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Yiddish poetry is coming to Yeshivat Hadar

JL;DR SUMMARY The Hadar Institute's Rising Song Salon is innovatively incorporating Yiddish poetry this summer, with renowned Jewish musicians Basya Schechter and Avi Fox-Rosen performing Itsik Manger's "Khumesh Lider," an irreverent Yiddish reinterpretation of biblical figures. A way out west there was a fella, fella I want to tell you about, fella by the name of Jeff Lebowski. At least, that was the handle his lovin' parents gave him, but he never had much use for it himself. This Lebowski, he called himself the Dude. Now, Dude, that's a name no one would self-apply where I come from. But then, there was a lot about the Dude that didn't make a whole lot of sense to me. And a lot about where he lived, likewise. But then again, maybe that's why I found the place s'durned innarestin'.

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Jewish MusicYiddish PoetryHadar InstituteJewish Cultural ExpressionItsik MangerBasya SchechterAvi Fox RosenRising Song SalonKhumesh LiderRabbi Deborah Sacks Mintz

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New York City, New York, United States
"The Hadar Institute, an educational institution on the Upper West Side of Manhattan has long been known for its high level of Torah learning and its promotion of traditional, yet egalitarian religious communities."
Amherst, Massachusetts, United States
"prayer, and nigun at a session of the music festival Yidstock, in Amherst, Mass."

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