Festival Yiddish words and music will be the focus of the Seventh Annual Greater Hartford Yiddish Conference and Festival from March 11 through 13. The festival is sponsored by the University of Hartford's Maurice Greenberg Center for Judaic Studies, the Greater Hartford Jewish Community Center and the Jewish Historical Society of Greater Hartford. The festival will also feature the film A Jumpin' Night in the Garden of Eden.
All events are free and open to the public.
200 Bloomfield Ave., West Hartford. The lecture, which is made possible by the Waltman family, will be delivered in Yiddish. Schaechter, a leader in promoting the maintenance of Yiddish and in adapting it through language planning to modern life and technology, will focus his talk on the evolution of some of the oldest Yiddish words and how some have been replaced by newer terms. He will also discuss many of the newest Yiddish words, like the terms for microwave and Internet, which did not previously exist in Yiddish or any language. A multi-instrumentalist and composer, Netsky serves as research director of the Klezmer Conservatory Foundation, a nonprofit organization dedicated to research in, and perpetuation of, Yiddish music.