Sing Me a Song in Yiddish!
Zing Mir A Lidele! — זינג מיר אַ לידעלע! — Sing Me a Song!
Har Zion Cantor Stewart Figa, accompanied by Ilya Levinson and Ronnie Kuller, sings songs in Yiddish in this program, presented by the Chicago YIVO Society. “YIVO” stands for yidisher visnshaftlekher institut; its purpose is to entertain, educate, and build a future for the Yiddish language, a purpose that is dear to Cantor Figa’s heart.
Join Cantor Figa and his colleagues for an encore of their August concert as they entertain and educate you! Join in person at Har Zion or on Zoom. You will receive the Zoom link when you register for the concert.
ReservationsFrom the YIVO website:
Yiddish song and performance encompasses every aspect of Ashkenazi Jewish life and culture from the past several hundred years. Flowering to its height in the earlier half of the 20th Century, Yiddish song and theatre expressed joy and sadness, religious piety and secular everyday life, political struggles and romantic love, sublime poetry and raucous humor, persecution and nostalgia. Stewart Figa brings to life a repertoire of classics and oddities of Yiddish song that he has built up in an over nearly 40 year career in Jewish music.