Jüdische Studien#OnlineEvent | Kine un kloglid – The Yiddish Art of Lamentation in Early Modern Ashkenaz | By Diana Matut | Delivered in Yiddish | Details: https://yivo.org/YCLS2025-Matut
Thursday, July 3, 2025 | 2-3pm ET | 8-9pm CET
🕵️old klezmers🎻I wrote this #Wikipedia article for Abe Katzman a while back, but I realized I've collected some photos of him at #YIVO and never added them to the article till now.
regrettable that we only have 4 tracks of his music, I tried asking his relative once if the family has old scores but he didn't know🕵️
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abe_Katzman
Uploading some images from #YIVO to Wikimedia Commons this morning and came across this excellent booklet cover from the Freiheit Gezang Farein's 13th anniversary event in 1936. A communist-affiliated Yiddish choir from New York which is one of the predecessor's of today's (non-communist) Yiddish Philharmonic Chorus.
highly recommend this YIVO talk which took place today with Berlin-based music historian Jascha Nemtsov, one of the few people researching, performing and publishing about Jewish art music in the late Russian empire and interwar Germany, Austria and Mandatory Palestine. I learned a lot and want to read his book someday
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iIUVbZvzpi0&ab_channel=YIVOInstituteforJewishResearch
The New Jewish School in Music (1908-1938) as Part of the Jewish Cultural Renaissance
I don't know how I spent 2.5 months doing musician research at YIVO and I never knew to call up RG 112 "Music collection" which is like a huge mix of old musical scores. Didn't even know it existed...
not necessarily relevant to my research project so not a huge loss in that sense but I definitely would have looked through and photographed some of the old klezmer scores from NY of the 1910s/20s...
https://links.cjh.org/primo/CJH_ALEPH000133752
Ari Davidowmy lecture for YIVO is tomorrow, on zoom at 1pmEST/10amPST🥸
can be watched later on youtube if you're interested but busy, on YIVO's account
https://yivo.org/NY-Mutual-Aid
here's the link again for my lecture this coming Thursday the 8th at 1pm EST, based on my historical research about immigrant Jewish musicians and mutual aid societies in YIVO's collections.
https://www.yivo.org/NY-Mutual-Aid
Eléonore Biezunski: The YIVO Sound Archive and the Klezmer Revival, Thursday Apr 24, 2025 1pm EDT https://yivo.org/Sound-Archive #klezmer #jewishmusic #archives #yivo
My talk for YIVO has been posted, it'll be on zoom on May 8th 1pm EST. It'll be based on the results of my research here in recent months looking for traces of immigrant Jewish and Klezmer musicians in YIVO's landsmanshaft and mutual aid society collections.
https://yivo.org/NY-Mutual-Aid
#klezmer #MusicHistory #ZoomLectures #NewYorkHistory #JewishHistory #YIVO