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You can now listen to the weekly Yiddish News bulletin (Melbourne's Radio 3ZZZ 92.3FM -- Jewish News in Yiddish) at the website of the Australian Jewish News.
Go to The AJN online . Just click on the “Audio and Video” graphic.
This is in addition to the SBS Yiddish radio broadcasts which are found at: Yiddish Radio
The Hebrew University has an amazing collection of illuminated manuscripts and incunabula.
One of these, the 13th century mahzor (holy days' prayer book) from Nuremberg has recently been put online. The pictures are lovely, absolutely phenomenal
One catch: you must download the DjVu Browser Plug-in which is located at LizardTech. It's free.
The home page for the site is here . It works best in Safari (on a Mac, and now available for Windows); I can't get the DjVu plug-in to work with my Firefox. Hint: click on the English to go the English pages, Hebrew for Hebrew pages.
Menachem Ejdelman organized a weekend "retreat" for 45 undergraduate students interested in learnign a bisl mameloshn.
Whilst laying pipes for a gas line in the village of Gvozdavka-1, in the Ukraine, workers found the mass grave of Jews killed during the Holocaust. Residents in the area had known of the killings (Jews from Moldava and nearby Odessa) but not the exact location of the grave.
Names of some of the victims have been established and it is hoped further investigation will reveal more names.
"About 240,000 Jews were killed by the Nazis in the Odessa region, according to Roman Shvartsman, a spokesman for the regional Jewish community, said Tuesday. He said a mass grave with remains of about 3,500 Jews was found in the region last year."
In first year, one of the things students do is conduct "research" into the East European communities from which their families migrated. For most, it's simply a geneaology experience, although some find landslayt -- others whose families came from the same city/region.
But today one of this year's student's shtetlekh made the news: from Bedzin, Poland a diary of 14-year-old Rutka Laskier was handed in to Yad Vashem (the Holocaust Museum in Israel). Her friend, Stanislawa Sapinska, found the diary which was hidden under the floorboards of the house. Rutka was later transported to Auschwitz, where, it is believed she perished.
The diary, which has since been published in the original Polish, has now been translated into English and Hebrew.
This is the official reminder for first year, as promised:
Exam -- 19 June from 11am until 1pm
in 625 Mungo McCallum
(one floor up from the School Admin office; in the middle of the building, i.e. out of the lift, turn left)
4טער ייִדיש קורס אין סטראַסבורג, פֿראַנקרײַך דעם 6טן ביזן 17טן אויגוסט!
אינפֿאָרמאַציעס קענט איר קריגן פֿון
goldwaserrafael@neuf.fr
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4th Yiddish summer course in Strasbourg between from the 6th until the 17th
of August!
For informations, please contact: goldwaserrafael@neuf.fr