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December 21-26 IN-PERSON and ONLINE (on Zoom)!
> Daytime Educational & Arts Workshops for All Ages
> Evening Festival of Yiddish Performing Arts
> Visual Arts Exhibition
>Yiddish Film Festival
> An Inclusive Community Working to Advance
Contemporary Yiddish Culture, Scholarship & Activism
> And much more!
Intergenerational and Accessible
Join us in December for Yiddish New York! Be part of an amazing intergenerational community, local and international. Programs for young, old and everyone in between!
YNY 2024 Curators/Organizers: Aaron Bendich, Edy Borger, Nicole Borger, Joanne Borts, Sarah Gordon, Esther Gottesman, Itzik Gottesman, Aani Kisslinger, Jeyn Levison, Sarah Myerson, Ethel Raim, Pete Rushefsky, Ilya Shneyveys, Eve Sicular, Deborah Strauss, Judy Sweet, Josh Waletzky
YNY Coordinator: Clara Byom
We are grateful for the support of the Marinus and Minna B. Koster Foundation, the Atran Foundation, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, the Covenant Foundation, the Howard Gilman Foundation, the Samuels Foundation, Con Edison, the Zayde-Bub Fund of The Pittsburgh Foundation, the Adrienne Cooper Fund for Dreaming in Yiddish, the Yiddish Artists & Friends– Actors Club, Nicolette Beck, Nan Bases, Frances & Mitchell Harris, Diana Lieb, Ellie Schweber, Nicola Bird, Seth Weisberg and family.
Partner Organizations: The Center for Traditional Music and Dance (fiscal sponsor), The Sholem Aleichem Cultural Center, The Museum of Jewish Heritage, The Workers Circle, The 14th Street Y, The Forward, The Center for Jewish History,The American Society for Jewish Music, The 14th St Y, The Museum At Eldridge Street, The National Museum of American Jewish History, The New York Klezmer Series, The Town and Village Synagogue, The YIVO Institute for Jewish Research, The Workers Circle, Congress for Jewish Culture,The Forward Newspapers, The National Yiddish Theatre Folksbiene, The Yiddish Book Center, The League for Yiddish, Yiddishkayt, Klezmer Institute, The Yiddish Artists and Friends Actors Club, The Yiddish Arts and Academics Association of North America (YAAANA). International partners: Institut Européen des Musiques Juives (Paris), Instituto da Musica Judaica Brasil, KlezKanada (Quebec), The Ashkenaz Festival (Toronto)).
We are grateful to photographers Bob Blacksberg, Melanie Brazzell, Shendl Copitman, David Kaufman, Karl Gabor, William Meyers and Lloyd Wolf for the use of their images.