Amanda Miryem-Chaye 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…