CUNY Academic Commons | Michael Mangieri | Activity https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/members/michaelmangieri/activity/ Activity feed for Michael Mangieri. Sat, 01 Jan 2050 18:00:18 -0500 https://buddypress.org/?v= en 30 hourly 2 18ab39ebc3e41ec5037777ee1caaf6e6 Michael Mangieri started the topic Free Concert Coming up! in the forum Listenin’ to the City CCNY/CWE https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/groups/listenin-to-the-city/forum/topic/free-concert-coming-up/ Tue, 30 Apr 2024 21:29:21 -0400 Join YIVO for an online event on Tuesday, May 14 at 1pm ET celebrating the pioneering composer of Jewish classical music Jacob Weinberg.

Pianist Thomas Kotcheff will perform Ten Jewish Songs (1933): a collection of Jewish folksongs, holiday songs, dances, and Hasidic nigunim in piano arrangements.

The concert is free and you can register here

]]> b3e670f657ce853e1249043171302ffb Michael Mangieri started the topic Two Partisans in the forum Listenin’ to the City CCNY/CWE https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/groups/listenin-to-the-city/forum/topic/two-partisans/ Tue, 30 Apr 2024 21:17:34 -0400 In the attached photo, an insert from a book in the YIVO library rescued by the famous “Paper Brigade“. The translated text reads:

This book is from the YIVO Library in Vilna. During the years of the destruction, friends of YIVO hid it from the Germans, and after the war A. Sutzkever and Sh. Kaczerginski sent it to YIVO in New…[Read more]

]]> 7446bd3fae2edcc91a89dfe5b30b7f4b Michael Mangieri started the topic Passover Greetings From the Archive in the forum Listenin’ to the City CCNY/CWE https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/groups/listenin-to-the-city/forum/topic/passover-greetings-from-the-archive/ Tue, 16 Apr 2024 23:41:17 -0400 In the attached audio file, Martele Friedman, a Hungarian Yiddish speaker, recites: God of Abraham (a woman’s prayer)

Recorded January 2020

Translation:

Got fin Avrum

God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob
Protect your dear people of Israel.
For seven days and all the days may we only know good:

For prosperity, life, wealth, good fortune, blessing…[Read more]

]]> 60571d2a89154f4deda493574a96ef6b Michael Mangieri started the topic Yoga--in Yiddish! in the forum Listenin’ to the City CCNY/CWE https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/groups/listenin-to-the-city/forum/topic/yoga-in-yiddish/ Tue, 16 Apr 2024 23:28:53 -0400 A glossary of terms. For video instruction check out Sarah and Reyna

זון באַפֿגריסונג -zun bagrisung- sun salutation

באַרג פּאָזע -barg poze- mountain pose

באַװעגונג -bavegung- movement

שטעלט זיך אױס -shtelt zikh oys- stand up

זיצן -zitsn- sit

קרײַסן די פֿיס -kraysn di fis- cross your feet

זיצן אױף טערקיש -zitsn afn terkish- sit cross legg…[Read more]

]]> 793fced61c67c3215f1174ada8699d81 Michael Mangieri started the topic A tradition of resistance in the forum Listenin’ to the City CCNY/CWE https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/groups/listenin-to-the-city/forum/topic/a-tradition-of-resistance/ Tue, 09 Apr 2024 00:19:08 -0400 April 19th is the 81st anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising of 1943, when Jewish resistance fighters in the Warsaw Ghetto—many in their teens and twenties—launched a sustained guerrilla battle in response to a planned Nazi mass deportation to the death camps.

Descendants of members of the uprising, along with Yiddish speakers, singers, cul…[Read more]

]]> d1847c31d6d2765acc1a1bb6f5b3c29c Michael Mangieri started the topic A rabbi walks into a bar.... in the forum Listenin’ to the City CCNY/CWE https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/groups/listenin-to-the-city/forum/topic/a-rabbi-walks-into-a-bar/ Tue, 09 Apr 2024 00:13:33 -0400 In Yiddish there’s a saying: laughing with lizards. It means laughing on the outside, crying on the inside. In other words, laugh through the tears. I bet a lot of us can identify these days.

If you need a good laugh and have a penchant for Jewish culture, this FREE online series is for you! Built as a self-paced online class, it features i…[Read more]

]]> 40528027873cca810c2a38c871bc3fab Michael Mangieri (he/him) uploaded the file: laughing lizard to Listenin’ to the City CCNY/CWE https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/988276/ Tue, 09 Apr 2024 00:07:55 -0400 laughing lizard

]]> d7f455385729466d9a349b5bbd34a277 Michael Mangieri (he/him) joined the group Listenin’ to the City CCNY/CWE https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/986137/ Tue, 26 Mar 2024 22:12:23 -0400 d7f455385729466d9a349b5bbd34a277 Michael Mangieri (he/him) became a registered member https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/986136/ Tue, 26 Mar 2024 22:12:23 -0400