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AN HISTORICAL ENCOUNTER!

For the first time, the major Jewish arts organizations of the world are coming together in New York City, at one time. Eight days and nights jam-packed with great plays, concerts, films, and lectures to inspire and entertain you! Presented by National Yiddish Theatre Folksbiene at Museum of Jewish Heritage in collaboration with UJA-Federation of New York.

A CENTENNIAL CELEBRATION

The award-winning National Yiddish Theatre Folksbiene, the longest running Yiddish theater in the world, has defied all odds to survive and has flourished for the past 100 years. We invite everyone from around the world to celebrate this milestone with us.

100 EVENTS, ARTISTS, MUSICIANS, SCHOLARS

We will present theater performances, outdoor concerts, films, dance, a symposium, nightly Klezkabarets, exhibits, lectures, and workshops. Theatre artists, musicians, and scholars in participation will represent over 30 countries across the globe.

More info: kulturfestnyc.org/

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The Ester Rokhl and Ida Kaminska Jewish Theatre presents "Bonjour Monsieur Chagall"
Performed In Yiddish with English Translation Supertitles

Thu 6/18 2pm and 7pm
Abrons Arts Center
466 Grand St,
NYC

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Bonjour Monsieur Chagall is a colorful musical performance based on poetic works and painting by Marc Chagall. The play is reminiscent of the atmosphere of the Jewish World from Eastern Europe, where this extraordinary artist grew up and evolved. Vivid visions of the painter from Vitebsk revive in the scenes abounding in nostalgic humor, lyrical Jewish music, dance and a fairylike atmosphere. The script was inspired by a personal meeting of Jewish theater director Szymon Szurmiej with Chagall himself.

part of #KulturfestNYC week-long international Jewish performing arts festival (100+shows)

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Just a little reminder that I'm playing with the Nu Haven Kapelye tonight, Thursday, June 18, on the New Haven Green as a part of the International Festival of Arts and Ideas.

Why not come down and hear some good music and make it a picnic dinner concert?

We're playing from 6-7 p.m.

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We open up again tonight, for out third year of Balagan Café, the summer festival we host in the garden of the Jewish Community of Florence. Past editions have seen a lot of people coming to enjoy music, literature, food - and we’ve been lucky enough to be able to host some friends of this list, including just to name a few, Jeff Warschawer and Deborah Strauss, Steve Weintraub, Avery Gosfield w/ Lucidarium, Sharon Bernstein and Francesco Spagnolo, Diana Matut and Andreas Schmitges, Ruth Gruber. This year our very special guest from overseas will be Frank London, on Thursday August 30th; tonight, with the help of the “Balagan Cafe Orchestra" Enrico Fink will be performing a monologue with music called “La mamma, l’angelo e la ciambella” that deals with Italian Jewish music and Italian Jewish stories and Italian Jewish food - especially from Ferrara. You can read about the Balagan in some English articles on the web such as these

http://forward.com/culture/186528/putting-florences-jewish-history-into-the-spotligh

see the website for this year’s dates, won’t be open every Thursday)
Florence, via Farini 4 (in front of the Great Synagogue)
Enrico Fink, artistic director

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Michael Alpert and Julian Kytasty:
Night Songs from a Neighoring Village: Ballads of the Ukrainian & Yiddish Heartland

Thursday, June 18, 7:00pm
YIVO
15 W. 16th St., NYC

Join us for a concert program pairing two musical traditions - East European Jewish and Ukrainian - that have existed side by side and nourished each other for centuries. Night Songs from a Neighboring Village includes performance, personal storytelling and commentary, and has been featured at major concert venues in Los Angeles, Jerusalem, Berlin, Krakow and elsewhere throughout the US and Europe.

More info: yivo.org/events/index.php?tid=205&aid=1380

More about KulturFest

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Lea Koenig-Stolper in Concert
with Zalmen Mlotek at the piano

Thu, Jun 18, 2015, 7:30pm

Museum of Jewish Heritage,
36 Battery Pl
NYC

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Lea Koenig-Stolper is the first lady of Israeli theater. She is a recipient of “The Israel Prize” for Lifetime Achievement, the highest award for arts and culture bestowed by the state of Israel. Lea is one of the few remaining actors in the world to have come from the authentic Yiddish theatrical tradition, which served a large Jewish community in Eastern Europe prior to the outbreak of the Second World War.

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part of #KulturfestNYC week-long international Jewish performing arts festival (100+shows)

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Merlin & Polina Shepherd

Thursday, June 18at 7:00pm
Joe's Pub
425 Lafayette St, New York, New York 10003

Tickets Available www.publictheater.org

Clarinetist and composer Merlin Shepherd, an innovative force in the klezmer renaissance and Polina Shepherd, a virtuosic vocalist, pianist and composer blend traditional and new Yiddish and Russian song with klezmer and southern Mediterranean music.

More info: www.facebook.com/events/1622617121288251/

Part of KulturFestNYC

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Andy Statman Trio
(we're expecting some friends from out of town!)

Thursday 18 June @ 8PM
The Charles Street Synagogue
53 Charles St (@ West 4th) New York NY

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From KulturFest and the Bay Area: Ger Mandolin Orchestra Thu, Jun 18, 2015, 8pm Skirball Center for the Performing Arts 566 LaGuardia Place, New York, NY, 10012 The Ger Mandolin Orchestra is the brainchild of Israeli-American Avner Yonai, whose search for his family roots in Poland led him to a tattered photograph of his grandfather and two other relatives playing in a pre-WWII Jewish mandolin orchestra in the Polish town of Gora Kalwaria (Ger in Yiddish). The Ger Mandolin Orchestra is led by acoustic music innovator Mike Marshall, a multiple Grammy nominee/winner for his work over the last 35 years with such artists as David Grisman, Bela Fleck, Edgar Meyer, and many more. Marshall is joined in the Ger Mandolin Orchestra by an all-star cast of ten mandolinists from Canada, the US and Europe, including Chris Acquavella, Tim Connell, Caterina Lichtenberg, Barry Mitterhoff, Brian Oberlin, Dana Rath, Adam Roskiewicz, Eric Stein, Jeff Warschauer, and Radim Zenkl. With their collective stylistic mastery including everything from Jewish, Balkan and Latin music to bluegrass, jazz, and classical, this is one of the most formidable mandolin supergroups ever assembled.

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