Want to learn about revolutionary Yiddish songs? Join Brooklyn-based Chaia for a singalong-meets-historical-exploration. We’ll explore five little-known Yiddish songs from the early 20th century that are strongly anti-Zionist, anti-fascist, pro-union and as relevant today as they were in 1905! Everyone will get a printable zine booklet with the songs to take home!
No prior knowledge of Yiddish or singing is required to participate (though texts will be provided in transliterated Yiddish too), just curiosity and an interest in stories told through song!
An elections poster of the General Jewish Labour Bund hung in Kiev, 1917. It reads, "Where we live, there is our country!" via Wikimedia Commons
Chaia is an electronic composer working at the intersection of Yiddish culture and electronic club music. She weaves archival Yiddish samples with techno and ambient frameworks, creating hybrid folkloric-electronic compositions that situate ancestral sound within global and liberatory rave ecologies. Her sampling collaborators include the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research, Itzik Gottesman and the Yiddish Song of the Week Blog, Susan Watts and the Hoffman Watts family materials, Hankus Netsky, Zalmen Mlotek, and more.
Chaia released her debut album “Yiddish Electronic” in 2025. Her next EP, “Romanian Fantasies,” will be released on Delusional Records in Fall 2026. https://chaia.online/
Klezmer on Ice is an annual wintertime Yiddish music & culture festival in Minneapolis and year-round hub of Yiddishkeit in Minnesota. We promote independently organized Yididsh cultural events from our collective community of makhers. Interested in organizing an event? Contact us