Month: November 2011
Jüdisches Massengrab in Rumänien entdeckt
punkto.ro, 17.11.2011: „Massengrab bei Popricani: Holocaust-Opfer waren größtenteils Kinder und Frauen“ „Vor genau einem Jahr entdeckten in Rumänien Archäologen des Iasier Geschichtsinstituts „A. D. Xenopol“ und des Bukarester Elie-Wiesel-Instituts zur Erforschung des Holocausts in einem Wald des Dorfes Popricani, unweit der nordöstlichen Großstadt Iasi, ein Massengrab mit Überresten von im Zweiten Weltkrieg ermorderter Juden. Inzwischen
Rumenye (back) on the klezmer bandwagon? By Julie Dawson
Until quite recently, notably absent from the map of the institutions and events working to revive and commemorate Yiddish culture in central and eastern Europe has been Romania, that fabled land, beautiful, sweet, and fine, where, to quote Aaron Lebedeff, one can live a carefree life, drinking wine all the time, kissing girls, and eating the local gastronomical specialties – carnaţi (sausages, kosher naturally), mamaliga (corn porridge), brînza, and caşcaval (soft and hard cheese). As succinct an illustration as any of the existing gap in cultural memory were the pregnant silence and blank faces greeting New York-based klezmorim Deborah Strauss, Jeff Warschauer, and Benjy Fox-Rosen when in 2009 they opened a concert in Transylvania with the well-known (in American Jewish circles) strains of Lebedeff’s 1920s vaudeville hit Rumenye Rumenye. Fox-Rosen, bassist and singer, recalls “There was absolutely no sign of recognition.”