A scholar-in-residence weekend offers unparalleled intellectual enrichment, infusing fresh perspectives into a community. Now after a year of planning, we are thrilled to welcome Professor Shaul Magid to Boulder.
Read More »Legacy: The Yellow Violin
“Sam, you asked me a question I never thought about before. What if my grandfather was able to bring the violin to Israel? Would this music have this new life, this revival of spirit? Perhaps what seemed like such an injustice back then was a part of the master plan. Maybe the time wasn’t right. This violin, this music was, like Moses I suppose, never intended to enter the land of Israel.”
Read More »CU Boulder Program in Jewish Studies Offers Webinar Concert on Traditional Klezmer Music
Join Cookie Segelstein and Josh Horowitz, who will demonstrate and talk about the styles, historical curiosities and techniques of traditional klezmer music.
Read More »CU Boulder Program in Jewish Studies 2 Offer 2 New Klezmer Programs
The Program in Jewish Studies and College of Music are pleased to offer two more online concerts this fall exploring klezmer music and Middle Eastern/North African Jewish poetic songs (piyyutim). The concerts will be in a webinar format, blending performance and discussion.
Read More »Monday: Webinar Concert on Contemporary Klezmer Music and Yiddish Song
Join Zoë Aqua and Adah Hetko for a conversation/performance centered around the contemporary klezmer and Yiddish song scene. Zoë and Adah will talk about their current projects, what inspires them, and how the histories of klezmer music and Yiddish song have influenced their work.
Read More »CU Boulder Program in Jewish Studies Offers Webinar Concert on Contemporary Klezmer Music and Yiddish Song
Join Zoë Aqua and Adah Hetko for a conversation/performance centered around the contemporary klezmer and Yiddish song scene. Zoë and Adah will talk about their current projects, what inspires them, and how the histories of klezmer music and Yiddish song have influenced their work.
Read More »CU Program in Jewish Studies Offers Webinar on Klezmer Music as Jewish Dialogue and Jewish Discourse
This program will introduce klezmer music as a kind of Jewish dialogue, or Jewish discourse. Klezmer is Jewish instrumental music from Eastern Europe, and it comes from the same culture as the Yiddish literature of Sholem Aleichem, S. J. Abramovitsh, and others.
Read More »Free Webinar – Klezmer Music as Jewish Dialogue and Jewish Discourse
This lecture will introduce klezmer music as a kind of Jewish dialogue, or Jewish discourse. Klezmer is Jewish instrumental music from Eastern Europe, and it comes from the same culture as the Yiddish literature of Sholem Aleichem, S. J. Abramovitsh, and others. December 14th, 2020.
Read More »Klezmer Concert with Cookie Segelstein and Joshua Horowitz of Veretski Pass
The Program in Jewish Studies and College of Music welcome Cookie Segelstein and Joshua Horowitz of Veretski Pass for a free concert on the CU Boulder campus, September 16.
Read More »Klezmania 3 Swings the BJCC
For the third year in a row, the Boulder JCC hosted a Jewish Christmas Eve tradition: eating a Chinese dinner with a lot of Jewish friends, complete with a Klezmer concert. Photos, video.
Read More »Daniel Kahn & the Painted Bird to Play CU in Free Concert
The University of Colorado Boulder’s Program in Jewish Studies and cosponsors welcome Daniel Kahn & the Painted Bird for a free concert on the CU Boulder campus Thursday, November 8, 2018.
Read More »Musical Migration Theme Underscores “Jazz Crossings” and Permeates music@theJ
In "Jazz Crossings," Robert Johnson performs music by Harry Belafonte, Dizzy Gillespie, Duke Ellington, Nat King Cole and Antonio Carlos Jobim that reveals the Latin influence on American jazz.
Read More »Klezmania Sold Out Success for BJCC
The Boulder JCC had a sold-out house Saturday night for "Klezmania", a combination concert and Chinese food buffet, along with a Chanukah menorah lighting.
Read More »Nevei Kodesh Stages Pre-Passover Concert
Boulder Klezmer Consort and Southern Journey join together in this pre-Passover concert that weaves together Jewish and African-American narratives of slavery, struggle and freedom.
Read More »Beth Ami Chanukah Celebration
Over seventy people attended Beth Ami Colorado Congregation for Humanistic Judaism's Chanukah Klezmer concert on Sunday.
Read More »SUNDAY: 5th Candle = Musical
Sunday is always a great day for Chanukah celebrations!
Read More »Klezmer Crazy at the Boulder JCC
Click to see video from Saturday night's Klezmer Jam!
Read More »The JCC is on a Klezmer Chai
Klezmania - A euphoric condition induced by klezmer music. Get that crazy feeling at the JCC Saturday at Menorah's celebration of all things klezmatic.
Read More »Kosher Restaurant One-Nighter
More details emerge about the Authentic Kosher Restaurant in Boulder for one night only - this weekend!
Read More »Hear the King of Klezmer at the JCC
"Crazy for Klezmer" is all about world-renowned Yale Strom. Join Menorah for a klezmer concert, author talk, "old world" buffet and libations on November 13.
Read More »Five Star Kosher?
On November 14th, Chabad of Boulder will be creating a real live kosher restaurant in Boulder for one night.
Read More »Boulder Kosher Restaurant: One Night Only
For one night in November, you can eat out, in Boulder, at a great kosher restaurant! Read on to find out how.
Read More »Singer Faye Nepon named Artist in Residence
The Boulder JCC honors the memory of Lisa Antosofsky with a series of performances by Faye Nepon in the current season.
Read More »I’m Crazy for Klezmer
Menorah celebrates Klezmer - the music that jump-starts the Jewish heart - with two more fabulous programs.
Read More »Do You Know How to Bagel?
The fine art of determining if someone is Jewish is called "bageling," and relates to this year's Movers' theme, "Do You Speak Jewish?"
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