ENCORE: Zing Mir A Lidele!/זינג מיר אַ לידעלע!/ Sing Me a Song in Yiddish!
Wed, Sep 18
|zoom AND Temple Har Zion, 1040 North Harlem
with Cantor Stewart Figa, accompanied by Ilya Levinson and Ronnie Kuller
Time & Location
Sep 18, 2024, 7:00 PM CDT
zoom AND Temple Har Zion, 1040 North Harlem
About the Event
Please register to receive the zoom link. You can also attend at Temple Har Zion, 1040 North Harlem Avenue River Forest, IL 60305
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.
Cantor Stewart Figa has served at West Suburban Temple Har Zion in River Forest Illinois since 1998 and has been a Cantor in the Chicago area since 1990. He is a founding member of the New Budapest Orpheum Society, an ensemble-in-residence at…