Tsulib Beylen – a memorial concert for Beyle Schaechter-Gottesman
July 24 8 p.m. @Ottmar-Gerster-Musikschule

with YSW faculty and artists-in-residence

We are honoring and celebrating the life and work of the legendary poet,composer, painter, Yiddishist Beyle Schaechter-Gottesman.

Born in Vienna, raised in Czernowitz, life-long New Yorker, Beyle (1920 –2013) was the grand matriarch of the Yiddish culture revival in Europe and America. In 2005, she was awarded a National Heritage Fellowship, the nation’s top honour for folk arts, from the National Endowment for the Arts. Beyle Schaechter-Gottesman was a key figure in maintaining Yiddish cultural traditions in America, as well as being the last artist who was a living link to the world of Jewish European culture before the Second World War. She helped to revive and inspire artists all over the world to celebrate Yiddish cultural heritage. Artists and Faculty from Yiddish Summer Weimar are gathering to share her songs, stories and legacy.

The program was organized and directed by Janina Wurbs, Daniel Kahn and Sasha Lurje for Maxim Gorki Theater Studio Я in Berlin and has been redesigned specially for Yiddish Summer Weimar.