Jewish Languages of Brooklyn: A Walking Tour – Brooklyn, NY

Don’t miss this upcoming 2024 Local Event in Brooklyn, NY. Happening on Sunday, September 22, 2024 at Ocean Parkway. Doors open at 2:00 PM.

Experience the music, food, and communities that embody the many (and mostly endangered) Jewish languages of Brooklyn.

Brooklyn is a global center for endangered Jewish linguistic diversity. Though usually related to non-Jewish languages, Jewish languages are distinct and rooted in the varied circumstances of diasporic Jewish life over the past two millennia. Today Jewish languages with origins everywhere from Morocco to Yemen to Azerbaijan are still remembered and to some extent used in an area of the borough stretching from Midwood to Brighton Beach.

This unique walking tour focuses on a core zone around Ocean Parkway, featuring encounters with speakers of several Jewish languages and glimpses of Ashkenazi, Syrian/Levantine, North African, and Juhuri (Judeo-Tat) community institutions, including food and music.

Jewish Languages of Brooklyn: A Walking Tour is presented in partnership with The Neighborhood: An Urban Center for Jewish Life, Endangered Language Alliance, and Jewish Languages Project.

If price is an obstacle to your participation in this event, please reach out to info@theneighborhoodbk.org to request an accommodation.

The tour will be led by the Endangered Language Alliance (ELA), an independent non-profit based in New York City and the only organization in the world focused on the immense linguistic diversity of urban areas. Many of the New York area’s estimated 800 languages are highly endangered; for many, New York is a major center. ELA documents and describes little-known and endangered languages, educating a larger public and collaborating with communities.

Through events, social media engagement, curriculum, and exhibits, the HUC-JIR Jewish Language Project promotes research on, awareness about, and engagement surrounding the many languages spoken and written by Jews throughout history and around the world.

The Neighborhood: An Urban Center for Jewish Life is a Jewish community and cultural center in Brooklyn. We produce programs that raise up underrepresented perspectives and welcome the thousands of Brooklynites that have not yet found their Jewish home. We are creating a welcoming space that reflects the spirit of Brooklyn–future-thinking and deeply historical, iconoclastic, and sacred.

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Event ID - 982107739687

Event Venue - Ocean Parkway

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Date And Time

Sunday, September 22nd, 2024 @ 02:00 PM

Venue

Ocean Parkway

Location

Ocean Parkway, Brooklyn, NY

Jewish Languages of Brooklyn: A Walking Tour – Brooklyn, NY