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CAN YOU FIND THESE FOLK MUSIC HEROES IN THE PICTURE ABOVE?
Joan Baez, Reverend Gary Davis, Bob Dylan, Walter Zev Feldman, Sarah Gordon, Woody Guthrie, Daniel Kahn, Tine Kindermann, Jeyn Levison, Frank London, Sarah Myerson, Odetta, Ethel Raim and the Pennywhistlers, Abigale Reisman, Jean Ritchie, Suze Rotolo, Pete Seeger, Ilya Shneyveys, Andy Statman, Dave Van Ronk, Josh Waletzky, Jeff Warschauer, Rachel Weston and Michael Winograd.
December 23-28 IN-PERSON (at Hebrew Union College, Manhattan) and ONLINE (on Zoom). Click the links below for information about this year's programs:
> An Inclusive Community Working to Advance
Contemporary Yiddish Culture, Scholarship & Activism
> And much more!
Intergenerational and Accessible
Join us in December for Yiddish New York! Be part of an amazing intergenerational community, local and international. Programs for young, old and everyone in between!
YNY 2023 Curators/Organizers: Aaron Bendich, Edy Borger, Nicole Borger, Sarah Gordon, Esther Gottesman, Itzik Gottesman, Tine Kindermann, Jeyn Levison, Frank London, Ethel Raim, Pete Rushefsky, Ilya Shneyveys, Deborah Strauss, Judy Sweet, Josh Waletzky
YNY Coordinator: Clara Byom
We are grateful for the support of the Marinus and Minna B. Koster Foundation, the Atran Foundation, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, the Covenant Foundation, Con Edison, the Adrienne Cooper Fund for Dreaming in Yiddish, the Yiddish Artists & Friends– Actors Club, Itsik (Jonathan) Sunshine, Nan Bases, Frances & Mitchell Harris, Ellie Schweber, Nicola Bird, Seth Weisberg and family.
Partner Organizations: The Center for Traditional Music and Dance (fiscal sponsor), The Museum of Jewish Heritage, The Workers Circle, The 14th Street Y, The Forward, The Center for Jewish History, The Sholem Aleichem Cultural Center, The Educational Alliance, The Museum At Eldridge Street, The National Museum of American Jewish History, The New York Klezmer Series, The Town and Village Synagogue, The YIVO Institute for Jewish Research, The Stanton Street Shul, The Workers Circle, The Forward Newspapers, The National Yiddish Theatre Folksbiene, The Yiddish Book Center, The League for Yiddish, Yiddishkayt, Klezmer Institute, The New York Jewish Guide, The Yiddish Arts and Academics Association of North America (YAAANA), JewishWorldLife.com, New York State Council on the Arts, The New York Jewish Parenting Guide, and Austrian Cultural Forum New York. International partners: Institut Européen des Musiques Juives (Paris), Instituto da Musica Judaica Brasil, KlezKanada (Quebec), The Ashkenaz Festival (Toronto)).
We are grateful to photographers Bob Blacksberg, Shendl Copitman, David Kaufman, William Meyers and Lloyd Wolf for the use of their images.