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Psoy and his Yiddish Kite: A Conversation with Psoy Korolenko
Wednesday December 25, 2024 2:30pm - 3:45pm EST
506 - Hebrew Union College
Pavel Lion, a.k.a. Psoy Korolenko, is a renowned poet-singer/songwriter, scholar, journalist, and musician. In Russia, Korolenko gained notoriety by creating a unique multilingual cabaret, combining traditions of Russian and European (especially French) popular and urban folk song, as well as Yiddish folk and theater song, with elements of rap, sound poetry, and other forms of free-style poetry. Now living in the US, Korolenko's work has turned more deeply towards Yiddish. He performs with Hamburg-based Yiddish singer/songwriter Daniel Kahn in several projects, including the Brothers Nazaroff, recorded for Smithsonian Folkways and featured in the Hungarian-made film Soul Exodus. Psoy stars in Yiddish Glory, a Grammy-nominated program led by historian Anna Shternshis, presenting anti-fascist songs and music documenting Nazi atrocities discovered in a former Soviet archive. He is also the Artistic Director of the annual JetLAG Festival, the largest music festival in the US for emigre families from the former Soviet Union. Recently, he has been teaching Jewish folklore at Dartmouth College. In this special YNY program, Korolenko will be interviewed by long-time collaborator Daniel Kahn.
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Daniel Kahn

Daniel Kahn (vocals) is a Detroit-born troubadour, translator, multi-instrumentalist, and theater artist, now harboring in Hamburg. His work crosses many borders, linguistic and otherwise.
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Psoy Korolenko

Psoy Korolenko (Pavel Lion) is a multilingual singer-songwriter, translator, journalist and scholar, currently a Visiting Lecturer at Dartmouth College, a former scholar/artist-in-residence at Trinity College (Hartford, CT), University of Michigan (Ann Arbor) and Dickinson College... Read More →
Wednesday December 25, 2024 2:30pm - 3:45pm EST
506 - Hebrew Union College 1 West 4th Street, New York, NY 10012
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