Traveling the Yiddishland

In 1912, Shimon An-sky set out for the most remote shtetls in the Pale of Settlement with an Edison’s phonograph on a mission to preserve rare folk tales and songs. A century later, two scholars, D. Zisl Slepovitch and Nina Stepanskaya, made their own journey, this time with a video camera, on a mission to preserve the disappearing Jewish songs and untold oral history of Eastern European Jewry in the 20th Century.

The result of this inspiring research is Traveling the Yiddishland, an ethnographic cine-concert, created and performed by Zisl Slepovitch. 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 fieldwork videos, art, and live performance.

📅 May 14 | 7.30pm (doors: 7pm)

🎟️ $30

📍 Kvartira Books, 731 Washington Ave, 11238, Brooklyn NY

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