Promoting Jewish culture, Yiddish language and social justice.
Promoting Jewish culture, Yiddish language and social justice.
The Toronto Workmen’s Circle Foundation invites you to our online commemoration of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising Sunday April 18, 2021 at 2:00 pm. Please refer to the flyer below for full information. Please email wcarto@yahoo.com for the link which will be emailed to you the morning of April 18th.
The Toronto Workmen’s Circle hosts a special Zoom lecture, entitled : Cognitive Imparement: Causes, Risk Factors, Treatment and Prevention by Dr. Morris Freedman. Professor, Department of Medicine (Neurology), U. of Toronto; Head, Division of Neurology, Medical Director, Cognitive and Behaviour, and Scientist, Rotman Institute, Baycrest Health Sciences. Sunday March 21, 2021 at 2:00 pm. Registration is required. Please go …
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On Sunday February 21, 2021 at 2:30 pm, in celebration of Purim, the Toronto Workmen’s Circle Foundation together with the Congress for Jewish Culture and Mariella Productions will screen a dramatization of Itzik Manger’s Megile-lider, featuring Mike Burstyn and 12 talented international Yiddish performers. This showing will be in Yiddish with English narration and English …
The Toronto Workmen’s Circle Invites you to a special lecture Sunday January 31st | 2:00 pm.
Medicine in the Shtetl – Dr Shim Felsen
You are invited to the Toronto Workmen’s Circle Virtual Chanukah Party Sunday, December 13, 2020 at 2:00 pm. This is an online event. To register, please email wcarto@yahoo.com prior to December 12th, and provide your first name, last name and email address. You will receive the event link the morning of December 13th. The program …
The Toronto Workmen’s Circle invites you to an online lecture by Ellin Bessner, entitled: “How Canadian Jewish Soldiers used Yiddish and Yiddishkeit during WWII”, Sunday November 22nd at 2:00 pm. This is a Zoom talk and registration prior to November 21st is required. If you have online access please register at:https://tinyurl.com/wcarto If you wish to …
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The Toronto Workmen’s Circle Foundation sponsors the North American premier of “Antisemitism”, at the Fall 2020 Toronto Jewish Film Festival, Sunday November 1st and Monday November 2nd with a Zoom Q&A Monday November 2nd at 7:00 pm. This film is directed by Ilan Ziv and runs for 120 minutes. This 2020 film is in French …
The Toronto Workmen’s Circle and the UJA Committee for Yiddish co-sponsor: “On the edge of the Volcano: Yiddish Literature in Berlin before the Third Reich “, a Holocaust Education Online Lecture presented by Dr. Rachel Seelig, Sunday, November 1, 2020 at 2:00 pm. See the attached flyer for lecture description. You must register for this …
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The Toronto Workmen’s Circle co-presents a program of short Yiddish films at the upcoming Toronto Jewish film Festival. These films will be available for screening Thursday October 29 to Friday October 30 with a Zoom Q&A session with the creators Saturday October 31st. Workmen’s Circle members are eligible for a 25% discount off the ticket …
From Radical Poets to Rabbinical Scholars: The Yiddish Voices of Kensington Market Thursday, October 15, 2020, 1:30-3pm EDT Between the 1910s-1950s, Toronto was home to a vibrant community of Eastern European Jewish immigrants, with the Kensington Market area as its centre. Vivian Felsen will tell us the story of how she came to discover the …