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Alex Dafner Yiddish Report 10.1.2016

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Australian Jewry is very concerned over the continuing wave of terror attacks in Israel, with the latest deadly attack on a café in Tel-Aviv, claiming two young peoples lives.The Melbourne Jewish community lost two well-known, highly contributing members, at the end of 2015, with the passing of Holocaust survivor and philanthropist Nathan Werdiger, eh, and teacher, Yiddishist and theatre director Charles Sluggo Slucki, eh.A new Australian production of Fiddler On The Roof, the huge musical hit based on the Yiddish stories of Tevye the Dairyman by Sholem Aleichem, with a cast that includes well-known theatre stars and a granddaughter of Yiddish speaking immigrants, opened to critical acclaim in Melbourne.


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Australian Jewry is very concerned over the continuing wave of terror attacks in Israel, with the latest deadly attack on a café in Tel-Aviv, claiming two young peoples lives.The Melbourne Jewish community lost two well-known, highly contributing members, at the end of 2015, with the passing of Holocaust survivor and philanthropist Nathan Werdiger, eh, and teacher, Yiddishist and theatre director Charles Sluggo Slucki, eh.A new Australian production of Fiddler On The Roof, the huge musical hit based on the Yiddish stories of Tevye the Dairyman by Sholem Aleichem, with a cast that includes well-known theatre stars and a granddaughter of Yiddish speaking immigrants, opened to critical acclaim in Melbourne.



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