits, gehilf-profesor fun geshikhte, Bard-koledzh

Der Yidish-imperativ: Fun Frayland-lige biz Yidish-lige: Rakhmiel Pelts, 
Dreksel-universitet
Gilgl fun a Yidish-zhurnal: Di geshikhte fun Afn Shvel: Sheve Tsuker, 
oysfir-sekretar fun der Yidish-lige, shef-redaktor, Afn Shvel
Yidish-farm: A haynttsaytiker teritoryalistisher proyekt: Naftoli Eydlman, 
mitgrinder fun Yidish-farm an integrirung fun Yidishizm mit 
shmires-haadome

Muzikalishe program: Lider vegn yidishe yishuvim, emese un oysgekholemte: 
Yelene Shmulenson  zingern; Binyumen Shekhter  pyanist Mirele Kesler un 
Reyne-Nekhome Shekhter zingerns
Gitl Shekhter-Vishvanat  Forzitsern

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Exhibit Opening: "Other Zions: From Freeland to Yiddishland: Land and 
Language in 3 Intertwined Yiddish Entities," Wednesday, July 6 at 6:00 
P.M., at the Center for Jewish History, 15 West 16th St. , Manhattan 
sponsored by the League for Yiddish and the YIVO Institute for Jewish 
Research.

The exhibit and unique bilingual (Yiddish and English) opening program 
honor the anniversaries of the Freeland League for Jewish Territorialist 
Colonization
(75th), League for Yiddish (30th) and Afn Shvel magazine (70th).

Admission free. Exhibit may be viewed directly before and after the 
program. PLEASE RESERVE (it helps us plan): 212-294-6127 or 
http://www.yivo.org/events_signups.php.

For more information: info at leagueforyiddish.org 
http://archive.constantcontact.com/fs016/1102402771503/archive/1105618273971.html

THE PROGRAM

Brief Presentations
Greetings from the families of Freeland leaders and past editors of Afn 
Shvel, Ben-Adir and I.N. Steinberg Gisele Green and Esther Siegel

Film: No Land Without Heaven: Isaac Nachman Steinberg and the Freeland 
League Adam Rovner,  Assistant Professor of Jewish Literature, University 
of Denver

Rovner is writing an intellectual history of territorial solutions to 
Jewish homelessness and has traveled to Israel, Kenya, Madagascar, 
Suriname, and Tasmania to trace the history of Jewish Territorialism.
A Snapshot in History: The Freeland Banquet of 1952 Cecile E. Kuznitz, 
Assistant Professor of Jewish History, Bard College

The Yiddish Imperative:  From Freeland League to League for Yiddish 
Rakhmiel Peltz,  Drexel University

The Changing Mission of a Yiddish Magazine: The History of Afn Shvel Sheva 
Zucker, Editor-in-chief Afn Shvel

Yiddish Farm: A Modern-Day Territorialist Project Naftali Ejdelman, 
Co-founder of Yiddish Farm, a Yiddish immersion organic farm

Musical Program: Songs about Jewish settlements, realized anf unrealized 
Yelena Shmuelenson singer; Binyumen Schaechter pianist Mira Kessler and 
Reyna Schaechter special guest singers

Chair: Gitl Schaechter-Viswanath

Refreshments; For Information:

http://leagueforyiddish.org/sladib70i30b.html Questions: 
info at leagueforyiddish.org
Sheva Zucker Executive Director  League for Yiddish Editor-in-chief Afn 
Shvel
64 Fulton St. Suite 1101 NewYork, NY 10038
212 889-0380
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