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FILM | BEYLE: The Artist and Her Legacy, with Christa Whitney
July 07, 2022 12:00 PM
YIDSTOCK 2022 | The short documentary BEYLE: The Artist and Her Legacy tells the story of artist and activist Beyle Schaechter-Gottesmans rich life through archival recordings along with newly recorded oral history interviews in both English and Yiddish with family, friends, and colleagues. |
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Yidstock 2022: The Festival of New Yiddish Music - Concert Passes
July 07, 2022 12:00 PM
YIDSTOCK 2022 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 2022. Tickets may be purchased to individual events. |
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TALK | The Essential Klezmer, with Seth Rogovoy
July 07, 2022 2:00 PM
YIDSTOCK 2022 | Seth Rogovoy, Yidstock's artistic director and the 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 years festival. |
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TALK | Hassidic Nigunim: The First 250 Years, with Hankus Netsky
July 07, 2022 4:00 PM
YIDSTOCK 2022 | The Hassidic nigun is one of Jewish cultures most unique and widely recognized forms of spiritual musical composition. We will explore the evolution of the nigun from the time of its inception to the present day through listening, singing, and discussion. |
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CONCERT | Cantor Yaakov Lemmer
July 07, 2022 8:00 PM
YIDSTOCK 2022 | Helen and Irving Sunshine Memorial Concert | Yaakov brings fresh interpretations to traditional liturgical prayers and Hasidic nigunim as well as to some more obscure Yiddish songs. |
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TALK | Demystifying the Cantorial Music of the Golden Age, with Hankus Netsky
July 08, 2022 10:00 AM
YIDSTOCK 2022 | In this lecture we will explore classic recordings of the cantorial genre and discuss what made this period of Jewish expression so unique. |
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WORKSHOP | Go Figure: Dances for Partners and Groups, with Steve Weintraub and Lauren Brody
July 08, 2022 10:00 AM
YIDSTOCK 2022 | World-renowned dance instructor Steve Weintraub presents Jewish dances with lovely and interesting figures (movement patterns), including some Jewish square dances. |
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TALK | A Conversation with Paul Shapiro
July 08, 2022 1:00 PM
YIDSTOCK 2022 | Paul explores his creative process in conversation with Seth Rogovoy. |
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CONCERT | Michael Winograd and the Honorable Mentshn - Early Bird Special Album Launch
July 08, 2022 2:00 PM
YIDSTOCK 2022 | Concert in Memory of Ruth Schwartz | Join clarinetist Michael Winograd and the Honorable Mentshn in celebrating the launch of their newest album, Early Bird Special. |
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TALK | A Conversation with Michael Winograd
July 08, 2022 4:00 PM
YIDSTOCK 2022 | Michael is often busy composing and recording music for film and TV, and he recently was the arranger for a program of Yiddish cabaret music of Helsinki, produced by Lorin Sklamberg of the Klezmatics. Michael explores his creative process in conversation with Seth Rogovoy. |
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CONCERT | Eleanor Reissa Ensemble
July 08, 2022 5:00 PM
YIDSTOCK 2022 | A longtime favorite of Yidstock audiences, Eleanor Reissa debuts a new ensemble, as she continues to reinvent the art of Yiddish cabaret. |
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WORKSHOP | New Solo Yiddish Dances, with Steve Weintraub and Lauren Brody
July 09, 2022 10:00 AM
YIDSTOCK 2022 | Inspired by restrictions imposed by concerns for safety during the Covid pandemic, world-famous dance instructor Steve Weintraub presents Jewish folk dances specifically choreographed so that dancers mostly face forward and can dance alone in their own space. |
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TALK | Coming Soon: Yiddish: A Global Culture, with Madeleine (Mindl) Cohen and David Mazower
July 09, 2022 11:00 AM
YIDSTOCK 2022 | This ambitious new core exhibit will let visitors experience the depth and breadth of Yiddish creativity in literature, theater, the press, music, and more. |
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TALK | A Conversation with Socalled
July 09, 2022 1:00 PM
YIDSTOCK 2022 | The foremost practitioner of klezmer hip-hop, Josh has worked in a myriad of styles. Socalled explores his creative process in conversation with Seth Rogovoy. |
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WORKSHOP | Instrumental Klezmer, with Brian Bender
July 09, 2022 1:00 PM
YIDSTOCK 2022 | 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 Anthony Mordechai Zvi Russell
July 09, 2022 3:00 PM
YIDSTOCK 2022 | Made possible by the Stanley R. Epstein Fund at the Yiddish Book Center | Anthony will discuss his writing, performance these and other recent developments of still being, after all these years, the black guy who sings in Yiddish, in conversation with Seth Rogovoy. |
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CONCERT | Paul Shapiro's Ribs & Brisket Plays the Music of Mrs. Maisel featuring Cilla Owens and Eleanor Reissa
July 09, 2022 8:00 PM
YIDSTOCK 2022 | Inaugural Lorraine Libby Buch Memorial Concert | This program features the 1950s repertoire that underscores The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, particularly the music of the Barry Sisters. |
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FILM | Ida Maze: The Den Mother of Yiddish Montreal & Discussion of Dineh, with Lisa Newman
July 10, 2022 10:30 AM
YIDSTOCK 2022 | Screening of Ida Maze: The Den Mother of Yiddish Montreal and discussion of <i>Dineh: An Autobiographical Novel</i> by Ida Maze, translated by Yermiyahu Aron Taub. |
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WORKSHOP | Lomir Zingen! Yiddish Song Workshop, with Asya Vaisman Schulman
July 10, 2022 10:30 AM
YIDSTOCK 2022 |At this workshop, participants will learn to sing Yiddish songs old and new, with a special focus on songs by female Yiddish poets and from womens perspectives. Instruction by the Yiddish Book Centers Asya Vaisman Schulman and music by Brian Bender. No prior knowledge of Yiddish necessary. |
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CONCERT | Socalled
July 10, 2022 12:00 PM
YIDSTOCK 2022 | Joan A. Backman Memorial Concert | Josh will sing solo at the piano and accordion in a rare, intimate, unplugged program of Yiddish and Yiddish-related music and history. |
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READING | The Letters Project: A Daughters Journey, with Eleanor Reissa
July 10, 2022 1:30 PM
YIDSTOCK 2022 | Eleanor, the daughter of Holocaust fighters, will read from her new memoir, The Letters Project: A Daughters Journey (Post Hill Press). The reading will be followed by a conversation with Seth Rogovoy and an audience Q&A. |
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CONCERT | Tsvey Brider + Baymele
July 10, 2022 3:00 PM
YIDSTOCK 2022 | For the past five years, vocalist Anthony Mordechai Tzvi Russell and accordionist Dmitri Gaskin have been entertaining audiences internationally as the duo Tsvey Brider (Two Brothers in Yiddish) performing their original and stylistically diverse settings of 20th-century Yiddish modernist poetry. |
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TALK | Conversation with Aaron Lansky and Susan Bronson
July 10, 2022 4:30 PM
YIDSTOCK 2022 | Yiddish Book Center President Aaron Lanksy and Executive Director Susan Bronson talk about center's future plans. |
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CONCERT | The Klezmatics
July 10, 2022 7:30 PM
YIDSTOCK 2022 | The Bernard and Reva Broder 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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