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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.

YNY Theater Faculty Maddy Popkin (Boston Worker’s Circle) was recently interviewed by radio host Randee Mia Berman on the show Mia’s World (distributed by City World Radio). You can listen to Maddy & Mia at 19:07 by clicking here.

YNY Yiddish scholar Dovid Braun, who also serves as President of the Sholem Aleichem Cultural Center, and YNY Organizing Committee member Josh Waletzky were recently interviewed in Yiddish on The Yiddish Voice – Dos Yidishe Kol radio program. It aired Wed Dec 11 at 7:30pm on WUNR (Boston) 1600AM “The Yiddish Voice – Dos Yidishe Kol.” In the interview Braun and Waletzky discusses YNY in general, and Braun additionally provides focus on his lecture series on Yiddish dialects, as well as the Dec 15 Sholem Aleichem Cultural Center presentation by Miryem-Khaye Seigel, and the Center’s campaign to raise money for a new roof. Click the following link to listen: https://the-yiddish-voice-podcast.zencast.website/episodes/191

Dos Yidishe Kol radio program. It aired Wed Dec 11 at 7:30pm on WUNR (Boston) 1600AM “The Yiddish Voice – Dos Yidishe Kol.” In the interview Braun and Waletzky discusses YNY in general, and Braun additional provides focus on his lecture series on Yiddish dialects, as well as the Dec 15 Sholem Aleichem Cultural Center presentation by Miryem-Khaye Seigel, and the Center’s campaign to raise money for a new roof. Click the following link to listen: https://the-yiddish-voice-podcast.zencast.website/episodes/191

YNY’s 2019 Festival official press release is available here – please help us get out the word!: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1zoTntGrhGI9noFoHBYNnlTZ-uHr-zhYH5vFGUREBP0E/edit?usp=sharing

We are excited to open registration for the 5th Annual Yiddish New York, which will run from Saturday night, December 21 – Thursday December 26, 2019. Information about registration can be found here. We are also pleased to announce our 2019 Daytime Workshops and Faculty. Information about Evening Programs is coming soon! Tell your friends!