“AF PURIM DARF MEN LAKHN!” – “ON PURIM YOU GOTTA LAUGH!” with Stewart Figa
Sun, Mar 13
|Live via Zoom
Cantor, actor, and Yiddish performer Stewart Figa returns to Chicago YIVO to present a program of humorous Yiddish songs, jokes and stories keeping with the fun of the holiday of Purim.
Time & Location
Mar 13, 2022, 2:00 PM CDT
Live via Zoom
About the Event
Cantor, actor, and Yiddish performer Stewart Figa returns to Chicago YIVO to present a program of humorous Yiddish songs, jokes and stories keeping with the fun of the holiday of Purim. Figa pays tribute to such Jewish comedy legends Menashe Skulnik, Aaron Lebedeff, Mickey Katz, Bruce Adler, Allen Sherman and others. Accompanied on piano by Ilya Levinson, much of his material will be in mamaloshen with translation provided.
STEWART FIGA has served as cantor at West Suburban Temple Har Zion in River Forest, Illinois, since 1998 and has been a cantor in the Chicago area since 1990. An established and in-demand performer of Yiddish and Jewish music, his programs for the annual Chicago YIVO Society Summer Festival have been cheered by capacity audiences.
In the 1980s Stewart Figa performed several seasons in Yiddish theater productions in New York City where he had the rare privilege of…