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Ronald Robboy will dive into Goldfaden’s career and the significance of the music and story of Shulamis and some of his other musical numbers.

This documentary film tells the story of musician and scholar Moyshe Beregovsky, who crisscrossed Ukraine with a phonograph in hand during the most dramatic years of Soviet history to record and study the traditional music of Ukrainian Jewry.

Bas Sheve is one of the only known pre-Holocaust Yiddish operas. Presumed lost, it was discovered in 2017 and made its North American debut in the summer of 2022. This panel will discuss the performance with video examples provided.

This weekly conversational class develops grammatical skills and sets of vocabulary. It is primarily for spring Intermediate II Conversational Yiddish for Heritage Learners students.

List of recipients of YIVO’s 2024-2025 faculty and graduate student fellowships.

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.