Chaia (YL - Yiddishland; electronic composer/performer)
is an electronic composer working at the intersection of Yiddish culture and electronic club music. She weaves archival Yiddish samples with techno and ambient frameworks, creating hybrid folk-electronic compositions that situate ancestral sound within global and liberatory rave culture. In live performance, she layers accordion, vocals, and samples - inviting audiences to engage with ritual, intergenerational trauma, and the echoes of ancestral memory.
Chaia was raised in the klezmer tradition and mentored by Yiddish music pioneers Hankus Netsky, Jeff Warschauer, and Basya Schechter. She now works closely with Yiddish archives to identify, highlight, and catalog Yiddish material for her electronic work. These include the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research, the Yiddish Book Center, Yiddish Song of the Week, and the personal archives of Netsky and the Hoffman Family. Chaia’s work has been supported by New York State’s Council for the Arts, the Brooklyn Arts Council, The Goethe Institute, and the Center for Traditional Music and Dance. She released her debut album, Yiddish Electronic, in June 2025.
>> chaia.online
This year at YSW:
>> Her:Kol
>> Double Bill: Electric Rose / Chaia (Weimar)
>> Double Bill: Electric Rose / Chaia (Erfurt)
Photo: Michael Sticher
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