Tag: jewish
Jüdische Spuren im Harbachtal
Seit wenigen Tagen haben zwei Archivare des New Yorker Leo-Baeck-Instituts, Julie Dawson und Ryan Mendenhall, ihre Recherchen (siehe: jewish-transylvania-bukovina.tumblr.com) von Suceava nach Sibiu/ Hermannstadt verlegt. Unter den ersten Überraschungen fand sich ein Geburtenbuch aus Alzen/ Alțâna. Sie schreiben dazu in ihrem heutigen Blogeintrag: „The book above, apparently kept in Alzen / Alțen, has an elaborate
Buia/ Bell/ Bolya: Jüdischer Friedhof/ Cimitirul Evreiesc/ Jewish Cemetery
Stefan Vaida aus Alzen hatte mir schon vor längerer Zeit von dem jüdischen Friedhof in Bell/ Kaltbachtal berichtet. Heute endlich hab ich es einmal geschafft...
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.”