Yiddish Summer Weimar

Yiddish Summer Weimar - Germany's best known festival of Yiiddish Music - 2008: July 10th - August 15th

For the past few years, Yiddish Summer Weimar has focused on new and intercultural developments in Jewish music. At the same time, world music clubs from San Francisco to Istanbul have been swimming in klezmer-balkan-Roma sounds. With so much attention to new syntheses, have we perhaps lost some of the beauty, depth, and uniqueness of older musical traditions? In 2008, Yiddish Summer Weimar starts an intensive, 2-year exploration of the roots of Yiddish and Roma music and their relationships in both the past and the present.

Dates overview

10. July, 2008: opening concert "The Yiddish Project"

11. July, 2008: opening concert "The Roma Project"

12.-14. July, 2008: Symposium “The Other Europeans”

15.-22. July, 2008: Instrumental workshop for advanced musicians

24.-28. July, 2008: Dance Workshop for musicians

25.-28. July, 2008: Dance Workshop for dancers

30. July – 06. August, 2008: Song workshop

30. July – 06. August, 2008: Yiddish language course

08.-10. August, 2008: music theory for folk musicians

08.-11. August, 2008: Intensive intermediate Klezmer Ensemble with Kurt Bjorling

12.-15. August, 2008: introduction to Yiddish music for singers and instrumentalists.

overview YSW 2008 [PDF]

We will bring Weimar's cafés to life again with our public jam sessions, as well as special events, midnight concerts, and other surprises. At the same time, a small film festival on Yiddish and Roma culture will take place in Weimar.

To the workshops 2008

Instrumental Workshop
for Advanced Musicians

Dance Music
for Dance Musicians

Dance Workshop
for Dancers

Yiddish Song

Beginning and Intermediate Yiddish Language

Musiktheorie für Folkmusiker

Einführungskurs in jiddische Musik für Sänger und Instrumentalisten

Klezmer Ensemble Coaching