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L.I.F.E. Lecture - The American Jewish Immigrant Experience in Song: From the Old World to the New with Robert Cohen

Sunday, October 29, 2023 • 14 Cheshvan 5784

7:30 PM - 9:00 PM

For Eastern European Jewish immigrants to this country, wrote one historian, “America was a promise, at once dream and reality, and in the manner of dreams a bundle of contradictions.” In this lecture/presentation, contemporaneous readings as well as musical recordings make up a journey in sound: from life in the “Old Country” to ships bound for America, to the Statue of Liberty and Ellis Island and into the New World. This is music as social history: from lullabies and laments to rollicking songs of the Yiddish theater; from songs of the sweatshops to patriotic anthems and distinctly American religious and popular music.

ROBERT COHEN has been lecturing on Jewish music and American folk and popular music for over 30 years – including at the Fifth Avenue New York Public Library, the New England
Conservatory of Music, Hebrew College in Boston, New School University in New York, the Cantors Assembly, the Jewish Theological Seminary, and the Center for Christian-Jewish Learning and School of Theology & Ministry at Boston College. He produced and hosted over 100 radio programs in New York on Jewish culture and identity, wrote the NPR documentary One People, Many Voices: American-Jewish Music Comes of Age, and produced the compilation CD Open the Gates! New American-Jewish Music for Prayer.

This program is made possible by the generosity of the Edith Black Endowment for Yiddish and Jewish Culture.

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