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...
TALK | A Conversation with Basya Schechter and Avi Fox-Rosen
Saturday July 13, 2024 1:00 PM - July 13, 2024 1:45 PM Yiddish Book Center Amherst, MA
YIDSTOCK 2024 | The two have been collaborating on musical settings for 20th-century Eastern European Yiddish poet Itzik Mangers collection of khumesh lider, tragicomic retellings of Bible stories, which they will feature in concert on Sunday. Th...
TALK | Conversation with Aaron Lansky and Susan Bronson
Sunday July 14, 2024 4:30 PM - July 14, 2024 5:30 PM Yiddish Book Center Amherst, MA
YIDSTOCK 2024 | Yiddish Book Center Founder and President Aaron Lansky and Executive Director Susan Bronson provide an update and share exciting news about the Yiddish Book Centers future plans.
TALK | Curating Yiddish Culture, with David Mazower
Saturday July 13, 2024 11:00 AM - July 14, 2024 12:00 AM Yiddish Book Center Amherst, MA
YIDSTOCK 2024 | David Mazower, the Yiddish Book Centers research bibliographer, is the chief curator and writer of our acclaimed core exhibition, Yiddish: A Global Culture.
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...
