Welcome to Yiddish New York 2024
December 21-26
IN-PERSON and ONLINE (on Zoom)
> Daytime Educational & Arts Workshops for All Ages
> Evening Festival of Yiddish Performing Arts
> YNY Visual Arts Exhibition
> YNY Yiddish Film Festival
> An Inclusive Community Working to Advance Contemporary Yiddish Culture, Scholarship & Activism
Festival Locations (in Manhattan!):
> Saturday Night Dec 21: The 14th Street Y (344 E 14th Street between 1st & 2nd Avenues) will host the YNY Opening Night Tantshoyz Dance Party & a special film program.
> Sunday December 22-Thursday December 26: Daytime workshops, evening concerts/films & visual arts exhibition at Hebrew Union College (1 West 4th Street, by NYU & Washington Square Park).
YNY 2024 Curators/Organizers: Aaron Bendich, Edy Borger, Nicole Borger, Joanne Borts, Sarah Gordon, Esther Gottesman, Itzik Gottesman, Aani Kisslinger, Jeyn Levison, Sarah Myerson, Ethel Raim, Pete Rushefsky, Uri Schreter, Ilya Shneyveys, Eve Sicular, Deborah Strauss, Judy Sweet, Josh Waletzky YNY Coordinator: Clara Byom
Supporters:
We are grateful for the support of the Marinus and Minna B. Koster Foundation, the Atran Foundation, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, the Covenant Foundation, the Howard Gilman Foundation, the Samuels Foundation, Con Edison, the Zayde-Bub Fund of The Pittsburgh Foundation, the Adrienne Cooper Fund for Dreaming in Yiddish, the Yiddish Artists & Friends– Actors Club, Nicolette Beck, Nan Bases, Frances & Mitchell Harris, Ellie Schweber, Nicola Bird, Seth Weisberg and family.
Partner Organizations: The Center for Traditional Music and Dance (fiscal sponsor), The Museum of Jewish Heritage, The Workers Circle, The 14th Street Y, The Forward, The Center for Jewish History, The Sholem Aleichem Cultural Center, The American Society for Jewish Music, The 14th St Y, The Museum At Eldridge Street, The National Museum of American Jewish History, The New York Klezmer Series, The Town and Village Synagogue, The YIVO Institute for Jewish Research, The Stanton Street Shul, The Workers Circle, The Forward Newspapers, The National Yiddish Theatre Folksbiene, The Yiddish Book Center, The League for Yiddish, Yiddishkayt, Klezmer Institute, The New York Jewish Guide, The Yiddish Arts and Academics Association of North America (YAAANA), JewishWorldLife.com, New York State Council on the Arts, The New York Jewish Parenting Guide, and Austrian Cultural Forum New York. International partners: Institut Européen des Musiques Juives (Paris), Instituto da Musica Judaica Brasil, KlezKanada (Quebec), The Ashkenaz Festival (Toronto)).
We are grateful to photographers Bob Blacksberg, Shendl Copitman, David Kaufman, William Meyers and Lloyd Wolf for the use of their images.
