Sarah Lazarus Memorial Concert with Sarah Gordon and Yoshie Fruchter
Sun, Oct 15
|Illinois Holocaust Museum
Mit Vund un Vunder/With Wounds and Wonder: The Poetry of Yiddish Song
Time & Location
Oct 15, 2023, 2:00 PM – 3:30 PM
Illinois Holocaust Museum, 9603 Woods Dr, Skokie, IL 60077, USA
About the Event
This concert is free to the public, but we ask that you please RSVP.
In this special concert, fourth generation Yiddish singer, Sarah Mina Gordon is joined by remarkable guitar player, Yoshie Fruchter to present an intimate concert of Yiddish song and poetry. In Yiddish, the word for both poem and song is lid, and the line between Yiddish poem and song has always been more bridge than border. This concert celebrates the brilliance, beauty, and lasting resonance of Yiddish poetry in song, with works by Itsik Manger, Celia Dropkin, Beyle Schaechter-Gottesman, and Avrom Sutzkever, among others.
Sarah Mina Gordon is a fourth generation Yiddish singer. She fronted the rock band Yiddish Princess and has recorded and performed with Daniel Kahn, Frank London’s Klezmer Brass Allstars, The Klezmatics, Sharabi, and others. Daughter of legendary Yiddish singer and scholar Adrienne Cooper, Sarah grew up immersed in innovative Yiddish culture. Dedicated to…