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CONCERT PASS | Yidstock 2024: The Festival of New Yiddish Music - Concert Passes
July 11, 2024 12:00 PM
YIDSTOCK 2024 brings the best in klezmer and new Yiddish music to the stage at the Yiddish Book Center. Concert Pass allows access to all concerts at YIDSTOCK 2024 and the two dance workshops. Tickets may be purchased to individual events. |
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FILM | Yidish in ale lender: Yiddish Around the World in Stories, with Christa Whitney
July 11, 2024 12:00 PM
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. |
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TALK | The Essential Klezmer, with Seth Rogovoy
July 11, 2024 2:00 PM
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 you will hear during this year's festival. |
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TALK | What Yiddish Music Tells Us about the Yiddish Home, with Hankus Netsky
July 11, 2024 4:00 PM
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 by looking at the Jewish music of the immigrant era. |
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CONCERT | The Klezmatics
July 11, 2024 7:30 PM
YIDSTOCK 2024 | The Ruth Woolfe Memorial Concert | Blending instrumental and vocal virtuosity and experimentation with theatricality firmly rooted in klezmer and Yiddish tradition, the Klezmatics brought the revival of klezmer into the rock era. |
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LIVESTREAM CONCERT PASS | Yidstock 2024: The Festival of New Yiddish Music
July 11, 2024 7:30 PM
Yidstock 2024 Livestream | Immerse yourself in Yidstock: The Festival of New Yiddish Music from the comfort of your own home through our exclusive livestream. |
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TALK | The Writers behind the Great Yiddish Songs, with Hankus Netsky
July 12, 2024 10:00 AM
YIDSTOCK 2024 | The great Yiddish writers and poets of the 19th and early 20th century were also some of the greatest songwriters of their time. |
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WORKSHOP | Sher the Joy: Yiddish Social Dances with Asya Vaisman Schulman and Brian Bender
July 12, 2024 10:30 AM
YIDSTOCK 2024 | Dance workshop with Asya Vaisman Schulman with musical accompaniment by Brian Bender. |
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TALK | A Conversation with Adah Hetko and Kaia Berman Peters of Levyosn
July 12, 2024 1:00 PM
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 programs. Kaia Chaia Berman Peters is a vocalist and accordionist who has studied klezmer with Hankus Netsky, Alan Bern, and Jeff Warschauer. |
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CONCERT | Judy Bressler and Hankus Netsky
July 12, 2024 2:00 PM
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 for a cabaret-style preformance of Yiddish folk and theater songs. |
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CONCERT | Levyosn
July 12, 2024 5:00 PM
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. |
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WORKSHOP | Kumt Un Tantst Tsuzamen! (Come and Dance Together!), with Judy Bressler and Brian Bender
July 13, 2024 10:30 AM
YIDSTOCK 2024 | Dance workshop with Judy Bressler with musical accompaniment by Brian Bender. |
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TALK | Curating Yiddish Culture, with David Mazower
July 13, 2024 11:00 AM
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. |
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TALK | A Conversation with Basya Schechter and Avi Fox-Rosen
July 13, 2024 1:00 PM
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. The duo will explore the genesis of the project in conversation with Seth Rogovoy. |
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WORKSHOP | Instrumental Klezmer, with Brian Bender
July 13, 2024 1:00 PM
YIDSTOCK 2024 | An instrumental workshop for aspiring klezmer musicians, taught by trombonist/keyboardist Brian Bender of the Yiddishkeit Klezmer Ensemble, Little Shop of Horas, and the Wholesale Klezmer Band. |
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TALK | A Conversation with Daniel Kahn
July 13, 2024 3:00 PM
YIDSTOCK 2024 | Detroit-born, Hamburg-based singer/songwriter, polyglot poet, translator, and activist Daniel Kahn concocts furious, tender, electrifying, and revolutionary alienation klezmer. |
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CONCERT | Socalled's Gephilte
July 13, 2024 8:00 PM
YIDSTOCK 2024 | The Joan A. Backman Memorial Concert | Gephilte, a jam-band experiment in Yiddish funk, is the latest boundary-busting project from renowned Canadian Yiddish hip-hop provocateur Josh Dolgin aka Socalled |
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WORKSHOP | Lomir Zingen! Yiddish Song Workshop, with Asya Vaisman Schulman
July 14, 2024 10:30 AM
YIDSTOCK 2024 | From familiar tunes to hidden gems, well learn to sing a few Yiddish songs with a special focus on perfecting pronunciation and capturing the rhythms of a Yiddish sentence. |
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CONCERT | Daniel Kahn & Jake Shulman-ment featuring Richie Barshay
July 14, 2024 12:00 PM
YIDSTOCK 2024 | The Lorraine "Libby" Buch Memorial Concert | Detroit-born, Hamburg-based troubadour and multi-instrumentalist Daniel Kahn, New Yorker master fiddler Jake Shulman-Ment, and legendary klezmer percussionist Richie Barshay bring to life an intimate and powerful program ranges from original polyglot ballads, radical treatments of modern Yiddish songs from Gebirtig to Schaechter-Gottesman to new Yiddish translations of lyricists such as Dylan, Cohen, Brecht, Springsteen, Guthrie, Waits, and more. |
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TALK | A Conversation with Judy Bressler
July 14, 2024 1:30 PM
YIDSTOCK 2024 | Judy will explore her long career in Yiddish music with Seth Rogovoy. |
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CONCERT | Basya Schechter and Avi Fox-Rosen [Present Itsik Manger's Khumesh Lider]
July 14, 2024 3:00 PM
YIDSTOCK 2024 | The Bernard and Reva Broder Memorial Concert | Basya Schechter and Avi Fox-Rosen are joined by Yoshie Fruchter on bass, guitar, and voice; Eleonore Weill on flutes and voice; Shai Wetzer on percussion; and Kaia Berman Peters on accordion, voice, and electronics to set tragicomic retellings of Bible stories to original music. |
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TALK | Conversation with Aaron Lansky and Susan Bronson
July 14, 2024 4:30 PM
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. |
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CONCERT | Eleanor Reissa and the Klezmer Brass Allstars
July 14, 2024 7:30 PM
YIDSTOCK 2024 | The Sarah Rose Lazarus Family Concert | The soulful and inimitable Yiddish vocalist Eleanor Reissa will explore the world of Yiddish song, fueled by the best brass band in the land. |
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YIDSTOCK 2024 will bring the best in klezmer and new Yiddish music to the stage at the Yiddish Book Center in Amherst, Massachusetts. 
