Zing Mir A Lidele!/זינג מיר אַ לידעלע!/ Sing Me a Song in Yiddish!

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 the University of Chicago dedicated to  reviving European Jewish music from the first half of the 20th century.  With that group he toured…