25 jaar Stichting rainbow

Earlier this month, on January 6th, the renown Israeli poet, Yoram Taharlev, passed away. Born in Kibbutz Yagor in Israel in 1938, Yoram Taharlev was a prolific author, poet, and performer. Hundreds of his songs were put to music and became part of the Israeli folklore. His phenomenal memory enabled him to recite by heart his lengthy poems as a spoken-word artist, performing all over Israel, up until his passing, at the age of 84. … [Lees verder]

This week I’ll tell you about The Bund, Utopia for Real, the TV documentary we produced in 1997, exactly 100 years after the Bund was created. A secret Jewish workers’ movement, the Bund or also written as BUND (Yiddish: בונד‎, cognate to German: Bund, ‘union’) was established in November 1897 in a small shack in the Russian town of Vilna. From thirteen men it had grown within a few years into an open and proud worldwide organization with hundreds … [Lees verder]