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...
Saturday July 13, 2024 8:00 PM - July 13, 2024 9:30 PM Yiddish Book Center Amherst, MA
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
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 | 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.
WORKSHOP | Instrumental Klezmer, with Brian Bender
Saturday July 13, 2024 1:00 PM - July 13, 2024 3:00 PM Yiddish Book Center Amherst, MA
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.
CONCERT | Basya Schechter and Avi Fox-Rosen [Present Itsik Manger's Khumesh Lider]
Sunday July 14, 2024 3:00 PM - July 14, 2024 4:00 PM Yiddish Book Center Amherst, MA
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...
CONCERT | Daniel Kahn & Jake Shulman-ment featuring Richie Barshay
Sunday July 14, 2024 12:00 PM - July 14, 2024 1:00 PM Yiddish Book Center Amherst, MA
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 b...
CONCERT | Eleanor Reissa and the Klezmer Brass Allstars
Sunday July 14, 2024 7:30 PM - July 14, 2024 8:45 PM Yiddish Book Center Amherst, MA
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.
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.