Fwd: Women's Yiddish Voices Conference

[Greta Vollmer]

A conference that may be of interest below...
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>The Center for Feminist Research at the University of Southern California is
>co-sponsoring this even which will be held on our campus on Sunday February
>25th.
>Nikki Senecal
>Program Coordinator
>Gender Studies Program and
>Center for Feminist Research
>senecal at usc.edu <mailto:senecal at usc.edu>
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>	For a brochure and more information contact: Yiddishkayt Los
>Angeles, Yiddishkaytla at eathlink.net <mailto:Yiddishkaytla at eathlink.net> ,
>www.yiddishkaytla.org <http://www.yiddishkaytla.org> , 323/692-8151.
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>	Di froyenshtimen/WOMEN'S YIDDISH VOICES
>	Yiddishkayt Los Angeles and the University of Southern California's
>Center for Feminist Research invites you to explore Women's Yiddish Voices
>on February 24 and 25 in Los Angeles. Through the centuries, the myriad
>voices of Jewish women have found their expression in the rich mameloshn
>(mother tongue) of the East European Ashkenazi Jews. Yiddish has long been
>associated with women and women's literature.
>		From folktales to lullabies, from the earliest women's
>prayer
>		books to the writing of the brilliant 20th century poets and
>		novelists, Yiddish has given voice to Jewish women's
>		passions, dreams, and longings. Join us for a special
>		Saturday women's all-star klezmer concert and an all-day
>		Sunday conference conducted in English
>		Women's Yiddish Voices begins on Saturday night, February
>24, at Temple Isaiah in West Los Angeles, with a concert by MIKVEH, a
>"super-group" made up of well-known women klezmer musicians.  An all-day
>conference (in English) co-sponsored by the USC Center for Feminist Research
>follows on Sunday, February 25, on the University of Southern California
>campus. A list of the conference presentations and speakers follows.  Join
>us when di froyenshtimen / Women's Yiddish Voices honors and celebrates
>women's participation in a living, vibrant, contemporary Yiddish culture.
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>		Concert by MIKVEH
>		Saturday, February 24, 8 pm, Temple Isaiah, 13045 W. Pico
>		Blvd., Los Angeles
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>	Conference, February 25, 9 am  5 pm, Taper Hall, USC
>	9-9:30 am, Registration
>	9:30  10:30 am, Plenary Lecture by Dr. Kathryn Hellerstein
>	10:30  12 noon:  Morning Sessions
>		Morning A:  SHRAYBN: WOMEN WRITERS OF THE 19 & 20 CENTURIES
>Dr. Kathryn Hellerstein on Kadya Molodovsky
>Troim Katz Handler on Esther Singer Kreitzman
>Norma Fain Pratt on Anna Margolin
>	Morning B: LEZBIANKES:  LESBIAN IDENTITY IN TODAY'S YIDDISH
>	AMERICAN COMMUNITY
>	Irena Klepfisz
>	Fran Chalin
>	Sara Felder
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>		Morning C:  YIDDISH IN THE MEDIA
>Eve Jochnowitz:  Audible kashres:  food ads on
>		Yiddish radio
>Ellie Kellman:  Women as Heroes in Yiddish American
>		Popular Fiction
>		Morning D: WORKSHOP on WOMEN'S SONGS OF EXILE AND
>		HOMECOMINGYIDDISH MUSIC
>Adrienne Cooper
>	12:15  1:30 pm: Lunch and Keynote Speech by Irena Klepfisz
>	2  3:15 pm: Afternoon Session 1
>	Afternoon -1A: A GAYSTIK FARGENIGN : SOULFUL DELIGHTS:
>		WOMEN'S LIFE-STORIES IN THE US
>Jocelyn Cohen:  Saved by Reading: Working Class
>		Autobiography
>		Afternoon -1B:  GLICKL'S SHVESTER: MEDIEVAL WOMEN
>Gerald Frakes:   Vashti as Political Radical in Early
>		Purim Shpiln
>	Justin Jared Lewis: Smart, Strong, Sexy & frum:
>	Biblical Women in a Medieval Yiddish Manuscript
>		Afternoon - 1C: HELDISHE FROYEN: WOMEN RADICALS
>Lilke Majzner: Women's Political Role in Europe
>		and During the Holocaust: 1880-1945
>	Norma  Fain Pratt: Continuing the Tradition in the
>	goldene medine
>	Afternoon  - 1D:  T'KHINES : PRAYERS AND SUPPLICATIONS
>	Kaye Goodman
>	3:30  4:30 pm Afternoon Session 2:
>	Afternoon -2A:
>FROYEN IN YIDDISHN TEATER
>Sabell Bender: Women in the Yiddish Theater: Actors,
>Directors and Characters
>		Afternoon -2B:    UNDZERE HAYNTIKE POETN / OUR CONTEMPORARY
>		POETS
>Poets Read Their Poetry (in Yiddish and English)
>	Beyle Schaechter-Gottesman
>	Sarah Moscowitz
>	Troim Katz Handler
>	Gitl Shaechter-Viswanath
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>		Afternoon -2C:    DERTSEYLERINS / Storytellers
>Itsik Gottesman: Women in Yiddish Folktales
>Justin Jaron Lewis:  "I Heard It from the
>		Rebbetzin": Women as Heroes and Storytellers in Hasidic
>		Tales
>		Afternoon -2D:   A YIDISHN TAM / A JEWISH FLAVOR
>Eve Jochnowitz / Yiddish Foodways in the Old World
>		and the New
>	4:45  5 pm:  Closing
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