Kultur Mercado

04/16/2026

Saluton Mondo! Hello World! - https://mailchi.mp/6b9a761d9561/trade-routes-monthly-newsletter-april2026

04/10/2026

Our friends at the Jewish Movement Collective are bringing a special night of Eastern European Jewish music and dance - check it out!

Yiddish dance comes from Eastern Europe and evokes the endurance of Jewish culture through harsh circumstances. This event, featuring instructors Amie Segal and Ethan Kahn and accompanied by live klezmer with Dan Cantrell and Chloe Resler, will teach a variety of traditional dances with a revival twist.

No dance experience needed—just bring your curiosity and enthusiasm!

This will be a fun, simple, and easy-to-follow dance class. We’ll be at Worker’s Circle on Robertson, a space with its own fascinating LA Jewish history.

Get Tickets: https://partiful.com/e/NeeSfgXmZYVKtcFOG99M?c=sqK4wKB8

04/09/2026

Join us Monday, 4/20! Invented by L.L. Zamenhof, a Yiddish-speaking Jew, in 1887, Esperanto was envisioned as a neutral, international second language for all, a linguistic answer to the Jewish Question, and a chance at world peace.

Guest speaker, Sebastian Schulman, applies an internationalist reading of Yiddish cultural history beside a Jewish look at the history of Esperanto, this lecture will argue that la lingvo internacia has been intimately shaped by the contours of Jewish history writ large. The talk will also take a look at the quixotic world of contemporary Esperanto culture and what its examination might bring to a better understanding of other language-by-choice communities.

Event Details
📅 Monday, April 20
🕖 6:30 - 8:30 PM PT
🍽 Dinner provided
👥 All are welcome.
Feel free to invite friends with this link: https://bit.ly/41bykNP

This gathering is co-sponsored and hosted by Kultur Mercado, Der Nister, and SoCal Arbeter Ring/Workers Circle.

04/06/2026

This Wednesday! Join us for an evening of film, food, and meaningful conversation. We’ll screen the documentary The American Question with a shared dinner and a facilitated discussion exploring what it means to live together in a divided time.

Event Details
📅 April 8
🕖 7:00–9:00 PM PT
🍽 Dinner provided
🎥 Film screening + guided discussion
👥 All are welcome. Feel free to invite friends with this link: https://bit.ly/4c7MTIV

This gathering is co-sponsored and hosted by Kultur Mercado, America's Future, and SoCal Arbeter Ring/Workers Circle as part of the broader National Week of Conversation, hosted in part by Listen First Coalition.

Whether you’re feeling hopeful, frustrated, curious, or unsure about the state of our civic life, this space is for you. Come watch, eat, listen, and share, and be part of a community-centered conversation that makes room for complexity, humanity, and connection.

Come as you are. Leave with new perspectives — and maybe a few new connections, too.

03/19/2026

Those Roads Less Traveled - https://mailchi.mp/0b79f8383583/trade-routes-monthly-newsletter-march2026

03/12/2026

Timely short film, "Mashhad" examining Persian Jewish life in the 1930s from Reboot.

Mashhad is a dramatic short film written and directed by Sarah Solemani about the hidden history of the Jews of Mashhad, a community forced to practice their...

02/19/2026

Curling; A tongue for all people- https://mailchi.mp/c75df98ee971/trade-routes-monthly-newsletter-february2026

01/25/2026

Sunday, 1 February 2026 , 1 pm— Free talk at Alpine Courtyard (1021 Alpine St. Los Angeles, CA 90012)

Ross Perlin, translator, culture bearer, and co-director of will be talking on his book “Language City” and the race to preserve, document, and uplift many of the world’s 7000 languages at risk of extinction.

Come learn about linguistic diversity, language preservation, and the importance of our language in shaping culture.

This event is co-sponsored by: , , , and .

01/15/2026

Our New Issue of Trade Routes is out: Cultural Complexity is for the Curious - https://mailchi.mp/2d9d6e956662/trade-routes-monthly-newsletter-january2026

01/08/2026

Excited for this fantastic upcoming event!

Fragments explores the complexity of an Iraqi-Jewish identity shaped by migration, lost languages, colonialism, and assimilation.

Music at the crossroads—Arabic and Jewish, past and present. A concert by Yoni Avi Battat that gives voice to unseen Middle Eastern Jewish stories and invites every listener into memory, nuance, and healing.

Hebrew Union College IKAR IKARites (unofficial group, see about) SIJCC - Silverlake Independent Jewish Community Center NewGround: A Muslim-Jewish Partnership for Change Standing Together Craig Taubman Craig Taubman
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