Selected Events 2006

Consul for Public Affairs Mark Wenig

July 11, 2006
Consul for Public Affairs Mark Wenig joined other invited guests and speakers and delivered brief remarks in support of the “Yiddish Summer Weimar” (formerly the “Weimar Klezmer Weeks”), a festival of Klezmer music, which livens the streets of Weimar each summer. This event, which attracts participants from all over Europe as well as North America, combines workshops, jam sessions, and outdoor concerts in celebration of Jewish folk music that originated in eastern Europe. About 80 persons attended the opening ceremonies, which were also punctuated by Klezmer music. U.S. Embassy Berlin supported this four-week festival, which promotes intercultural understanding. U.S. participation and support was very much noticed and highly appreciated as the mayor and other local officials praised this event, made all the more poignant for its taking place each year in the shadow of the Buchenwald camp memorial.