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.
WORKSHOP | Lomir Zingen! Yiddish Song Workshop, with Asya Vaisman Schulman
Sunday July 14, 2024 10:30 AM - July 14, 2024 11:30 AM Yiddish Book Center Amherst, MA
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.
