Yiddish New York 2024

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9:30am EST

Lecture: Finding Home in Yiddishland - Talk and Discussion

Sunday December 22, 2024 9:30am - 10:45am EST

507 - Hebrew Union College

The term "Yiddishland” is often used to describe the people, projects, and events that make up the contemporary Yiddish cultural scene. In this session, we will explore the different ways that “Yiddishland” has been understood throughout the past century and discuss how we imagine and describe the contemporary Yiddish cultural scene. Is it a nation? A lost homeland? A cultural space? Together we will consider what makes Yiddish a home to so many of us and how the idea of Yiddishland can hold space for diverse expressions of cultural identity while activating networks of solidarity and support.

Speakers

Avia Moore

Avia Moore is the Artistic Director of KlezKanada and has worked extensively as a creative producer with festivals and cultural organizations across North America as well as on individual artistic projects in North America and Europe. Avia holds a PhD in Theatre, Dance, and Performance... Read More →

Sunday December 22, 2024 9:30am - 10:45am EST
507 - Hebrew Union College 1 West 4th Street, New York, NY 10012

Lecture (Hybrid)

9:30am EST

Lecture: Yiddish Screen Confidential - "Secret" Backstories of the Zilberne Kino

Sunday December 22, 2024 9:30am - 10:45am EST

506 - Hebrew Union College

Explore little-known revelations surrounding a range of golden-age Yiddish movies and far beyond, featuring a fascinating array of cultural, scientific and political dimensions reflected and refracted onscreen. The origins of "Yidl mitn fidl" correspond not only to Molly Picon's earlier drag roles, but also to a mainstream Central European movie musical of the Weimar era. A lullaby sung (with his own lyrics) by Moishe Oysher was composed to melodically conflate with a 19th-century Polish opera aria. A dialect comedy song quotes Marxist credo in the charming character part played by a star of 2nd Avenue theater. Intriguing new perspectives for films both famous and obscure also focus on little-known production history and censorship sagas, from New York theater union makhers and mishpokhe, to Soviet censorship and post-Stalinist studio thaws.

Speakers

Eve Sicular

Cinema historian/klezmer bandleader Eve Sicular (film) has written and lectured widely on Yiddish and early Russian filmmaking, including The Yiddish Celluloid Closet; Edgar Ulmer’s Canon of Cinema Contagion; her Harvard thesis on pioneering Soviet compilation director... Read More →

Sunday December 22, 2024 9:30am - 10:45am EST
506 - Hebrew Union College 1 West 4th Street, New York, NY 10012

Lecture (Hybrid), Film

11:15am EST

Lecture TBA

Sunday December 22, 2024 11:15am - 12:30pm EST

506 - Hebrew Union College

Sunday December 22, 2024 11:15am - 12:30pm EST
506 - Hebrew Union College 1 West 4th Street, New York, NY 10012

Lecture (Hybrid)

11:15am EST

Lecture: Infinite Fiddlers - Fiddler on the Roof on Vinyl

Sunday December 22, 2024 11:15am - 12:30pm EST

507 - Hebrew Union College

Fiddler on the Roof is the 20th century’s defining piece of Jewish popular culture for the Jewish and non-Jewish masses worldwide. This international phenomenon spawned untold and uncountable productions, adaptations, translations, parodies and record releases. Join me for a discussion of how a Chagall painting and a Sholem Aleichem story turned into a Broadway musical with an iconic poster, which in turn became hundreds of similar looking album covers. Together we’ll appraise some of these infinite fiddlers on vinyl, from the iconic to the absurd.

Speakers

Aaron Bendich

Aaron Bendich is the founder of Borscht Beat, a Yiddish music cultural organization that operates as a record label, radio show, music archive, social media brand and concert booking and promotion agency. This will be his second year curating the Yiddish New York concert program... Read More →

Sunday December 22, 2024 11:15am - 12:30pm EST
507 - Hebrew Union College 1 West 4th Street, New York, NY 10012

Lecture (Hybrid), Vocal

2:30pm EST

A History of Modern Yiddish Culture Through 25 Objects

Sunday December 22, 2024 2:30pm - 3:45pm EST

506 - Hebrew Union College

As an avid zamler of just about everything Yiddish I have amassed a large collection of objects related to the language and culture, from buttons to stationary to posters to pamphlets. A hundred years of Yiddish history in 45 minutes!

Speakers

Itzik Gottesman

Itzik Gottesman, Ph.D.** (folklore, literature) – Internationally recognized as a leading scholar and activist for Yiddish language and culture, Gottesman currently teaches at University of Texas-Austin. He was previously managing editor of the Yiddish Forverts and authored the... Read More →

Sunday December 22, 2024 2:30pm - 3:45pm EST
506 - Hebrew Union College 1 West 4th Street, New York, NY 10012

Lecture (Hybrid)

4:15pm EST

Lecture TBA

Sunday December 22, 2024 4:15pm - 5:30pm EST

506 - Hebrew Union College

Sunday December 22, 2024 4:15pm - 5:30pm EST
506 - Hebrew Union College 1 West 4th Street, New York, NY 10012

Lecture (Hybrid)

4:15pm EST

Lecture TBA (MA)

Sunday December 22, 2024 4:15pm - 5:30pm EST

507 - Hebrew Union College

Sunday December 22, 2024 4:15pm - 5:30pm EST
507 - Hebrew Union College 1 West 4th Street, New York, NY 10012

Lecture (Hybrid)

4:15pm EST

Lecture: Parshe [Parashah] Poetry / דאָס געזאַנג פֿון דער סדרה *IN YIDDISH*

Sunday December 22, 2024 4:15pm - 5:30pm EST

503 - Hebrew Union College

Even though Modern Yiddish poetry is generally thought of as a poetry created by heretics, atheists and agnostics, the khumesh remains a powerful force in their writings. This year Sheva Zucker undertook to create a blog that offers one or several poems linked to the parshe [weekly Toyre reading]. Sometimes it was the poet’s intent to create a medresh, an interpretation, on the Toyre portion, at other times, the parshe will illuminate the poem. In this class we shall look at a number of poems linked to Breyshis/Genesis by poets such as Malke Heifetz-Tussman, Rokhl Korn, Itsik Manger, Kadye Molodowsky, Avrom Sutzkever, Reyzl Zhikhlinski and others. The texts will be provided in both Yiddish and English.

In this session, the instructor will speak Yiddish and the participants can express themselves in either Yiddish or English.

Speakers

Sheva Zucker

Sheva Zucker was the executive director of the League for Yiddish and the editor of its magazine Afn Shvel from 2005-2020. She has taught and lectured on Yiddish language, literature and culture on five continents andhas taught Yiddish for over two decades in the Uriel Weinreich Program... Read More →

Sunday December 22, 2024 4:15pm - 5:30pm EST
503 - Hebrew Union College 1 West 4th Street, New York, NY 10012

Lecture (Hybrid), In Yiddish

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