The workshops make children more familiar with Jewish culture. During the meeting the young participants have a chance to learn about Jewish holidays and their symbolism. They will hear about such things as Sabbath – a weekly day commemorating the last day of the creation of the world and about bringing Jews out of the Egypt bondage. The children get to know the mysterious world or Jewish legends and beliefs and objects connected with individual holidays. Klezmer music will make a perfect background for the artistic side of the workshops. The music will be based on Midrashim (stories explaining biblical texts) and stories by Isaac Bashevis Singer. The children will be able to make with their own hands Purim masks (an inseparable element of the joyful holiday of Purim), clay hamsas (amulets), and will make golems out of play dough (in the Jewish tradition a golem is a being made of clay in the shape of man, but devoid of soul). The workshops will be ended with a Sabbath feast during which the children will be treated with such things as traditional Jewish challah and will have a chance to present their works.
Source: Festival’s Press Office
Music
The musical traditions of Jews consist of ancient liturgical chants and folk music, created in Europe. Pieces produced by the Hasidim as well as secular folklore, building on the sacred melody and the local musical traditions can also be included. During the time of the First Temple, dance, instrumental music and singing accompanied the religious rituals. Following the Temple’s destruction(...)
Music
The musical traditions of Jews consist of ancient liturgical chants and folk music, created in Europe. Pieces produced by the Hasidim as well as secular folklore, building on the sacred melody and the local musical traditions can also be included. During the time of the First Temple, dance, instrumental music and singing accompanied the religious rituals. Following the Temple’s destruction(...)
Press
The origins of the Jewish press are linked to the Haskalah movement in the eighteenth century. In a short period, from 1800 to 1825, the first Jewish periodicals appeared in the Polish lands: Tsir neeman (Hebrew, Loyal Messenger, 1814), Olat shabat (Hebrew, Sabbath Offering, 1817-24), Bikurey ha-itim (Hebrew, Contemporary Review, 1820), Dostrzegacz Nadwislanski - Der Beobachter an der Weichsel (Polish(...)
Purim
Purim (the word comes from the Assyrian or Persian pur-"lots") is the most joyful holiday in the Jewish calendar. It is celebrated on the fourteenth day of the month of adar (in Israel on the fifteenth-i.e., either in February or in March).
Purim is celebrated in commemoration of when the Jews in Susa were saved from the extermination planned by Haman, a dignitary at the(...)
Sabbath
Shabat, shabas, shabes [Hebrew, "rest"]
A day of rest after a week of work; one of the oldest and most enduring holy days in the Jewish tradition.
The Sabbath is a commemoration of the day the Creator rested after the creation of the world. The Ten Commandments included a command to observe this day: "Six days you shall labor and do all your work, but the seventh(...)
Sabbath
Shabat, shabas, shabes [Hebrew, "rest"]
A day of rest after a week of work; one of the oldest and most enduring holy days in the Jewish tradition.
The Sabbath is a commemoration of the day the Creator rested after the creation of the world. The Ten Commandments included a command to observe this day: "Six days you shall labor and do all your work, but the seventh(...)
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