All Events

(Subject to change.)

Fri, Jun 26 ‘26   8:00 p.m. @OMA (Weimar) | This event is over.
Dobranotch @ OMA YSW 2026 Sneak Preview
Sun, Jun 28 ‘26   7:00 p.m. @Schneidertempel, Sanat Merkezi Felek Sk. No: 1, Karaköy (Istanbul) | Free Admission

AskEnAzindan: Love, At Least...

Greco-Turkish-Yiddish-Ladino Songs of Love and (A)more
with Sarah Myerson & Ilya Shneyveys

Wed, Jul 1 ‘26   8:00 p.m. - 11:00 p.m. @Woodstock Kadıköy (Istanbul) | Free Admission

Jam Session

An evening of informal music making in good company

Sun, Jul 12 ‘26   7:00 p.m. - 10:00 p.m. @CoLabor (Stadtschloss/Burgplatz) (Weimar) | Free Admission

Jam Session

An evening of informal music making in good company

Sun, Jul 12 ‘26   9:00 p.m. @Central Square/Zentralplatz (Agios Lavrentios) | Free Admission

YAM Ensemble 2026

News from the shared ancestry of Yiddish, Sephardic, and Greco-Turkish music

Mon, Jul 13 ‘26   7:30 p.m. @Musikschule „Johann Nepomuk Hummel” (Weimar) | This event is over.
Faculty Concert I Lomir shpiln, zingen un deklamirn af yidish!
(Let’s play, sing and declaim in Yiddish!)
Tue, Jul 14 ‘26   8:00 p.m. @Goethe Institut Thessaloniki, Leof. Vasilissis Olgas 66, Griechenland/Greece, 546 42 (Thessaloniki) | Free Admission

YAM Ensemble 2026

News from the shared ancestry of Yiddish, Sephardic, and Greco-Turkish music

Tue, Jul 14 ‘26   7:00 p.m. - 10:00 p.m. @OMAcafé (Weimar) | Free Admission

Jam Session

An evening of informal music making in good company
Change of location & start time: Today @ OMAcafé! Jam starts at 8:00 p.m.

Wed, Jul 15 ‘26   8:00 p.m. - 11:00 p.m. @Zum Schwarzen Bären (Markt) (Weimar) | Free Admission

Jam Session

An evening of informal music making in good company

Thu, Jul 16 ‘26   8:00 p.m. @Herderplatz (Weimar) | This event is over.
YSW 2026 Opening Concert - YAM Ensemble News from the shared ancestry of Yiddish, Sephardic, and Greco-Turkish music
Fri, Jul 17 ‘26   8:00 p.m. @Musikschule „Johann Nepomuk Hummel” (Weimar) | Free Admission

A shtim fun harts (A voice from the heart)

A Shabbes-Inspired Evening of Sharing

TodaySat, Jul 18 ‘26   7:30 p.m. @Musikschule „Johann Nepomuk Hummel” (Weimar) | This event is over.
Final Student Concert I Lomir shpiln, zingen un deklamirn af yidish!
(Let’s play, sing and declaim in Yiddish!)
TodaySat, Jul 18 ‘26   8:00 p.m. @Wandelhalle (Eisenach) | This event is over.
YAM Ensemble 2026 News from the shared ancestry of Yiddish, Sephardic, and Greco-Turkish music
TomorrowSun, Jul 19 ‘26   6:00 p.m. @Zughafen (Erfurt) | Admission: €22.00 / €10.00
YAM Ensemble 2026 News from the shared ancestry of Yiddish, Sephardic, and Greco-Turkish music
Mon, Jul 20 ‘26   6:00 p.m. @Lindenhof im Kammergut, Hauptstr. 14 (Tiefurt) | Free Admission

A Yiddishe Lebn

Featuring Die Zweiflers star Eleanor Reissa, Grammy winner Frank London & accordion legend Patrick Farrell

Mon, Jul 20 ‘26   6:00 p.m. @Kleine Synagoge (Erfurt) | Free Admission

Yiddish / ייִדיש – From the Beginnings to the Age of Print

Exhibition opening with lectures by Prof. Dr. Simon Neuberg, Fabian Heyduck M.A. und Prof. Dr. Andreas Lehnertz

Tue, Jul 21 ‘26   7:00 p.m. @Villa Rosenthal (Jena) | Admission: €22.00 / €10.00
A Yiddishe Lebn Featuring Die Zweiflers star Eleanor Reissa, Grammy winner Frank London & accordion legend Patrick Farrell
Tue, Jul 21 ‘26   8:00 p.m. @Kleine Synagoge (Erfurt) | Admission: €8.00
Talk: Jewish Heritage in Smyrna/Izmir Turkey between the past and the future – A talk by Nesim Bencoya
Tue, Jul 21 ‘26   8:00 p.m. - 11:00 p.m. @OMA (Weimar) | Free Admission

Jam Session

An evening of informal music making in good company

Wed, Jul 22 ‘26   8:00 p.m. - 11:00 p.m. @Sächsischer Hof (Herderplatz) (Weimar) | Free Admission

Jam Session

An evening of informal music making in good company

Thu, Jul 23 ‘26   7:30 p.m. @Musikschule „Johann Nepomuk Hummel” (Weimar) | Admission: €22.00 / €10.00
Faculty Concert II Two Worlds of Yiddish Song & The Horizons of Klezmer
Thu, Jul 23 ‘26   8:00 p.m. @Kleine Synagoge (Erfurt) | Admission: €8.00
Talk Show: Yiddish Live! – !ייִדיש דירעקט A Talk Show Starring Die Zweiflers Star Eleanor Reissa, hosted in Yiddish by Jake Schneider
מיט עלענאָר ריסאַ אין דער הױפּטראָלע אָנגעפֿירט אױף ייִדיש דורך דזשײק שנײַדער
Fri, Jul 24 ‘26   8:00 p.m. @Musikschule „Johann-Nepomuk-Hummel” (Weimar) | Free Admission

A shtim fun harts (A voice from the heart)

A Shabbes-Inspired Evening of Sharing

Sat, Jul 25 ‘26   7:00 p.m. @Alte Synagoge (Erfurt) | Admission: €16.00 / €8.00
A Yiddishe Lebn Featuring Die Zweiflers star Eleanor Reissa, Grammy winner Frank London & accordion legend Patrick Farrell
Sat, Jul 25 ‘26   8:00 p.m. @Verein der Natur- und Heimatfreunde e.V. (Niederzimmern) | Admission: €10.00
Dobranotch Sizzling-Hot Mix of Klezmer, Balkan and Roma Roots Music
Sat, Jul 25 ‘26   8:00 p.m. @Schloss Tonndorf (Tonndorf) | Admission: €22.00 / €10.00
Strauss/Warschauer Duo (US) & Zilyin Biret (Réunion) Brooklyn Klezmer Réunion: In My Garden
Sat, Jul 25 ‘26   8:00 p.m. - 11:00 p.m. @OMA (Weimar) | Free Admission

Jam Session

An evening of informal music making in good company

Sat, Jul 25 ‘26   8:30 p.m. @Alte Synagoge (Erfurt) | Admission: €16.00 / €8.00
A Yiddishe Lebn Featuring Die Zweiflers star Eleanor Reissa, Grammy winner Frank London & accordion legend Patrick Farrell
Sun, Jul 26 ‘26   7:00 p.m. - 10:00 p.m. @CoLabor (Stadtschloss/Burgplatz) (Weimar) | Free Admission

Jam Session

An evening of informal music making in good company

Mon, Jul 27 ‘26   8:00 p.m. - 11:00 p.m. @Zum Schwarzen Bären (Markt) (Weimar) | Free Admission

Jam Session

An evening of informal music making in good company

Tue, Jul 28 ‘26   7:30 p.m. @Musikschule „Johann Nepomuk Hummel” (Weimar) | Admission: €22.00 / €10.00
Final Student Concert II Two Worlds of Yiddish Song & The Horizons of Klezmer
Wed, Jul 29 ‘26   8:00 p.m. @Kleine Synagoge (Erfurt) | Admission: €22.00 / €10.00
Fran & Flora Experimental Yiddish folk duo
Thu, Jul 30 ‘26   8:00 p.m. @Kleine Synagoge (Erfurt) | Admission: €22.00 / €10.00
Anna Lowenstein Through The Walls, a Yiddish string quartet
Fri, Jul 31 ‘26   8:00 p.m. @Bachhaus Eisenach (Eisenach) | Admission: €22.00 / €10.00
Double Bill: New Yiddish Strings – Fran & Flora / Anna Lowenstein Fran & Flora – Experimental Yiddish folk duo
Anna Lowenstein – Through the Walls, a Yiddish string quartet
Sat, Aug 1 ‘26   4:00 p.m. @OMA (Weimar) | Free Admission

Project Presentation Yiddish Wo:men and the Story of the Book and Yiddish Visual Arts

Live artistic intervention created in and for the OMA by Ella Ponizovsky Bergelson

Sat, Aug 1 ‘26   8:00 p.m. @mon ami (Weimar) | Admission: €22.00 / €10.00
Double Bill: New Yiddish Strings – Fran & Flora / Anna Lowenstein Fran & Flora – Experimental Yiddish folk duo
Anna Lowenstein – Through the Walls, a Yiddish string quartet
Sat, Aug 1 ‘26   10:30 p.m. @OMAcafé (Weimar) | Free Admission

Late Night Cabaret
Sun, Aug 2 ‘26   8:00 p.m. @mon ami (Weimar) | Admission: €22.00 / €10.00
Premiere: Togbukh Rose Shoshana Kahan – A Yiddish Story of Shanghai
Musical theater by Dr. Alan Bern (composition) & Dr. Diana Matut (libretto), starring Leila Schütz (soprano) as Rose Shoshana, directed by Maximilian Löwenstein
Sun, Aug 2 ‘26   10:30 p.m. @OMAcafé (Weimar) | Free Admission

Late Night Cabaret
Mon, Aug 3 ‘26   10:00 a.m. - 5:45 p.m. @OMA (Weimar) | Free Admission

Festival Week | Mini-Workshops & Meet the Artist

Lomir redn, Lomir shpiln, Lomir tantsn, Meet the Artist, Lomir zingen, Lomir tseykhenen

Mon, Aug 3 ‘26   8:00 p.m. @mon ami (Weimar) | Admission: €22.00 / €10.00
Papirene brikn (Paper Bridges) Tsvishn os, vort un lid – Between letter, word and song
Mon, Aug 3 ‘26   10:30 p.m. @OMAcafé (Weimar) | Free Admission

Late Night Cabaret
Tue, Aug 4 ‘26   10:00 a.m. - 5:45 p.m. @OMA (Weimar) | Free Admission

Festival Week | Mini-Workshops & Meet the Artist

Lomir redn, Lomir shpiln, Lomir tantsn, Meet the Artist, Lomir zingen, Lomir tseykhenen

Tue, Aug 4 ‘26   8:00 p.m. @mon ami (Weimar) | Admission: €22.00 / €10.00
Double Bill: Electric Rose / Chaia Electric Rose – The Rose Cohen Experience with Sarah Myerson and Ilya Shneyveys
Chaia – Yiddish Electronic
Tue, Aug 4 ‘26   10:30 p.m. @OMAcafé (Weimar) | Free Admission

Late Night Cabaret
Wed, Aug 5 ‘26   10:00 a.m. - 5:45 p.m. @OMA (Weimar) | Free Admission

Festival Week | Mini-Workshops & Meet the Artist

Lomir redn, Lomir shpiln, Lomir tantsn, Meet the Artist, Lomir zingen, Lomir tseykhenen

Wed, Aug 5 ‘26   8:00 p.m. @mon ami (Weimar) | Admission: €22.00 / €10.00
Alan Bern: Liderbukh (Songbook) A curated selection of Alan Bern's songs based on Yiddish poetry
Wed, Aug 5 ‘26   8:00 p.m. @Kleine Synagoge (Erfurt) | Admission: €22.00 / €10.00
Double Bill: Electric Rose / Chaia Electric Rose – The Rose Cohen Experience with Sarah Myerson and Ilya Shneyveys
Chaia – Yiddish Electronic
Wed, Aug 5 ‘26   10:30 p.m. @OMAcafé (Weimar) | Free Admission

Late Night Cabaret
Thu, Aug 6 ‘26   10:00 a.m. - 5:45 p.m. @OMA (Weimar) | Free Admission

Festival Week | Mini-Workshops & Meet the Artist

Lomir redn, Lomir shpiln, Lomir tantsn, Meet the Artist, Lomir zingen, Lomir tseykhenen

Thu, Aug 6 ‘26   8:00 p.m. @mon ami (Weimar) | Admission: €22.00 / €10.00
Togbukh (2nd Performance) Rose Shoshana Kahan – A Yiddish Story of Shanghai
Musical theater by Dr. Alan Bern (composition) & Dr. Diana Matut (libretto), starring Leila Schütz (soprano) as Rose Shoshana, directed by Maximilian Löwenstein
Thu, Aug 6 ‘26   8:00 p.m. @Kleine Synagoge (Erfurt) | Admission: €22.00 / €10.00
Double Bill: Shura Lipovsky / Ida Gillner Shura Lipovsky – If I Were an Angel …
Ida Gillner – Shtoltse lider
Thu, Aug 6 ‘26   10:30 p.m. @OMAcafé (Weimar) | Free Admission

Late Night Cabaret
Fri, Aug 7 ‘26   10:00 a.m. - 5:45 p.m. @OMA (Weimar) | Free Admission

Festival Week | Mini-Workshops & Meet the Artist

Lomir redn, Lomir shpiln, Lomir tantsn, Meet the Artist, Lomir zingen, Lomir tseykhenen

Fri, Aug 7 ‘26   8:00 p.m. @mon ami (Weimar) | Admission: €22.00 / €10.00
Double Bill: Shura Lipovsky & Ida Gillner Shura Lipovsky – If I Were an Angel …
Ida Gillner – Shtoltse lider
Fri, Aug 7 ‘26   10:30 p.m. @OMAcafé (Weimar) | Free Admission

Late Night Cabaret
Sat, Aug 8 ‘26   7:30 p.m. @Marktplatz (Weimar) | Admission: €22.00 / €10.00
Double Premiere: Her:Kol / Caravan Orchestra & Choir Her:Kol – Yiddish Women’s Song Cultures
Caravan Orchestra & Choir – Vayter! Yiddish and Middle Eastern Music in Dialogue
Sat, Aug 8 ‘26   11:00 p.m. @OMAcafé (Weimar) | Free Admission

Late Night Cabaret
Sun, Aug 9 ‘26   8:00 p.m. @Kleine Synagoge (Erfurt) | Admission: €8.00
Talk: Women of the Yiddish Book Lecture in Erfurt with Dr. Diana Matut
Tue, Aug 11 ‘26   7:00 p.m. @Prager Haus (Apolda) | Free Admission

Broygeztants

Bessarabian Klezmer

Tue, Aug 11 ‘26   8:00 p.m. - 11:00 p.m. @Zum Schwarzen Bären (Markt) (Weimar) | Free Admission

Jam Session

An evening of informal music making in good company

Wed, Aug 12 ‘26   8:00 p.m. - 11:00 p.m. @Kasseturm (Weimar) | Free Admission

Jam Session

An evening of informal music making in good company

Thu, Aug 13 ‘26   8:00 p.m. @Freilichtbühne Weinau-Zittau (Weinau-Zittau) | Admission: €16.00 / €12.00
Caravan Orchestra & Choir Vayter! Yiddish and Middle Eastern Music in Dialogue
Thu, Aug 13 ‘26   7:00 p.m. - 10:00 p.m. @CoLabor (Stadtschloss/Burgplatz) (Weimar) | Free Admission

Jam Session

An evening of informal music making in good company

Fri, Aug 14 ‘26   8:00 p.m. @Wandelhalle (Eisenach) | Admission: €22.00 / €10.00
Caravan Orchestra & Choir Vayter! Yiddish and Middle Eastern Music in Dialogue
Fri, Aug 14 ‘26   8:00 p.m. - 11:00 p.m. @Theaterplatz (Weimar) | Free Admission

Jam Session

An evening of informal music making in good company

Sat, Aug 15 ‘26   7:30 p.m. @mon ami (Weimar) | Admission: €22.00 / €10.00
YSW Final Dance Ball Yiddish dance, Hasidic dance & Balfolk
Sat, Aug 15 ‘26   8:00 p.m. @Zughafen (Erfurt) | Admission: €22.00 / €10.00
Caravan Orchestra & Choir Vayter! Yiddish and Middle Eastern Music in Dialogue

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