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Yiddish and Hebrew Song in the Weimarer Republic

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About the Event Join YIVO and LBI for a concert exploring Yiddish and Hebrew songs of the Weimar Republic.The Weimar Republic era contained a hotbed of Jewish musical activity. Following World War I, there was a spike of curiosity about Eastern European Jewry and Yiddish, which inspired many German-Jewish composers—from Cantor Leon Kornitzer to avant...

Yiddish and Hebrew little Magazines in the Weimarer Republic | Online

In this talk, Barbara Mann will discuss the "little magazine," a staple of modernist Jewish culture which flourished in the Weimar Republic. The little magazine is a distinctively portable and collaborative genre, an appropriate venue for the migrant, cosmopolitan mix of Berlin’s interwar Jewish population. Each issue blended poetry, manifestos and visual arts to create...