Khanele di kuritse mit di lange hent (Chane the Shorty with Long Arms): A Ruth Rubin Zingeray
Tuition: $240 | YIVO members: $180**
This is a live, online course held weekly on Zoom. Enrollment will be capped at about 25 students. All course details (Zoom link, syllabus, handouts, assignments, etc.) will be posted to Google Classrooom. Students will be granted access to the class on Google Classroom after registering for the class here on the YIVO website. This class will be conducted primarily in English, along with singing in Yiddish.
Instructor: Lorin Sklamberg
Join the Klezmatics’ lead singer and YIVO Sound Archivist Lorin Sklamberg for a deep singalong dive into the treasure trove of Yiddish folksongs collected by the beloved singer-musicologist Ruth Rubin in celebration of the 120th anniversary of her birth. Repertoire will be drawn from the anthology Yiddish Folksongs from the Ruth Rubin Archive as well as previously published and unpublished materials from her papers. Sessions will be illustrated by Ruth’s original field recordings, as well as documentary and historical video materials held at the Max and Frieda Weinstein Archive of YIVO Sound Recordings. Texts in transliteration and translation and musical transcriptions will be provided.
Yiddish Level:
Students of all Yiddish levels and students without any Yiddish language background are welcome to register for this course.
Course Materials:
Song texts in Yiddish, transliteration, and English translation as well as audio will be made accessible digitally to students on Google Classroom.
Questions? Read our 2027 Winter Yiddish Seminars FAQ.
Lorin Sklamberg has served as YIVO’s Sound Archivist since 2000. He previously worked at YIVO from 1987-1994, as the aide to the then-Assistant Director Adrienne Cooper, and as YIVO’s in-house Yiddish typesetter, graphic designer and coordinator of KlezKamp: the Yiddish Folk Arts Program, which he administered for 14 years. Lorin is a founding member of the Grammy Award-winning Yiddish-American roots band the Klezmatics and has been heard on innumerable recordings and live shows, solo and in collaboration with such diverse artists as Itzhak Perlman, Jane Siberry, Chava Alberstein, Ehud Banai, Yoni Rechter, Emmylou Harris, Tracy Grammer, Neil Sedaka, Natalie Merchant, Tony Kushner and Theodore Bikel. He has composes and performs for film, dance, stage and circus, and has produced a number of recordings of world and theater music. He also teaches Yiddish song from São Paulo to St. Petersburg. Lorin’s work in the field of Yiddish music draws extensively on the unsurpassed wealth of materials held in YIVO’s library and archives.
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