YNY Theater Faculty Maddy Popkin (Boston Worker’s Circle) was recently interviewed by radio host Randee Mia Berman on the show Mia’s World (distributed by City World Radio). You can listen to Maddy & Mia at 19:07 by clicking here.
YNY’s Dovid Braun & Josh Waletzky Talk About YNY on Radio’s Yiddish Voice!
YNY Yiddish scholar Dovid Braun, who also serves as President of the Sholem Aleichem Cultural Center, and YNY Organizing Committee member Josh Waletzky were recently interviewed in Yiddish on The Yiddish Voice – Dos Yidishe Kol radio program. It aired Wed Dec 11 at 7:30pm on WUNR (Boston) 1600AM “The Yiddish Voice – Dos Yidishe Kol.” In the interview Braun and Waletzky discusses YNY in general, and Braun additionally provides focus on his lecture series on Yiddish dialects, as well as the Dec 15 Sholem Aleichem Cultural Center presentation by Miryem-Khaye Seigel, and the Center’s campaign to raise money for a new roof. Click the following link to listen: https://the-yiddish-voice-podcast.zencast.website/episodes/191
Dos Yidishe Kol radio program. It aired Wed Dec 11 at 7:30pm on WUNR (Boston) 1600AM “The Yiddish Voice – Dos Yidishe Kol.” In the interview Braun and Waletzky discusses YNY in general, and Braun additional provides focus on his lecture series on Yiddish dialects, as well as the Dec 15 Sholem Aleichem Cultural Center presentation by Miryem-Khaye Seigel, and the Center’s campaign to raise money for a new roof. Click the following link to listen: https://the-yiddish-voice-podcast.zencast.website/episodes/191
Press Release – YNY 2019
YNY’s 2019 Festival official press release is available here – please help us get out the word!: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1zoTntGrhGI9noFoHBYNnlTZ-uHr-zhYH5vFGUREBP0E/edit?usp=sharing
2019 Registration is Open!
We are excited to open registration for the 5th Annual Yiddish New York, which will run from Saturday night, December 21 – Thursday December 26, 2019. Information about registration can be found here. We are also pleased to announce our 2019 Daytime Workshops and Faculty. Information about Evening Programs is coming soon! Tell your friends!
New Judith Helfand film features YNY!
Award-winning filmmaker Judith Helfand has made a new short film for Tribeca Studios about exploring identity with her 4 1/2 year old daughter Theo. Theo has been a mainstay of YNY’s kids program, and a few of the scenes in the film– entitled “Absolutely No Spitting”– were shot at YNY in December 2018.