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Seth Rogovoy of the Forward Newspaper has published wonderful reviews of two of YNY 2018’s evenings. The Night of Yiddish Song produced in partnership with the YIVO Institute featured the Ruth Rubin Legacy Concert and Michael Alpert’s Crossing the Border. Later in the week, Front to Back presented two contemporary takes on pioneering LPs of the mid-20th century– Michael Winograd’s contemporary take on Dave Tarras/Sam Muziker’s Tanz! album and Frank London’s tribute to Irving Fields’s Bagels and Bongos.

Review of The Night of Yiddish Song: https://forward.com/culture/416625/in-praise-of-ruth-rubin-patron-saint-of-yiddish-song/

Review of the Front to Back program: https://forward.com/culture/music/416671/klezmer-revivalists-hail-the-lords-of-the-tanz/

The Yiddish Voice’s wonderful Yiddish-language podcast series hosted by Mark David has interviews with YNY’s Dovid Braun, Itzik Gottesman and Linda Gritz talking about the festival. Listen here:  https://media.zencast.fm/the-yiddish-voice-podcast/episodes/152

A lovely article by George Robinson in the Jewish Week about a theme of revitalizing Yiddish folksong which runs through YNY’s 2018 programs. Read all about it here:

https://jewishweek.timesofisrael.com/yiddish-folksong-tradition-in-the-spotlight/

Hilary Danailova writes for Hadassah Magazine about Yiddish New York and a wave of other groups and individuals who are working to revitalize, reclaim (and a bunch of other words starting with “re-“) Yiddish language and culture. The article features YNY Organizing Committee member Sarah Gordon, faculty member Rokhl Kafrissen, last year’s featured ensemble Tsibele, and a host of our friends.

A New Generation Is Reclaiming Yiddish