Yiddish vocalist, actor, and cantor Stewart Figa sings songs from Yiddish theater and the Yiddish folk repertoire, and reminisces about his experience of working in the Yiddish Theatre.
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 theater expressed joy and sadness, religious piety and secular everyday life, political struggles and romantic love, sublime poetry and raucous humor, persecution, and nostalgia. Yiddish vocalist, actor, and cantor Stewart Figa brings to life a repertoire of classics and oddities of Yiddish song that he has built up in a nearly 40-year career in Jewish music.
Cantor Figa will be accompanied by two musicians.
Presented as part of the Chicago YIVO Society Summer Festival of Yiddish Culture.
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