At YNY 2020, Linda Gritz brought to Josh Waletzky and Daniel Kahn’s songwriting class a draft translation of Woody Guthrie’s classic This Land is Your Land. And now Jordan Kutzik of the Forverts reports on where it went from there (and you can watch the video)!
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YNY Film Festival
We’re excited to announce films for the 2020 YNY Film Festival, curated by documentarian/composer Josh Waletzky. Films will be streamed over the internet to your home beginning on Wednesday morning, December 23.
2020 FEATURES: Yiddish in Shorts (6 short films), Chava Alberstein – A Source of Inspiration (2020, N. American Premiere), The Living Orphan (1937), Song Searcher (2021, Avant Premiere), A Kiss in Your Heart (2020).
Each film features a Q&A. For more information see the YNY Film Festival webpage.
YNY’s Binyumen Schaechter Featured in the Forverts!
The Yiddish Forward writes about Binyumen Schaechter’s YNY class on Ashkenazic surnames – read the article (in Yiddish) at this link: https://forward.com/yiddish/460256/lectures-in-yiddish-on-jewish-surnames/
For more information about the class, see YNY’s Detailed Program Guide.
YNY a Jewish Week Pick!
YNY is a pick in this week’s Jewish Week. Read all about it here: https://jewishweek.timesofisrael.com/yiddish-festivals-matisyahu-brisket-mrs-maisel-all-the-jewish-events-in-nyc/