Kadimah | Jewish Cultural Centre and National Library Kadimah | Jewish Cultural Centre and National Library

The Kadimah is a Jewish, secular, cultural organisation and library and an important Yiddish oriented, Jewish organisation in Elsternwick.

Jewish Culture with Chutzpah

The Kadimah is Australia's beating heart of Yiddish culture.

For more than a hundred years, the Kadimah Jewish Cultural Centre and National Library has operated as a Jewish organisation devoted to the preservation and promotion of Yiddish language and culture.

The Kadimah's activities include running Yiddish language and conversation classes, producing Yiddish-themed theatre productions, cabarets, concerts and literary events, hosting lectures and comedy nights and running youth drama classes.

Kadimah Yiddish Theatre

We are a grassroots, professional community theatre born of the Melbourne Jewish community. The Jewish community in Melbourne is mainly descended of holocaust survivors, who spoke and loved Yiddish. Can you love a language? We think you can. Yiddish is considered a warm doona, a comfort, a welcoming home to those who speak it. Warmly referred to as mameloshn, "mother tongue". We make exciting new theatre. Our shows are original, Australian and Yiddish.

❊ Address ❊

 ⊜  7 Selwyn St Elsternwick  View Map
 ✆ Telephone: 03 9923 7465

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❊ Web Links ❊

➼ Kadimah | Jewish Cultural Centre and National Library 

➼ www.kadimah.org.au

❊ Also See... ❊

➼ Jewish Museum of Australia: Gandel Centre of Judaica



We acknowledge the longest standing custodians of the land where we meet, the Boon Wurrun folk of the Kulin nation, and we pay respect to their elders (matriachs and patriachs), past, present and future.




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