Yiddish New York 2024

Yiddish New York 2024

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5:30pm EST

Film: Jewish Luck with World Premiere Live Score 14th St Y TheaterLori Goldston • Ilya Shneyveys • J. Hoberman • Yelena Shmulenson • Eve Sicular

8:00pm EST

Tantshoyz Opening Night Dance Party! 14th St Y StudioIlya Shneyveys • Sarah Myerson

9:30am EST

Dance Movement Warm-Up: Klezmer Mirroring CL1 - Hebrew Union CollegeJudy Sweet Shpilt Tsuzamen! Play Together! Plenary Session CL3 - Hebrew Union CollegeMichael Winograd • Deborah Strauss Learn a Tune a Day by Ear! ZoomAbigale Reisman Lecture: Finding Home in Yiddishland - Talk and Discussion 507 - Hebrew Union CollegeAvia Moore Lecture: Yiddish Screen Confidential - "Secret" Backstories of the Zilberne Kino 506 - Hebrew Union CollegeEve Sicular Lider-shmideray / Songsmiths Workshop 501 - Hebrew Union CollegeAdah Hetko • Daniel Kahn • Josh Waletzky Singing Yiddish: Owning the “nnn,” and the “rrr” 527 - Hebrew Union CollegePaula Teitelbaum Beginning Yiddish 503 - Hebrew Union CollegeAsya Vaisman Schulman The Lullaby of Second Avenue: Yiddish Urban Theatre Workshop 525 - Hebrew Union CollegeMikhl Yashinsky Klezmer Jam CL LoungePete Rushefsky TeensRaya Ferholt-Wirz • Jenny Romaine • Ozzy Gold-Shapiro YNY Kids! 511 - Hebrew Union CollegeEsther Gottesman

11:15am EST

Advanced Style Dance Class CL1 - Hebrew Union CollegeDeborah Strauss Melody Class: Things You Blow CL7 - Hebrew Union CollegeAlex Parke Melody Class: Things You Bow 501 - Hebrew Union CollegeJake Shulman-Ment Plucked Strings: Guitar 509 - Hebrew Union CollegeJeff Warschauer Rhythm & Accompaniment: AKA Not The Melody CL3 - Hebrew Union CollegeIlya Shneyveys What To Do With Your Three Time ZoomAlan Bern Lecture TBA 506 - Hebrew Union College Lecture: Infinite Fiddlers - Fiddler on the Roof on Vinyl 507 - Hebrew Union CollegeAaron Bendich Jewish Papercuts 508 - Hebrew Union CollegeDeborah Ugoretz The Yiddish Songwriter's Friend 527 - Hebrew Union CollegeJosh Waletzky Intermediate Yiddish: In der velt fun Sholem Aleykhem’s lebn un shafn / In the World of Sholem Aleichem’s Life and Creativity 503 - Hebrew Union CollegeKolya Borodulin Low-Schmaltz Yiddish Theatre Song Therapy 525 - Hebrew Union CollegeJoanne Borts • Daniel Kahn

1:15pm EST

Lunchtime Concert: Khane K & The North Kingdom Klezmer Consort Chapel - Hebrew Union CollegeKhane K & The North Kingdom Klezmer Consort

2:30pm EST

Dance Repertoire Class CL1 - Hebrew Union CollegeAsya Vaisman Schulman Belf's Ensemble CL3 - Hebrew Union CollegeZilyin Fidl Kapelye 525 - Hebrew Union CollegeZoë Aqua Kleztronica CL7 - Hebrew Union CollegeKaia Berman-Peters Reading JamAaron Alexander Transcription and Layered Listening ZoomJosh Horowitz A History of Modern Yiddish Culture Through 25 Objects 506 - Hebrew Union CollegeItzik Gottesman Social Justice: There, Where We Live, That is Our Country – History & Ongoing Life of the Jewish Labour Bund 507 - Hebrew Union CollegeMolly Crabapple • Jeyn Levison The Nuances of Unaccompanied Yiddish Singing 501 - Hebrew Union CollegeSarah Myerson • Ethel Raim Zingt fun tifn hartsn! - Sing from the bottom of your heart! 527 - Hebrew Union CollegeDerek David Advanced Yiddish 503 - Hebrew Union CollegeMiriam Isaacs

4:15pm EST

Newly Choreographed Yiddish Dances CL1 - Hebrew Union CollegeSarah Myerson • Asya Vaisman Schulman Big Ensemble CL3 - Hebrew Union CollegeJordan Hirsch Join the YNY Jam! CL7 - Hebrew Union CollegeIlana Cravitz KlezPainting 526 - Hebrew Union CollegeSam Day Harmet • Ilya Shneyveys Quiet & Singing Ensemble 525 - Hebrew Union CollegeLauren Brody • Eleonore Weill Play Along Across the World! ZoomAdrian Banner • Amy Zakar Klezmer Komposition Workshop/Family Band 527 - Hebrew Union CollegeJudy Sweet Lecture TBA 506 - Hebrew Union College Lecture TBA (MA) 507 - Hebrew Union College Lecture: Parshe [Parashah] Poetry / דאָס געזאַנג פֿון דער סדרה *IN YIDDISH* 503 - Hebrew Union CollegeSheva Zucker Yiddish Songs to Go! 501 - Hebrew Union CollegeAdah Hetko

5:30pm EST

YNY Schmooze ZoomNicole Borger • Edy Borger

7:00pm EST

Concert: A Tribute to Pepi Littman: Music-Drama-Drag Chapel - Hebrew Union CollegeSarah Gordon • Zoë Aqua • Mikhl Yashinsky • Uri Schreter • Miryem-Khaye Seigel • Caraid O'Brien • Kirsten Lamb

9:00pm EST

Film: Jewish Luck with WORLD PREMIERE Live Score Chapel - Hebrew Union CollegeLori Goldston • Ilya Shneyveys

9:30am EST

Dance Movement Warm-Up: Alexander Technique CL1 - Hebrew Union CollegeRichie Barshay Shpilt Tsuzamen! Play Together! Plenary Session CL3 - Hebrew Union CollegeAlicia Svigals • Deborah Strauss Learn a Tune a Day by Ear! ZoomAbigale Reisman Lecture: Habokher Hazetser - Tales of Yiddish Printing Novices Past and Present 507 - Hebrew Union CollegeCaleb Sher Lecture: Yiddishland Cultural Producers Mutual Aid Society 506 - Hebrew Union CollegeAvia Moore Lider-shmideray / Songsmiths Workshop 501 - Hebrew Union CollegeAdah Hetko • Daniel Kahn • Josh Waletzky Singing Yiddish: Owning the “nnn,” and the “rrr” 527 - Hebrew Union CollegePaula Teitelbaum Beginning Yiddish 503 - Hebrew Union CollegeAsya Vaisman Schulman The Lullaby of Second Avenue: Yiddish Urban Theatre Workshop 525 - Hebrew Union CollegeMikhl Yashinsky Klezmer Jam CL LoungePete Rushefsky TeensRaya Ferholt-Wirz • Ozzy Gold-Shapiro • Jenny Romaine YNY Kids! 511 - Hebrew Union CollegeEsther Gottesman

11:15am EST

Advanced Style Dance Class CL1 - Hebrew Union CollegeMichael Alpert Melody Class: Things You Blow CL7 - Hebrew Union CollegeMichael Winograd Melody Class: Things You Bow 501 - Hebrew Union CollegeAlicia Svigals Plucked Strings: Guitar 509 - Hebrew Union CollegeJeff Warschauer Rhythm & Accompaniment: AKA Not The Melody CL3 - Hebrew Union CollegeDan Blacksberg What To Do With Your Three Time ZoomAlan Bern Lecture: A Saint Against the State? The Contemporary Revival of a Jewish Miracle Worker 506 - Hebrew Union CollegeSam Shuman Lecture: Jews in the Groove - The Great Mid-Century Jewish Record Labels 507 - Hebrew Union CollegeAaron Bendich Jewish Papercuts 508 - Hebrew Union CollegeDeborah Ugoretz The Yiddish Songwriter's Friend 527 - Hebrew Union CollegeJosh Waletzky Intermediate Yiddish: In der velt fun Sholem Aleykhem’s lebn un shafn / In the World of Sholem Aleichem’s Life and Creativity 503 - Hebrew Union CollegeKolya Borodulin Low-Schmaltz Yiddish Theatre Song Therapy 525 - Hebrew Union CollegeJoanne Borts • Daniel Kahn

1:15pm EST

Lunchtime Concert: Shterna and the Lost Voice Chapel - Hebrew Union CollegeThe Magid Ensemble

2:30pm EST

Dance Repertoire Class CL1 - Hebrew Union CollegeJudy Sweet Belf's Ensemble CL3 - Hebrew Union CollegeZilyin Fidl Kapelye 525 - Hebrew Union CollegeZoë Aqua Kleztronica CL7 - Hebrew Union CollegeKaia Berman-Peters Reading JamAaron Alexander Transcription and Layered Listening ZoomJosh Horowitz Lecture: Edith Segal - My First Dancing Teacher 506 - Hebrew Union CollegeAlixe Dancer Social Justice: There, Where We Live, That is Our Country – History & Ongoing Life of the Jewish Labour Bund 507 - Hebrew Union CollegeJosh Waletzky • Jeyn Levison The Nuances of Unaccompanied Yiddish Singing 501 - Hebrew Union CollegeSarah Myerson • Ethel Raim Zingt fun tifn hartsn! - Sing from the bottom of your heart! 527 - Hebrew Union CollegeDerek David Advanced Yiddish 503 - Hebrew Union CollegeMiriam Isaacs

4:15pm EST

Newly Choreographed Yiddish Dances CL1 - Hebrew Union CollegeSarah Myerson • Asya Vaisman Schulman Big Ensemble CL3 - Hebrew Union CollegeJordan Hirsch Join the YNY Jam! CL7 - Hebrew Union CollegeIlana Cravitz KlezPainting 526 - Hebrew Union CollegeIlya Shneyveys • Sam Day Harmet Quiet & Singing Ensemble 525 - Hebrew Union CollegeLauren Brody • Eleonore Weill Play Along Across the World! ZoomAmy Zakar • Adrian Banner Klezmer Komposition Workshop/Family Band 527 - Hebrew Union CollegeJudy Sweet Lecture TBA (MA) 507 - Hebrew Union College Lecture: Khanike minhogim funem shtetl / Hanukkah Customs of the Shtetl 503 - Hebrew Union CollegeItzik Gottesman Lecture: Yiddish to the Core - Wedding Music and Jewish Identity in Postwar New York City 506 - Hebrew Union CollegeUri Schreter Yiddish Songs to Go! 501 - Hebrew Union CollegeJosh Waletzky

5:30pm EST

YNY Schmooze ZoomNicole Borger • Edy Borger

7:00pm EST

Concert: Alicia Svigals - Fidl Afire Chapel - Hebrew Union CollegeAlicia Svigals

9:00pm EST

Film: The Plot Against Harry Chapel - Hebrew Union CollegeEve Sicular • Allen Lewis Rickman • Bruce Goldstein

9:30am EST

Dance Movement Warm-Up: Embodied Resilience CL1 - Hebrew Union CollegeTracy Einstein Shpilt Tsuzamen! Play Together! Plenary Session CL3 - Hebrew Union CollegeMargot Leverett • Deborah Strauss Learn a Tune a Day by Ear! ZoomAbigale Reisman Lecture: The Yiddish Memories of Bryna Bercovitch, Writer and Radical Revolutionary 506 - Hebrew Union CollegeSossy Weinman Lecture: Transylvanian Folk Music Ethnography in Cluj, Romania 507 - Hebrew Union CollegeZoë Aqua Lider-shmideray / Songsmiths Workshop 501 - Hebrew Union CollegeAdah Hetko • Daniel Kahn • Josh Waletzky Singing Yiddish: Owning the “nnn,” and the “rrr” 527 - Hebrew Union CollegePaula Teitelbaum Beginning Yiddish 503 - Hebrew Union CollegeAsya Vaisman Schulman The Lullaby of Second Avenue: Yiddish Urban Theatre Workshop 525 - Hebrew Union CollegeMikhl Yashinsky Klezmer Jam CL LoungePete Rushefsky TeensRaya Ferholt-Wirz • Ozzy Gold-Shapiro • Jenny Romaine YNY Kids! 511 - Hebrew Union CollegeEsther Gottesman

11:15am EST

Advanced Style Dance Class CL1 - Hebrew Union CollegeWalter Zev Feldman Melody Class: Things You Blow CL7 - Hebrew Union CollegeMargot Leverett Melody Class: Things You Bow 501 - Hebrew Union CollegeDeborah Strauss Plucked Strings: Mandolin 509 - Hebrew Union CollegeDan Kunda-Thagard • Jeff Warschauer Rhythm & Accompaniment: AKA Not The Melody CL3 - Hebrew Union CollegeRichie Barshay What To Do With Your Three Time ZoomAlan Bern Lecture TBA 506 - Hebrew Union College Lecture: Yente Telebende - The Bad Girl of the Yiddish World 507 - Hebrew Union CollegeHenry Sapoznik Jewish Papercuts 508 - Hebrew Union CollegeDeborah Ugoretz The Yiddish Songwriter's Friend 527 - Hebrew Union CollegeJosh Waletzky Intermediate: In der velt fun Sholem Aleykhem’s lebn un shafn / In the World of Sholem Aleichem’s Life and Creativity 503 - Hebrew Union CollegeKolya Borodulin Low-Schmaltz Yiddish Theatre Song Therapy 525 - Hebrew Union CollegeJoanne Borts • Daniel Kahn

1:15pm EST

Lunchtime Concert: Jordan Wax Chapel - Hebrew Union CollegeJordan Wax

2:30pm EST

Dance Repertoire Class CL1 - Hebrew Union CollegeJill Gellerman Belf's Ensemble CL3 - Hebrew Union CollegeZilyin Fidl Kapelye 525 - Hebrew Union CollegeZoë Aqua Kleztronica CL7 - Hebrew Union CollegeKaia Berman-Peters Reading JamAaron Alexander Working with Historical Recordings: Listening and Transcribing ZoomJoel Rubin Lecture: Der Mizrekh-Yiddish Writers Narrate the Arab 506 - Hebrew Union CollegeEyshe Beirich Social Justice: There, Where We Live, That is Our Country – History & Ongoing Life of the Jewish Labour Bund 507 - Hebrew Union CollegeDvora Zylberman • Strawberry Leaf • Maddan • Jeyn Levison The Nuances of Unaccompanied Yiddish Singing 501 - Hebrew Union CollegeSarah Myerson • Ethel Raim Zingt fun tifn hartsn! - Sing from the bottom of your heart! 527 - Hebrew Union CollegeDerek David Advanced Yiddish 503 - Hebrew Union CollegeMiriam Isaacs

4:15pm EST

Newly Choreographed Yiddish Dances CL1 - Hebrew Union CollegeSarah Myerson • Asya Vaisman Schulman Big Ensemble CL3 - Hebrew Union CollegeJordan Hirsch Join the YNY Jam! CL7 - Hebrew Union CollegeIlana Cravitz KlezPainting 526 - Hebrew Union CollegeSam Day Harmet • Ilya Shneyveys Quiet & Singing Ensemble 525 - Hebrew Union CollegeLauren Brody • Eleonore Weill Play Along Across the World! ZoomSruli Dresdner • Lisa Mayer Klezmer Komposition Workshop/Family Band 527 - Hebrew Union CollegeJudy Sweet Lecture: Der grester Khurbn - Knowledge of the Holocaust in the Americas during the War Period 507 - Hebrew Union CollegeTamara Gleason Friedberg Lecture: Lid, shir, poezye un gramen af yidish bay hayntike khsidim: leynkrayz mit diskusye / Contemporary Yiddish Hasidic Poetry, from Verse to Verse *IN YIDDISH* 503 - Hebrew Union CollegeZackary Sholem Berger “A grus fun der heym”: Yiddish Radio from Postwar Poland 506 - Hebrew Union CollegeAnna Rozenfeld Yiddish Song To Go! 501 - Hebrew Union CollegeDaniel Kahn

5:30pm EST

YNY Schmooze ZoomNicole Borger • Edy Borger

7:00pm EST

Film: Hester Street Chapel - Hebrew Union CollegeRukhl Schaechter • Eve Sicular

9:00pm EST

Concert: Ira Khonen Temple & Friends Chapel - Hebrew Union CollegeIra Khonen Temple

9:30am EST

Dance Movement Warm-Up: Klezmer Mirroring CL1 - Hebrew Union CollegeJudy Sweet Shpilt Tsuzamen! Play Together! Plenary Session CL3 - Hebrew Union CollegeZilyin • Deborah Strauss Learn a Tune a Day by Ear! ZoomAbigale Reisman Lecture: Arbeter Froyen and Antifascism - Jewish Women Workers and Internationalism in the 1930s 507 - Hebrew Union CollegeJennifer Young Lecture: Sofia Magid’s Collection - The Missing Link in Eastern European Jewish Music 506 - Hebrew Union CollegeZisl Slepovitch Lider-shmideray / Songsmiths Workshop 501 - Hebrew Union CollegeAdah Hetko • Daniel Kahn • Josh Waletzky Singing Yiddish: Owning the “nnn,” and the “rrr” 527 - Hebrew Union CollegePaula Teitelbaum Beginning Yiddish 503 - Hebrew Union CollegeAsya Vaisman Schulman The Lullaby of Second Avenue: Yiddish Urban Theatre Workshop 525 - Hebrew Union CollegeMikhl Yashinsky Klezmer Jam CL LoungePete Rushefsky TeensRaya Ferholt-Wirz • Ozzy Gold-Shapiro • Jenny Romaine YNY Kids! 511 - Hebrew Union CollegeEsther Gottesman

11:15am EST

Playing for Dancing and Dancing for Playing CL1 - Hebrew Union CollegeIlya Shneyveys • Sarah Myerson Deep Harmony (Advanced) 501 - Hebrew Union CollegeMarilyn Lerner Goldenshteyn Repertoire CL7 - Hebrew Union CollegeZilyin • Jeff Warschauer Jewish Instrumental Tunes from Sofia Magid’s Expeditions to Belarus and Ukraine (1928–1938) CL3 - Hebrew Union CollegeZisl Slepovitch Major Tunes 526 - Hebrew Union CollegeDan Kunda-Thagard What To Do With Your Three Time ZoomAlan Bern Lecture: Banjew - A Century of the Banjo in Klezmer Music 507 - Hebrew Union CollegeHenry Sapoznik Lecture: “Shelter Books” - Yiddish and Ukrainian Children’s Literature in Times of Violence 506 - Hebrew Union CollegeEmily Finer • Miriam Udel The Yiddish Songwriter's Friend 527 - Hebrew Union CollegeJosh Waletzky Intermediate Yiddish: In der velt fun Sholem Aleykhem’s lebn un shafn / In the World of Sholem Aleichem’s Life and Creativity 503 - Hebrew Union CollegeKolya Borodulin Low-Schmaltz Yiddish Theatre Song Therapy 525 - Hebrew Union CollegeDaniel Kahn • Joanne Borts

1:15pm EST

Lunchtime Concert: Riki Rose Chapel - Hebrew Union CollegeRiki Rose

2:30pm EST

Dance Repertoire Class CL1 - Hebrew Union CollegeWalter Zev Feldman Belf's Ensemble CL3 - Hebrew Union CollegeZilyin Fidl Kapelye 525 - Hebrew Union CollegeZoë Aqua Kleztronica CL7 - Hebrew Union CollegeKaia Berman-Peters Reading JamAaron Alexander Working with Historical Recordings: Listening and Transcribing ZoomJoel Rubin Psoy and his Yiddish Kite: A Conversation with Psoy Korolenko 506 - Hebrew Union CollegeDaniel Kahn • Psoy Korolenko Social Justice: There, Where We Live, That is Our Country – History & Ongoing Life of the Jewish Labour Bund 507 - Hebrew Union CollegeJosh Waletzky • Jeyn Levison The Nuances of Unaccompanied Yiddish Singing 501 - Hebrew Union CollegeSarah Myerson • Ethel Raim Zingt fun tifn hartsn! - Sing from the bottom of your heart! 527 - Hebrew Union CollegeDerek David Advanced Yiddish 503 - Hebrew Union CollegeMiriam Isaacs

4:15pm EST

Newly Choreographed Yiddish Dances CL1 - Hebrew Union CollegeSarah Myerson • Asya Vaisman Schulman Big Ensemble CL3 - Hebrew Union CollegeJordan Hirsch Join the YNY Jam! CL7 - Hebrew Union CollegeIlana Cravitz KlezPainting 526 - Hebrew Union CollegeSam Day Harmet • Ilya Shneyveys Quiet & Singing Ensemble 525 - Hebrew Union CollegeLauren Brody • Eleonore Weill Play Along Across the World! ZoomSruli Dresdner • Lisa Mayer Klezmer Komposition Workshop/Family Band 527 - Hebrew Union CollegeJudy Sweet A Star from Satmar: An Interview with Riki Rose 506 - Hebrew Union CollegeUri Schreter • Riki Rose Lecture: Klezmer loshn / Klezmer Language *IN YIDDISH* 503 - Hebrew Union CollegePaul (Hershl) Glasser The Turkow Brothers and Their Role in Preserving and Building Yiddish Culture After World War II 507 - Hebrew Union CollegeAnna Rozenfeld Yiddish Songs to Go! 501 - Hebrew Union CollegeJordan Wax

5:30pm EST

YNY Schmooze ZoomNicole Borger • Edy Borger

7:00pm EST

Concert: 13th Annual Adrienne Cooper Memorial Dreaming in Yiddish Concert & Award Chapel - Hebrew Union CollegeDeborah Strauss

9:30am EST

Lecture: Arbeter Froyen and Antifascism - Jewish Women Workers and Internationalism in the 1930s 507 - Hebrew Union CollegeJennifer Young Lecture: Ashkenazi Songs Before Yiddish 503 - Hebrew Union CollegeAvery Gosfield TeensRaya Ferholt-Wirz • Ozzy Gold-Shapiro • Jenny Romaine YNY Symposium: The Scorekeepers - Bringing Manuscripts to the Masses 506 - Hebrew Union CollegeMark Slobin

11:15am EST

Lecture: Memories of the Yiddish Kitchen *ONLINE ONLY* ZoomBarbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett Lecture: “Shelter Books” - Yiddish and Ukrainian Children’s Literature in Times of Violence 503 - Hebrew Union CollegeEmily Finer • Miriam Udel Leyenkrayz: Der Abort / Yiddish Literature and Abortion 507 - Hebrew Union CollegeEve Jochnowitz

1:00pm EST

YNY Teens Performance! CL LoungeJenny Romaine • Ozzy Gold-Shapiro • Raya Ferholt-Wirz

2:00pm EST

YNY Student Concert Chapel - Hebrew Union College

Yiddish New York 2024

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