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Stewart Figa, Yiddish vocalist, actor, and cantor sings his favorite songs from Yiddish theater, the Yiddish folk repertoire, and reminisces about his experience of working in the Yiddish Theatre.
In Partnership with YIVO Chicago.
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.
