Yiddish Institute
Warsaw Ghetto Uprising TO WITNESS, CONSOLE and LAMENT: A World Premier Dramatic Reading of Yitshak Katzenelson’s epic powerful work about the Warsaw Ghetto - Song of the Massacred Jewish People (1943-44) דאָס ליד פֿונעם אויסגעהרגעטן ייִדישן פֿאָלק In English and Yiddish With Special Guest Appearance by Mike Burstyn Directed by Jeremy Aluma In-person at the HMLA Yitshak Katzenelson […]
Presented by Jane Peppler Musician, composer, singer, translator Jane Peppler has been researching brilliant but forgotten Yiddish theater songs for more than a decade. How, then, to get people to listen to these obscure but marvellous songs, when most people have heard - and loved - only the same 20 Yiddish songs over and over again? Animation was […]
The great sweeps of Jewish immigration to the Americas in the early 1900s brought with them an epidemic of abandoned wives and children. So much so that the most popular Yiddish paper teamed up with a newly-created Jewish agency to help reunite families. A Galeria fun Farshvundene Mener/ A Gallery of Missing Husbands, which spanned […]
