BosNet Event:Boston_Benefit Concert Offers Jewish Response to Genocide
Steve Albert
B o s N e t -May 6, 1999
______________________________________________________________________
Available on Usenet as BIT.LISTSERV.BOSNET
______________________________________________________________________
For the list of commands
send a "help" message to: MAJO...@APPLICOM.COM
To unsubscribe send: UNSUBSCRIBE bosnet-digest
----------------------------------------------------------------------
BosNet Guide to Indicting Milosevic:
http://www.bosnet.org/petition/milosevic.html-ssi
War Crimes Reward Pages: http://www.bosnet.org/reward.shtml
B o s N e t Web Page: http://www.bosnet.org/
Arrest Karadzic/Mladic Petition: http://www.bosnet.org/petition/
-----------------------------------------------------------
Freinds of Bosnia
http://www.crocker.com/~ganeydn
Benefit concert offers a Jewish response to genocide
The Boston Group Against Ethnic Cleansing presents
the Wholesale Klezmer Band
"Tfile Far a Tsebrokhener Velt," (Prayer for a Broken World)
May 30, 2 p.m.
Congregation Kehillath Israel,
384 Harvard Street, Brookline, Mass.
benefit for Bosnian refugees and Kosovo refugees in Macedonia.
$12 at the door, $10 in advance.
For information and tickets: (617) 247-1883 or 738-9325.
After millions of Jews, Gypsies, homosexuals and political
dissidents
were annihilated in the Holocaust, survivors vowed, "Never again!"
Yet in the six decades that have passed, genocide has been repeated
on virtually every continent, begging the question, "How should a Jews
respond to these atrocities in the aftermath of the Holocaust?"
The Boston Group Against Ethnic Cleansing will present the
Wholesale
Klezmer Band in a special benefit concert, "Tfile Far a Tsebrokhener
Velt," (Prayer for a Broken World) May 30 at 2 p.m. as a benefit for
Bosnian refugees and Kosovo refugees in Macedonia. It will take place in
the sanctuary of Congregation Kehillath Israel, 384 Harvard Street,
Brookline, Mass.
The concert of Yiddish songs, stories and music was inspired by the
Jewish Community of Sarajevo and was originally presented seven years
ago to benefit Bosnian and Rwandan relief efforts.
The Wholesale Klezmer Band has devoted itself since 1982 to
performing
traditional and original Jewish music to promote
social justice.
''It is the balance they achieve between social understanding and
social satire that marks The Wholesale Klezmer Band as a truly great
klezmer band,'' wrote the folk magazine Dirty Linen.
Responding to new waves of 'ethnic cleansing '' in eastern Europe ,
the band's singer-songwriter, Joseph Kurland said, ''As Jews who have
gone through holocausts of our own, we realize people can't be isolated.
It's imperative for all people, but in particular I see it as a Jew's
religious duty, to stop atrocities from happening and to bring relief to
people. It's part of the Jewish concept of tikkun olom (repair of the
world.)''
In Kurland's title song, he sings,
"Between painted mountains, cities are dying. Beneath autumn's
reddened
trees, people are falling like leave. Dear God, you have sanctified us
with Your commandments that we should repair Your world."
The Wholesale Klezmer Band, founded in 1982, is a Massachusetts-based
ensemble that has performed traditional Yiddish dance music and songs
in concerts throughout the Northeast. The band has appeared with Pete
Seeger, Sweet Honey in the Rock and Peter Paul and Mary and has played
at venues including Carnegie Hall and President Clinton's 1993 inaugural
celebration.
The Boston Group Against Ethnic Cleansing was founded in July 1995 in
response to the massacre in Eastern Bosnia. Founder Victoria Poupko was
the first foreigner to reach the region immediately after the massacre in
Srebrenica . The group still collects materials and money to help
Bosnian refugees.
The organization is beginning to work on providing immediate help to
victims of the genocide in Kosovo and has been invited to make a
presentation at the Hague Appeal for Peace, May 11- May 15.
Tickets for the May 30 concert will be $12 at the door and $10 in
advance. For information and tickets call: (617) 247-1883 or 738-9325.
Tickets will also be on sale in the Russian store "Babushka Deli," 62
Washington St., Brighton, or by mail. Checks should be send to BGAEC,
10 Kenmore St., S103, Boston, MA 02215. For children under 12, admission
is free.
oooooo
(Contact The Wholesale Klezmer Band: Joe Kurland (413) 624-3204 or at
gan...@crocker.com. Or learn more about us and our Tfile recording and
program at http://www.crocker.com/~ganeydn
Contact us also for a copy of our recording, or to help us replicate
this program in other cities for the benefit of organizations providing
peace and promoting peace.
=./=./=./=./=./=./=./=./=./=./=./=./=./=./=./=./=
Visual Communications/Friends of Bosnia
47 East Street
Hadley, MA 01035
Tel: 413-586-6450
Fax: 413-586-2415
f...@crocker.com
________________________________________________________
Opinions expressed/published on BosNet/BosNet-B DO NOT necessarily
reflect the views of (all of the members of) Editorial Board, and/or
moderators, nor any of their host institutions.
________________________________________________________________________________
____________________-