Calendar of Events Upcoming events at the Yiddish Book Center - including Yidstock: The Festival of New Yiddish Music (July 11-14, 2019) . Visit, Shop, Calendar FILM | Remember Baghdad: Iraq’s Last Jews Tell the Story of Their Country | Sunday, April 14 @ 2 p.m. Five families from the Jewish community look back on a scarcely imaginable time in Baghdad – Iraq was booming, it was pleasure-seeking, and there was inter-communal trust. Click here for more information. Community Open House | Sunday, April 28, 10 a.m. - 4 p.m. A day of events featuring the 2019 Melinda Rosenblatt Lecture with Pamela Nadell, an exhibit opening, tours, and more. Click for a full schedule of events. FILM | Love, Gilda | Sunday, May 12 @ 2 p.m. Weaving together recently discovered audiotapes, interviews with friends, and rare home movies and diaries, comedian Gilda Radner reflects on her life and career in her own words. Click to read more and to purchase tickets. FILM | Call Her Applebroog | Sunday, May 26 @ 2 p.m. Born in the Bronx to Orthodox Jewish émigrés from Poland, Applebroog, now in her 80s, looks back at how she expressed herself through decades of drawings and paintings, as well as private journals. Click here to read more and purchase tickets. FILM | Beating the Odds: The Al Rosen Story | Sunday, June 16 @ 2 p.m. After an early childhood in South Florida in which he suffered from severe asthma attacks, Al Rosen emerged as one of the most feared sluggers in baseball in the 1950s. Click to read more and purchase tickets. FILM | Good Thoughts, Good Words, Good Deeds: The Conductor Zubin Mehta | Sunday, June 30 @ 2 p.m. Conductor Zubin Mehta is most identified by his affiliation with Israel since Mehta has developed strong ties with the state and become the face of its cultural excellence. Click for more information and to purchase tickets. AUTHOR TALK | On the Landing, with Ellen Cassedy | Sunday, July 7 @ 2 p.m. On the Landing opens by inviting us to join a woman making her way through her ruined hometown in southeastern Europe, recalling the colorful customs of yesteryear—and the night everything changed. Click to read more. Yidstock 2019: July 11-14 The eighth annual Yidstock takes place at the Yiddish Book Center on July 11-14, 2019. FILM | "Ver Vet Blaybn? Who Will Remain? (Sneak peek screening) | Thursday, July 11 @ 12 - 1 p.m. YIDSTOCK 2019 | Produced at the Yiddish Book Center, this documentary follows Israeli actress Hadas Kalderon as she retraces the extraordinary journey of her grandfather, Yiddish writer Avrom Sutzkever. Click to read more and purchase tickets. TALK | The Essential Klezmer, with Seth Rogovoy | Thursday, July 11, 2 - 3 p.m. YIDSTOCK 2019 | Seth Rogovoy, Yidstock’s artistic director takes the audience on a multimedia journey through klezmer, from Old World shtetls to New World stages. Click to read more, and to purchase tickets. TALK | Yiddish Folk Song: The Classic Recordings, with Hankus Netsky | Thursday, July 11, 4 - 5 p.m. YIDSTOCK 2019 | Hankus Netsky will examine The a cappella Yiddish folksong tradition that was passed on orally for many centuries. Click to read more and purchase tickets. CONCERT | Daniel Kahn & the Painted Bird | Thursday, July 11, 8 - 9:15 p.m. YIDSTOCK 2019 | Daniel Kahn & the Painted Bird perform a blend of original and traditional songs, including songs of resistance along with love songs, cries of despair, and declarations of triumph. Click for more information and to purchase tix. TALK | The Klezmer at the Eastern European Jewish Wedding, with Hankus Netsky | Friday, July 12, 11 a.m. - 12 p.m. YIDSTOCK 2019 | Hankus Netsky will look at how the klezmer actually functioned within the nineteenth and early twentieth century Jewish community. Click to read more and to purchase tickets. WORKSHOP | Sing in Shabbos: Welcoming the Beloved with Song, with Aviva Chernick | Friday, July 12 @ 11 a.m. - 12 p.m. YIDSTOCK 2019 | Award-winning Canadian musician, prayer leader, and vocalist Aviva Chernick will guide participants through song and poetry, warming up the spirit for the coming of Shabbat. Click to read more and purchase tickets. WORKSHOP | Yiddish Dance 101: How to Dance to Klezmer Music, with Steve Weintraub and Lauren Brody | Friday, July 12, 11 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. YIDSTOCK 2019 | World-renowned dance instructor Steve Weintraub offers an overview of the Yiddish style of dance. Click for more information and to purchase tickets. TALK | A Conversation with Frank London | Friday, July 13, 1 - 1:45 p.m. YIDSTOCK 2019 | Frank London will explore how his career has unfolded and what he has planned for the future in conversation with Seth Rogovoy. Click to read more and purchase tickets. CONCERT | An Afternoon of Yiddish Song with Vira Lozinsky & Hankus Netsky | Friday, July 12, 2:30 - 3:30 p.m. YIDSTOCK 2019 | The Helen and Irving Sunshine Memorial Concert | Vira Lozinsky makes her Yidstock debut accompanied by pioneering Yiddish music revivalist Hankus Netsky. Click to read more and to purchase tickets. TALK | A Conversation with Vira Lozinsky | Friday, July 12 @ 4 - 4:45 p.m. YIDSTOCK 2019 | Vira Lozinsky, widely regarded as one of the greatest living exponents of Yiddish song, explores her Yiddish roots and influences in conversation with Seth Rogovoy. Click to read more and to purchase tickets. CONCERT | Nigunim Trio | Friday, July 12, 5:30 - 6:30 p.m. YIDSTOCK 2019 | Nigunim Trio performs spiritual Hasidic-Jewish chants whose purpose is to induce a state of piety and ecstasy in both performer and listener. Click to read more and purchase tickets. WORKSHOP | Build-a-Sher Yiddish Dance, with Steve Weintraub and Lauren Brody | Saturday, July 13, 10 - 11:30 a.m. YIDSTOCK 2019 | World-famous dance instructor Steve Weintraub explores the iconic Jewish square dance, the sher, with participants creating their own Yidstock sher. Click to read more and to purchase tickets. TALK | The Lodz Masterpieces: Three Jewish Womens Art Books Revealed, with David Mazower | Saturday, July 13 @ 11 a.m. - 12 p.m. YIDSTOCK 2019 | Made possible by the Stanley R. Epstein Fund at the Yiddish Book Center | David Mazower re-creates the extraordinary story of three innovative women fresh out of art school. Click to read more and purchase tickets. TALK | A Conversation with Daniel Kahn | Saturday, July 13, 1 - 1:45 p.m. YIDSTOCK 2019 | Detroit-born, Berlin-based singer/songwriter, poet, and activist Daniel Kahn will explore the roots and branches of his inspiration and innovation in conversation with Seth Rogovoy. Click to read more and purchase tickets. WORKSHOP | Instrumental Klezmer, with Brian Bender | Saturday, July 13, 1 - 3 p.m. YIDSTOCK 2019 | Trombonist/keyboardist Brian Bender leads an instrumental workshop for aspiring klezmer musicians. All instruments and playing abilities welcomed. Click to read more and purchase tickets. TALK | A Conversation with Aviva Chernick | Saturday, July 13, 3 - 3:45 p.m. YIDSTOCK 2019 | Aviva Chernick explores her journey and her newfound interest in Yiddish in conversation with Seth Rogovoy. Click to read more and purchase tickets. CONCERT | Eleanor Reissa & Frank London's Klezmer Brass Allstars, with special guests | Saturday, July 13, 8 - 9:30 p.m. YIDSTOCK 2019 | The Joan A. Backman Memorial Concert | Eleanor Reissa, Frank London, and the Klezmer Brass Allstars explore the world of Yiddish song from the obscure to the chestnuts. Click to read more and to purchase tickets. WORKSHOP | Lomir Zingen! Yiddish Song Workshop, with Asya Vaisman Schulman and Brian Bender | Sunday, July 14, 10:30 - 11:30 a.m. YIDSTOCK 2019 | At this workshop, participants will learn to sing Yiddish songs old and new, including some of the songs being performed throughout the festival. No prior knowledge of Yiddish necessary. Click to read more and purchase tickets. FILM | BEYLE: The Artist and Her Legacy, (World premiere) | Sunday, July 14 @ 10:30 - 11:30 a.m. YIDSTOCK 2019 | This short documentary tells the story of artist and activist Beyle Schaechter-Gottesman’s rich life through archival recordings along with newly recorded oral history interviews. Click to read more and to purchase tickets. CONCERT | Lid un balade: Daniel Kahn & Sarah Mina Gordon | Sunday, July 14, 12 - 1 p.m. YIDSTOCK 2019 | Daniel Kahn and Sarah Mina Gordon present an acoustic set of original and traditional Yiddish songs and ballads. Click to read more and purchase tickets. TALK | A Conversation with Eleanor Reissa | Sunday, July 14 @ 1:30 - 2:15 p.m. YIDSTOCK 2019 | Sponsored by Herbert Druker and Carol Raspler | Eleanor Reissa is one of the premier Yiddish vocalists in the world. She is joined in conversation with Seth Rogovoy. Click to read more and purchase tickets. CONCERT | Cantar i Zingen: Aviva Chernick Ensemble and Friends | Sunday, July 14, 3 - 4 p.m. YIDSTOCK 2019 | Best known as a Ladino singer, Aviva Chernick makes her Yidstock debut with her Toronto-based band plus a little help from some Yidstock all-stars. Click to read more and purchase tickets. TALK | A Conversation with Aaron Lansky and Susan Bronson | Sunday, July 14, 4:30 - 5:30 p.m. YIDSTOCK 2019 | Yiddish Book Center President Aaron Lansky and Executive Director Susan Bronson talk about the Center's future plans. Click to read more and RSVP. CONCERT | The Klezmatics, with special guest Vira Lozinsky | Sunday, July 14 @ 7:30 - 9 p.m. YIDSTOCK 2019 | The Bernard and Reva Broder Memorial Concert | The Klezmatics blend instrumental and vocal virtuosity and experimentation with theatricality firmly rooted in klezmer and Yiddish tradition. Click to read more and purchase tickets. GALLERY TALK | The Posthumous Landscape: Jewish Historical Sites in Poland and Western Ukraine, with David Kaufman | Sunday, July 21 @ 2 p.m. Architectural photographer, David Kaufman, has made nine trips to Poland and western Ukraine to photograph the remnants of Jewish life that remain following the destruction of local Jewish communities under the Nazis. Click to read more. FILM | Persona Non Grata | Sunday, July 28 @ 1:30 p.m. As WWII begins, hordes of Jewish refugees flee to Lithuania. In search of transit visas, they turn to a Japanese diplomat who is torn between his loyalty to his country and his loyalty to mankind. Click to read more and purchase tickets. FILM | Shalom Italia | Sunday, August 11 @ 2 p.m. Three Italian Jewish brothers set off on a journey through Tuscany in search of a cave in which they hid as children to escape the Nazis. Click to read more and purchase tickets. FILM | Birobidzhan | Sunday, August 25 @ 2 p.m. In 1934, the Soviet Union founded the Jewish Autonomous Oblast, an independent communist state for Jews in a remote corner of Russia where the official language was Yiddish. Click to read more and to purchase tickets.
