ONLINE FILM: STARTING TUESDAY, DECEMBER 17
BUND – THE HOPE AND THE PAST 🎥
Watch the film for free on our YNY Film Festival page. The film will be discussed in YNY’s Social Justice Workshop on Monday, December 23 at 2:30PM.
1987 Yiddish-language film by David Kedem featuring new English subtitles by Josh Waletzky.
PRE-FESTIVAL PROGRAM
TUESDAY, DECEMBER 17, 5-7PM
EMES/TRUTH: YNY VISUAL ARTS EXHIBITION OPENING 🎨+🎵
At the Backman Gallery, Dr. Bernard Heller Museum, Hebrew Union College, 1 W 4th Street. Admission to the Opening Event is free but you need to RSVP here.
Curated by Deborah Ugoretz & Yevgeniy Fiks, Emes/Truth features works that interrogate the notion of truth. The Opening Event on December 17 features a performance by Yiddish singer Sarah Myerson with Ilya Shneyveys. Viewing hours are December 18, 19, 22-25 and 30 from 9AM-5PM and on December 26 from 9:30AM – 12 noon.
PRE-FESTIVAL PROGRAM
WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 18, 6-8PM
YIDDISH: FOR UNITY OR DIVISION? 🗣️+🎵
At Repair The World, 808 Nostrand Avenue, Brooklyn, NY 11216. Admission is free, reservations not required!
Alternate visions for Yiddish’s future were promulgated by eminent Brooklyn Jewish leaders during the tumultuous 1920s. Abraham Shiplacoff was editor of the Forverts, a successful politician known as the “Jewish Eugene V. Debs” and a champion for the continuity of Yiddish language & culture.
Meanwhile, Rabbi Alexander Lyons of Congregation Beth Elohim was lauded as the “Dean of Brooklyn Rabbis” and promoted Jewish assimilation based in the Reform movement. Program features Chana Pollack (The Forward) and historian/activist Dylan Yeats in a discussion moderated by Raul Rothblatt with a performance by the Rothblatt Family Klezmer Band.
Presented by YNY in partnership with Repair the World & Brooklyn Jewish Historical Initiative.
YNY PARTNER PROGRAM
THURSDAY, DECEMBER 19, 6PM
YIDDISH BOSSA NOVA🎵
At the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Library Event Center, 455 Fifth Avenue in Manhattan. Admission is free, but you need to reserve a ticket here.
Brazilian singer/songwriter and cultural producer Nicole Borger in featured in this NYC-iteration of the Brazilian Kleztival with guitarist Oren Neiman, which will blend Jewish music with Brazilian Bossa Nova. The program is inspired by our city’s history– in 1654, a ship with 23 Jews from Brazil docked at the shores of a small village, then called New Amsterdam, who established themselves there and helped to create the city which we know today as New York.
FOR INFORMATION AND FREE TICKETS CLICK HERE
FILM/PERFORMANCE: SATURDAY NIGHT, DECEMBER 21, 5:30PM
JEWISH LUCK 🎥+🎵+🗣️
At the 14th St. Y (344 E 14th Street) YNY Full Festival pass holders will be emailed a code to register for this event). Not available by Livestream.
Registration for this event is now closed.
1925 Silent Film w/ Live Performance of WORLD PREMIERE New Score by Lori Goldston. This showing will include a panel discussion.
SATURDAY NIGHT, DECEMBER 21, 8:00PM
OPENING NIGHT TANTSHOYZ YIDDISH DANCE PARTY! 🕺
At the 14th St. Y (344 E 14th Street). Admission: $25 (included in a Full Festival Pass). Or pay at the door. Not available by Livestream.
Lace up your dancing shoes – YNY dance leaders will show you the steps. Our all-star faculty klezmer band will be servin’ up the freylekhs!
SUNDAY LUNCHTIME, DECEMBER 22, 1:15PM
ANNE KALMERING & STAHLHAMMER KLEZMER CLASSIC
(aka KHANE K & THE NORTH KINGDOM KLEZMER CONSORT) 🎵
At Hebrew Union College, 1 W 4th St. Admission: $25 in-person/$17 livestream (included in a Full Festival Pass). Or pay at the door.
Concert by celebrated European klezmer trio & dynamic Yiddish singer making North American debut!
SUNDAY NIGHT, DECEMBER 22, 7:00PM
PEPI LITTMAN TRIBUTE: MUSIC – DRAMA – DRAG 🎭+🎵
At Hebrew Union College, 1 W 4th St. Admission: $25 in-person/$17 livestream You can also pay at the door.
Theatrical tribute to the legendary drag king of the Yiddish stage. Come early at 6:45PM to join in a Zingeray Yiddish sing-a-long!
FILM/PERFORMANCE: SUNDAY NIGHT, DECEMBER 22, 9:00PM
JEWISH LUCK 🎥+🎵
At Hebrew Union College, 1 W 4th St. Admission: $25 (included in a Full Festival Pass). Or pay at the door. Not available by Livestream.
Second showing of 1925 Silent Film w/ Live Performance of WORLD PREMIERE New Score by Lori Goldston. Includes a brief Q/A moderated by Eve Sicular.
MONDAY LUNCHTIME, DECEMBER 23, 1:15PM
THE MAGID ENSEMBLE: SHTERNA & THE LOST VOICE 💫+🎨+🎵
At Hebrew Union College, 1 W 4th St. Admission: $25 in-person/$17 livestream (included in a Full Festival Pass). Or pay at the door.
A new folktale presented with a exquisitely painted hand-operated crankie & live original klezmer score!
MONDAY NIGHT, DECEMBER 23, 7:00PM
ALICIA SVIGALS IN CONCERT 🎵
At Hebrew Union College, 1 W 4th St. Admission: $25 in-person/$17 livestream (included in a Full Festival Pass).
THIS EVENT IS SOLD OUT FOR ON-SITE ATTENDANCE.
If you would like to attend online, please write to ynytechteam@gmail.com.
The legendary klezmer violinist with all-star ensemble performing music from her new Fidl Afire album. Come early at 6:45PM to join in a Zingeray Yiddish sing-a-long!
FILM: MONDAY NIGHT, DECEMBER 23, 9:00PM
THE PLOT AGAINST HARRY 🎥+🗣️
At Hebrew Union College, 1 W 4th St. Admission: $10 (included in a Full Festival Pass). You can also pay at the door. Not available by Livestream.
Ex-con goes meshugge for “call girls, bar mitzvahs… Mafia barbecues, dog training classes, Congressional hearings, and hotel pajama parties.” Includes a panel discussion.
TUESDAY LUNCHTIME, DECEMBER 24, 1:15PM
JORDAN WAX & FRIENDS 🎵
At Hebrew Union College, 1 W 4th St. Admission: Admission: $25 in-person/$17 livestream. Or pay at the door.
New Mexico-based Yiddish singer/songwriter creates innovative compositions with deep diasporic roots & social consciousness.
FILM: TUESDAY NIGHT, DECEMBER 24, 7:00PM
HESTER STREET 🎥+🗣️
At Hebrew Union College, 1 W 4th St. Admission: $10 (included in a Full Festival Pass). You can also pay at the door. Not available on Livestream.
Oscar-nominated Carol Kane stars in this 1975 adaptation of an 1896 novella by Abe Cahan. Come early at 6:45PM to join in a Zingeray Yiddish sing-a-long! Includes a panel discussion.
TUESDAY NIGHT, DECEMBER 24, 9:30PM
IRA KHONEN TEMPLE & FRIENDS 🎵
At Hebrew Union College, 1 W 4th St. Admission: $25 in-person/$17 livestream (included in a Full Festival Pass). You can also pay at the door.
Sharp-witted singer/songwriter developing new Yiddish culture as a doorway between past, present and possible futures.
WEDNESDAY LUNCHTIME, DECEMBER 25, 1:15PM
RIKI ROSE 🎵
At Hebrew Union College, 1 W 4th St. Admission: $25 in-person/$17 livestream (included in a Full Festival Pass). You can also pay at the door.
Riveting Yiddish singer whose music bridges the Hasidic and secular worlds.
WEDNESDAY NIGHT, DECEMBER 25, 7:00PM
13TH ANNUAL ADRIENNE COOPER DREAMING IN YIDDISH CONCERT & AWARD 🎵+🏅+🕺
Hebrew Union College, 1 W 4th St. $25 in-person/$17 livestream (included in a Full Festival Pass).
Concert honoring klezmer violinist/ educator Deborah Strauss with the 2024 Adrienne Cooper Dreaming in Yiddish Award. The event will also launch a new recording of Anna Margolin’s poetry by Adrienne Cooper with composer/ pianist Marilyn Lerner.
image: Eric Drooker, photo: Shendl Copitman
THURSDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 26, 9:30AM-12:30PM
YNY SYMPOSIUM – THE SCOREKEEPERS: BRINGING MANUSCRIPTS TO THE MASSES🗣️+🎵
At Hebrew Union College, 1 W 4th St. Admission: $25 in-person/$17 livestream (included in a Full Festival Pass). You can also pay at the door.
Get a behind-the-scenes look at a pioneering world-wide, crowd-sourced effort to bring hundreds of newly-discovered klezmer tunes from Ukraine’s national archive back into circulation & listen to some of the treasures unearthed.
CLICK FOR INFO
THURSDAY AFTERNOON, DECEMBER 26, 1:30PM
THE ALWAYS GREAT STUDENT CONCERT 🎵+🎭+🕺
At Hebrew Union College, 1 W 4th St. In-Person and available on Livestream (included in a Full Festival Pass). You can also pay at the door.
We wrap up the festival by giving the true stars of YNY a chance to shine… join us to cheer them on!
YNY PARTNER EVENT – OFFICIAL AFTERPARTY!
THURSDAY NIGHT, DECEMBER 26, 7PM-12AM
KLEZTRONICA – 2 YEAR ANNIVERSARY 🎵+🎭+🕺
At DROM, 85 Avenue A New York, NY 10009. Admission not included in YNY Full Festival Passes (also not available by livestream).
Come celebrate two years of Kleztronica at this official YNY Afterparty! Immerse yourself in Yiddish samples, klezmer, drag, burlesque and more!
FRIDAY NIGHT, DECEMBER 27, 6:00PM
YNY SHABESNUKKAH: YOUR 2 FAVORITE JEWISH HOLIDAYS IN 1 NIGHT! 🙏+🕎+🎵
At Congregation Beth Elohim, 274 Garfield Place (corner of 8th Avenue) in Brooklyn.
YNY is excited to join with Hazzan Josh Breitzer and Congregation Beth Elohim in Park Slope Brooklyn for a special post-festival klezmerish/yidishlekh Kabboles-Shabbos service! Oh and it’s the 3rd night of Hanukkah too!
The evening will feature Hazzan Breitzer, Hazzan Sarah Myerson, Hazzan Jeff Warschauer, singer M. Miller, multi-instrumentalist Ilya Shneyveys and violinist and singer Deborah Strauss. This will be a warm and wonderful Friday night service with very special musical settings for the occasion. Absolutely all are welcome! Be there!
For more information, contact Cantor Jeff Warschauer at cantorjeffwarschauer@gmail.com, or call 347-623-4228
PROGRAMS FROM OUR PARTNERS
CHECK OUT THESE GREAT PROGRAMS…
