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SUMMARY:Annie Sommer Kaufman presents "Your Comrade\, Avreml Broide"
DESCRIPTION:Annie Sommer Kaufman discusses her new English-language translation of the Yiddish novel Your Comrade\, Avreml Broide\, A Worker’s Life Story\, in converation with Khave Morales. \nWritten in 1944 by Ben Gold\, the president of the Furriers Union\, this working-class\, coming-of-age novel traces the family origin\, immigration\, and radicalization of an everyman named Avreml Broide. Mirroring Gold’s own life\, Avreml’s story begins entangled in a complex intergenerational social and criminal community in Bessarabia just after the turn of the twentieth century. Personal dramas drive a young Avreml to New York City in his young adult years\, where he finds a job in the fur industry and devotes himself entirely to his union\, party\, and the fight against fascism\, often to the detriment of his personal life and relationships. Through strikes\, dissidence\, and finally on the front lines of the Spanish Civil War\, Avreml’s journey presents the fascinating ambiguity of subsuming the self in service to party discipline. \nWith bold and stimulating illustrations by William Gropper\, Annie Sommer Kaufman’s translation brings Gold’s emotionally rich narrative forward to reveal some of the most dramatic conflicts in America’s suppressed Communist history. This novel offers a powerful counternarrative to histories and narratives of Jewish immigration that emphasize materialist American dreams and upward class mobility. Your Comrade\, Avreml Broide offers an enticing mix of fact and fiction to demonstrate the personal risks\, revolutionary dreams\, and heartaches of Yiddish-speaking American Communists. \nAnnie Sommer Kaufman is a Yiddish translator and teacher based in Chicago. She trained in History at the University of Wisconsin\, Madison and was Yekhiel Shraybman’s last Yiddish student in Kishinev\, Moldova. She served for five years as the coordinator for Yugntruf’s Yiddish immersion retreat Yiddish Vokh\, and worked for a decade in the fashion industry as a pattern maker\, including in New York City. She was a founding member of Red Emma’s Bookstore in Baltimore\, and has been organizing with Jewish Voice for Peace in many capacities for a dozen years. She is a SVARA trained Talmud teacher and runs The Lace Midrash in Chicago. \nKhave (Lina) Morales is a red diaper baby\, yiddishist\, communist\, former JVP board member\, long time Anti-Zionist and lover of communist and radical history. \nRegistration for this event is not required. \nThis translation was supported by a fellowship at the Yiddish Book Center in Amherst\, Massachusetts (2020–21).
URL:https://circleboston.org/event/annie-sommer-kaufman-presents-your-comrade-avreml-broide/
LOCATION:BWC Building
CATEGORIES:Yiddish - Special Events
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SUMMARY:Honik af der tsung : Beginners' Yiddish Language Class
DESCRIPTION:When children of the shtetl began their study of Jewish text\, the teacher would put honey on the page to show them the sweetness of Jewish learning.  Likewise\, this class will explore the fun and vibrancy of Yiddish language and culture. It will introduce students to the fundamentals of Yiddish conversation\, reading\, and grammar through highly-interactive games\, songs\, activities\, and short texts.  \nJoin BWC Yiddish teacher\, Sarah Biskowitz\, for an In-Person Beginners Class through our partners at Lehrhaus.  Participants are expected to be completely new to Yiddish but already able to recognize and know the sounds of Hebrew letters. If you do not have basic knowledge of the Hebrew alef-bet\, please learn the Yiddish alef-beys here before the class. We will be using materials from In eynem: The New Yiddish Textbook. You will not be required to purchase the textbook\, but it may be helpful to purchase the PDF. \nParticipants are expected to attend all 6 sessions. Dates: Mondays 7:30-8:45 PM on 3/3\, 3/10\, 3/17\, 3/24\, 3/31\, and 4/7. \nLearn more and register here.
URL:https://circleboston.org/event/honik-af-der-tsung-beginners-yiddish-language-class-5/
LOCATION:425 Washington St\, Somerville\, MA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Yiddish - Classes
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