Portland Press Herald Features Yiddish Culture Festival

Press Herald Staff Writer Ray Routhier profiled the first Maine Yiddish Culture Festivall. The article featured the exploration of food, language, humor and music that is part of Yiddish culture.. Read the entire article about the Festival here.

 

We appeal to a very broad audience, about half of them are not Jewish, and we just saw an opportunity to connect this very American story with even more people,” said David Scholder, president of the Maine Jewish Film Festival. “We have this common Jewish culture on the East Coast, from Europe, that has brought us a rich culture of Yiddish language, food and music.

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