Shura Lipovsky

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Shura Lipovsky is one of the best known singers of Yiddish/Jewish songs in the world. A native of the Netherlands, she studied singing at the Rotterdam conservatory with Margreet Honig and Yiddish with Mira Rafalowicz and at New York University, Oxford Summer University and La Maison de la Culture Yiddish/Bibliothèque Medem in Paris. She studied dance at the Dutch institute for folkloristic dancing L.C.A. She now combines dance with Jewish mysticism. In 2005/06 she studied theatre and mime at the renowned L’École Internationale de Theatre de Jacques Lecoq in Paris. Her work focuses on the artistic expressions and knowledge of Yiddish culture, and on using a particular blend of her various studies for intercultural and interreligious dialogue Singer, Dancer, Storyteller Shura Lipovsky teaches master classes for singers, repertoire classes of Yiddish songs and workshops in Hassidic dance, songs and stories. She has taught and performed at university courses of Yiddish (Oxford, London, Paris and Vilnius), at Limud in England and the Jewish Spiritual Retreat Center Elat Chayyim in Upstate New York, at the International Yiddish Festival and the International Jewish Music Festival in Amsterdam, the Jewish Culture Festival in Krakow, at Klezfests in London, Paris, Montreal, St. Petersburg, and Weimar and in various cities including Stockholm, Budapest, Bremen and Radolfzell - on occasion of the founding of a World Monastery. She has worked with outstanding musicians from Euro

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Tsart: Tenderness in Word and Sound

Moments of Jewish Life

Tsart

Vaytinke. Traditional and New Yiddish Songs

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Klezmagic

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Zichrojnes (Wspomnienia)

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The Rough Guide to Jewish Music

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Malakh - Absence Presence

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Tsart: Tenderness in Word and

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15. Festiwal Kultury Żydowskiej w Krakowie - Zichrojnes (Wspomnienia)

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Tsart. Tenderness in word and sound

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Zichrojnes

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