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November 2025
Live Performance
Malcolm Miller: Classical and Popular Music in Israel: Transcultural Dialogues and Contrasts
Upcoming
November 13
7:30 PM
In person
This talk/recital marks the launch of Classical and Popular Music in Israel (Eastman Studies/URP)
Live Performance
Golden Thread Ensemble Presents: Songs of Social Change
Upcoming
November 20
7:00 PM
In person
Klezmer meets chamber music in Craig Judelman’s celebration of
transformative Yiddish songs, feat. Lorin Sklamberg (The Klezmatics) &
Sasha Lurje.
December 2025
Live Performance
Klezmer & Yiddish Swing at the Cicada Club – A Hanukkah Celebration with Mostly Kosher
Upcoming
December 17
7:00 PM
In person
Join Mostly Kosher for an evening of Klezmer and Yiddish Swing at the historic Cicada Club! Mostly Kosher welcomes special guests, Marco Palos of Phat Cat Swinger fame, and Yiddish dance leader Bruce Bierman to keep your hands clapping and feet tapping! Stay tuned for updates and special guest announcements.
January 2026
Academic Talk
Assaf Shelleg: about Jews; New Affordances in Contemporary Music
Upcoming
January 14
7:00 PM
In person
This talk will situate the proliferation of contemporary Jewish art music in the ecosystem of new music, focusing on works by Chaya Czernowin, Heiner Goebbels, and Olga Neuwirth while considering the historiographical impact of the recordings released by the Milken Archive.
February 2026
Academic Talk
Jascha Nemtsov – “From St. Petersburg to Vienna: The New Jewish Music School (1908–1938) as Part of the Jewish Cultural Renaissance”
Upcoming
February 26
10:00 AM
Livestreamed
Jascha Nemtsov will present his book “From St. Petersburg to Vienna: The New Jewish School in Music (1908–1938) as Part of the Jewish Cultural Renaissance” and perform several piano pieces from the repertoire of the New Jewish School live.
March 2026
Live Performance
Handel’s Israel in Egypt
Upcoming
March 15
2:00 PM
In person
Join us in historic Royce Hall for the performance of one of Handel's greatest and most colorful biblical oratorios.
April 2026
Live Performance
Reviving Yiddish Stage and Screen, Part I: Bas-Sheve (1924)
Upcoming
April 19
4:00 PM
In person
Part I of An Extraordinary Yiddish Double Bill
Film Screening
Reviving Yiddish Stage and Screen, Part II: Freylekhe Kabtsonim (Jolly Paupers) (1937)
Upcoming
April 19
7:00 PM
In person
Part II of An Extraordinary Yiddish Double Bill
Symposium
Sonic Representations of Jewishness, On Screen and Off
Upcoming
April 19
9:00 AM
In person
In-person conference at UCLA, April 19-21, 2026
May 2026
Live Performance
Lullabies Around the Jewish World
Upcoming
May 31
4:00 PM
In person
Join Cantor Elizabeth Shammash and pianist David Sparr as they take us on a journey around the Jewish world in the form of lullabies and bedtime songs in Yiddish, Hebrew and Ladino.