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"The Workers Circle" is still practicing social distancing.
We hope you and yours are healthy and staying safe.
Zayt gezunt!
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NEW YIDDISH CLASSES:
Fall/Winter Schedule
Advanced Yiddish I: Mondays, November 30, 2020–February 9, 2021 (No class Monday Jan. 18, 2021 for Martin Luther King Jr. Day), 4:30-6:00 pm. $150.
Advanced Yiddish II: Mondays, December 1, 2020–January 29, 2021, 6:30-8:00 pm. $150.
Continuation (Intermediate) Yiddish: Tuesdays, December 2, 2020–January 27, 2021, 5:00-6:30 pm. $150.
Beginning Yiddish II: Tuesdays, December 1, 2020–January 27, 2021, 7:00-8:30 pm. $150.
Beginning Yiddish I: Wednesdays, December 2, 2020–January 28, 2021, 5:00-6:30 pm. $150.
NOTE: If the registrants for our Beginning Yiddish classes don't reach the required minimum number of students, the classes will be cancelled.
Please make checks out to Workers Circle and mail to:
Workers Circle, 1525 S. Robertson Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90035.
If you prefer, you can click on the "Donate to the Circle" button at the top and pay using PayPal.
All classes will be conducted online via Zoom. Please email circle@circlesocal.org for further information.
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NOVEMBER 19: Hot Pstromi concert featuring Yale Strom and Elizabeth Schwartz! For complete information and tickets, https://securesite.sdrep.org/13841
JFest hosts national for a musical celebration that glances back and looks ahead. This year’s Summit celebrates klezmer, Yiddish, jazz, world music and songs of social justice, with a special tribute to the late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg.
Special guests include six time Emmy and Tony nominee Tovah Feldshuh. Tovah’s stunning portrayal in Golda’s Balcony is legendary, and she recently played Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg in Sisters in Law. Rebecca Jade is 2020 San Diego Music Awards Artist of the Year. Jade re-defines “soul music,” with jazz, blues, beloved standards and touring with Sheila E.
Hosting the evening is JFEST all-stars Yale Strom & Hot Pstromi, named 2020 San Diego Music Awards Top World Music Band.
This year's concert will feature beloved classics, including klezmer and jazz standards, "Yiddish Suffragettes," "Lean on Me," "In Cheider," "Fool Over Yonder," and a tribute to trailblazing Supreme Court Justice, Ruth Bader Ginsburg.
Live Stream is Nov 19th @7pm PT/ Video on demand until Nov 26th.
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REDISCOVERING OUR RADICAL ROOTS - Part 2
Discussion Series with Hershl Hartman
Sunday, Nov. 22 @ 2-3:30pm
Co-sponsors:
The Workers Circle and The Sholem Community
CLICK HERE to Register
Questions: regan@sholem.org
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The most significant concepts, movements and events in modern Jewish history arose from the radical idea that Jews are not basically a faith community but, variously, a nation, a national minority or an ethnic group. Radical paths to the fulfillment of that idea resonate to this day. We’ll trace those paths and, perhaps, stumble across ourselves.
Subjects we’ll explore:
Looking for roots ’way back…Hasidism — a radical movement? Haskala (Enlightenment): Ideologues in beards and revolutionaries in skirts…Love songs as radical anthems…Novels and stories as instruments of ideology. Battles within the shtetl.
1897, the year of heresy when everything changed: Zionism and Bundism and how both were victorious…“cultural autonomy” and “hereness”…the vision of Socialist Zionism.
The profound Secularism of Tevye’s creator…“Jewish” labor unions, culture and the social/political heritage of Jewish Americans…Radical Jews in the first battles of World War II…Resistance during the Holocaust—our almost-forgotten but enduring legacy.
How intense ideologies built Secular Jewish movements in North America—and how they almost destroyed them. The continuing culture war: Yiddish vs. Hebrew vs. Israeli. Radical and generational differences in today’s Jewish American community.
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Hershl Hartman, Sholem’s Education Director, is a scholar of Jewish history, traditions and culture, and a renowned Yiddish translator. He is the Convenor of the L.A. Secular Yeshiva which has, to-date, trained 10 vegvayzer/madrikhot(im)/Leaders as officiants at holiday observances and life-cycle events. His publications include many booklets on Jewish holidays and texts for their secular observance.
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DECEMBER 6 EVENT
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SUPPORT OUR WORKERS CIRCLE!
Want to support the Workers Circle but don't know how?
Check out our "wish list" below for what and who (YOU!) we need.
Thank you for your help.
• Volunteers
• Office supply store gift certificates
• Office chair
• Forever Stamps
• Folding chairs
• Microphone stands
• Wall clock
• New or lightly used couches
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 –BY APPOINTMENT ONLY
For more information or to set up an appointment, contact Chairmentsh Ruth Judkowitz at
circle@circlesocal.org.
1525 S Robertson Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA 90035
(310) 552-2007
Branch:
New Vanguard Branch 1016.
(Sholom Branch 1089 has been incorporated into the New Vanguard Branch 1016 since 2018.)
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