Events
For the Soviet Yiddish Writers Murdered August 12, 1952
August 11th, 2026 at 8 PM EST
YouTube Premiere
Memorial for the Soviet Yiddish Writers Murdered August 12th, 1952
11 Jan 2026
4 tales by Avrom Sutzkever in Yiddish with English supertitles
a staged documentary remembering the 5 Yiddish writers murdered by the Soviet regime on August 12th, 1952
A gathering commemorating the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, remembering all who resisted, all who fought, all who died and all who survived.
A seder conducted in Yiddish using a secular hagode with elements of a traditional seder mixed in.
Developmental reading of Rokhl Kafrissen's play Shtumer Shabes (Silent Sabbath)
The history of Yiddish theater, from the sublime to the moronic, in 84 New York minutes
A graduate student working on her dissertation gets more than she bargained for when she befriends an aging Yiddish diva...
An evening of Yiddish theater featuring the words of Isaac Bashevis Singer with full English supertitles.
Everyday Ashkenazi Folk Magic Through Yiddish Language Texts: Prayer, Literature, and Popular Press, with Rokhl Kafrissen. In English, reading Yiddish texts. Four Sunday sessions.
An old-fashioned Yiddish secular seder, with song, readings, buffet and wine!
Join us on Zoom as we open up the Leksikon page. Meet Joshua Fogel, translator of the Leksikon; and Elizabeth Shulman, designer of our new logo; and watch us walk through some of the functions and plans for this great new resource! Register here.
With Yale Strom and Elizabeth Schwartz
Vintage Yiddish vaudeville at New York's neatest night club
ביילע שעכטער־גאָטעסמאַן: אַ ווינקל גאַנצקייט
Join us as we remember them and read and sing from their works and the works of other Yiddish writers who suffered under the Soviet regime
http://www.jewishpubliclibrary.org/
in conjunction with the Melbourne Kadimah.
Free and open to the public.
World premiere screening of the film Chaim Beider: Poet, Editor, Essayist, a new documentary film by Boris Sandler.
Featuring Congress director Shane Baker in a solo appearance in Yiddish and English.
With Shane Baker, Miryem-Khaye Seigel, Eli Rosen, and Steve Sterner.
With Allen Lewis Rickman, Yelena Shmulenson, and Shane Baker
With Chayele Palevsky, Irene Klepfisz, Agata Rakowiecka, Paula Teitelbaum, and Daniel Kahn.
Presentation of Boris Sandler’s new film, a one-on-one interview with his old mentor and friend, Chaim Beider (1920-2003), in Yiddish with English subtitles.
reading Di Nevue fun Shvartsaplen by Avrom Sutzkever.
in conjunction with Beit Sholem Aleichem, Hebrew University in Jerusalem, and Tel Aviv University. Featuring Chava Alberstein.
free and open to the public. Please visit their website for information and reservations.
Potluck Yiddish cultural seyder in Park Slope, Brooklyn (sold out).
Fay Rosenfeld (English) and Majus Nowogrodski (Yiddish). Chair, Marcel Kshensky. Artistic program: Eleanor Reissa, Annette Harchick, and Paula Teitelbaum.
with Allen Lewis Rickman, Yelena Shmulenson, and Shane Baker. Presented by the New York Public Library. Free and open to the public, seating first come first served.
the CJC held its annual memorial for the Soviet Yiddish artists and writers slain August 12, 1952. Appearing for the 2015 event, Ala Zuskin Perelman, daughter of Moscow State Yiddish Theater principal actor Benjamin Zuskin, spoke about her father and reading from her recent memoir of him.
Coffee House/Farbrengen in conjunction with the New Yiddish Rep and with support by the Department of Cultural Affairs, City of New York. Michael Menachem Fox led a singalong from the Camp Hemshekh Songbook.
Coffee House/Farbrengen in conjunction with the New Yiddish Rep and with support by the Department of Cultural Affairs, City of New York. Shane Baker and Miryem-Khaye Seigel with Steve Sterner at the piano in A Night in the Casino: Songs and Sketches from the Golden Age of the Yiddish Catskills.
The short film How to Break into Yiddish Vaudeville was debuted at the New York Jewish Film Festival. This short subject by neon animator Jack Feldstein documenting the cutthroat world of Yiddish vaudeville features the drawings of Ellen Stedfeld and the voice of Shane Baker (on a double bill with Natan by director David Cairns).
on the occasion of her yortsayt.
A collaboration with YIVO and Great Small Works.
Program featured Dutch soprano Sofie Van Lier in a program of songs by Soviet Yiddish writers.
For the YIVO Weinreich Summer Program in Yiddish studies. Please contact us via email for further information.
With special guest Lauren Brody.
Both of whom were active with the Congress for Jewish Culture.
With Allen Lewis Rickman, Yelena Shmulenson, Shane Baker, and Gera Sandler.
Tevye & Co., Yiddish theater presentation based on the works of Sholem Aleichem presented for the California Institute for Yiddish Culture and Language, the UCLA Mickey Katz Endowed Chair in Jewish Music, and the UCLA Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies.
Shane Baker and David Serebryanik present Introducing Mitzi Manna in Her First-Ever Final Farewell Tour (in conjunction with Yiddish New York).
Introducing Mitzi Manna in Her First-Ever Final Farewell Tour
A bilingual Yiddish-English program.
A potpourri of works by Sholem Aleichem.
Participants: Avram Patt; Marcel Kshensky; Henry Nusbaum; Hemshekh Choir; Avram Mlotek
Vivi Lachs of London speaks on Biting Yiddish Satire from Winchevsky to Avreml: Nuancing Histories of Immigrant Politics and Religion, 1884-1914.
Participants: Professor David Slucki of the College of Charleston; Professor Irena Klepfisz of Barnard College; Chair: Marcel Kshensky. In the artistic program, the Hemshekh Choir.
Still No Dinner!!! 50th Birthday Roast for Shane Baker
Seminar taught by Professor Eugene Orenstein of McGill University.
With CJC director Shane Baker and special guest Miss Mitzi Manna.
A bilingual Yiddish-English program.
A potpourri of works by Sholem Aleichem.
In memory of the writers and artists murdered in the Lubyanka Prison on August 12, 1952. Dmitri Zisl-Yeysef Slepovitsh presented a workshop of his program SYL-able, concentrating on the work of Moyshe Kulbak, Izi Kharik, and Zelig Akselrod.
Directed by Moshe Yassur and featuring Miryem-Khaye Seigel and Shane Baker.
Facebook Live panel on the life and art of Sh. Ansky, the production history of The Dybbuk, and its impact on Jewish and world theater.
Moyshe-Leyb Halpern, tsum 88stn Yortsayt, a special program remembering the great Yiddishist poet Moyshe-Leyb halpern, who passed away on 31 August 1932
Troyer-akademye: Program in memory of the Soviet Yiddish writers murdered by the regime on August 12th, 1952.
104th yortsayt commemoration for Sholem Aleichem
Conducted entirely in Yiddish.
An art exhibition including works by Yiddish artist Yevgeniy Fiks, and Yiddish poet and artist Yoni Fain.
Special return engagement of Tevye Served Raw with Allen Lewis Rickman, Shane Baker, and Yelena Shmulenson.
Directed by Moshe Yassur and featuring Miryem-Khaye Seigel and Shane Baker.
Stories and songs by two fo the best-loved Yiddish creators, with Nicole Borger (Sao Paulo) and Shane Baker.
Statement: Today is the Seventh International Ladino Day at the University of Washington in Seattle.
World premiere of Avrom Sutzkever’s Dortn vu es nekhtikn di shtern directed by Moshe Yassur and featuring Miryem-Khaye Seigel and Shane Baker.
With Dr. Vassili Schedrin, Shane Baker, Allen Lewis Rickman, and Yelena Shmulenson.
Yiddish recitation by CJC Director Shane Baker.
Featuring CJC Director Shane Baker and Steve Sterner at the piano.
An illustrated lecture.
Memorial Evening Marking 70 Years After the Murdered Soviet Yiddish Writers and Artists featuring a new dramatic reading devised by Yelena Shmulenson.
The Holocaust & the Exile of Yiddish, Book talk: Journalist Rokhl Kafrissen interviews Professor Barry Trachtenberg on his history of the Algemeyne Entsiklopedye. Available for viewing on our YouTube channel here.
Conducted entirely in Yiddish
Itzik Manger’s Megile-lider
With the participation of Michael Wex, Raizel Fishman Candib, and Paul (Hershl) Glasser.
Online via Zoom and conducted entirely in Yiddish.
