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December 20-25 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 2025 Curators/Organizers: Aaron Bendich, Edy Borger, Nicole Borger, Joanne Borts, Sarah Gordon, Itzik Gottesman, Noah Guthman, Tine Kindermann, Aani Kisslinger, Sarah Myerson, Ethel Raim, Jenny Romaine, Pete Rushefsky, Uri Schreter, Ilya Shneyveys, Eve Sicular, Deborah Strauss, Judy Sweet, Deborah Ugoretz, 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 Howard Gilman Foundation, the Samuels Foundation, the Scherman Foundation, the Yiddish Artists & Friends– Actors Club, Nicolette Beck, Nan Bases, Frances & Mitchell Harris, Diana Lieb, Suzanne Schwimmer z¨l, 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),Yugntruf. 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.