Yiddish culture is undeniably part of Montreal’s DNA, the city being the adopted home of thousands of Jews, beginning in the late 19th century. Its literature and poetry relate a Montreal that is variously working class, community-based, inclusive, and modern, guarded by the immovable Mount Royal. Readings of texts in French and in Yiddish by authors including Jacob-Isaac Segal, Rachel Korn, Ida Maze, Melech Ravitch, Chava Rosenfarb, Léa Roback and Michel Tremblay will be accompanied by klezmer, a style that is alternately wistful and boisterous, though always captivating.
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- Venue : Théâtre Maisonneuve
- Producer / Presenter : Orchestre symphonique de Montréal (OSM)
- Seats : general admission
- Klezmer music performed by : Gabriel Paquin-Buki (clarinet), Yoni Kaston (accordion)
- Collaboration with : the Segal Centre for Performing Arts as well as the author and Yiddish literature specialist Chantal Ringuet
- Program and artists : subject to change without notice
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