Come say hello at the New Lehrhaus table, shared with Yale University Press' "Jewish Lives" series. Meet, schmooze with, and get your book/s signed by local series authors Robert Alter and Daniel Matt, and att... Read more

Director Mark Streshinsky and renowned biblical scholar Ron Hendel explore Charpentier's David & Jonathan. From the power of Baroque opera to the theological dimensions of the biblical text, this event brings two perspectives of this relationship into dialog.

Enjoy West Edge Opera's production before it opens! To prepare, watch sessions 1 and 2 of our winter program, "From the Page to the Stage: The Bible in Text and Opera". (Search for "stage" in our video library to call up the videos). Here's West Edge Opera's Trailer.

And Now Can Love Begin is an imagined memoir, ventriloquizing the author's parents, based on 100 love letters exchanged in Palestine from 1945-46. Join us as Rachel Biale describes a fascinating glimpse into an epistolary romance set just after WWII in Palestine by two Jewish refugees from Europe.

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This multimedia program takes audiences on a journey via music, visuals, and storytelling, tracing klezmer's evolution and development from Old World shtetls to New World nightclubs and concert stages. The program includes insights into the sound and shape of klezmer and introduces many of the great heroes who helped transform Eastern European Yiddish wedding music into the vital form of world music it is today.