Yiddish Songs and Tales of the Ghetto

Giovanna Bragadin, contralto Ulisse Trabacchin, pianist Emiliano De Lello, narrator (Italian) Roberta Reeder narrator (English) This event presents the life of the ghetto (shtetl) of Central and Eastern Europe – moments of joy and moments of suffering, the Holocaust, but also songs of hope for the future. The stories are by Shalom Aleichem, the most famous writer in Yiddish, but there will also be Yiddish stories by other authors. The songs are from the Yiddish tradition by various composers, including Mordechai Gebirtig, who was killed by the Nazis during the evacuation of the Cracow ghetto.