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Moments from the 2007 Vilnius Summer Program in Yiddish
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| Ready for Opening ceremony, July 31 | Jewish Community leaders Gurevicius and Alperovicius at Opening | Deputy Director of the Jewish Community Masha Grodnik | ||
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| Former Jewish Partisan Fania Brantsovsky with Summer Director Tina Lunson | Jurgita Verbickiene of the CSJHCEE addresses the Opening audience | Marija Krupoves sings "Vilna" | ||
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| Arkady Gendler sings a Bessarabian doina | The VYI's coordinator of programs Loreta Paukstyte | Planning the month | ||
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| Our youngest students | Getting acquainted | |||
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| a glezl vayn | a shisl kasha | New friends | ||
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| New friends | Vilna's Fira Bramson & Tallinn's Anna Verschik | A smile for Yiddish | ||
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| a shulkhn orekh | Dr. Jurgita Verbickiene with Ms. Tina Lunson | …what is it? | ||
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| Prof. Sarunas Liekis lectures on the Shnipishok cemetery | Students listen | Students | ||
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| Teacher M. Dunayevsky with a student | Three generations at the VYI | "My First Waltz" | ||
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| Arkady Gendler sings folk-songs… | …while the audience listens | Arkady with Tina and Sarah | ||
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| Homework | Fira Bramson, Benjaminas Mackevicius, Arkady Gendler | nokh an anekdot… | ||
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| Fania's tour of pre-war Vilna | Contemplating the Vilna Gaon | Vilna walking tour | ||
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| Whew! | Vilna tour | |||
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| Vilna tour guides Rokhl Kostanian & Fania Brantsovsky | Fania on tour | Ready for shabes | ||
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| Night out | Night out | |||
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| Anna & Arkady | Yefim Chorny & Marija plan a music program | Klezmer meeting | ||
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| Susana Gerghus leads a dance | Yefim leads a song | a yidishe torbe | ||
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| Klezmorim | Maestro Chorny | Susana leads the klezmorim | ||
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| Consultation | to Belarus?? | Arkady, Susana & Yefim plan singing, Ruta flies by | ||
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| Band uniforms | Klez! | Another opening, another show! | ||
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| At the 'Green House' Jewish Museum | Summer '07 klezmorim | Homework or sing? | ||
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| Summer '07 chorus | Strings | Sarah's solo | ||
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| Three innocent maidens | Itsik mitn shmitsik | Petersburg song-bird | ||
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| Our leader | Audience participation | Maestro! | ||
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| Chorus and soloist | Sing! Dance! | Arkady | ||
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| Partisans Fania Brantsovsky and Rokhl Margolis | Guide and Survivor Rokhl Margolis | Visit to Ponar | ||
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| At Ponar | Friends | Assembling at the Kaunas castle | ||
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| By the Kaunas Jewish Hospital | Yefim & Susana "on tour" | Kaunas tour | ||
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| A hot day in Kaunas | Kaunas streets | Mindaugas | ||
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| Kovne old town | Kovne overlook | Perkunas | ||
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| Kaunas overlook | Our hero | Visit to the Ninth Fort (Kaunas/Kovne) | ||
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| Kovne Khor Shul | Klezmorim at the Khor Shul | Klezmorim at the Khor Shul | ||
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| Klezmorim at the Khor Shul | Yefim & Susana perform at the Khor Shul | L'khaym for Arkady | ||
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| simkhes | Roza advises a student | Happiness is... | ||
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| Hiya, Hy! | shmues | Dina & Yitskhok | ||
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| Yum! | ||||
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| Study is sweet, | teaching is sweeter. | Simkha’s birthday suit | ||
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| Farewell to Peter | Fania at the Jewish Cemetary | |||
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| Introduction to the Jewish cemetery | Essential personnel | |||
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| At the Vilna Gaon’s Tomb | ||||
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| Grave of Reb Chaim-Oyzer Grodzensky | Bundists’ graves | Pals | ||
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| Our guide in Svintsyan (Svencionys), Meishke Shein | Is lunch ready yet | |||
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| Lunch! | ||||
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| Russian table | ||||
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| 30-second history of Svencionys … | …with an update | Walk around Svencionys | ||
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| "Brumberg‘s sklad" in Svintsyan near the site of the three (destroyed) synagogues | The VYI‘s new transport... | |||
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| ...and driver. | By the old mikve in Svencionys | |||
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| Cool! | ||||
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| Memorial of recovered matseyves at Svencionys cemetary | ||||
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| Sell-out audience for Marija‘s concert | ||||
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| Jurijus offers Marija‘s and Arturas‘ popular CDs for sale | Starz! | ikh hob dikh tsu fil lib | ||
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| Zog nit keynmol! | Floral tributes... | |||
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| ...from colleagues and friends. | Troupe | Accompanist Arturas Anusauskas & Tina | ||
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| The Class of 2007 | Innocence and Wisdom | so then how do you say... | ||
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| Klezmorim prepare for graduation ceremony | ||||
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| Joey | The crowd gathers | |||
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| Special award for Rokhl Kostanian | ||||
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| Special award for Fania Brantsovsky | Special award for Fira Bramson | Loreta’s reward | ||
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| Ruta’s rewards | Level I and II teachers Bieliauskiene & Verschik | Level III and IV teachers Dunayevsky & Niborski | ||