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YIVO Chicago Concert: TRADITION! Stewart Figa Sings Yiddish!

2025-07-13 15:00:00 2025-07-13 16:15:00 America/Chicago YIVO Chicago Concert: TRADITION! Stewart Figa Sings Yiddish! 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. Northbrook Public Library - Auditorium - First Floor

Sunday, July 13
3:00pm - 4:15pm

Add to Calendar 2025-07-13 15:00:00 2025-07-13 16:15:00 America/Chicago YIVO Chicago Concert: TRADITION! Stewart Figa Sings Yiddish! 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. Northbrook Public Library - Auditorium - First Floor

Northbrook Public Library

Auditorium - First Floor

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.

AGE GROUP: | Adults |

EVENT TYPE: | Concerts & Music |

TAGS: | #EP |

Northbrook Public Library

Phone: 847-272-6224

Hours
Mon, Jun 16 9:00AM to 9:00PM
Tue, Jun 17 9:00AM to 9:00PM
Wed, Jun 18 9:00AM to 9:00PM
Thu, Jun 19 9:00AM to 9:00PM
Fri, Jun 20 9:00AM to 6:00PM
Sat, Jun 21 9:00AM to 5:00PM
Sun, Jun 22 1:00PM to 5:00PM

Upcoming events

Sat, Jun 21, 10:30am - 11:15am
Auditorium - First Floor

Sat, Jun 21, 1:30pm - 3:00pm
Interactive Classroom - Second Floor
Registration is now closed

Sat, Jun 21, 2:30pm - 3:30pm
Pollak Room AB - First Floor

Sun, Jun 22, 3:00pm - 4:15pm
Auditorium - First Floor

Mon, Jun 23, 11:00am - 11:30am
Pollak Room AB - First Floor

Mon, Jun 23, 4:00pm - 5:00pm
Youth Services Activity Room - Second Floor
This event is full

Mon, Jun 23, 7:00pm - 8:00pm
Auditorium - First Floor

Tue, Jun 24, 10:00am - 10:30am
Story Corner - Second Floor

Tue, Jun 24, 3:00pm - 4:00pm
Youth Services Activity Room - Second Floor

Tue, Jun 24, 3:00pm - 5:00pm
Reference Area - Second Floor

Tue, Jun 24, 4:00pm - 5:00pm
Zoom Room 5 - Youth Services

Tue, Jun 24, 7:00pm - 8:30pm
Zoom Room 2 - Fiction & Media

Wed, Jun 25, 10:00am - 10:45am
Youth Services Activity Room - Second Floor

Wed, Jun 25, 4:00pm - 5:00pm
Youth Services Activity Room - Second Floor

Thu, Jun 26, 9:00am - 1:30pm
Study Room 12 - Second Floor

Thu, Jun 26, 10:00am - 10:30am
Story Corner - Second Floor

Thu, Jun 26, 2:00pm - 2:30pm
Youth Services Activity Room - Second Floor

Thu, Jun 26, 5:00pm - 6:00pm
Youth Services Activity Room - Second Floor

Fri, Jun 27, 10:00am - 11:00am
Pollak Room AB - First Floor
Registration is now closed

Fri, Jun 27, 1:00pm - 3:00pm
Interactive Classroom - Second Floor
This event is full

Fri, Jun 27, 3:30pm - 5:00pm
Story Corner - Second Floor,Youth Services Activity Room - Second Floor,Youth Services Area - Second Floor

Sat, Jun 28, 10:00am - 11:00am
Pollak Room AB - First Floor

Sat, Jun 28, 2:00pm - 4:00pm
Auditorium - First Floor

Mon, Jun 30, 10:00am - 10:30am
Story Corner - Second Floor

Mon, Jun 30, 6:00pm - 7:30pm
Auditorium - First Floor

Tue, Jul 01, 3:00pm - 5:00pm
Reference Area - Second Floor

Wed, Jul 02, 12:30pm - 3:30pm
Interactive Classroom - Second Floor,Study Room 2 - Second Floor

Wed, Jul 02, 2:00pm - 4:00pm
Auditorium - First Floor

Wed, Jul 02, 3:00pm - 5:00pm
Reference Area - Second Floor

Wed, Jul 02, 6:00pm - 8:00pm
Collaboratory - Second Floor

Wed, Jul 02, 6:00pm - 8:45pm
Interactive Classroom - Second Floor,Study Room 2 - Second Floor

Wed, Jul 02, 7:00pm - 9:00pm
Auditorium - First Floor

Fri, Jul 04, All day

Sat, Jul 05, 10:00am - 10:30am
Story Corner - Second Floor

Sat, Jul 05, 1:30pm - 3:00pm
Interactive Classroom - Second Floor
This event is full

Mon, Jul 07, 10:00am - 10:30am
Story Corner - Second Floor

Mon, Jul 07, 6:00pm - 7:00pm
Youth Services Activity Room - Second Floor
This event is full

Mon, Jul 07, 7:00pm - 8:00pm
Pollak Room AB - First Floor

Tue, Jul 08, 10:00am - 10:30am
Story Corner - Second Floor

Tue, Jul 08, 3:00pm - 4:00pm
Youth Services Activity Room - Second Floor

Tue, Jul 08, 3:00pm - 5:00pm
Reference Area - Second Floor

Wed, Jul 09, 10:00am - 10:45am
Youth Services Activity Room - Second Floor

Wed, Jul 09, 12:30pm - 3:30pm
Interactive Classroom - Second Floor,Study Room 2 - Second Floor

Wed, Jul 09, 2:00pm - 4:00pm
Auditorium - First Floor

Wed, Jul 09, 4:00pm - 5:00pm
Youth Services Activity Room - Second Floor
This event is full

Wed, Jul 09, 6:00pm - 8:45pm
Interactive Classroom - Second Floor,Study Room 2 - Second Floor

Wed, Jul 09, 7:00pm - 8:00pm
Civic Room - First Floor

Wed, Jul 09, 7:00pm - 9:00pm
Auditorium - First Floor

Thu, Jul 10, 9:00am - 1:30pm
Study Room 12 - Second Floor

Thu, Jul 10, 10:00am - 10:30am
Story Corner - Second Floor

Thu, Jul 10, 2:00pm - 4:00pm
Reference Area - Second Floor

Thu, Jul 10, 2:00pm - 2:30pm
Youth Services Activity Room - Second Floor

Thu, Jul 10, 2:00pm - 3:00pm
Pollak Room AB - First Floor

Thu, Jul 10, 4:00pm - 5:30pm
Youth Services Activity Room - Second Floor

Fri, Jul 11, 10:00am - 10:30am
Gazebo

Fri, Jul 11, 10:00am - 11:00am
Pollak Room AB - First Floor
Registration is now closed

Fri, Jul 11, 3:30pm - 5:00pm
Youth Services Activity Room - Second Floor

Sat, Jul 12, 2:00pm - 4:00pm
Auditorium - First Floor

Sun, Jul 13, 2:00pm - 3:30pm
Pollak Room AB - First Floor

Sun, Jul 13, 3:00pm - 4:15pm
Auditorium - First Floor

Mon, Jul 14, 10:00am - 10:30am
Youth Services Activity Room - Second Floor

Mon, Jul 14, 12:30pm - 3:30pm
Interactive Classroom - Second Floor,Study Room 2 - Second Floor

Mon, Jul 14, 6:00pm - 8:45pm
Interactive Classroom - Second Floor,Study Room 2 - Second Floor

Tue, Jul 15, 10:00am - 10:30am
Story Corner - Second Floor

Tue, Jul 15, 10:00am - 11:30am
Zoom Room 2 - Fiction & Media

Tue, Jul 15, 3:00pm - 5:00pm
Reference Area - Second Floor

Tue, Jul 15, 3:00pm - 4:00pm
Youth Services Activity Room - Second Floor

Wed, Jul 16, 10:00am - 10:45am
Youth Services Activity Room - Second Floor

Wed, Jul 16, 12:30pm - 3:30pm
Interactive Classroom - Second Floor,Study Room 2 - Second Floor

Wed, Jul 16, 2:00pm - 4:00pm
Auditorium - First Floor

Wed, Jul 16, 6:00pm - 8:45pm
Interactive Classroom - Second Floor,Study Room 2 - Second Floor

Wed, Jul 16, 7:00pm - 9:00pm
Auditorium - First Floor

Thu, Jul 17, 10:00am - 10:30am
Story Corner - Second Floor

Thu, Jul 17, 2:00pm - 2:30pm
Youth Services Activity Room - Second Floor

Thu, Jul 17, 4:15pm - 5:15pm
Youth Services Activity Room - Second Floor

Thu, Jul 17, 7:00pm - 9:00pm
Pollak Room AB - First Floor

Fri, Jul 18, 10:00am - 11:00am
Pollak Room AB - First Floor
Registration is now closed

Fri, Jul 18, 10:00am - 4:00pm
Civic Room - First Floor

Fri, Jul 18, 10:00am - 10:30am
Gazebo

Fri, Jul 18, 1:00pm - 3:00pm
Interactive Classroom - Second Floor

Fri, Jul 18, 3:30pm - 5:00pm
Youth Services Activity Room - Second Floor

Sat, Jul 19, 10:00am - 4:00pm
Civic Room - First Floor

Sat, Jul 19, 11:00am - 12:00pm
Pollak Room AB - First Floor
This event is full

Sat, Jul 19, 1:30pm - 3:00pm
Pollak Room A - First Floor
This event is full

Sun, Jul 20, 1:30pm - 4:30pm
Pollak Room AB - First Floor

Sun, Jul 20, 3:00pm - 4:00pm
Auditorium - First Floor

Mon, Jul 21, 10:00am - 11:30am
Civic Room - First Floor

Mon, Jul 21, 11:00am - 11:30am
Pollak Room AB - First Floor

Mon, Jul 21, 12:30pm - 3:30pm
Interactive Classroom - Second Floor,Study Room 2 - Second Floor

Mon, Jul 21, 4:00pm - 5:00pm
Youth Services Activity Room - Second Floor
This event is full

Mon, Jul 21, 6:00pm - 8:45pm
Interactive Classroom - Second Floor,Study Room 2 - Second Floor