Promoting Jewish culture, Yiddish language and social justice.
Promoting Jewish culture, Yiddish language and social justice.
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 …
Plagues in Yiddish Literature The UJA Committee for Yiddish and The Toronto Workmen’s Circle invite you to a ZOOM lecture by Dr MIRIAM TRINH SUNDAY, JULY 5, 2020 AT 2:00 PM. This lecture will be in Yiddish. See flyer below for full information. Click below to register. Registration is required. </p
Over the Moon: From the shtetl to the City of Lights, the true colours of Marc Chagall in Eygens The UJA Committee for Yiddish and The Toronto Workmen’s Circleinvite you to a ZOOM talk by CHANTAL RINGUET TUESDAY, JUNE 9, 2020 AT 5:00 PM. See flyer below for full information. Click below to register.Registration is …
All program are at the Workmen’s Circle Centre, unless otherwise noted.More information will be available nearer to the dates of these programs.This list is subject to change. Saturday October 13, 2018, 7:30 pm: “Whitechapel Noise: Sex, politics and religion on the streets of London’s East End – 1884-1914” Yiddish musical lecture with Vivi Lachs, Associate Research Fellow …
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The Toronto Workmen’s Circle Foundation is co-sponsoring the critically acclaimed dramatic reading of “Address Unknown”, featuring Avi Hoffman and Stephen Bogaert, at this year’s Ashkenaz Festival. Sunday September 2, 2018, 1:00 pm.at the Studio Theatre,Harbourfront Cnetre.Tickets are $25 in advance or $30 on performance day.Call (416) 973-4000 or go to ashkenaz.ca to buy online. For more …
Toronto Workmen’s Circle invites you to join us in commemorating the 75th Anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising Featuring a presentation in English by historian Dr. Doris Bergen, Professor of Holocaust Studies at the University of Toronto, specializing in Genocide Studies, modern European history and the history of modern Germany. Program also includes poetic and …
The Toronto Workmen’s Circle invites you to a lecture in English, given by Hartley R. Nathan, Q.C. and Clifford S. Goldfarb.Sunday June 4, 2017 at 2:00 pm 471 Lawrence Ave. W.Free Admission. No Reservations needed. Refreshments will be served. View or download flyer belowSherlock Holmes Jewish 3
Co-presented by the UJA Federation’s Committee for Yiddish and the Toronto Workmen’s Circle / Arbeiter Ring, in Yiddish, onSunday May 28, 2017, at 2:00 pm. given by Anna Fishman Gonshor. For more information, please call (416) 635-2883 ext. 5189 or email committeeforyiddish@ujafed.org. See flyer below for details.GONSHOR_Flyer_R2
The Toronto Workmen’s Circle is co-presenting the acclaimed Yiddish film “Menashe” at this year’s Toronto Jewish film Festival.The film will be screened on Sunday May 14. 2017, at 5:40 pm at the Hot Docs Red Rogers Cinema, 506 Bloor Street.See the flyer below for additional information.View or download flyer hereMenashe TJFF WC 2017 F1
Sunday April 16, 20172:00 p.m.Workmen’s Circle Centre471 Lawrence Ave. W.In the programGhetto Songs & PoemsGuest Speaker (in English)Bernie M. Farber Bernie M. Farber is the former chief executive officer of the Canadian Jewish Congress and a social activist. He has testified before the Canadian courts as an expert witness on hate crime, and in August …