PM Scott Morrison was awarded the Jerusalem Prize in Sydney last week…Yiddish Report with Alex Dafner 1.12.19

The Australian Premier Minister Scott Morrison was awarded the Jerusalem Prize in Sydney last week, by the Zionist Federation of Australia, Zionism NSW and World Zionist Organisation, for his and his government’s outstanding friendship with Israel . The Australian Governor General David Hurley and his wife Linda will represent Australia at the Fifth World Holocaust Forum and 75th Commemoration of the Liberation of Auschwitz, to be attended by dozens of world leaders at Yad Vashem in Jerusalem from the 22nd to 23rd January, 2020. The Israeli President Reuven Rivlin will be the special guest at the celebrations of the 100th Anniversary of the founding of the Keren Hayisod - United Israel Appeal, when he visits Australia as an official guest of the Australian Government, in late February or early March 2020. Anns: Sunday 1st December, 2019 at 5pm at the Kadimah: BOOK LAUNCH: “Melekh Ravitsh: The Eccentric Outback Quest of an Urbane Yiddish Poet from Poland”, Free event… The eccentric Yiddish poet Melekh Ravitsh traversed the Australian outback in 1933 in search of a homeland for Europe’s threatened Jews. He took 90 Box Brownie photographs, annotated in Yiddish, which inspired his son, artist Yosl Bergner, to create a series of paintings. Editor Anna Epstein has combined their stories and images to create a glorious and moving book about art and history, Jews, and white and black Australians. Join her for the launch, by ABC broadcaster Raffy Epstein and an afternoon of entertainment including a poetry reading by Arnold Zable, a talk by Yosl Bergner’s friend Moshe Lang and an exhibition of Bergner’s magnificent paintings. Next Thursday December 5th, 2019 @ 7:30 pm at the Kadimah, Arnold Zable Bente Kahan present an Yiddish Culture Yiddish music Yiddish Storytelling evening. Renowned European Yiddish singer-songwriter and cultural pioneer Bente Kahan is joined by beloved Melbourne author, storyteller and activist Arnold Zable for a compelling evening of story, song and politics as they chart the effects of rising right-wing ideas both here and overseas. Born in Norway, Bente Kahan now lives in Wroclaw, Poland, where she established a foundation to restore and transform the White Stork Synagogue into a Centre for Jewish Culture and Education. Tickets: $30 / $25 Kadimah members and concessions’ holders / $12 full-time student see www.kadimah.org.au

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