The Babel Project @ Jewish Museum of Australia



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Event Name: The Babel Project
 
Artists: The Babel Project
Date: Sat, 23 Oct 2010 to Sun, 11 Mar 2012
Venue:
26 Alma rd
St Kilda, Melbourne, VIC, 3182

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Price: $5.00 - $20.00
Towards the end of World War Two, and just after it, hundreds of Eastern European Yiddish-speaking Jews took the long trek to Melbourne - the end of the world - to rebuild their lives. Today, Melbourne’s Jewish culture is rich, vibrant and present in every slice of babka. This long journey is beautifully captured in Mameloshn - How Yiddish Made a Home in Melbourne at the Jewish Museum of Australia. Not only will the exhibition add a little Yiddish to your vocab with lingo like chutzpah, shmendrik or schmuck, you can experience Yiddish culture with soundscapes, rare photographs and artefacts which have never been exhibited before. But after contributing so powerfully to Melbourne’s culture over many years, Yiddish-speaking Jews are now passing on. “This exhibition is a tribute to them,” the exhibition’s curator Anna Epstein says. “Their children, immersed in Yiddish culture but whose mother tongue is English, face the task of holding onto Yiddish. It felt like the perfect time to tell the story.”
Event Type: Arts and Exhibition
Genres: Museums

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