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Euroasian Jewish News
FREILEHE KINDER Festival / EAJC Participation.
16.07.2007
On July 1, 2007 Astana watched the final gala night of the III Central Asian Jewish Festival of Children and Youth Arts FREILEHE KINDER. The festival goal was the revival of the ethnic tradition of the Jewish Diaspora in Central Asia.
The competition program included three nominations: vocal, theatre and dance. Many performances were dedicated to Eretz Yisrael and to Jerusalem. Songs were in Hebrew, Yiddish, Kazakh and Russian.
The festival was sponsored by the Euro-Asian Jewish Congress (EAJC), the Jewish Congress of Kazakhstan (JCK), the "Mitzvah" Jewish Ethnic Organizations of Kazakhstan Association, the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee (AJJDC) and a number of Kazakh philanthropists.
The concerts of the first three days were held in the city of Qaraghandy. Every day 180 children from 15 provinces of Kazakhstan, and also from Russia, appeared on the stage, at first, in the Zhartas sanatorium, and on June 30 - in the Stanislavsky Drama Theater.
The festival participants were greeted by M.Alieva, the Minor Assembly of Peoples of Kazakhstan in Qaraghandy province Secretary, speaking on behalf of the authorities and citizens of the province. The FREILEHE KINDER Festival was also complimented by the EAJC General Council member, the "Mitzvah" Association President Alexander Baron.
The children were also treated to a general excursion round Astana, the capital of Kazakhstan. They visited the famous Baiterek tower and Beit-Rachel synagogue, the main one in the country, which was named after the mother of EAJC President Alexander Machkevitch.
EAJC Public Relations and Media Department
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