Yiddish New York 2024

Yiddish New York 2024

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Mai Li Pittard

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About me

Mai Li is 7 years new to the Yiddishist and Klezmer world since the start of their genre-busting neo vaudevillian cabaret punk-klezmer band, The Debaucherauntes. Winner of the 2017 KrechtsFactor Yiddish song competition and KlezKanada & Yiddish New York scholarships with a portfolio of performances and original works, Miles' work spreads and furthers Yiddish culture through community building and curated performances. Musician by trade, they've focused on connecting traditions of the past into a modern evolution with klezmer and Yiddish song since the band’s inception, finding a place in the developing revival.

9:30am EST

Learn a Tune a Day by Ear! ZoomAbigale Reisman Lider-shmideray / Songsmiths Workshop 501 - Hebrew Union CollegeAdah Hetko • Daniel Kahn • Josh Waletzky

11:15am EST

Lecture: A History of Modern Yiddish Culture Through 25 Objects 506 - Hebrew Union CollegeItzik Gottesman Lecture: Infinite Fiddlers - Fiddler on the Roof on Vinyl 507 - Hebrew Union CollegeAaron Bendich The Yiddish Songwriter's Friend 527 - Hebrew Union CollegeJosh Waletzky

1:15pm EST

Lunchtime Concert: Anne Kalmering & Stahlhammer Klezmer Classic (aka Khane K & The North Kingdom Klezmer Consort) Chapel - Hebrew Union CollegeAnne Kalmering • Semmy Stahlhammer • Miriam Oldenburg • Atilda Munthe Stahlhammer

2:30pm EST

Transcription and Layered Listening ZoomJosh Horowitz The Nuances of Unaccompanied Yiddish Singing 501 - Hebrew Union CollegeSarah Myerson • Ethel Raim Advanced Yiddish 503 - Hebrew Union CollegeMiriam Isaacs

4:15pm EST

Yiddish Songs to Go! 501 - Hebrew Union CollegeAdah Hetko

6:45pm EST

Zingeray! Sing along! (Join via Concert Stream or in the Chapel - no additional registration required!) Chapel - Hebrew Union CollegeSarah Gordon

7:00pm EST

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

9:30am EST

Learn a Tune a Day by Ear! ZoomAbigale Reisman Lider-shmideray / Songsmiths Workshop 501 - Hebrew Union CollegeAdah Hetko • Daniel Kahn • Josh Waletzky

11:15am EST

Lecture: Jews in the Groove - The Great Mid-Century Jewish Record Labels 507 - Hebrew Union CollegeAaron Bendich The Yiddish Songwriter's Friend 527 - Hebrew Union CollegeJosh Waletzky

1:15pm EST

Lunchtime Concert: Shterna and the Lost Voice Chapel - Hebrew Union CollegeThe Magid Ensemble • Raffi Boden • Weaver • Rachel Leader • Mattias Kaufman • Kiah Raymond

2:30pm EST

Transcription and Layered Listening ZoomJosh Horowitz The Nuances of Unaccompanied Yiddish Singing 501 - Hebrew Union CollegeSarah Myerson • Ethel Raim Advanced Yiddish 503 - Hebrew Union CollegeMiriam Isaacs

4:15pm EST

Lecture: Khanike minhogim funem shtetl / Hanukkah Customs of the Shtetl 503 - Hebrew Union CollegeItzik Gottesman Lecture: The Thread / Der Fodem / El Hilo - Global Jewish Ethnographic Adventures 507 - Hebrew Union CollegeJordan Wax • Michael Alpert Yiddish Songs to Go! 501 - Hebrew Union CollegeJosh Waletzky

6:45pm EST

Zingeray! Sing along! (Join via Concert Stream or in the Chapel - no additional registration required!) Chapel - Hebrew Union CollegeSarah Gordon

7:00pm EST

Concert: Alicia Svigals - Fidl Afire Chapel - Hebrew Union CollegeJordan Hirsch • Aaron Alexander • Curtis Hasselbring • Ilya Shneyveys • Jim Guttmann • Alicia Svigals

9:30am EST

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

11:15am EST

Lecture: New Yiddish Poetry of 2024 506 - Hebrew Union CollegeZackary Sholem Berger Lecture: Yente Telebende - The Bad Girl of the Yiddish World 507 - Hebrew Union CollegeHenry Sapoznik The Yiddish Songwriter's Friend 527 - Hebrew Union CollegeJosh Waletzky

1:15pm EST

Lunchtime Concert: Jordan Wax Chapel - Hebrew Union CollegeAvi Fox-Rosen • Margot Leverett • Jake Shulman-Ment • Paul Brown • Jordan Wax

2:30pm EST

Working with Historical Recordings: Listening and Transcribing ZoomJoel Rubin

4:15pm EST

Lecture: Der grester Khurbn - Knowledge of the Holocaust in the Americas during the War Period 507 - Hebrew Union CollegeTamara Gleason Freidberg 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 Songs To Go! 501 - Hebrew Union CollegeDaniel Kahn

6:45pm EST

Zingeray! Sing along! (On-Site Only Tonight!) Chapel - Hebrew Union CollegeSarah Gordon

9:30pm EST

Concert: Ira Khonen Temple & Friends Chapel - Hebrew Union CollegeEleonore Weill • Beila Ungar • Zoë Aqua • Kirsten Lamb • Raffi Boden • Ira Khonen Temple

9:30am EST

Learn a Tune a Day by Ear! ZoomAbigale Reisman 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

11:15am EST

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

1:15pm EST

Lunchtime Concert: Riki Rose Chapel - Hebrew Union CollegeRiki Rose

2:30pm EST

Working with Historical Recordings: Listening and Transcribing ZoomJoel Rubin Lecture: Psoy and his Yiddish Kite: A Conversation with Psoy Korolenko 506 - Hebrew Union CollegeDaniel Kahn • Pavel Lion The Nuances of Unaccompanied Yiddish Singing 501 - Hebrew Union CollegeSarah Myerson • Ethel Raim

4:15pm EST

Lecture: 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 Glasser Yiddish Songs to Go! 501 - Hebrew Union CollegeJordan Wax

7:00pm EST

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

9:30am EST

YNY Symposium: The Scorekeepers - Bringing Manuscripts to the Masses 506 - Hebrew Union CollegeTina Frühauf • Christina Crowder • Mark Slobin

11:15am EST

Lecture: “Shelter Books” - Yiddish and Ukrainian Children’s Literature in Times of Violence 503 - Hebrew Union CollegeEmily Finer • Miriam Udel

2:00pm EST

YNY Student Concert Chapel - Hebrew Union College