Sensually discover the Jewish holiday with our course menu & cultural program. The 6. Special Shabbat takes place in the restaurant Kahnaletto and also otherwise we have made some minor changes that should make our celebration even more familiar and special. The guests will be culinarily cared for by Manuel Kanah from Jerusalem, who will […]
No, we do not proselytize! Except for delicious food. Because nothing connects like sitting together with family and friends at a table and trying out great recipes! This year, the 7th Gefilte Fest Dresden e.V. takes you to the different regions of the world and their ports, where Jewish culture and cuisine were mixed and […]
Hrajeme a zpíváme proti antisemitismu v Praze Spolu se dvěma nejvýznamnějšími představiteli písňového umění jidiš a klezmeru, interpretem a učitelem jidiš písní Sašou Lurje a houslovým virtuosem Craigem Judelmanem, vytvoří mladí lidé z kláštera sv. Benna a Evangelického křížovnického gymnázia Drážďany a Rakouského gymnázia Praha nezapomenutelný koncertní večer. První představení v loňském roce bylo vyprodané […]
Mosaics of memory: In an intimate way, she remembers a woman for whom the feeling of homelessness was a permanent state. At the same time, it is the story of the exile experiences of an entire generation in the 20th century. France, Germany, Holland and Argentina - countries where the director's mother has spent all […]
On this special film evening we will show three films on the Jewish self-image. Under the title "How we see ourselves" (conceived by Avery Gosfield), Matthias Barthel & Nils Brabandt made three documentaries that outline life as a Jew in a modern Germany. Yiddishland - Jewishness in the 21st century (30min) The film features […]
Charity Gala & Opening Concert In recent years he has been a guest of the Jewish Week as an artist - played for example with the Banda Comunale or with Marina Frenk and Daniel Kahn as The Disorientelists on the stage of the Societaetstheater. For our opening concert, Yuriy Gurzhy takes us on a search […]
Kabbalat Shabbat is a part of friday night worship and is traditionally prayed at sunset. After a week of work, Shabbat allows you to recover from all the efforts of the week. We let our daily work rest and celebrate with our families and friends. In the divine service, six psalms are prayed based on […]
Yiddish evening with Sholem Aleichem A unique opportunity to hear the stories of one of the most popular authors of all time, the Ukrainian-Jewish writer Sholem Aleichem, in the language in which they originated. TEVYE SERVED RAW stars Shane Baker, the leading epic of Yiddish theatre, as well as Yelena Shmulenson and Allen Lewis Rickman, […]
Playing & Singing Against Anti-Semitism in Dresden Together with two of the most important representatives of Yiddish song art and klezmer, the Yiddish song interpreter and pedagogue Sasha Lurje and the violin virtuoso Craig Judelman, young people from the St. Benno and Evangelisches Kreuzgymnasium Dresden and the Austrian Gymnasium Prague will create an unforgettable concert […]
Author reading with Yuriy Gurzhy The well-known DJ and musician Yuriy Gurzhy is constantly on the lookout for the current Jewish sound of Germany. Also in his first book "Richard Wagner and the Klezmer Band" he confidently mixes exciting and extraordinary stories. His interviewees include a rabbi who writes music parodies, a Californian rapper whose […]
Songs of Jewish Latvia Named after Emilis Jūlis Melngailis (translated: the black rooster), a Latvian composer and musicologist, the artists refrain from polite banter, but tear the sound of Jewish Latvia out of its idyllic past. Instead, they use the strongest moments and courageously point the way forward. The vision of the project is to […]
Jazz, orchestral music, folk, klezmer, Latin, liturgical music, pop, wedding music, singer-songwriters - from the Barry Sisters to Mel Brooks to Ezra Furman and many more artists: there is an enormous musical diversity in the record and CD collection of Yuriy Gurzhy, which he curates under the motto "Jewish Vinyl". We invite you to listen, […]
Mishpokhe (Mishpoche) is Yiddish and means "family". On this day it is time to collect grandpa, grandma and parents and visit us with a good portion of curiosity and a good mood! Together with the Theater Junge Generationen we would like to make you laugh and introduce the funny sides of Jewish culture. Come by […]
Together with you, we want to search for clues and rediscover Jewish life in the New Town. We tell you stories about the people and their fates, which are commemorated by means of the Stumbling Stones there - such as in Bautzner Straße 20, where a Stumbling Stone in front of the House of the […]
It is the oldest preserved cemetery in Saxony. Created in 1751 and officially closed in 1869, numerous unjustly forgotten personalities found their final resting place here. The history of the Old Jewish Cemetery in Dresden resembles a crime play. Join us on an exciting search for clues! Male participants require headgear. In cooperation with Hatikva […]
Talk, music and culinary delights with Thabet Azzawi (Oud, Syria) Thabet Azzawi from Dresden brings together the topic of flight and safe havens with his own life story. First, he left syria for Yemen, where he experienced the beginning of another civil war and then fled to Germany in 2015. Here he finished his medical […]
Living a language means speaking it in everyday life. With Yiddish, this is only possible in a few places in the world, because it is a language without a country. Nevertheless, for some it is an attitude to life. Others encounter her in search of her own roots. Yiddish, you might say, is a language […]
Hebrew teacher Margarete Füßer explains how to speak, read and write in Hebrew. A course for all those who want to get to know the language of the Bible and modern Israel. The Alefbet is presented, basic grammatical knowledge is explained – and the application of the language is tried out in practice. An event […]
