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Meet Yiddish Princess and The Other Europeans at KlezKanada: a celebration of Yiddish culture in the mountains of Quebec.



This week on Shtetl meet the Rabbi of the Abayudaya.  Gershom Sizomu is the spiritual leader of this unique community of Jews in Uganda. (Abayudaya is Lugandan for The People of Judah).   What are the origins of this community? …



This past week Jewish people celebrated the revelation of the Ten Commandments (and all of Torah for that matter) at Mount Sinai. Well, some people celebrated it…others didn’t know it was happening or were too conflicted about following all these …



Why is this Shtetl episode different different from all other Shtetl episodes? Because on this show we hear about alternative Passover seders.



This week Shtetl celebrates strong women like Shifra and Puah (the heroic midwives of the Passover story), Montreal doula Rivka Cymbalist, band Pharoah’s Daughter and Sophie Tucker: The last of the red hot mamas.



Jenny Romaine has worked extensively as a puppeteer, performer and director with the Bread and Puppet Theater and with OBIE winning Great Small Works. Romaine’s recent directorial projects include a puppet film called The White Pajamas with Yiddish Canadian memory painter Mayer Kirshenblatt. She has also toured, taught and performed street theater with artists and in communities in Argentina, Afghanistan and India.



Author and Professor Gérard Etienne came to Montreal in 1964 after fleeing Haiti for political reasons. This week on Shtetl we hear the story of his life with Natania Etienne, publisher, teacher and the daughter of prominent Montreal Rabbi and Rebbetzin Feuerwerker.



Start off 2010 on a spiritual note with Geoff Berner, the Whisky Rabbi. Berner preaches about sex, drinking, religion, love, and the working class. He also wrote the “official” anthem for the 2010 Olympics. “I want to make original klezmer …



For the first time ever, a Jewish band has been invited to perform at the world renowned Festival in the Desert in Mali…a predominantly Islamic country where Judaism had been outlawed for hundreds of years. Jeremiah Lockwood, lead singer of …