Grantee tags Jewish

Rechnitz by Elfriede Jelinek, Directed by Ildiko Nemeth
The New Stage Theatre Company
Year Grant Awarded: 2018
Nobel Prize-winning Austrian playwright Elfriede Jelinek's cerebral work examines the silence around an actual event of mind-boggling evil. Read More
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- Website: www.newstagetheatre.org

“THE LAST CYCLIST,” THE REIMAGINING OF A CABARET WRITTEN AND REHEARSED IN TEREZIN
Patz, Naomi
Year Grant Awarded: 2017
“The Last Cyclist,” a fabulous piece of theater and vital piece of Holocaust history, is a filmed production of a cabaret originally written and rehearsed in the Terezín Ghetto. A searing refutation of Nazi madness, it is brilliantly acted, bitterly funny, and caustic to the bone. Read More
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- Website: www.thelastcyclist.com

“Egg Cream”
Willow Pond Films
Year Grant Awarded: 2017
The beloved chocolate soda drink, born in immigrant neighborhoods at the turn of the 20th century, is explored in this short film about a simple beverage and its meaning to generations of Jewish Americans. Read More
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- Website: willowpondfilms.com

Chika Morena – Ladino Music for Today (2014)
Aroeste, Sarah
Year Grant Awarded: 2013
Chika Morena is a music video of an original Ladino (Judeo-Spanish) song that tells the story of a young Sephardic girl who is wandering the world over in order to return home to her roots. Read More
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- Website: http://www.saraharoeste.com

The Memory Persists
Creek, Nicole
Year Grant Awarded: 2013
This work consists of three clear acrylic panels, 12”x15”x1/4The first panel is inlaid with rectangular silver wire in the shape of the Star of David. The second panel is embedded with barbed wire. The third panel is a photograph of Holocaust surv Read More
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- Website: http://www,nicoleceek.com

Shmuel Polonski CD of 1931 Soviet Yiddish Songbook Far yugnt/For Youth
The Polonski Project/Eric A. Gordon & Yale Strom
Year Grant Awarded: 2013
A CD produced by historian Eric A Gordon & musician Yale Strom, featuring vocalists Michael Alpert, Judy Bressler, Jack Yankl Falk, Daniel Kahn, Vira Lozinsky, Anthony Russell, Elizabeth Schwartz, and Sholem Singers Read More

Soy Sefardi: A Concert Celebrating the Jews of Spain (2014)
Murad, Nicole
Year Grant Awarded: 2013
New York based duo, soprano Nicole Murad and guitarist Eric B. Davis, will take you on a journey as you listen to the beautiful melodies and language of the Sephardim reflecting an oral tradition that spans a period over 500 years. Read More
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- Website: http://www.epresskitz.com/nicolemurad

The Hebrew Lesson
Ouray, Esther
Year Grant Awarded: 2012
A rite of return about the Right of Return, The Hebrew Lesson is an hour long one-woman play, written and performed by Esther Ouray, with live music by composers and musicians Tim O’Keefe, Maryam Yusefzadeh and Greg Herriges, and directed by Zaraawar Read More
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- Website: http://thehebrewlesson.wordpress.com/

The Land of Orange Groves & Jails
Branfman, Judy
Year Grant Awarded: 2012
In "The Land of Orange Groves & Jails," LA’s infamous free speech and labor battles set the stage for aunt Yetta's 1929 Supreme Court case for flying a red flag at a summer camp – she helped lay the foundation for our right to protest and dissent. Read More
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- Website: http://www.orangegrovesandjailsfilm.com

Bike Shop The Musical
Barkan, Elizabeth
Year Grant Awarded: 2012
Bike Shop is a one woman musical by Elizabeth Barkan, directed by Gretchen Cryer. It is the story of a Brooklyn bicycle store and its owner, Bobby, Two years after a tragic bike accident she tries to get back on her bike and get her own life in gear. Read More
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- Website: http://bikeshopmusical.com/index.htm