All Events in Yiddish Book Center (44)

Gallery Talk: "Yiddish Fight Club" with Eddy Portnoy

June 19, 2016 from 2pm to 3:30pm – Yiddish Book Center Curator Eddy Portnoy shares the story behind Yiddish Fight Club, a look at the often-overlooked history of Jewish boxers and wrestlers and the colorful Yiddish slang of this world. Portnoy is a senio… Organized by Yiddish Book Center | Type: gallery, talk

Film: "Defiant Requiem"

July 3, 2016 from 2pm to 3:30pm – Yiddish Book Center In the Nazi concentration camp Terezin, imprisoned conductor Rafael Schächter led his fellow inmates to fight back with art and music, including a performance of one of the world's most difficult and… Organized by Yiddish Book Center | Type: film

Concert: The Klezmer Conservatory Band, with special guest vocalists Eleanor Reissa and Lorin Sklamberg plus Frank London

July 14, 2016 from 8pm to 10pm – Yiddish Book Center The Joan A. Backman Memorial ConcertFor more than thirty-five years, the Klezmer Conservatory Band has been the preeminent group of the klezmer revival. Led by multi-instrumentalist and scholar Hanku… Organized by Yiddish Book Center | Type: concert

Concert: Eleanor Reissa

July 15, 2016 from 2:30pm to 4:30pm – Yiddish Book Center The Helen & Irving Sunshine Memorial Concert The queen of Yiddish cabaret, Eleanor Reissa is a Brooklyn-born native Yiddish speaker whose work in theater as a director, actor, writer, and choreo… Organized by Yiddish Book Center | Type: concert
Concert: Sklamberg & The Shepherds

July 15, 2016 from 5:30pm to 7:30pm – Yiddish Book Center Sklamberg & the Shepherds brings together three of the world's leading performers of traditional Eastern European Jewish music: Merlin Shepherd, whose great-grandparents emigrated from Ukraine an… Organized by Yiddish Book Center | Type: concert

Concert: The Klezmatics Thirtieth Anniversary Show

July 16, 2016 from 8pm to 10pm – Yiddish Book Center The internationally acclaimed, Grammy Award-winning Klezmatics have been performing around the world since their first appearance in New York in 1986. Blending instrumental and vocal virtuosity and e… Organized by Yiddish Book Center | Type: concert

Concert: Paul Shapiro's Ribs & Brisket Revue

July 17, 2016 from 12pm to 2pm – Yiddish Book Center The Bernard and Reva Broder Memorial Concert With his Ribs & Brisket Revue, saxophonist/bandleader Paul Shapiro explores the unique Yiddish-jazz repertoire of the 1940s, featuring songs mostly a… Organized by Yiddish Book Center | Type: concert
Concert: Frank London- Merlin Shepherd Group

July 17, 2016 from 3pm to 5pm – Yiddish Book Center This unique-to-Yidstock band brings together two titans of klezmer and Yiddish music, who will mix and match their styles, which equally draw from deep tradition and cutting-edge innovation, putting… Organized by Yiddish Book Center | Type: concert
Concert: Yidstock All-Stars in a Musical Tribute to Sholem Aleichem

July 17, 2016 from 7:30pm to 9:30pm – Yiddish Book Center Every year, Yidstock ends with a one-time-only performance by an all-star ensemble, under the musical direction of Frank London. This year's All-Stars include Eleanor Reissa, Merlin and Polina Shephe… Organized by Yiddish Book Center | Type: concert

Film: "Morgenthau"

July 31, 2016 from 2pm to 3:30pm – Yiddish Book Center The story of three generations of an American family at the forefront of the most dramatic events of the past hundred years: Henry Morgenthau Sr., U.S. ambassador to the Ottoman Empire; Henry Morgent… Organized by Yiddish Book Center | Type: film