Creating Songs in Boiberik: Singing Peace at “Felker Yontev”
Thursday, March 26 | 3:30pm
Max Weinreich Fellowship Lecture | Joseph Kremen Memorial Fellowship in East European Jewish Music, Theater, and Arts

Each year from 1922 until 1978, the secular Yiddish summer camp Camp Boiberik hosted the “Felker Yontev” (Holiday of Nations) Yiddish pageant, enacting Isaiah’s prophetic vision of world peace. This lecture by Eléonore Biezunski (Doctoral student, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales)—which draws on the Boiberik archives held at YIVO and interviews with former campers—examines the structure of these pageants, their music, texts and context, and how they continue to influence the Yiddish music scene today. 

‘Lib’Ele Duo’ Present: The Yiddish-French Connection
Sunday, March 29 | 2:00pm
Concert

This program is in Yiddish, French, and English.

French singers Eléonore Biezunski and Eléonore Weill team up as the ‘Lib’Ele Duo’ (The Dragonflies) to present this rare concert blending French and Yiddish music with special musical guest Pete Rushefsky. Featuring Yiddish songs by French songwriter Jacques Grober, and translations of French songs into Yiddish, this concert also includes traditional Yiddish songs from various folklore collections and rare klezmer melodies from Romania, Ukraine, and beyond. As a special treat, the Duo will perform excerpts from their new theatrical adaptation of Aaron Zeitlin’s mystical and image-rich poem, the Esoterishe Poem (1932), with director and puppeteer Jon Levin.

      **Change of Date: A Night at Lewando’s**

     This event, scheduled for May 26, will now take place Tuesday, June 2

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