Yiddish New York, the nation's largest annual festival of Yiddish music, culture, and language, is back December 23-28! With both in-person and virtual elements, you can check out concerts, lectures, Yiddish classes, films, klezmer workshops, theater, and dance, as well as programs for kids and teens from the Yiddish world's leading scholars and performers.
Featured on this year's lineup are trumpeter Frank London of the Grammy Award-winning Klezmatics, pioneering folklorist Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett, acclaimed actor-songwriter Daniel Kahn, best-selling author (Bad Rabbi And Other Strange but True Stories from the Yiddish Press), celebrated violinists Deborah Strauss and Jake Shulman-Ment, Klezmer scholar Walter Zev Feldman and more.
"Yiddish New York is the place for people who want to celebrate Jewishness, and find refuge from the Christmas season, through Yiddish culture and klezmer music. The community and connection to culture is deeply real and all the more needed in our too-often isolated current world,” says trombonist and composer Dan Blacksberg.