Yiddish New York 2024

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1:15pm EST

Lunchtime Concert: Jordan Wax

Tuesday December 24, 2024 1:15pm - 2:15pm EST

Chapel - Hebrew Union College

Jordan Wax is a multi-instrumentalist, singer, composer, and traditional musician based in New Mexico. For the past twenty-five years he has studied intergenerational music traditions with elders from a variety of cultural lineages in the Missouri Ozarks, Central Mexico, Ecuador, Northern New Mexico, and Greater Yiddishland, and directed his own collaborative ensembles in the context of Ashkenazi, Ozark, and Indo-Hispanic cultural revitalizations. Wax’s innovative compositions are rooted in his deep diasporic roots and friendships with elder musicians. Yiddish music has provided Wax with pathways to artistic continuity, vitality, and relevance which must be renewed in each generation through radical creativity and cross-cultural pollination. His music resonates with reflections on climate collapse, perpetual war, the epidemic of abuse, the moral ambiguity of social media, and the complexities of cultural resistance and objectification in late-stage Capitalism. Wax’s debut album, The Heart Deciphers, set for release in January 2025, blends the sounds of klezmer/lautari ensembles from Moldova with rock aesthetics from the American Southwest.

Speakers

Jordan Wax

Jordan Wax is a traditional musician. For the past 25 years he has worked with elders in a variety of cultural contexts to learn regional musical and linguistic dialects and to explore ways they contribute to our community today. He lives in Northern New Mexico, where he performs... Read More →

Tuesday December 24, 2024 1:15pm - 2:15pm EST
Chapel - Hebrew Union College 1 West 4th Street, New York, NY 10012

Concert (Hybrid)

9:00pm EST

Concert: Ira Khonen Temple & Friends

Tuesday December 24, 2024 9:00pm - 10:30pm EST

Chapel - Hebrew Union College

Ira Khonen Temple is a multi-instrumentalist, music director, and embedded cultural organizer living in Brooklyn, NY. Recent credits include accordionist for Fiddler on the Roof in Yiddish off Broadway, and music director of Indecent at the Weston Playhouse, Great Small Works’ Muntergang and Other Cheerful Downfalls, the Aftselakhis Spectacle Committe Purimshpil, and Zoe Beloff’s Days of the Commune. Ira was a founder of the radical-traditional Yiddish music group Tsibele. Ira creates music that is a doorway between past, present and possible futures. Working with people of diverse ages and backgrounds, Ira develops new Jewish culture that is politically fresh, relevant, and un-nostalgic while building connections between languages, communities, and time periods.

Speakers

Ira Khonen Temple

Tuesday December 24, 2024 9:00pm - 10:30pm EST
Chapel - Hebrew Union College 1 West 4th Street, New York, NY 10012

Concert (Hybrid)

Yiddish New York 2024

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