Celebrating Yiddish Music, Language, and Culture!
Yiddish New York is excited to present our 3rd annual workshop/festival from Saturday, December 23 – Thursday, December 28, 2017. Check back soon for more information!
Best wishes from the YNY Organizing Committee,
Daniel Blacksberg, Edy Borger, Nicole Borger, Sarah Gordon, Itzik Gottesman, Tine Kindermann, Jenny Levison, Frank London, Jessica Kate Meyer, Ethel Raim, Pete Rushefsky, Deborah Ugoretz, Josh Waletzky & Michael Winograd
What do Jews do for Christmas? Yiddish New York adds a great new alternative to Chinese Restaurants! An amazing faculty of over 60 leading figures in Yiddish culture for a week of concerts, lectures, Yiddish theater, film, klezmer workshops, Yiddish language classes, poetry, singing, and a whole lot more.
Our Decmeber 2, 2016 press release can be found by clicking here.
There are now links on our Registration page for individuals looking for opportunities to share rides/accommodation to Yiddish New York! We’re also grateful for anyone who is able to share a ride, room or couch (you can post on the boards also)!
We’re pleased to release our 2016 Detailed Guide to Daytime Programs. An amazing daily schedule of programs including workshops in instrumental klezmer, Yiddish dance, Yiddish song, Yiddish theater and Yiddish language as well as lectures, panel discussions, demonstrations, walking tours and much, much more! Classes are held at the accessible 14th Street Y and adjacent Town and Village Synagogue, and feature a faculty of dozens of the Yiddish worlds leading scholars, performers and activists.
To view the complete schedule, click here.
We’re excited to announce the calendar of Special Events for the second annual Yiddish New York, which is being held from Saturday, December 24 – Thursday, December 29, with pre-festival events starting on Thursday, December 8. Special events include dance parties, concerts, lectures, historical neighborhood walking tours and more!
This year’s events feature a host of leading performers of Yiddish Arts, including Grammy-winning trumpeter Frank London (The Klezmatics); acclaimed Montreal rapper Socalled; Smithsonian Folkways recording artists The Brothers Nazaroff which features Daniel Kahn (Berlin), Psoy Korolenko (Moscow), Bob Cohen (Budapest) and Jake Shulman-Ment (Brooklyn); ECM recording artist Judith Berkson; internationally celebrated cantor Jack Mendelson; two projects of guitarist/singer Jeremiah Lockwood – his acclaimed ensemble The Sway Machinery, and the Book of J, a new collaboration with singer Jewlia Eisenberg; NEA National Heritage Fellow/percussionist Elaine Hoffman Watts and her daughter Susan Hoffman Watts; renowned Yiddish singer Zhenya Lopatnik – a new transplant to New York from Kharkiv, Ukraine; and acclaimed clarinetist Michael Winograd. The centerpiece event will be the Adrienne Cooper Memorial Dreaming in Yiddish Concert, which will be held at 8pm Sunday evening December 25 at the Museum of Jewish Heritage (36 Battery Place). This year’s Dreaming in Yiddish Concert will honor poet Irena Klepfisz.
Admission to events is included with registration for 6-day pass holders. Tickets will go on sale soon for individual concerts. To see the calendar click here.
For information on YNY’s Daytime Programs at 14th Street Y click here.