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CONCERT PASS | Yidstock 2025: The Festival of New Yiddish Music - Concert Passes
July 10, 2025 12:00 PM
YIDSTOCK 2025 brings the best in klezmer and new Yiddish music to the stage at the Yiddish Book Center. Concert Pass allows access to all concerts at YIDSTOCK 2024 and the two dance workshops. Tickets may be purchased to individual events. |
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TALK | The Essential Klezmer, with Seth Rogovoy
July 10, 2025 12:00 PM
YIDSTOCK 2025 | Seth Rogovoy, Yidstock's artistic director, author of The Essential Klezmer, takes the audience on a multimedia journey through klezmer, from Old World shtetls to New World stages, providing historical context for the music you will hear during this year's festival. |
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TALK | Voices from the Yiddish Stage, with Christa P. Whitney
July 10, 2025 2:00 PM
YIDSTOCK 2025 | The director of the Yiddish Book Centers Wexler Oral History Project, Christa P. Whitney, will share video highlights from the projects growing collection. |
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TALK | WEVD's Yiddish Music Library: From a Basement in Yonkers to the New York Public Library with Hankus Netsky
July 10, 2025 4:00 PM
YIDSTOCK 2025 | In this talk, Hankus Netsky will discuss the significance of this unique treasure trove of music and how it found a permanent home at the New York Public Library. |
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CONCERT | The Klezmatics
July 10, 2025 7:30 PM
YIDSTOCK 2025 | Blending instrumental and vocal virtuosity and experimentation with theatricality firmly rooted in klezmer and Yiddish tradition, the Klezmatics brought the revival of klezmer into the rock era. |
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TALK | Tanz! featuring Dave Tarras and the Musiker Brothers: The Real Beginning of the Klezmer Revival with Hankus Netsky
July 11, 2025 10:00 AM
YIDSTOCK 2025 | Tanz!, a profoundly innovative and artistic recording signified the readiness of a major record label to acknowledge the potential of the music we now call klezmer to attract a much wider audience. |
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WORKSHOP | Dance by Number: Yiddish Dances New(er) and Old(er) with Asya Vaisman Schulman accompanied by Christina Crowder
July 11, 2025 10:30 AM
YIDSTOCK 2025 | Dance workshop with Asya Vaisman Schulman with musical accompaniment by Christina Crowder. |
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TALK | Michael Winograd in conversation with Seth Rogovoy
July 11, 2025 1:00 PM
YIDSTOCK 2025 | In conversation with Seth Rogovoy, Michael will review his career and discuss what draws him to TANZ! |
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CONCERT | Eleanor Reissa
July 11, 2025 2:00 PM
YIDSTOCK 2025 | Accompanied by a small ensemble, Eleanor explores musical interpretations of the Yiddish repertoire in this cabaret-style setting. |
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CONCERT | The Pieces Borken with Malkah Lerner & Yoshie Fruchter
July 11, 2025 5:00 PM
YIDSTOCK 2025 | Levyosn is a new quartet specializing in Yiddish song and klezmer. Levyosn is vocalist/guitarist Adah Hetko, violinist/vocalist Lysander Jaffe, accordionist/vocalist Kaia Berman Peters, and cellist/vocalist Raffi Boden. |
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WORKSHOP | Instrumental Klezmer, with Brian Bender
July 12, 2025 10:00 AM
YIDSTOCK 2025 | An instrumental workshop for aspiring klezmer musicians, taught by trombonist/keyboardist Brian Bender of the Yiddishkeit Klezmer Ensemble, Little Shop of Horas, and the Wholesale Klezmer Band. |
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WORKSHOP | Heybt a fus un hot hanoe! Lift a Foot and Enjoy! with Judy Bressler accompanied by Christina Crowder
July 12, 2025 10:30 AM
YIDSTOCK 2025 | Dance workshop with Judy Bressler with musical accompaniment by Brian Bender. |
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EXHIBITION TOUR: JOIN THE CURATOR!
July 12, 2025 11:00 AM
YIDSTOCK 2025 | David Mazower, the Yiddish Book Centers research bibliographer, is the chief curator and writer of our acclaimed core exhibition, Yiddish: A Global Culture. |
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TALK | Abigale Reisman in conversation with Seth Rogovoy
July 12, 2025 1:00 PM
YIDSTOCK 2025 | Abigale Reisman has established herself as an expressive and thoughtful fidl player, particularly interested in expressing the human voice through the violin and connecting her playing to the rhythms and accents of the Yiddish language. |
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TALK | Joanne Borts in conversation with Seth Rogovoy
July 12, 2025 3:00 PM
YIDSTOCK 2025 | Throughout her career, Joanne has had the privilege to perform alongside many celebrated stars of the Yiddish stage, Broadway legends, and klezmer greats. Joanne will discuss all this and more in conversation with Seth Rogovoy. |
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EXHIBITION TOUR: JOIN THE CURATOR!
July 12, 2025 4:00 PM
YIDSTOCK 2025 | David Mazower, the Yiddish Book Centers research bibliographer, is the chief curator and writer of our acclaimed core exhibition, Yiddish: A Global Culture. |
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CONCERT | Michael Winograd Plays Tanz!
July 12, 2025 8:00 PM
YIDSTOCK 2025 | Now, nearly 70 years later, the album is brought back to life at Yidstock with a stellar band performing the album from beginning to end. |
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WORKSHOP | Lomir Zingen! Yiddish Song Workshop, with Asya Vaisman Schulman
July 13, 2025 10:30 AM
YIDSTOCK 2025 | From familiar tunes to hidden gems, well learn to sing a few Yiddish songs with a special focus on perfecting pronunciation and capturing the rhythms of a Yiddish sentence. |
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CONCERT | Two Strings with Jake Shulman-Ment and Abigale Reisman
July 13, 2025 12:00 PM
YIDSTOCK 2025 | Violinists Jake Shulman-Ment and Abigale Reisman join forces to record Two Strings, a brand-new powerhouse string-band album that unites their stunning virtuosity, deep roots in traditional Yiddish and Eastern European musical idioms, and a fearless sense of exploratory improvisation. |
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TALK | Eleanor Reissa in conversation with Seth Rogovoy
July 13, 2025 1:30 PM
YIDSTOCK 2025 | Eleanor Reissa actress, singer, director, playwright, author, and perennial Yidstock favorite will speak about the challenges and opportunities of the past year. |
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CONCERT | Joanne Borts: Lush & Hora
July 13, 2025 3:00 PM
YIDSTOCK 2025 | Joanne Borts' debut solo album, Lush & Hora, embraces a spectrum of contradictions told through a Yiddish lens of irreverent admiration, mischievous rebellion and maybe a little gossip. |
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TALK | Lisa Newman, host of "The Shmooze" interviews Susan Bronson, the Centers new President
July 13, 2025 4:30 PM
YIDSTOCK 2025 | Join us for a lively conversation and Q&A and be the first to hear whats next for the Yiddish Book Center from new initiatives, educational programs, publishing, and more. |
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CONCERT | The Great Yiddish-American Songbook, with Frank Londons Yinglish Orchestra & Singers
July 13, 2025 7:30 PM
YIDSTOCK 2025 | The Great Yiddish-American Songbook celebrates the joys of Yinglish, with English songs in Yiddish and Yiddish songs in English. |
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