What started out as a musical about a Jewish grandmother has morphed into the recently-launched Cork Jewish Digital Archive at Cork Public Museum. Musician, teacher and writer, Ruti Lachs, a secular Jewish Liverpudlian who lives in Cork, started researching her adopted city’s Jewish community in 2017. While the musical has been written complete with a musical score, it was shelved once the pandemic hit. There had been a plan to produce the show, set in the local Jewish community in the early 1900s, for the Cork Midsummer Festival. It may have been a casualty of Covid but the research hasn’t...
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