Catherine Dajczman is half-Jewish and half-Catholic. One parent was born in Poland and the other in a rural Québécois village with 10 brothers and sisters. These two rich histories are the meeting point and driving force behind Dajczman’s one woman show Passages.
Author Archives: Tamara Kramer
Posted in Shortwave
Tagged Argentina, catherine dajczman, circumcision, damian nisenson, Nozen, Passages, Quebec, ritual
Comedian Neev gives us the lowdown on what’s funny about being an African, Sephardic Jew in Quebec and Stephane Waffo tells us about Touki: a website for all things African in Montreal and about his relationship to the Jewish community in La Belle Province.
Posted in Shortwave
Tagged Africa, comedy, Festival Sefarad de Montreal, jewish identity, Neev, Sephardic, Stephane Waffo
In celebration of Halloween, of CKUT and of the ghost of Shtetl past, this is one of the very first episodes ever of Shtetl, and one of my favourites, where Rabbi Dov Friedman gives us the shocking, funny and illuminating lowdown on the dark side of the Jewish tradition. It’s A DYBUKS, DEMONS AND JEWISH EXORCISM 101 RADIO SPECIAL.
Posted in Shortwave
Tagged CKUT Funding Drive, demon, dybbuk, Halloween, Rabbi Friedman, religion
In this episode we talk to Jewish women confessing it all very artfully in their graphic novels and cartoons.
Posted in Shortwave
Tagged graphic details, graphic novel, jobnik!, Laurie Sandell, Miriam Libicki, The Imposter's Daughter
Yiddish-infused, funk, hip-hop rapper, cartoon-drawer, magic performer, and incredibly entertaining Montrealer Josh Dolgin, a.k.a Socalled, guests hosts Shtetl on the Shortwave.
Kol Nidre Special with pop star and cantor Daniela Gesundheit of Snowblink, Geoff Berner, Argentinian Jews of Montreal and a few unexpected renditions of the Kol Nidre prayer.
Tagged Argentina, holiday, Kol Nidre, music, religion, Snowblink, Whisky Rabbi, yom kippur
Ronit Avni speaks about her new documentary Budrus (Israelis & Palestinians stand together to peacefully protest the Israeli security barrier) + great music from The Montreal Jewish Music Festival and the Ashkenaz Festival in Toronto.
Posted in Film, Music, Shortwave
Tagged Ashkenaz, Budrus, Israel, Montreal Jewish Music Festival, Palestine, Ronit Avni
Meet Yiddish Princess and The Other Europeans at KlezKanada: a celebration of Yiddish culture in the mountains of Quebec.
Posted in Shortwave
Tagged Alan Bern, Avia Moore, KlezKanada, klezmer, Sarah Gordon, shtetl on the shortwave, The Other Europeans, Yiddish Princess
To mark Prisoner Justice Day, John Barry talks about life in and after prison, and about finding out he was Jewish in jail. Adam Stotland plays Jewgrass music live in studio.
Meet up and coming comedian Mo Mandel hailing from Tribe Heeb. Also on the show is Aron Kader who will expose us to the hilarity of being half Palestinian and half Mormon. Mandel and Kader will both be performing at the Ethnic Show this month.
