Welcome
It is a pleasure to welcome both old and new friends to our Web site. Through events like “KlezKamp: The Yiddish Folk Arts Program” (now in its 26th consecutive year) and programs such as our Peabody award winning NPR series the Yiddish Radio Project, our popular KlezKamp RoadShows plus new projects such as our groundbreaking 3 CD Yiddish 78 RPM reissue anthology Cantors, Klezmorim and Crooners 1905-1953: Classic Yiddish 78s From the Mayrent Collection, Mayrent Institute (formerly Living Traditions) is in the forefront of preserving and presenting community based Yiddish culture to new and enthusiastic generations.
KlezKamp Madison
July 10-14, 2011
Hillel - 611 Langdon Street
Madison, WI
“Yiddish, Mawruss, you can now learn in a university…”
So begins an article in the September 30, 1916 issue of the University of Wisconsin–Madison paper The Daily Cardinal, announcing the…
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