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Close readings of selected tracks by the Barton Brothers, Mickey Katz, and Allan Sherman will focus on their language, their music, their delivery, and what made them so influential and so very funny.

Award winning producer, author, and ethnomusicologist Henry Sapoznik looks at the phenomenon of African American musicians who performed Yiddish and cantorial music in and for the Jewish community.

Mark Slobin situates the “Yiddish folksong” in the context of the general European folksong world as well as the world of the performed expressive culture of ‘Yiddishland’, from prayer through popular song.

This fall, the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research will be premiering two Sidney Krum Young Artists Concerts featuring Hebrew and Yiddish folksongs from the 1920s and 1930s.

Join YIVO Sound Archivist Lorin Sklamberg for a heymish springtime singing circle surveying Yiddish folk, theater and art songs drawn from over 30 years of collecting.

This course will do close readings of tracks by the Barton Brothers, and then focus particularly on Mickey Katz, before closing with an appreciative look at Allan Sherman’s work. For all these artists, we will consider their language, their music, their delivery, and what made them so influential and so very funny.

Join us for a performance of Alexander Krein’s Ten Yiddish Songs Op. 49 (c. 1937). Performed by singer Lucy Fitz Gibbon with pianist Ryan MacEvoy McCullough, these ten songs reimagine Yiddish folksong texts and melodies in rich and imaginative arrangements for piano and voice.

This documentary film tells the story of musician and scholar Moyshe Beregovsky, who crisscrossed Ukraine with a phonograph in hand during the most dramatic years of Soviet history to record and study the traditional music of Ukrainian Jewry.

Join YIVO for a discussion exploring the history of the YIVO Sound Archive, important areas of the collection, projects the Sound Archive has facilitated, and other interesting stories from the past 40 years.

Yiddish enthusiasts the world over, join the YIVO Yiddish club to celebrate Mame-loshn. This session features Adah Hetko, a Yiddish singer, songwriter, and educator.