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Lecture: Yente Telebende - The Bad Girl of the Yiddish World
Tuesday December 24, 2024 11:15am - 12:30pm EST
507 - Hebrew Union College
Of all the words which have migrated from Yiddish to English, none have the colorful backstory of a fictional woman whose name has come to mean “gossip” but who first found fame in 1913 as a woman who stood up for herself and gave as good as she got.

The whirlwind tour of the massively popular “Yente Telebende” will reveal her brilliant prolific creator. B. Kovner and his one thousand Yente Telebende feuilletons in the pages of the Forward, the numerous stage shows which were among the biggest hits in the history of the Yiddish theater and nearly 100 commercial 78 rpm records issued over nearly half a century all of which bring the presence and power of Yente Telebende back to life. Result? Yente, was no yente.
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Henry Sapoznik

Henry Sapoznik (history) is an award winning record and radio producer, author, ethnomusicologist in the fields of Yiddish and American popular and traditional culture. Sapoznik, a native Yiddish speaker and child of Holocaust survivors, helped jump-start the klezmer “revival... Read More →
Tuesday December 24, 2024 11:15am - 12:30pm EST
507 - Hebrew Union College 1 West 4th Street, New York, NY 10012
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