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Welcome to The Kishinev Jewish Cultural Center

    The Kishinev Jewish Cultural Center and Jewish Municipal Library named after the famous poet Yitzik Manger are situated in a picturesque historic district where every stone reminds the visitor of the history and destiny of Bessarabian Jewry. Due to the support and contributions by the Jewish Cultural Society, the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee (JDC), Kishinev Central Municipal Library and private individuals and foundations including the Meyerhoff Foundation of Baltimore, Maryland, the Library has become a real community center for all local Jewish organizations and for the Moldovan Jewish community at large.

    Recent expansion and renovations funded through the support of JDC has enabled the staff to offer new and innovative programming to an ever-increasing number of patrons. Further, through the Former Soviet Union Jewish Libraries Association, coordinated by the JDC, the Jewish Library in Kishinev has also become a regional creative center from which a variety of unique and innovative books and programs are distributed to other Jewish libraries throughout the former Soviet Union.

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The “I. Manger” Jewish library celebrates its birthday!
We invite you to share this important event with us!

Biblioteca evreiasca “I. Mangher” isi sarbatoreste ziua de nastere!
LA MULTI ANI!

 

Our klezmer band in Iasi

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    The 3 rd edition of the “A. Goldfaden” International Festival of Jewish Theatre was held in Iasi ( Romania ) in the period October 24-29, 2004 . The place for this festival has not been chosen by chance. In 1876, Abraham Goldfaden, famous Jewish playwright, ‘the father of the Jewish theatre' has created the 1 st professional Jewish theatre in the world in Iasi .

    The Festival is not a simple theatre and music forum. It's in the same time performance, concert, seminar, conference, workshop, master class and round-table for the best actors, klezmers and vocalists from worldwide. Among the participants in this event, there were: the well-known Maya Morgenstern in the play ‘Asta-seara: LolaBlau!' (J. Kreisler); the Israeli duet Betty and Carol Feldman in the play ‘Cofetaria' (I.B. Singer), the Jewish theatre of Miri Ben Shalom (NY) and the play ‘I can cry!'; one-man show ‘Now you are talking!' with Raul Reichman (GB) etc.

    ‘Freigish' klezmer band was invited to the Festival for the 2 nd time. The program of the performance consisted both of instrumental music (‘The lament of a Jew', ‘Romanian hora', ‘Noch a bissele', ‘Kishinever bulgar', ‘Fun der khupe', ‘Mitzvoch tantz' etc) and songs in Yiddish, Hebrew, Ladino and Romanian performed by the brilliant soloist, Alla Deresco. Each song was accompanied by long storms of applause. ‘I haven't heard such songs since my childhood. Thank you very much for these unforgettable moments', said Miriam kaiserman to the bands' members.

 

 

  
Top Events
[April 29, 3 p.m.], (JCC), Teenagers’ club ‘Keren’. ‘Dancing Shabbat. International dance day’
[May 5, 11 a.m.], (JCC), School for Parents. 'Single child in a family'
[May 12, 18 p.m.], (Club), ‘Yachad’ program. Author’s song club. Dedecated to the anniversary of Victory. Theme of war in the creation of Okhudzhava.
[May 15, 4 p.m.], (Palace of Trade Union), Dance performance dedicated to the 10-th aniversary of ensamble of jewish dance \"Makor\".
[May 15, 11 a.m], (JCC), Music salon. 60 years of Victory songs.
[May 25, 11 a.m.], (JCC), Performance in \"Tzipor\" studio.
[May 27, 5 p.m.], (JCC), Club of Jewish Artists ‘Bravo’.Lazar Dubinovsky. 95-th Anniversary.
[May 28, 3 p.m.], (Library), Yiddish center. Lev Kvitko – 100 years anniversary.
[May 29, 10 a.m.], (country-side), Holyday Lag-Ba-Omer in the club of jewish family.

 
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DAYS OF JEWISH CULTURE

October 10-14, 2004

October 10, 10 a.m. Open-doors day in the Jewish library

•  Books' exhibition “The world of Jewish books”
•  Exhibition of the works of the members of the Artists' club
•  Presentation of the book “Flori de dor pentru Salom” (B. Druta)
•  Tours of the   Museum   of   Moldovan   Jewry
•  Discussions and bibliographic reviews on books' exhibition
•  Results of the poll “The Jewish book of the year”
•  School for parents “The child & book”
•  Family club. “Novelties in the Jewish literature”
•  Vocal ensemble “Halom”. “On the pages of our favorite books” 3 p.m.
October 12
•  Children's literary-musical composition “Domn nemuritor”
(500-years Anniversary of Stephen the Great, Prince of Moldova)
October 13, 11 a.m.
•  Pensioner's club “Novelties in Jewish literature”
October 14, 5 p.m.
•  Conference “The creation of Bashevis-Singer”
(100-years Anniversary)

 

 

  
© Kishinev JCC, 2004 - Contacts