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World music from a Jewish slant. 1990s website (to be updated any year now)
https://Klezmershack.com
A nice piece about Ira Khonen Temple's stupendous new release:
www.jta.org/2025/12/24/n...
#yiddishmusic
#klezmer
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In a new album, Yiddish becomes a language of queer belonging - Jewish Telegraphic Agency
Brooklyn-based musician Ira Khonen Temple blends Yiddish, klezmer and trans experience — and is resonating with a new generation of queer Jews.
https://www.jta.org/2025/12/24/ny/in-a-new-album-yiddish-becomes-a-language-of-queer-belonging
2 days ago
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Upcoming concerts, etc., by Yoni Avi Battat (LA, New Jersey, Boston area)
mailchi.mp/6f5993cef418...
#jewishmusic
#mizrahimusic
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New Year: Looking Back and Forwards
https://mailchi.mp/6f5993cef418/new-year-looking-back-and-forwards?e=16b383005c
3 days ago
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Nu Haven Kapelye, Trumbull, CT, Jan. 11, 2-3 pm, Community Room, Trumbull Library Main Branch, 33 Quality Street.
patch.com/connecticut/...
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Trumbull Library To Host Performance By CT's Largest Klezmer Ensemble
Connecticut's largest klezmer ensemble is set to bring joyful music and cultural storytelling to the Trumbull Library.
https://patch.com/connecticut/trumbull/trumbull-library-host-performance-cts-largest-klezmer-ensemble
3 days ago
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Shadowfest - Midwood, Daniel Kahn, NYC-Drom 28-Dec 7pm. Enjoy the post-YNY gathering of klezmorim. New material. Tix:
dromnyc.com/event/midwoo...
#klezmer
#yiddishculture
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Midwood and Daniel Kahn - Dromnyc.com
Experience a powerful journey through reimagined traditions and fearless musical storytelling as Midwood and Daniel Kahn mix Yiddish, punk, and folk music.
https://jakeshulmanment.us8.list-manage.com/track/click?u=f1bda120d5223724d124e366a&id=866ac5f04f&e=88d1aaf93c
7 days ago
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Jon Kalish on Kiselgof-Makonevetsky collection, npr 19-Dec-2025:
theworld.org/segments/202...
#klezmer
#yiddishculture
#yiddish
K-M archive big new part of new rep @YiddishNewYork
8 days ago
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Review of Ira Khonen Temple's amazing new album:
www.jta.org/2025/12/24/n...
#klezmer
#yiddish
#yiddishmusic
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In a new album, Yiddish becomes a language of queer belonging - Jewish Telegraphic Agency
Brooklyn-based musician Ira Khonen Temple blends Yiddish, klezmer and trans experience — and is resonating with a new generation of queer Jews.
https://www.jta.org/2025/12/24/ny/in-a-new-album-yiddish-becomes-a-language-of-queer-belonging
8 days ago
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If you were at the Jewish Book Arts Collective workshop @YiddishNewYork this morning, do stay in touch by joining the Hebrew Type mailing list:
groups.io/g/hebrew-typ...
#hebrewtypography
#typography
#yny
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hebrew-typography groups.io Group
Queries and discussion about best practices, usage, and tools, new typefaces, notable archives/collections, relevant events, and anything else that seems appropriate to list participants.
https://groups.io/g/hebrew-typography/
8 days ago
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Here's to @BrooklynBagelCo on 8th St. Best bagels _and_ open on Christmas Day for hungry Yiddish & Klezmer lovers @YiddishNewYork
8 days ago
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Abe אַבְרָהָם 🌻🔥
9 months ago
Feeling grateful, honored, and dare I say *verklempt* that my interview w/ Chaia was featured in the new
@derspekter.bsky.social
anniversary edition
issuu.com/misoshnik/do...
add a skeleton here at some point
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QQ arising from talk @YiddishNewYork - anyone know what happened to Martin Schwartz's archive of klezmer and greek music at Cal? It was seminal for the Klezmorim and others; he was a major mentor for West Coast klezmer revival
#klezmer
#archives
9 days ago
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1 more full day of Yiddish New York culminating in "Dreaming in Yiddish" tonight. Adrienne Cooper wld have loved every min.
yiddishnewyork2025.sched.com
#yiddishculture
#yny
#klezmer
#jewishmusic
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Yiddish New York 2025 Schedule
Check out the schedule for Yiddish New York 2025
https://yiddishnewyork2025.sched.com/
9 days ago
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Lydia לבנה
10 days ago
Toronto khevre, please come to this event on January 19th! It's going to be a good time with lots of translation nerdery.
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Found in Translation: Women Writers in Yiddish
UJPO Toronto & the Yiddish Book Center proudly present...FOUND IN TRANSLATION: WOMEN WRITERS IN YIDDISHIsaac Bashevis Singer, Sholem Aleichem, I.L Peretz. Like many literatures, Yiddish literature...
https://www.zeffy.com/en-CA/ticketing/found-in-translation-women-writers-in-yiddish
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Eve Sicular
10 days ago
Yiddish New York film festival fabulous lunchtime movie /concert tomorrow: Wild silent feature “Benya Krik” (shot on location in Odessa 1926) featuring fabulous score by Matt Darriau performed live by amazing five piece band.
yiddishnewyork2025.sched.com/event/299Lk/...
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Seth Kibel
10 days ago
Come hang out with us at Black Locust Hops Farm Brewery in Freeland, MD! We'll be playing this coming Sunday (12/28) from 3 to 6 pm. Jazz, swing, klezmer, and ABSOLUTELY NO HOLIDAY MUSIC. No cover, lots of yummy beverages, and a food truck.
www.blacklocusthops.com
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Black Locust Hops
https://www.blacklocusthops.com/
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@Jeremiah Lockwood’s new project/label, Chazones Unbound 2 album releases 2night,
#yny
yiddishnewyork2025.sched.com/event/299M2/...
#chazones
#khazones
#yiddishnewyork
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Yiddish New York 2025: Zingeray & Evening Concert: Khazones Und...
View more about this event at Yiddish New York 2025
https://yiddishnewyork2025.sched.com/event/299M2/zingeray-evening-concert-khazones-underground-double-release-concert-the-return-of-the-immortal-khazntes-the-dream-past-by-the-sway-machinery
10 days ago
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Nice article on the
@klezmerinstitute.bsky.social
in
@forward.com
:
forward.com/culture/musi...
#klezmer
#yiddish
#yiddishculture
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How hundreds of forgotten klezmer tunes have been rescued from oblivion
Thanks to a mammoth klezmer digitization project, we can hear Jewish music that hasn't been played for generations.
https://forward.com/culture/music/792718/kiselgof-makonovetsky-digital-manuscript-project-klezmer-institute-jewish/
10 days ago
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Ari Davidow
10 days ago
Reminder: Elissa Sampson 11:15 (in eng) YNY (and so much more):
yiddishnewyork2025.sched.com/event/ea30f0...
#yiddish
#resistance
#yny
#yiddishnewyork
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Yiddish New York 2025: Lecture | Interracial Alliances and the...
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https://yiddishnewyork2025.sched.com/event/ea30f08df6a4ae8bec2b47039a080bb7
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Coming up this afternoon at Yiddish New York:
yiddishnewyork2025.sched.com/event/299OD/...
- Elissa Sampson - if you aren't here already, come on down!
#yiddishnewYork
#resistance
#theresistance
#yiddish
#yiddishculture
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Yiddish New York 2025: Lecture | Interracial Alliances and the...
View more about this event at Yiddish New York 2025
https://yiddishnewyork2025.sched.com/event/299OD/lecture-interracial-alliances-and-the-politics-of-solidarity-new-lessons-from-the-yiddish-left
11 days ago
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After a brilliant lunch concert yesterday by Brivele, enjoying getting the _context_ of new songs from the band at a late am session, Yiddish New York:
yiddishnewyork2025.sched.com/event/299QI/...
#yiddishmusic
#antifascistmusic
#yiddish
#yiddishculture
#brivele
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Yiddish New York 2025: Lecture | From the Well & the Swamp: Tra...
View more about this event at Yiddish New York 2025
https://yiddishnewyork2025.sched.com/event/299QI/lecture-from-the-well-the-swamp-tracing-the-lineages-of-yiddish-anti-fascist-poetry-and-song
11 days ago
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Yiddish New York, this afternoon, 2:30, HUC, NYC Boyarins - big fun lecture
yiddishnewyork2025.sched.com/event/299On/...
#jewishculture
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Yiddish New York 2025: Lecture |
View more about this event at Yiddish New York 2025
https://yiddishnewyork2025.sched.com/event/299On/lecture-di-velt-dertseylt-funny-strange-and-serious-stories-of-yiddishlands-jews
12 days ago
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Dan Blacksberg
about 2 months ago
This morning’s klezmer highlight. New/old recording to me of a fun tune I’ve been playing for years. Called by many names! The name on this track, the “Ezmilover Bulgar” in the Hoffman family book, , or me, simply, “Bulgar no. 9.”
search.library.wisc.edu/digital/AGVN...
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איזמאַילאָווער בּולגאַר (2 of 2) - UWDC - UW-Madison Libraries
https://search.library.wisc.edu/digital/AGVN3NH4DO66E783/AJWINCVAISDSQE8B
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Dan Carkner
about 2 months ago
salute to Chaia and Josh Dolgin the 2 best samplers of Yiddish music
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From shtetl to synth: How Yiddish electronica found its rhythm
Josh “Socalled” Dolgin and Chaia both aim to keep Yiddish vibrant without turning it into a museum piece
https://forward.com/yiddish-world/782743/yiddish-electronica-kleztronica-chaia-josh-socalled-dolgin-hip-hop/
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In geveb
about 2 months ago
"Ira Khonen Temple’s album Strange Tongue/מסתּמא־לשון / Mistame-Loshn, out from Borscht Beat, is a testament to Queer Yiddishkayt...Strange Tongue is a piece of a living, breathing, changing culture." NEW interview with Ira Khonen Temple, up now 🦚
ingeveb.org/blog/ira-tem...
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"I want this to be a place for you": A Conversation with Ira Khonen Temple | In geveb
Yael Horowitz and Ira Khonen Temple talk queer Yiddishkayt, collage, and masoyre in Temple's new album.
https://ingeveb.org/blog/ira-temple
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Sonia Gollance
about 2 months ago
London music fans! Zoe Aqua (fiddler, USA) will be performing a solo set of klezmer and Transylvanian music with some special guests this Sunday 16 Nov at DB Music (in Stoke Newington). 2:30 pm doors, 3pm concert. £8.
@klezmershack.bsky.social
www.dbmusiclondon.com/product/zoe-...
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#klezmer
#circus
@dobranotch big fun!
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A Yiddish circus in a suitcase
German audiences are enthusiastic about the show “Tshemodan,” where circus artists perform to a live klezmer band
https://forward.com/yiddish-world/782590/yiddish-circus-klezmer-suitcase-germany/
about 2 months ago
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Dimanche 23 novembre à 17h au GIL (2 rue Ella Maillart, 1208 Genève)
docs.google.com/forms/d/1yqX...
Pour la sécurité, veuillez envoyer une copie de votre carte d'identité à l'adresse
[email protected]
#klezmer
#yiddishmusic
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« L’enterrement de Stashek » Dimanche 23 novembre 2025 à 17h00
« L’enterrement de Stashek », texte de Michel Borzykowski et Adam Biro : sous la direction du comédien et metteur en scène Vincent Aubert, lecture animée et musicale de cette œuvre. C’est l'histoire d...
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1yqXQhlmRotwOammbM037aHSsG1YYCD0h8uH7lHl3I7w/edit
about 2 months ago
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From Ilana Kravitz: Taybelekh is a one-off band performing
#Yiddish
music in Porto, Portugal this month Info/Tix:
taybelekh.org/tickets/
#klezmer
#yiddishmusic
#yiddishculture
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Tickets - Projeto de Música no Porto 2025
Tickets Reserve Your Tickets for Projeto Música do Porto 2025 Today Secure your spot at this unique cultural event featuring Yiddish songs and klezmer dance by Taybelekh. Advance Ticket Purchase Octob...
https://taybelekh.org/tickets/
about 2 months ago
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Zisl Slepovitch: Musical Treasures from Sofia Magid’s Jewish Collection, Volume II ships early Dec
zisl.bandcamp.com/album/magids...
#klezmer
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Magid's Klezmer Book, Vol. 2 (Concert Key and Bb Instruments), by Zisl Slepovitch
52 track album
https://zisl.bandcamp.com/album/magids-klezmer-book-vol-2-concert-key-and-bb-instruments
about 2 months ago
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Ezekiel's Wheels, TODAY. Join us for a concert and dance party @ Temple Shalom in Medford. The fun starts at 3:00pm. Hope to see you there! Details and tickets at
temple-shalom-medford.shulcloud.com/form/klezmer...
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#klezmer
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Klezmer Concert and Dance Party - Form - Temple Shalom - William & Charlotte Bloomberg Jewish Community Center
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https://temple-shalom-medford.shulcloud.com/form/klezmerdance-2025
2 months ago
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Maria Ka review in Forverts:
forward.com/yiddish-worl...
#yiddish
#electronica
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Maria Ka’s cosmic Yiddish music — from punk grit to starlight
Performing out of Gdańsk, Poland, the singer-songwriter fuses everyday Yiddish speech with celestial wonder
https://forward.com/yiddish-world/779524/maria-kas-cosmic-yiddish-electronica-punk-gdansk-poland/
2 months ago
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Klezmer Workshop & Jam w/Rebecca Mac, Boston Synagogue, 55 Martha Rd, Boston, MA Today, Sun Nov 2, 4pm RSVP:
www.eventbrite.com/e/klezmer-wo...
#klezmer
#klezmerjam
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Klezmer Workshop & Jam
Join us for a lively Klezmer Workshop & Jam where you can embrace the music and connect with fellow enthusiasts!
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/klezmer-workshop-jam-registration-1918191365009
2 months ago
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Alicia Svigals/Donald Sosin Silent Film "A Man without a World" Cine-Concert: Nov 8, 7:30pm - UCLA Billy Wilder Theater, FREE
2 months ago
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Alicia Svigals/Donald Sosin Silent Film accompaniment: East and West (w/Molly Picon) Cine-Concert: Nov 5, 2pm - Santa Barbara JFF. Tix:
jewishfederationofgreater.ticketspice.com/santa-barbar...
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Santa Barbara Jewish Film Festival 2025
Get tickets online for Santa Barbara Jewish Film Festival 2025 here.
https://jewishfederationofgreater.ticketspice.com/santa-barbara-jewish-film-festival-2025
2 months ago
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The New Orleans Klezmer All-Stars, Dixon Annex Recital Hall, Tulane U, NOLA, Wed, Nov 5 2025, noon-1pm
events.tulane.edu/content/musi...
#klezmer
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Music at Midday - The New Orleans Klezmer All-Stars | Tulane University Events
https://events.tulane.edu/content/music-midday-new-orleans-klezmer-all-stars
2 months ago
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Amazing photos of klezmer musicians, from 1990s thru today; alte kakers and newbies and in-between. Lloyd Wolf. "A joyful noise."
klezmerinstitute.org/a-joyful-noi...
#yiddishculture
#jewishculture
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A Joyful Noise! • Klezmer Institute
A Joyful Noise: Klezmer In Motion features over two hundred dynamic images depicting historic and up-to-the minute klezmer musicians. For over thirty years, internationally-recognized award-winning ph...
https://klezmerinstitute.org/a-joyful-noise/)
2 months ago
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Ira Khonen Temple and friends at the Burren, at
@honkfestival.bsky.social
putting the fun in klezmer and Yiddish music - catch him on tour or at @Bandcamp
#klezmer
#yiddishmusic
3 months ago
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Levyosn tonight, Hillel B'nai Torah, 120 Corey St., W. Roxbury (Boston) 7:30pm FREE -
www.templehbt.org/hbtfeaturede...
#yiddishmusic
#klezmer
You get to hear one of my favorite bands, and the synagogue gets proof that people will come by to hear great music!
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3 months ago
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blogs.timesofisrael.com/catching-up-...
#jewishmusic
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The Blogs: Catching up with ‘kosher gospel’ innovator Joshua Nelson
From the blog of Andrew Esensten at The Times of Israel
https://blogs.timesofisrael.com/catching-up-with-kosher-gospel-innovator-joshua-nelson/
4 months ago
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Through the Walls: Klezmer String Quartet Tuesday, 9 December 2025, 7.00pm The Hunt Museum Limerick
journalofmusic.com/listing/20-0...
#klezmer
#khasidicmusic
#jewishmusic
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Through the Walls: Klezmer String Quartet
https://journalofmusic.com/listing/20-08-25/through-walls-klezmer-string-quartet
4 months ago
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Interview with Iranian musician, Amir Shahsar, of Diwan HaLev, ahead of the Tzfat Klezmer Festival.
#mizrahimusic
#jewishmusic
www.ynetnews.com/jewish-world...
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'I deeply miss the Persian culture that existed before darkness took over'
Amir Shahsar fled Iran in 1989 and eventually settled in Israel, where he blends Persian, Jewish and world music with the ensemble Diwan HaLev, performing spiritual, contemporary and culturally rich m...
https://www.ynetnews.com/jewish-world/article/sydxwyhkel
4 months ago
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Ezekiel's Wheels Klezmer Band: Workshop and Concert at Bowdoin College Sep 20. 12pm Workshop; 3pm concert Bowdoin College 55 Maine St, Brunswick, ME
www.bandsintown.com/e/107112520
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Ezekiel's Wheels Klezmer Band @ Bowdoin College
Sep 20, 2025 - Brunswick, ME
https://www.bandsintown.com/e/107112520
4 months ago
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Challapalooza: Boston’s Jew-ish Music Festival Sun, Sep 7, noon - 6:00 pm Prospect Hill Park, 68 Munroe St, Somerville, MA 02143
#klezmer
#jewishmusic
#yiddish
www.challapalooza.org
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Challapalooza
Boston's Jew-ish Music Festival
https://www.challapalooza.org/
4 months ago
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2nd Annual Michigan KlezMitten Fest, Sun, Sep 7, 1:30-9pm. 111 E Kirby St, Midtown Detroit, MI 48202.
#jewishmusic
#klezmer
#yiddish
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4 months ago
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Selichos/Transformation, new music in the cantorial trad for 2 voices, chamber orch. by Jeremiah Lockwood. 20-Sep-2025, 8:30pm, Riki Rose & Yoel Kohn, Alan Pierson cond., 17 Eastern Parkway, Brooklyn, NY
cbebk.shulcloud.com/cnjc/selicho...
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Selichos/Transformation - Congregation Beth Elohim
Tiered ticket options are available at $18, and $36, and $54. All seating is general admission. Higher priced tickets will allow the Center for New Jewish Culture to expand our cultural programming offerings.
https://cbebk.shulcloud.com/cnjc/selichos-transformation
4 months ago
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Maxwell St Klezmer, once a month, Sep 10, Oct 22, 7-9pm Sabor a Cafe, 6873 N. Milwaukee Ave, Niles, IL 60714
saboracafeniles.com
#klezmer
@klezmom
#yiddishmusic
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Sabor a Café Niles - Steakhouse & Live Music Venue
Discover Sabor a Café in Niles, IL Enjoy South American cuisine, grass-fed steaks, and live Latin & jazz music. Visit for an unforgettable experience!
https://saboracafeniles.com
4 months ago
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Ternovka Ensemble, NYC, May 13 w/Zhenya Lopatnik
www.facebook.com/events/10509...
#klezmer
#yiddish
#NYKlezmerSeries
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NY Klezmer Series: Ternovka! Pete Rushefsky, Zhenya Lopatnik
Event in New York, NY by NY Klezmer Series on Tuesday, May 13 2025
https://www.facebook.com/events/1050978080178114
8 months ago
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Ezekiel's Wheels, Jacobs Ladder, Framingham, MA, May 15:
www.metrowestdailynews.com/things-to-do...
#klezmer
#jewishmusic
#bluegrass
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Things To Do in Framingham MA - MetroWest Daily News
Things to do in Framingham, MA. Find local events, weekend festivals, and free attractions for families, or promote your own event.
https://www.metrowestdailynews.com/things-to-do/events/?_evDiscoveryPath=/event/106713251n-jacob-s-ladder-ezekiel-s-wheels
8 months ago
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From the Smithsonian mag:
www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian-...
#yivo
#yiddish
#yiddishculture
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These Irreplaceable Yiddish Artifacts Would Have Been Lost to History If They Weren't Evacuated to New York After World War II
The founding of a research institute 100 years ago has helped to provide insight on Yiddish culture in the United States and around the world
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian-institution/these-irreplaceable-yiddish-artifacts-would-have-been-lost-to-history-if-they-werent-evacuated-to-new-york-after-world-war-ii-180986596/
8 months ago
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Golden Thread Septet in Cambridge, MA. Sextet tonight. The supposedly not-antisemitic US gov declined visa for Yiddish singer Sasha Lurja. Huh.
#yiddish
#antisemitism
8 months ago
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"Music of Exile" book presentation, concert, Wed, May 7, 7pm, HUC, NYC
hmlf.org/event/sing-m...
#jewishmusic
#holocaust
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HMLF presents A Book Presentation and Concert
You are invited to join us for a book presentation of “Music of Exile“ by Dr. Michael Haas. In conversation with John Mauceri. Concert by Exilarte Center for Banned Music. Reception and Book Signing t...
https://hmlf.org/event/sing-memory-register/
8 months ago
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