A nice article by Jael Goldfine for Bandcamp’s “Scene Review” entitled “Klezmer’s DIY Revival Looks Back to Look Forward” that features a number of YNY faculty, featured artists and dear friends! Click here to read.
Moishe Rosenfeld writes about YNY
Our dear friend, cultural activist Moishe Rosenfeld, writes about Yiddish New York in this survey of Yiddish revitalization activity. Click here to read more!
Woody Guthrie’s This Land is Your Land – in Yiddish!
At YNY 2020, Linda Gritz brought to Josh Waletzky and Daniel Kahn’s songwriting class a draft translation of Woody Guthrie’s classic This Land is Your Land. And now Jordan Kutzik of the Forverts reports on where it went from there (and you can watch the video)!
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YNY Film Festival
We’re excited to announce films for the 2020 YNY Film Festival, curated by documentarian/composer Josh Waletzky. Films will be streamed over the internet to your home beginning on Wednesday morning, December 23.
2020 FEATURES: Yiddish in Shorts (6 short films), Chava Alberstein – A Source of Inspiration (2020, N. American Premiere), The Living Orphan (1937), Song Searcher (2021, Avant Premiere), A Kiss in Your Heart (2020).
Each film features a Q&A. For more information see the YNY Film Festival webpage.