Klezmer at Claytime

by Alice Tofts, UCL Museum Studies MA Student and Event Programmer for the Jewish Museum London’s ClayTime Late [Editor’s note] Five students from UCL’s Museum Studies MA course are working with the museum to plan a museum late event – ClayTime – on Thursday 2 February. Over the next few months they’ll be updating our blog […]

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The London Yiddish Choir is at the Museum – come join us!

by Robin Rubenstein, Guest Blogger This story begins like a Jewish joke: an Irish Jew, a Russian Jew and an American Jew meet in a hall in West London… In June 2009, I attended Shivaun Woolfson’s extraordinary exhibition “Surviving History: Portraits from Vilna” at Spiro Ark. The multi-media presentation included film, artefacts, and moving testimony […]

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