FILM | Yidish in ale lender: Yiddish Around the World in Stories, with Christa Whitney
Thursday July 11, 2024 12:00 PM - July 11, 2024 1:00 PM Yiddish Book Center Amherst, MA
YIDSTOCK 2024 | The director of the Yiddish Book Centers Wexler Oral History Project, Christa Whitney, will give a tour of the Yiddish worldfrom Lithuania to Colorado, rural Argentina to Zimbabwe, and morethrough oral history.
Thursday July 11, 2024 2:00 PM - July 11, 2024 3:00 PM Yiddish Book Center Amherst, MA
YIDSTOCK 2024 | Seth Rogovoy, Yidstock's artistic director, author of The Essential Klezmer, takes the audience on a multimedia journey through klezmer, from Old World shtetls to New World stages, providing historical context for the music yo...
TALK | What Yiddish Music Tells Us about the Yiddish Home, with Hankus Netsky
Thursday July 11, 2024 4:00 PM - July 11, 2024 5:00 PM Yiddish Book Center Amherst, MA
YIDSTOCK 2024 | Made possible by the Stanley R. Epstein Memorial Fund | Hankus Netsky, one of the leading figures of the klezmer revival and the contemporary Yiddish music scene, explores what we can learn about Jewish home life in the New World...
Friday July 12, 2024 2:00 PM - July 12, 2024 3:00 PM Yiddish Book Center Amherst, MA
YIDSTOCK 2024 | Helen and Irving Sunshine Memorial Concert | Vocalist Judy Bressler, one of the most renowned interpreters of Yiddish song in our time and pianist Hankus Netsky, founder and director of the Klezmer Conservatory Band, join forces f...
Friday July 12, 2024 5:00 PM - July 12, 2024 6:00 PM Yiddish Book Center Amherst, MA
YIDSTOCK 2024 | Levyosn is a new quartet specializing in Yiddish song and klezmer. Levyosn is vocalist/guitarist Adah Hetko, violinist/vocalist Lysander Jaffe, accordionist/vocalist Kaia Berman Peters, and cellist/vocalist Raffi Boden.
TALK | A Conversation with Adah Hetko and Kaia Berman Peters of Levyosn
Friday July 12, 2024 1:00 PM - July 12, 2024 1:45 PM Yiddish Book Center Amherst, MA
YIDSTOCK 2024 | Adah is a leading Yiddish singer-songwriter on the international Yiddish culture scene, a regular faculty/staff member at Yiddish New York and KlezKanada, and has worked for the Yiddish Book Center and YIVOs Yiddish-language progr...
Friday July 12, 2024 3:30 PM - July 12, 2024 4:15 PM Yiddish Book Center Amherst, MA
YIDSTOCK 2024 | Best known as a cofounder of the Grammy Awardwinning progressive klezmer outfit the Klezmatics, Frank Londons journey began in the horn section of the Klezmer Conservatory Band and has included work with dozens of other bands.