[Mendele] MENDELE PERSONAL NOTICES & ANNOUNCEMENTS--Miriam Issacs on Singing as Resistance at the New York Public Library, July 18

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From: Amanda Seigel <amandaseigel at nypl.org>
Date: June 13, 2016

Dr. Miriam Isaacs: Songs from a Lost World: Singing as Resistance and
Renewal in New York, 1948

Monday, July 18, 2016, 6:30 p.m.

Mid-Manhattan Library, New York Public Library
Fifth Avenue and 40th Street, New York, NY
Fully accessible to wheelchairs

Sponsored by the Dorot Jewish Division

In 1948, only three years after the war, Ben Stonehill recorded over a
thousand songs from Holocaust survivors temporarily housed in a hotel
in upper Manhattan. In this presentation, sociolinguist and Yiddish
scholar Dr. Miriam Isaacs will explore the meaning of that archive and
discuss what these songs tell us about the inner world of refugees and
survivors. Many of these songs are rare, some written in the camps or
by partisans. Among the most important of the singers was Shmerke
Kaczerginski, a partisan and poet and the collector and an actress,
Diana Blumenfeld.

Miriam Isaacs received her MA and Ph.D. at Cornell in linguistics. She
has specialized in Yiddish language and literature. She was born in a
German DP camp and grew up in Yiddish speaking enclaves of Montreal
and Brooklyn, New York, graduating from Brooklyn's from Erasmus High
School and Brooklyn College. She has been working on creating a new
website which makes available the lyrics to many of these songs. She
will play cuts of the original songs, sung by men, women and children,
mainly in Yiddish, but also Russian and Hebrew. Collectively, this
body of song constitutes a haunting testimony to survivors’
resilience, courage and humor.

For more information, visit:
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Amanda (Miryem-Khaye) Seigel
Librarian
Dorot Jewish Division, Room 111
The New York Public Library
Stephen A. Schwarzman Building
42nd Street and Fifth Avenue
New York, NY 10018

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