Concierto de música de lucha y sobrevivencia en Los Angeles

You are invited to join the California Institute for Yiddish Culture and Language in conjunction with Sinai Temple for a Holocaust Day Memorial program featuring Yiddish songs and poetry from the ghettos

5:30 – 6:30 PM

The most extraordinary spiritual resistance took place during the darkest times of the Holocaust.

Lyrics and music were written and performed in ghettos, partisan forests, and even the camps as a means of expression, encouragement, and resistance to inhumanity and annihilation.

Most of these songs were written in Yiddish, the language of the vast majority of Eastern European Jews. To sing them, and hear them, in the original is to truly honor not only the lost lives but also the civilization that birthed and sustained Jews for centuries — a remarkable and unique civilization that continues to vanish before our eyes.

In addition to hearing the beautiful music, please join CIYCL Director Miri Koral and CIYCL Member, Holocaust Survivor and veteran Yiddish actor Jacob Lewin for the reading of poetry by the incomparable Avrom Sutzkever.

This is the next event in CIYCL’s Showcase highlighting modern Yiddish culture’s abiding scope and influence.