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YUNG YiDiSH WIEN

a space for Yiddish language and culture in the heart of Leopoldstadt

YUNG YiDiSH WIEN

a space for Yiddish language and culture in the heart of Leopoldstadt

Following on from our successful Festival "Jiddisch auf der Spur", we opened the doors of our new location YUNG YiDiSH WIEN Cultural Centre in the heart of the Orthodox Jewish part of Leopoldstadt in January 2024!

Our space caters for the needs of the Viennese cultural public interested in Yiddish language and culture, throws a special spotlight on women’s contribution to Yiddish culture, and also reaches out to the Yiddish-speaking Orthodox community living in the vicinity of our location.

YUNG YiDiSH TEL AVIV


YUNG YiDiSH WIEN is the first international filiale of the YUNG YiDiSH LIBRARY AND CULTURAL CENTRE in Tel Aviv,
founded and directed by Mendy Cahan.
YUNG YiDiSH TEL AVIV has been running a rich cultural program, keeping Yiddish language and culture alive in Israel for over thirty years.

In the unlikely location of the Main Bus Station of Tel Aviv, over sixty thousand books, collected painstakingly one by one, sit on shelves and inside boxes, bearing witness to a rich world of Eastern European Yiddish culture.

Regular events

  • YUNG YiDiSH WIEN Shmieskrayz We continue our regular conversation group meetings with Philip Schwartz and Eidel Malowicki. 
  • KLEZMER-BEISL We have started a new regular informal klezmer music jam session led by accordionist Richard Sinew. We will start every session by learning a new tune! Do not be shy and bring your instruments!
  • and much more...

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Authors in conversation: Vivi Lachs and Barry Smerin, authors of a new anthology of translated Yiddish feuilletons from the London East End, dating from the 1880s to the 1950s, published earlier this year by Wayne State University Press.

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Miriam Camerini, artist in residence at YUNG YiDiSH WIEN and Klara Trencsenyi independent film maker will hold a discussion with Perl Gluck, the director after the viewing. The event is co-sponsored by the University of Vienna.

CASTLES IN THE SKY (2023, 30 MINS)
Malke, a Holocaust survivor and a beloved sex-ed teacher has secretly been slamming poetry in New York’s Lower East Side for the last three decades, defying all communal norms and laws. One day her transgressive pursuits are discovered by one of her bridal students. Is Malke willing to risk it all for her poetry?

SUMMER (2018, 18 MINS)
Two teenage girls in a Hasidic sleepaway camp, despite their every effort to maintain their purity, explore a forbidden book which leads them to a sexual awakening neither of them are prepared to encounter.
Pre-registration is obligatory. Tickets, on the door: 7EUR (5EUR YYW MEMBERS)

To register please send an email to register@yungyidishvienna.org with GLUCK in the subject line and your name in the body of the email. https://palinkapictures.com/

The event is co-sponsored by the University of Vienna.

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Experience the 1920s with a little Yiddish taste. What can be more Viennese than a café-théâtre evening with Yiddish songs. Mendy Cahan returns to YUNG YiDiSH WIEN to entertain you after a sold out Yiddish cabaret performance last year.

Tickets: €15 (€12 for YYW members) with complimentary drink. Children free.

Reserve your seat by sending an email to register@yungyidishvienna.org with subject line CABARET and your name in the body of the email.

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TWO SCHOLARSHIPS AVAILABLE FOR FULL FEES! DEADLINE FOR APPLICATION: 8 JUNE

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The Viennese journalist Karl Kraus once quipped that "psychoanalysis was the disease of assimilated Jews; Eastern European Jews made do with diabetes." This talk will explore what Freud meant for those Yiddish-speaking "diabetics" who nevertheless were fascinated by "the famous Jewish Professor from Vienna," as this relationship was reflected in the popular Jewish press.

Professor Seidman is the Jackman Humanities Professor at the University of Toronto, in the Department for the Study of Religion and the Centre for Diaspora and Transnational Studies. We welcome her back to YUNG YiDiSH WIEN to give a lecture about her freshly-published book, The Navel of the Dream: Freud’s Jewish Languages, a study of the Hebrew and Yiddish translations of Freud's writings during his lifetime. Her previous book, Sarah Schenirer and the Bais Yaakov Movement: A Revolution in the Name of Tradition, won a National Jewish Book Award in Women's Studies in 2019. Her podcast on leaving the ultra-Orthodox Jewish world, Heretic in the House, was recently released by the Shalom Hartman Institute.

The lecture will be followed by a klezmer music and dance party with the Hawaras!

Attendance is FREE, donations are welcome for The Hawaras!

Please pre-register by sending an email to register@yungyidishvienna.org with subject line SEIDMAN and your name in the body of the email.
The lecture is co-sponsored by the University of Vienna.

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Amanda Miryem-Khaye Seigel
Pepi Litman and Women on the Yiddish Stage

Amanda (Miryem-Khaye) Seigel, is a Yiddish singer, songwriter, actor, recording artist and scholar in Yiddish music and culture. She has performed internationally and released a CD called “Toyznt tamen=A thousand flavors”. She is co-editor (with Alyssa Quint) of the monograph Women on the Yiddish Stage (Legenda, 2023) and a member of the Digital Yiddish Theatre Project. She completed advanced Yiddish studies at YIVO Institute for Jewish Research. http://www.memkhes.com

Her talk highlights the career of the Yiddish actress, singer, and drag king Pepi Litman, whose passionate, hilarious, and risque performances captivated audiences from Warsaw to New York to Vienna. Come learn about Pepi’s life and work, and find out about the Women on the Yiddish Stage project, a scholarly project incorporating new articles as well as translations from primary sources, all by and about Yiddish female artists in history.

Attendees will also have the option to participate in a brief zingeray (Yiddish singalong) following the talk.

Tickets: FREE Donations for YYW welcome

Pre-registration is obligatory. Please send an email to register@yungyidishvienna.org with SEIGEL in the subject line and your name in the body of the email.

Photo by Jana Lyubovitsky; P. Litman photo is from the Forverts archive; Event is co-sponsored by the University of Vienna
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Shtetl Berlin comes to Vienna!

THURSDAY 22 MAY, 2025
7:30PM
at YUNG YiDiSH WIEN, Lilienbrunngasse 18, 1020, Wien

A trio from Shtetl Berlin is coming to YYW to perform!
Sasha Lurje (voice),
Sanne Möricke (accordion) and
Christian Dawid (clarinett).

The concert is co-sponsored by the Fortunoff Holocaust Testimonies Video Archive of Yale University. Expect a rich, lebedik musical experience with songs form the archive!

Tickets: 15eur, 12eur for YYW members, under 18 free, as always.

We start at 7:30pm. Please pre-register by emailing register@yungyidishvienna.org with subject line SHTETLBERLIN and your name in the body of the email.
https://www.facebook.com/events/1082825700417812

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24 April 2025, 7:30pm


Frische Buchteln : פֿרישע בוכטעלן 
An evening of Yiddish culture in Vienna -
אַ ייִדישער קולטור־אָװנט אין װין

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Annie Gottfried Cohen
אַני גאָטפֿריד כּהן

איז אַ היסטאָריקערין װאָס פֿאָרשט די געשיכטע פֿון קאָמוניזם. אַחוץ דעם פֿאָרשט און שרײַבט זי װעגן װײַבערשע מנהגים בײַ אַשכּנזישע ייִדן. זי לערנט ייִדיש, זעצט איבער פֿון ייִדיש און אױף ייִדיש— אױך לידער װאָס זי זינגט אַלײן
Annie Gottfried Cohen is a historian who studies the history of communism. She also researches and writes about Ashkenazi Jewish women's customs. Annie also teaches Yiddish and translates from Yiddish and into Yiddish, including songs that she performs herself.

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Jake Schneider דזשײק שנײַדער

אַ ייִדיש־אַקטיװיסט, פּאָעט, קאָלאַזשיסט און אומאָפּהענגיקער פֿאָרשער. ער אָרגאַניזירט פֿאַרשײדענע מינים ייִדיש־אונטערנעמונגען אין בערלין. אַחוץ דעם טרעט ער אַרױס מיט רעפֿעראַטן װעגן ייִדיש־קולטור און עקסקורסיעס איבער די אַלטע ייִדישע געסלעך פֿון בערלין
Jake Schneider is a Yiddish activist, poet, collagist, and independent researcher. He organizes different kinds of Yiddish events in Berlin. Jake also gives talks about Yiddish culture and guides tours around the old Jewish streets of Berlin.

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Oles Amiram Volynchyk
אָלעס עמירם װאָלינטשיק

איז אַ מוזיקער און זינגער װאָס שפּילט און זינגט אױף אַ רײ שפּראַכן, צװישן זײ — ייִדיש. ער זעצט אױך איבער לידער פֿון אַנדערע שפּראַכן אױף ייִדיש און האָט געגרינדעט און פֿירט אָן מיטן מוזיק־פּראָיעקט אוקראַ־ייִדיש
Oles Amiram Volynchyk is a musician and singer who performs in several languages, including Yiddish. He also translates songs from other languages into Yiddish. Oles founded and leads the music project UkraYiddish.

Pre-registration is obligatory. Register for the event here with the event name YIDDISH POETRY.

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Register here for 'KLEZMERBEISL'!

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EFIM CHORNY & SUSANNA GHERGUS DUO

In Vienna again after a long pause, Efim Chorny is a sought-after singer on the international Yiddish music scene and a composer of his own Yiddish songs, which are now interpreted by numerous other artists. Together with his congenial partner on the piano, Susanna Ghergus, the musical director of the Jewish Song Theatre in Chisinau (Moldova) since 1992,  they will resurrect a bygone time in Bessarabia, now Moldova, in which the Jewish population expressed their worries and hardships of everyday life but also their joyful moments in Yiddish songs and texts. The two artists are winners of the Bubbe Award from Sao Paulo and the Adrienne Cooper Dreaming in Yiddish Award.

Pre-registration is obligatory. Email register@yungyidishvienna.org with subject line CHORNY and your name(s) in the body of the email. You can also register here.
tickets €18// €15 YUNG YiDiSH WIEN members// children free 


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Könyvbemutató

Tábor Béla: A mítoszomlástól a személyiségig. A szimbólum válsága és a
logosz energizálása

YUNG YiDiSH WIEN, Lilienbrunngasse 18

2025. március 7, 19:00

A kötet szerkesztőjével, Surányi Lászlóval beszélget Szendrői Balázs

A beszélgetés után közös sabbat-vacsora (nem kóser, vegetáriánus)

A belépés díjtalan, adományok a YUNG YiDiSH WIEN javára

Tábor Béla (1907-1992) filozófus, Szabó Lajossal és Hamvas Bélával
együtt a Budapesti Dialogikus Iskola alapítója. Eddig megjelent művei: Vádirat a szellem ellen (Szabó Lajossal, 1936/1991), A zsidóság két útja (1939/1990), Személyiség és logosz. Bevezető és kommentárok a valóság őstörténetéhez (a hagyatékból közreadta Tábor Ádám, 2003), A mítoszomlástól a személyiségig. A szimbólum válsága és a logosz energizálása (szerkesztette Surányi László, 2024)

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register@yungyidishvienna.org with subject line SCHEINYS and your name in the body of the email.
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THIS EVENT IS FULL, REGISTRATION IS CLOSED!

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Register by sending an email to register@yungyidishvienna.org with subject line NESCHOME and your name in the text line. 

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REGISTER HERE WITH EVENT NAME "HAWARAS"!

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Pre-registration is obligatory. Please register here. The event name is NOVE, NIGN, DANCE respectively.

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ELI BENEDICT grew up in an Hasidic family in Israel. During his ultra-Orthodox years, Eli was a recognized Hasidic dancer and created choreographies within the Community. Within the Hasidism to which he belonged, Karlin Stolin, he also used dance as a meditative spiritual prayer tool. Since leaving the community he has taught and guided many dance workshops for beginners as well as professional dancers. He created choreographies and danced himself on various stages in Israel and around the world. Today Eli researches traditional klezmer and Hasidic dance.

Klezmorim (Musicians):

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BENJY FOX-ROSEN (Bass, Accordion)

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RICHARD SENIOW (Accordion)

studierte Jazzklavier und Komposition am Paris College of Music. Nach langjähriger Erfahrung als Pianist bei der Wiener Synagoge Or Chadasch, wuchs sein Interesse für Klezmer und Osteuropäische Volksmusik, woraufhin er seit 2022 die Band "die Hawaras" gründete und dort als Akkordeonist tätig ist.

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NIKOLAUS ZIEROTIN

begann mit fünf Jahren mit klassischer Violine und studierte nach der Schule an der MDW. Nach einem Richtungswechsel hin zu den Naturwissenschaften entdeckte er auch andere Musikrichtungen und deren Geschichte, verfiel dem Klezmer und ist seitdem auf Entdeckung.

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Pre-registration is obligatory. Please register here. The event name is KASSOW. The lecture will be delivered in Yiddish with simultaneous translation available in English via Zoom. Download Zoom on your phone and bring a pair of headphones!

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Zisl Slepovitch:

Interlocutors/ Gesprächs-partner/ וויזאַווי

8pm
Thursday, 27 June 2024

The program is sponsored by the Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies.
Photo by Anya Roz, 2017
Pre-registration is obligatory. Register here with the event name INTERLOCUTORS.
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For the first time, D. Zisl Slepovitch will present back to back two programs that represent two important chapters in his life and professional work as an ethnomusicologist, performing artist, music producer, and more: Traveling the Yiddishland – an ethnographic story based chiefly on his work in his home county Belarus before he emigrated to the US in 2008, and Songs from Testimonies, a massive musical project by the Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies at Yale University. Both programs are united by the common idea, which is lending a voice to and building a bridge between the people who shared their stories, songs, and poetry many years ago — and the present-day audiences, via the means of multimedia, live storytelling, and music performance. The concert will include original compositions and improvised pieces by D. Zisl Slepovitch, who will perform as a singer, pianist, and clarinetist.

Traveling the Yiddishland

Songs from Testimonies in the Fortunoff Video Archive

In 1912, Shimon An-sky set out for the most remote shtetls in the Pale of Settlement with a wax cylinder recorder on a mission to preserve rare folk tales and songs. One hundred years later, D. Zisl Slepovitch and Nina Stepanskaya (1954–2007) made their own journey, this time with a video camera and an audio recorder, on a mission to preserve the disappearing Jewish songs of the Belarusian Jewry in the 20th Century. Traveling the Yiddishland has become one artistic outcome of this extensive series of expeditions by the two scholars. Created by Zisl Slepovitch and originally produced by the National Yiddish Theatre Folksbiene (New York), it is a musical journey across the routes of the Jewish history in the 20th century Eastern and Central Europe – brought to the modern audiences through the original videos and live performance. 

Dr. D. Zisl Slepovitch is the Musician-in-residence in the Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies at Yale University, helmed by its director Stephen Naron. The Archive, founded in 1979 as a grassroots initiative, has amassed over 4400 testimonies of Holocaust survivors and witnesses, over 60 of whioh contain valuable pieces of music and poetry. In 2018 Dr. Slepovitch started his work on the Archive’s music project, named Songs from Testimonies, in this complex multidisciplinary and cross-industry role. Over the past six years he produced, together with the Zisl Slepovitch Ensemble featuring singer Sasha Lurje, three music albums, a video series, performed and gave talks in the United States (including Yale University, Carnegie Hall’s Voice of Hope festival, and YIVO Institue for Jewish Research), Israel (Tel-Aviv University), the UK (Conway Hall, London), and European Union (MDW Wien, NS-Dokumentationszeuntrum München, Jewish Historical Institute in Warsaw, to name a few). Animation based on one of the songs in the project (The Waltz / A Valts), created by Yulia Ruditskaya, has won prizes and nominations at multiple film festivals worldwide. The 'Songs from Testimonies' project creates a window into the survivors and witnesses’ lives and amplifies their voices, which seems important now as never before since the Holocaust.

Dr. D. Zisl Slepovitch

is a native of Minsk, Belarus, who has resided in the United States since 2008. He is a musicologist and ethnomusicologist (Ph.D., Belarusian State Academy of Music); a multi-instrumentalist klezmer, classical, and improvisational musician (woodwinds, keyboards); a composer, arranger, conductor, a music and Yiddish educator. Slepovitch is a founding member of the critically acclaimed klezmer collective Litvakus and Zisl Slepovitch Ensemble. He has served in multiple performance and creative roles in numerous productions by the National Yiddish Theatre Folksbiene (New York), State Jewish Theatre (Bucharest), He serves as the Musician-in-Residence at Yale University’s Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, and in that capacity produced three critically acclaimed records. Among Slepovitch’s numerous theatre, film, and TV credits are the Defiance movie, Eternal Echoes album (Sony Classical), Rejoice with Itzhak Perlman and Cantor Yitzchak Meir Helfgot (PBS), and Fiddler on the Roof in Yiddish (off-Broadway).  
@zislepovitch
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Nesjomme ist die jüdische Seele...

Das Duo NIHZ, mit Bobby Rootveld (Gitarre, Gesang, Perkussion) und Sanna van Elst (Gesang, Blockflöten, Melodica, Glockenspiel), gibt in Wien am 20 Juni um 20 Uhr ein Konzert mit jüdische Musik in YUNG YiDiSH WIEN.
Seit 2001 tritt das Duo zusammen unter dem Namen Duo NIHZ auf. Bei seinen Konzerten kommen Liebe, Leidenschaft, Melancholie, Comedy und Traurigkeit auf eine ganz bemerkenswerte schöne Art und Weise zusammen. Inhalt des Konzerts im YUNG YiDiSH WIEN sind u.a. schnelle Klezmer Melodien aber auch das jiddisches Gebet Shnirele Perele. Jiddische Lieder wie Bei Mir Bistu Sheyn, Ale Brider und Mein Tuches werden kombiniert mit Leonard Cohen’s Hallelujah und The Comedian Harmonists. Auch gibt es eigene jiddische Kompositionen des Duos und das niederländische Lied Amsterdam Huilt (Amsterdam weint) und einige Lieder aus Konzentrationslager wie z.b. Das Ende(komponiert in Auschwitz).

Wegen der jüdischen Familien- und Widerstandsgeschichte von Bobby Rootveld’s Vorfahren sind die jüdischen Musik-Stücke des Duo NIHZ für die Musiker wie auch das Publikum immer sehr bewegend und beeindruckend. Das Musiktheater bringt dazu eine schöne Comedy-Abwechslung. Die Musik wird voller Leidenschaft und Emotion gespielt und zwischendurch erzählt das Duo NIHZ über die Familiengeschichte und die Herkunft der Musik.

Vor einigen Jahren hat das Duo NIHZ während des International Jewish Music Festivals in Amsterdam für die Interpretation von jüdischer Musik ein „Zertifikat von besonderer Wertschätzung“ empfangen. Das Duo spielte über 2000 Konzerte weltweit in über 30 Länder. Rootveld und van Elst sind seit 2022 tätig als Musiklehrer am Israel Conservatory in Tel Aviv.
www.duonihz.com

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Nem mayn vort: Original Yiddish songs by Sveta Kundish & Patrick Farrell
Wed 22 May 8pm

Avant-garde and strikingly new, or simple and traditionalist, Farrell's original song compositions are brought to life by these two widely respected performers of klezmer and Yiddish song.

Kundish & Farrell are bringing an entirely new perspective to the world of Yiddish music with their fierce focus on both text and musical composition, their equal dedication to traditional and contemporary musical practice, and their rare virtuosity as performers.

Tickets €12 (€10 for YYW members), children free.

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ENSEMBLE 'LEBEDIK': KARPATN
Sun 12 May 8pm

Feat. Sasha Lurje (LV/DE), Craig Judelman (USA/DE)
and special guest Shaun Williams (US/RO)

The Carpathian Mountains stretch from Czechia to Ukraine, and have been a home for Ashkenazi Jews since at least the 15th century. By traveling a few hundred miles or years one could arrive in modern-day Poland, Ukraine, Romania, Hungary, Slovakia or Moldova, or under the rule of the Habsburg, Ottoman, Soviet, Polish-Lithuanian, Hungarian, Czechoslovakian, Carpatho-Ukrainian governments. These rich borderlands contained a diverse mix of ethnic groups and over the centuries were of varied significance for local and neighboring Jewish communities - a safe haven for refugees of the Khmelnitski pogroms, the birth place of the Hasidic movement, a rare place where Jews could own and work the land and a place of heightened interactions between
Jewish and Roma people.

While modern borders lead us to think in terms of political boundaries, this program celebrates and explore the rich heritage of this multi-ethnic territory and its surrounding areas. From Hasidic nigunim and songs borrowed from local non-Jewish traditions to the songs of Jewish partisans, the rich culture of important Jewish communities in nearby cities such as Krakow, Chernovits and Munkatch and the unique fiddle tunes of the Bukovina and Maramures regions, the music is as diverse as the territory it represents.

Led by celebrated Latvian singer Sasha Lurje and American fiddler and composer Craig Judelman, this project is the latest of a collection of programs and collaborations by the Berlin-based duo under the name Lebedik. The band is devoted to creative yet deeply rooted presentations of a rich variety of Ashkenazi culture. Joined by special guest accordionist Shaun Williams, an American who has spent the last decade studying, performing and teaching in Romania and Ukraine, this program brings together this diverse repertoire to paint a picture of Jewish life through the centuries.

The concert is presented by the Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies at Yale University and will feature some unique songs recorded in testimonies contained the archive.

If you would like to learn more about this material, the artists will also be offering a lecture and workshops in song and instrumental music at the I.V.E. on May 13.

Pre-registration for the 12 May event is obligatory. The event name is LEBEDIK. You can pay at the door by cash or card.

KUGEL & KREISLER
Thu 9 May  20:00 Uhr

Erleben Sie die wiener 1920er durch eine jiddische Linse. Was könnte denn wienerischer sein als ein Café-Théâtre mit Georg Kreisler Liedern?
Mendy Cahan und David Serebryanik kehren, nach ihrem ausverkauften Kabarett letztes Jahr, zurück zu YUNG YiDiSH WIEN, um Sie zu unterhalten.

Tickets 12€ (10€ YUNG YiDiSH Mitglied) inkl 1 Getränk (Kinder freier Eintritt) Aschkenasisches Essen wird serviert für einen extra Betrag.

Experience the 1920s with a little Yiddish taste. What can be more Viennese than a café-théâtre evening with songs of Georg Kreisler... Mendy Cahan and David Serebryanik return to YUNG YiDiSH WIEN to entertain you with a Yiddish cabaret and some songs by Georg Kreisler after a sold out performance last year.

Tickets: €12 (€10 for YY(W) members) with complimentary drink. Children free. Snacks and full plates of Ashkenazi food will be available for extra charge.

The event is partly sponsored by the City of Vienna.

Pre-registration is obligatory. The event name is KREISLER. You can pay at the door by cash or card.

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16.02.2024 19:00
YUNG YiDiSH WIEN

Druseiane ❦ Bovo.

Elia Levitas italo-jiddisches Renaissance-Epos “Bovo d'Antona”, Urszene der weltlichen jiddischen Dichtung — jetzt erstmals in deutscher Übertragung


In einem kurzen, leicht zugänglichen Format führt uns der Übersetzer Florian Kragl in das Leben und die Zeit von Eliya Bokher ein. Wir hören einen Auszug aus dem Epos auf Jiddisch und erfahren auch etwas über den Übersetzungsprozess.

Nach einer Pause wird Mendy Cahan jiddische Lieder vortragen. Sie haben die Möglichkeit, das Buch zu einem reduzierten Preis von 20 Euro statt 38 Euro zu kaufen.

Druseiane ❦ Bovo.

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CONTEMPORARY YIDDISH POETRY:    
       Blondzhenish-Wandering-בלאנדזשעניש

On 9 October 2023, we held an international Yiddish poetry evening. Due to the terrible events of the previous Saturday, when more than a thousand Israeli’s were murdered by Hamas terrorists, the event was not held in person in YUNG YiDiSH WIEN but online. Philip Schwartz moderated the ninety-minute event attended by an international audience. 

You can watch the recording of the event here.
Read more about the event in the Forward here.
You can read the poems themselves here.

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Thomas Soxberger
Vienna

holds a PhD in Jewish Studies from Vienna University and a MA in Yiddish studies from SOAS, London University. His own Yiddish poetry and prose, starting with his first poem in the Oxford Yiddish literary journal Di pen in 1994, have appeared in several Yiddish publications: Yerusholaymer almanakh (Jerusalem), Naye vegn (Tel Aviv), Gilgulim (Paris, and Forverts (New York). He has also translated extensively from Yiddish into German. He is currently working for the Press Service of the Austrian Parliament in Vienna.

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Berl Kotlerman
Ramat Gan

is Professor at the Department of Literature of the Jewish People and Director of the Rena Costa Center for Yiddish Studies, Bar Ilan University, Israel. He also holds the Sznajderman Chair in Yiddish Culture and Hasidism. He is the author of a number of monographs in the field of Yiddish culture, as well as four fiction books in
Yiddish: Among his literary awards are the Canadian Dr.
Hirsch and Deborah Rosenfeld Award for Yiddish and Hebrew Literature and the American Jewish
Press Association's Simon Rockower Award.

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Beruriah Wiegand
Oxford

is the Woolf Corob Lector in Yiddish at the University of Oxford. She has published two bilingual collections with the Leyvik-farlag in Tel Aviv: Tsi hot ir gezen mayn tsig? - (2012) and Kales-breyshis - (2018), a bilingual edition of A.N. Stenc's early verse, co-translated with Stephen Watts (Five Leaves, 2007), and a translation of a book of memoirs by the Grodno writer Leib Reizer (Yad Vashem, 2009). 

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Marek Tuszewicki
Krakow

is Deputy Director of the Institute of Jewish Studies at the Jagiellonian University in Krakow. His main research and teaching interests are the language and culture of Eastern Ashkenaz, particularly questions of modernisation. Marek has published numerous articles on Ashkenazi popular culture as well as translations from English, Yiddish and Hebrew and a collection of his own Yiddish poetry, Fun beyde zaytn shpigl (Tel Aviv: Haytntsaytike yidishe literatur, 2018).

18-22 Sep 2023 we held a week-long festival "Jiddisch auf der Spur" including a Yiddish Cabaret, a film evening with podium discussion, an interview with Mendy Cahan, and the creation and opening of our exhibit "Jiddish auf der Spur"! 

Copyright Murer scene photo below: Prisma Film 

Murer - Anatomie eines Prozesses
film evening with podium discussion

19 SEP 2023 - TOP KINO
Graz, 1963: The prestigious politician and large-scale farmer Franz Murer, responsible for the Ghetto of Vilnius as SS leader and NSDAP functionary from 1941-1943 stands trial. Survivors of the mass murder arrive to testify, sometimes in Yiddish, and to obtain justice. Winner of the 2018 "Diagonale Prize for Best Feature Film", starring Karl Fischer, Alexander E. Fennon and Melita Jurisic.

The film showing at Top Kino was followed by a panel discussion led by Dr.phil Norli Lappin-Eppel - Jewish historian of the Shoa, involving Christian Frosch - writer and director of Murer; Klára Trencsényi - freelance cinematographer, Visiting Professor at Central European University; Univ.-Prof. Mag. Dr. Klaus Davidowicz - expert on visual Jewish cultural history from the University of Vienna; Mendy Cahan - Yiddish actor in "Murer" and Elina Osorio - student of the University of Vienna. 

Yiddish Cabaret with Mendy Cahan

21 Sep 2023 -- YUNG YiDiSH WIEN -- SOLD OUT!
In front of a fully packed hall, Mendy Cahan delighted us with a Yiddish Cabaret, accompanied by David Serebryanik on keyboard.

"Jiddish auf der Spur" Exhibition

Students of the 1st University of Vienna/ YUNG YiDiSH TEL AVIV "Shtayt geshribn!" Autumn School on Yiddish language and culture created a group learning diary in the form of an exhibition. Here is a video our students made about the process.

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