KlezCalendar

New York Klezmer Series
Music led by Susan Leviton & Lauren Brody

Tuesday, Apr 21, 2015
Stephen Wise Free Synagogue
30 W. 68th St.
NYC

All Concerts begin at 7:30pm; $15. jam sessions afterward
Klezmer Instrumental Music at 5:30pm. $25 per class,
Kidz Klezmer Band starts at 4pm—see page for pricing.
Full night pass—$35 (includes class, concert & jam sesson)

More info: aaronalexander.com/wp/ or email NY Klezmer Series

New York Klezmer Series is hosted by and receives support from the Stephen Wise Free Synagogue. We are also supported by The Center for Traditional Music and Dance. Our media co-sponsors are Workmen's Circle.

Support for the NY Klezmer Series is provided by public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts, a State Agency in partnership with Governor Andrew Cuomo. Major support for the An-sky Institute for Jewish Culture was provided to the Center for Traditional Music and Dance by the Keller-Shatanoff Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts and the Atran Foundation. Additional support was provided by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, the Mertz Gilmore Foundation, New York Community Trust, the Fan Fox and Leslie R. Samuels Foundation, the Scherman Foundation and the Gilder Foundation.

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Vialka

Apr 28, 2015
Zoro
Leipzig, Germany

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The "Den Mother" of Yiddish Montreal: An Evening in Honor of Poet Ida Maze

Tuesday, April 28, 2015, 7 p.m.
Vilna Shul
18 Phillips St.
Boston, MA

Maze (1893-1962) was well known for her lyrical poetry, which was published widely in Yiddish journals and newspapers. She was equally well known for the central role she played in Montreal's Yiddish cultural scene, including acting as a literary mentor to many young writers--a role that prompted some to dub her the "den mother of Yiddish Montreal."

The evening will include a bilingual reading of Maze's work and a screening of a new short film about Maze, produced by the Yiddish Book Center's Wexler Oral History Project. The film, which includes excerpts from the project's 2013 interview with Irving Massey, Maze's youngest son, is the first of a series drawn from the project's Beyond the Books: Yiddish Writers and Their Descendants, interviews with the families of Yiddish literary figures.

Massey, professor emeritus of English and comparative literature at the State University of New York at Buffalo, will be at the event and will participate in a discussion with the audience after the screening.

Co-sponsored by the Yiddish Book Center, Jewish Women's Archive, and the Boston Yidish-Hoyz. This event takes place during National Poetry Month.

The program is free and open to the public. For more information, visit yiddishbookcenter.org/events.

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