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This panel shares information about and highlights from four festivals, workshops, and programs that celebrate klezmer and Yiddish music.

The Sidney Krum Jewish Music and Yiddish Theater Memorial Collections include music, recorded sound, plays, and photographs.

by LEAH FALK The best parts of the Yiddish past are fragile: a yellowing installment of a serialized novel in Der tog, a barely legible handwritten letter, a fragment of song passed down from mother to daughter. Ruth Rubin, the celebrated scholar, singer, and collector of Yiddish folk music, knew how ...

by SARAH PONICHTERA

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This monthly blog will announce Yiddish happenings taking place in and around New York City, and sometimes beyond.

In the cultural sphere, the New Yiddish Rep and Castillo Theater’s production of “Waiting for Godot” has been getting rave reviews both from people well-versed in Yiddish culture (such as Leyzer Burko’s review) and mainstream news outlets (such as Anita Gates’ review in the New York Times). The Folksbiene is holding a concert series featuring previously unheard songs gathered from Jewish families who lived in Soviet Russia, titled “Notes from the Underground.” The songs will be performed by members of the klezmer band Golem, and the performance is directed by the eminent Zalman Mlotek. Details can be found here.

Judith Berkson, Frank London, and ensemble present Berkson’s original cantorial composition inspired by YIVO holdings, and reinterpretations of music from the golden age of cantorial music.

A concert in celebration of the rich breadth of music with Yiddish lyrics including Yiddish Theater Songs, Yiddish Folk Songs, and Yiddish Art Songs.

For centuries, Poland was home to the world's largest Jewish population—totaling 3.5 million in 1939, before the Holocaust all but extinguished their world. Today the culture has made a small comeback.

Henech Kon is best known today as the composer of the film score for The Dybbuk. He was, however, also a brilliant pianist and musicologist, and wrote arrangements for dozens of Yiddish songs and other scores. This lecture will present Kon’s life and work, and help to bring him the recognition he is due – and his music back on stage.

Close readings of selected tracks by the Barton Brothers, Mickey Katz, and Allan Sherman will focus on their language, their music, their delivery, and what made them so influential and so very funny.

Join YIVO for a discussion exploring the history of the YIVO Sound Archive, important areas of the collection, projects the Sound Archive has facilitated, and other interesting stories from the past 40 years.