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Historical calendar: 2019

In the history of the Yiddish culture, the year 2019 is remarkable for the 160th anniversary of the birth of Sholem Aleichem;

The workshop was held on November 7-11 thanks to cooperation between WJC YC and IWO Argentina

On October 23, a common event of WJC YC and IWO Argentina took place in La Plata, 50 km south-east from Buenos Aires

A seminar "Yiddish language, theater and folklore in the 21st century" was held by WJC YC and IWO Argentina in the city of Rosario, Santa Fe province

On December 7-8, a "Yiddish weekend" was held in Odessa. It was organized by WJC YC in cooperation with the local Jewish center "Migdal"

On November 8-11, Sorokina-Ginzburg provided lectures at the Joint Distribution Committee's Active Jewish Teens conference in the capital of Ukraine

On November 2-4, a session of the "Limmud" project for Jewish activists and educators from ex-USSR was held in Lviv (Lvov), Ukraine

On October 25-28, WJC YC high-ranked representative talked at the conference of Jewish communities of Central and South-Eastern Europe

On October 17-18 the WJC YC representative T. Batanova provided lectures about Yiddish at the Days of Jewish Culture in the Ukrainian city