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Mi., 12. Nov.
|Wien
Contemporary Yiddish poetry and music by Jordan Lee Schnee and Thomas Soxberger
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Time & Location
12. Nov. 2025, 19:15
Wien, Street entrance, Lilienbrunngasse 18, 1020 Wien, Austria
About the event
Jordan Lee Schnee is a German-American writer, musician, and translator. He teaches English literature at the Freie Universität Berlin and curates readings for the Haus für Poesie. His original poems in Yiddish have been published by Af'n Shvel, Yiddishland, Diaphanes, Aphaia Verlag, and Propellor Berlin. He has published translations of Debora Vogel (InGeveb; Asymptote) and Avrom Nokhem Stencl (Loch Raven Review). He edited the anthology “Flores de vidrio / Flores de vidro” by Debora Vogel. Schnee was an ELES Doctoral and LABA Arts fellow. He has performed at Yung Yidish Tel Aviv, IWO (YIVO) Buenos Aires, Casa do Povo São Paolo, Farbindungen, Festivalt and the Festiwal Kultury Żydowskiej in Krakow, and at the Poesiefestival Berlin.
Among the few contemporary secular voices in Yiddish letters, Jordan Lee Schnee’s poetry is unique. It is highly linguistic and playful, gesturing towards the “antipoetry” of Nicanor Parra but it is also imagistic and written…
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